Nietzsche Was Right!
Maybe you’ve heard the saying: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. At first flush it seems like nonsense, while sounding sort of cool. If someone almost stabs you to death, surely that makes you weaker? The phrase is from the German philosopher Fredrich Nietzsche. Now psychologists have discovered he was right, if you make it a matter of resilience. Resilience is the...
Read MoreSuperman and Friends – The Ultimate Collection
This is kind of a random blog topic… which I suppose is a bit like talking about a round circle. I’ve been thinking for a while about the ideal sort of human being, the target we should aim at in our way of life. Why? As some of you know, I train and consult in Business Ethics among other things. One of the ethical theories that’s undergoing something of a renaissance in...
Read MoreThe Five Habits of Highly Passive People
A business colleague told me recently that she thought I was the ‘passive and calm’ type. I didn’t like it. I didn’t like it one bit. True, she hadn’t known me for very long and her observations of me were all within one limited situation. But she’s an astute and experienced person, so I took her comments seriously enough to warrant reflection. Why didn’t I like it? ...
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