Posts Tagged ‘decisions’

The strange alchemy

Magazine -> #23 Emotion and Surprise

“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing”, wrote the philosopher Blaise Pascal. People once thought that emotions and rational thought travelled along parallel lines that never converged. Philosophers and scientists dismissed emotions as being of little interest - they were believed to hamper rational behaviour. But for some ti...

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Out of the mould

Magazine -> #26 Re-Evaluate The Error

In your experience, how have errors affected your professional practice and what’s your attitude towards making mistakes? Errors can critically affect the outcome of any work, but they’re also an opportunity for reviewing consolidated practices and routine ways of doing things. As such, they can be very liberating, obliging us to make new deci...

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  • "Where I am, makes me what I am"

    Anonymous at Galleria illy London

  • “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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Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...
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