Tag: humanity
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The Reciprocity of Respect
People tend to agree if you tell them that to earn respect you need to show respect. Said another way, if you take the time to demonstrate respect for people, they will show you respect.
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Why Self Interest is Not in Your Interest
Etsko Schuitema explains in this animated video that what we have been conditioned to believe does not lead us to achieve the things that we seek when we go to work everyday; self interest is, apparently, not in our best interest!
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Freedom: So What?
Freedom is only valuable to us if it does something other than allow us to control the course of events in the world.
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The Trouble with Judgment
I don’t know about you, but more often than I like to admit, I make a snap judgement call on someone I meet.
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The Stoic Way of Life
I really like Stoic philosophy. Stoic philosophy captures an idea which I think is the answer to the human problem in all of its diversity.
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Book Review: Intent – Exploring the Core of Being Human
After reading Etsko Schuitema’s Intent – Exploring the Core of Being Human, I felt both excitement and trepidation.
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2 Tips to Improve your Happiness
The point of this exploration is just to highlight two mistakes we often make, how they negatively impact our happiness and how they can be avoided.
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2 Tips to Improve Your Emotional Well-being
There are certain mistakes we often make that negatively impact our well-being. They are however avoidable with deliberate attention over time.
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Lets Return to Virtue: Being a Good Human Being
As a society we would do well to remember the wisdom of the ancients. Aristotle defined happiness as an “activity of the soul in accordance with perfect virtue.”
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A Move Towards a Good Country
But why have we, a species of 7 billion members possessing vast creative capacity, failed to find globalized solutions to our globalized problems?