Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.
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Month: February 2023
“All experience is local. All identity is experience. I’m not a national. I’m a local. I’m multi-local.”
In her TEDTalks Taiye Selasi says that people’s identity cannot be explained only through a national identity. Although countries remain important in shaping our identity, in order to really know who someone is, we would better ask “where are you local?”.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. – Jack Welch
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Discouragement can be real, that’s why positive thinking needs to dig deeper in order to overcome dark feelings.
Leadership Freak has devised a 15-point strategy to address negative thinking.
First of all, sharing with others could be a powerful medicine. Discouragement can be a common feeling and reaching out to others is key.
Rest and sleep. At the same time do not stay still. Take long walks, finish a task that you’ve been putting off and celebrate progress.
Catch the occasion. Let go anger, forgive and evaluate yourself.
Read more here.
Image Source: Chris – originally posted to Flickr as DSC_0051, CC BY 2.0
Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine. Lord Byron.
Image source: Flickr.com – Wanderingnome
Leaders are often described as powerful and headstrong individuals, certain of their position and willing to do whatever it takes to achieve their goals or ambitions.
Recent researches have advanced a new model for understanding and improving effective leadership: leading with humility. Scientific inquiry has shown that humility offers a significant “competitive advantage” to leaders.
Humble leaders consider their own strengths, weakness and motives in making decisions; demonstrating concern for the common good, and exercising their influence for the benefit of all.
Managers who exhibit traits of humility resulted in better employee engagement and job performance.
In this article, Gwen Moran explains how to use humility to be more effective in the following 6 ways:
1) Be open to others’ opinions;
2) Tend to others’ needs;
3) Admit mistakes;
4) Accept ambiguity;
5) Self – reflect;
6) Let people do their jobs.
Image source: Flickr – (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Tom Simpson
In today’s communication, pictures and photographs are more and more crucial for an effective result, both on the web and on paper.
Whether you are a beginner or more experienced with photography, here are some tips that will help you improve your photography:
- Use the Rule of Thirds
- Avoid Camera Shake
- Learn to use the Exposure Triangle
- Use a Polarizing Filter
- Create a Sense of Depth
- Use Simple Backgrounds
- Don’t Use Flash Indoors
- Choose the Right ISO
- Pan to Create Motion
- Experiment with Shutter Speed
And, finally, remember that is always better to invest more in learning and less on gear. You can take stunning photos that you’ll be proud of, even with a modest digital camera fitted with its standard zoom lens. But you can’t take such great photos without understanding the basics.
Take your digital photography to the next level with the full article.
Image: Photography – Evan (CC BY-ND 2.0)
The Diplo calendar 2023 realized by Stefano Baldi contains some quotes of well-known and less known Italian women and men of 19th and 20th century that can inspire us in our daily life.
Here is the selected quotation for the month of February:
Above all, don’t fear difficult moments.
The best comes from them.
Rita Levi Montalcini (1909 – 2012)
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