Tag: time
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Times are a-Changin’*
*Spoiler alert: this article is in development and will grow, shape-shift and hopefully mature in due course. Getting this post started is doing my head in. It’s one of those posts where you know you’ve got something worth writing about, but you’re not quite sure what it is. I don’t know if you get this…
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What Is Trust?
In my university admissions examination in 2009, I was asked whether I thought trust was the foundation of human society. My answer was yes, and my reasoning was that it is a necessary – though not sufficient – condition for relationships and economic transactions. Looking back, I realise that my answer was fundamentally flawed. I…
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Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success (TED)
… it’s bad enough not getting what you want. But it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out, at the end of the journey, that it isn’t in fact what you wanted all along.
Val Saksornchai 