Inutile / vide fertile / patience
Nous ne sommes pas que des meneurs mais aussi des promeneurs
The Law of Reversed Effort
There is a Zen parable that I absolutely love:
A martial arts student approaches his teacher and asks, "How long will it take me to master this craft?"
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The teacher replies, "10 years."
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The student, looking impatient, responds, "I want to master it faster
than that. I will work harder than anyone else. I will push myself to
... See moreLa philosophie, les sciences humaines... mais aussi certaines “sciences dures” (la recherche fondamentale notamment), perdent leurs financements sous prétexte qu’ils ne servent pas la création directe de richesse ou qu’ils ne permettent pas d’applications concrètes.
Et c’est une grave erreur.
Ordine prend l’exemple de l’enseignement du Sanskrit, une... See more
Et c’est une grave erreur.
Ordine prend l’exemple de l’enseignement du Sanskrit, une... See more
Longue vie à l'inutile, prose apocalyptique et d'autres choses
3 Ways to Make the Most of Uncertain Times
Losing a job, taking on a new challenge, preparing to launch a project, moving to a new country – these transitions create what anthropologists call “liminal spaces” – the fertile but uncomfortable in-betweens where transformation happens.
Liminality (from the Latin word līmen, “threshold”) is the ambiguity
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I can't stop thinking about this:
Fast gets all the attention.
Slow has all the power.
If you're feeling everyone around you is moving faster and achieving more while you're being left behind—take a breath. That narrative is bullshit.
The constant pressure to compress what takes decades of work into days is a mirage.
Patience is the ultimate... See more
Fast gets all the attention.
Slow has all the power.
If you're feeling everyone around you is moving faster and achieving more while you're being left behind—take a breath. That narrative is bullshit.
The constant pressure to compress what takes decades of work into days is a mirage.
Patience is the ultimate... See more
Patience is the ultimate competitive advantage
Boy, I hurried... I hurried for a long time. I'm sorry I did. All the time you're hurrying, you're not really as aware as you should be. You're trying to make things happen instead of just letting it happen. You follow me?
-Bob Dylan
En attendant, je voudrais vous transmettre un passage clé de l’interview. Il s’agit de décider ce dans quoi on va échouer (deciding what to fail at) . Il prend pour cela l’exemple « d’une période très chargée dans votre vie professionnelle ou dans votre vie de parent. Dans ce cas, suggère-t-il, peut-être que ce n'est pas un temps où votre maison... See more