I want you to have your homework done by the time I'll come back, September 1, 2009.
venerdì 7 agosto 2009
giovedì 6 agosto 2009
Learn one thing (An ecology of worktime)
No matter what you are doing right now in your professional life, you gotta set this simple rule:
Learn at least one thing each day
Don't pose yourself limits on what you can learn although you got to be realist and not go beyond you capacity (of learning, of time, of healthy boundaries in the work-life balance). Set a lower limit and that as simple as that: one thing a day.
If you learn one thing each day, you'll be able to learn hundreds of new things in a year. If you apply this on a very specific target (e.g. your particular profession) you'll be able to master your work and be reliable to others, client, colleagues, friends looking for advice.
This target goes well when you're approaching new subjects (like in new projects or when they give you new responsibilities) but you should set this target also in the ordinary workday.
That's the target I'm working on by now.
mercoledì 5 agosto 2009
The quest for happiness
( via TED, Ricard’s talk )
Matthieu Ricard on the habits of happiness
So how do we proceed in our quest for happiness? Very often we look outside. We think that if we could gather this and that, all the conditions, something that we say, everything to be happy. To have everything, to be happy. That very sentence already reveals the doom of destruction of happiness. To have everything. If we miss something, it collapses. And also, when things go wrong we try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory. So now, look at inner conditions. Aren't they stronger? Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering? And isn't that stronger? We know, by experience, that we can be what we call in little paradise and yet, be completely unhappy within.
The Dalai Lama was once in Portugal, and there was a lot of construction going on everywhere. So one evening he said, "Look, you are doing all these things, but isn't it nice, also, to build something within?"
And he said, "Unless that -- even you get high-tech flat on the 100th floor of a super-modern and comfortable building, if you are deeply unhappy within, all you are going to look for is a window from which to jump."
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The Green Agenda
martedì 4 agosto 2009
An ecology of perspective
There is a moment when all you need becomes crystal clear.
All I needed was a little time to "get behind this sun and cast my weight", really.
All I need was a peace of mind, before my weight would have gone too inconsistent and I finally got caught by the shadow of myself.
But - in an antithetical way - my need was also to nullify my weight, to remove obsolete and useless components.
To get a proper tabula rasa out of myself and to restart from where I stopped.
lunedì 3 agosto 2009
Do I still heart NY? (by J.Franzen)
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