Tag: Purpose
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Types of Freedom
We’ve often talked about freedom – freedom is when you are able to do the things you want to do. Having options and having choices. I heard about another type of freedom. A female comedian interviewed in the radio recently was asked what freedom meant to her and she said it was being able to…
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Timeless Way of Building – An Appreciation
A remarkable force! I cannot stop thinking about this book, the passages and content contained within it! The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander Just yesterday as I was standing in the brightly lit corridor of M&S, in the refrigerated beer section, with my hand outstretched, deciding which beer to choose, my mind wandered…
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Agile Burn Out in ‘The Achievement Society’
In his book ‘Burn Out Society’, Byung-Chul Han, suggests that today’s psychological maladies (from a psychoanalytic perspective) do not stem from the negativity of repression (i.e. repressing what you shouldn’t do) as was the case in Freud’s times. Instead, today’s maladies such as depression, burn out and ADHD etc., stem from an excess of positivity – an excess of können / an excess…
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Mastery, Autonomy & Purpose
We took a few days off and stayed on a houseboat in Bath. One morning, we walked on the path along the canal. Near one of bridges, tucked away behind a hedge between the canal and the traintracks was a small shop. It was almost invisible except for a chalk sign. It was a vegetable…