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Keep Your ‘Good demons’ Awake

08/09/2016 /

How to make your life ‘flourish’, living up to your potential? Here are three good tips in Aristotelian thought, developed 2.300 years ago:

1. Having to do with our conduct, this is a matter of ethics and you have to cultivate Eudaimonia, which may be translated as ‘having good demons’. This indicates the capacity to raise all the functional, concrete aspects of life of humans as rational creatures who live in societies.

2. What enables you to flourish is also virtue: this essentially means knowing to what extent traits of human personality should be used and exploited on each occasion to achieve an optimal result.

3. You can become more virtuous through education, looking at accomplished, flourished people and through good habits you may develop, which help you flourish.

For more details have a look at this article: The 3 Key Ideas from Aristotle That Will Help You Flourish by Charlie Gilkey

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Problem solving: analytical and creative thinking

06/09/2016 /

We usually have to face obstacles in our daily life and we must be ready to deal with such challenges in the best and the most effective way.

But which skills are required to be a good and effective problem solver?
According to the article “The skills of problem solving”, both analytical and creative mental skills are required.
 The analytical approach provides a logical framework that allows you to identify the most appropriate solution from those available.
On the contrary, the creative approach  is related to feelings and is more about intuition, invention and innovation. Creativity helps you develop new and uncommon ideas, which probably do not have a logical connection with the problem but are likely to lead you to a solution.
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What you can promise

01/09/2016 /

The Diplo calendar 2016 realized by Stefano Baldi and Ed Gelbstein presents a selection of quotes from the Classical World for living and working better.

For the month of September the selected quotation is by Publilius Syrus, Latin writer of sententiae. He was a Syrian who was brought as a slave to Italy, but by his wit and talent he won the favour of his master, who freed and educated him.

Never promise more than you can perform

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Upgrading your reading skills

25/08/2016 /

Time constraints are constantly limiting our ability and efficiency in reading books and, above all, retaining what we have read in the long run.

Upgrading our reading skills would certainly help us in optimizing the time and effort we put into it, bringing positive benefits in our daily life and work.

In this article from blinkist.com, Caitlin Schiller lists 6 science based tips aimed at improving our reading method:

  1. Find a personal angle
  2. Get a bird’s eye view
  3. Drum up curiosity
  4. Create your own structure
  5. Record key insights
  6. Review your notes

Click here to read the full article.

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10 timeless leadership principles

23/08/2016 /

In their engaging book “The truth about leadership“, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner take a fresh look at what it means to lead.
The book is based on thirty years of research and illustrates 10 timeless leadership principles:

1) Believe in yourself
2) You have credibility
3) Your values drive commitment
4) You have vision
5) You know you can’t do it alone
6) You give trust before you get trust
7) You welcome challenges
8) You either lead by example or you don’t lead at all
9) You are a great learner
10 You are motivated by love

Read the full article here

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The musicianʼs relationship to time

11/08/2016 /

In his book “Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life“, the great music educator Wynton Marsalis explains how swinging can alter how we experience change.
The musicianʼs relationship to time can be of ultimate assistance to us in:

1) adjusting to changes without losing your equilibrium;
2) mastering moments of crisis with clear thinking;
3) living in the moment and accepting reality instead of trying to force everyone to do things your way;
4) concentrating on a collective goal even when your conception of the collective doesnʼt dominate;
5) knowing how and when to expend your individual energy.

Wynton Marsalis, “Moving to higher ground: How jazz can change your life”

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