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Ela
Traveling with small kids is both fun and challenge. I do my best to maximize the former and minimize the later. Sometimes, the optimization process comes with a surprise as it happened during my last flight. It started well as we arrived at the airport 3h before the departure. We suddenly had too much time, so we […]
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Ela
We learn from others. We have family and friends. We have teachers, mentors, supervisors, managers or bosses. We have colleagues, politicians, media people, musicians, and stars. We observe. We analyze. We model. We emulate. We compare to others. Without perhaps noticing, we keep dancing between two worlds. One world is defined by Similarity or Sameness. […]
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Ela
It is a deep night, long time ago. Five young men are keeping vigil in a chapel. There are on their knees, lost in darkness with some shadows cast by a pale flame. They are not allowed to talk, neither to react to any noise from outside. They must not open the door. This is their last […]
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Ela
This post is inspired by The Acorn Principle book. “This above all: To thine own self be true, and it must follow – as the night the day – thou cans’t not be false to any man.” “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare You are an acorn The acorn principle tells you to look inside and discover what […]
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Ela
I had a dream as a child. My dream was to conquer the whole world. Was it also your dream, perhaps? Of course I knew it might be difficult, perhaps even very difficult, but it sounded possible. Just as possible as for a boy, usually perceived as a stupid or incapable one, to become a […]