Tag: success
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Bored of success!? Embrace your failed self!
Modern societies celebrate success. Every day we look at news about successful football players, about successful managers or entrepreneurs, about successful parents, about successful models. Our feed in social media is flooded with success stories about how people wrote the next best book, how someone invented the next big thing, how someone wrote the next…
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Megaprojects.
Academics at UCL have identified 18 reasons why megaprojects such as HS2 and Crossrail often fail, as well as 54 preventative solutions. The study found that no isolated factor could account for the poor performance of megaprojects. Instead, the paper is the first to identify several causes and suggest a systemic approach to enhance understanding…
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No, I do NOT want to be a billionaire! (or Bruce Lee)
There is a great hype lately about how some new billionaire must be our new idol. And I totally disagree with that hype. Billionaires are not only overrated. They are constantly advertising all those things that should not be part of the principles in a man's life. To begin with, there is nothing wrong with being successful. I…
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Do less. And less. And less. Until you do everything...
A recent article portrayed a woman who managed to become a CEO before she was thirty. (source) This is not the only case where "Doing more and more" is praised as the main way people should pursue their existence in this life. Modern civilization and today's society praises the ones who push their limits, do…
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Go fail!
It is really astonishing how humanity insists on forgetting the fruitful role of failure in our lives. We actually tend to believe that success happens just out of the blue: a person thinks of something innovative and he then materializes it. It's all a happy story. As simple as that. That person managed to be…
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