Posts Tagged ‘choice’

Sheena Iyengar about “the art of choosing”

-> Sheena Iyengar about "the art of choosing"

Sheena Iyengar (1969) is the inaugural S.T. Lee Professor of Business in the Management Division at Columbia Business School and the Research Director at the Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business. She is one of the main experts of the "psychology of choice". Born in Toronto, Canada but with a very deep Indian Sikh background, b...

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Straight on target

Magazine -> #6 Orientation

Determined action but also long, drawn-out, wearisome even, negotiations. In any case, all committed efforts aimed at reaching an objective, at achieving a goal. But what if purpose is blurred? Let us then come to terms with the essential meaning of artistic endeavour and the artist’s strivings and struggle. Straight on target. Like Lucio Font...

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Option paralysis

Magazine -> #6 Orientation

To flounder in a sea of commodities, where too much and nothing at all make no difference, having to choose out of too many stimuli and too few meaningful motives. Never before have we been so rich and wealthy as today. “We” here stands for a small part of the world population living in Europe, North America and some other parts of the globe...

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The choice of time

Magazine -> #1 Timetables and scoreboards

After thirty years spent in Asia as correspondent for Der Spiegel and collaborator for Italian newspapers, Tiziano Terzani has definitely not lost one bit of the intense warmth and the impetus of his homeland, Tuscany. These characteristics however, are now mingled with the peaceful and ascetic wisdom that has been transferred onto him by the cult...

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The opinion

Magazine -> #5 The Dictatorship of the Consumption

“My wardrobes are packed, I don’t know where to keep my clothes anymore; and yet, I still feel as if I have nothing to wear.” I’ve happened to hear people saying this sentence or something very similar to it. It can be understood in different ways: “I have a lot and it’s still not enough” or “I don’t have the right clothes to wea...

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#7 Chaos

#7 Chaos -> Magazine

Whenever I think of the word “chaos” the first thing that springs to mind is when I can’t find a document in my office, or the car keys at home. But no sooner do they turn up that I’m already telling myself that after all my disorder is only a very idiosyncratic sort of order. In ancient Greek philosophy Chaos was used to refer to the disor...

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  • “The time is always right to do the right thing”

    Martin Luther King

  • "Liberty is about our rights to question everything".

    Ai Wei Wei

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