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The Beaten Path or a Personal Path?
The story goes that a group of researchers did an experiment involving a few monkeys, a cage, a ladder and some bananas. These researchers would put five monkeys in the cage, put the ladder inside and, at the top of the ladder, the bananas. Instinctively, the monkeys...
About Happiness
”Happiness - a big word, perhaps too heavy, too often used by many but whose content is too rarely felt, lived. Happiness is like the essences of expensive perfumes. It's rare, it comes in small spurts, like the dew grains you see at high altitudes, where you don't...
One Thing We Say, Another We Understand
When I first started driving the car, I had a funny situation. I was leaving a client one evening and forgot to turn on the headlights. I was driving a Dacia at the time, so there was no question of the headlights going on and off automatically, like now. On the way...
About Books and Libraries
"I'll make you another bookcase, I'll make you two, but that's not what you need. In six months you won't have anywhere to put your books. You need another apartment, you need a bigger space." That's what the gentleman who helps me says, from time to time, when I have...
Of Course He Was Nice, He Realized He Knew You!
I was at the bank recently with our CFO. The branch manager, who noticed us walking in and looking around lost, invited us into his office. When we introduced ourselves, both the lady and I realized we knew each other from somewhere. The lady was kind, she made the...
The Tree
In the courtyard where Interact is, we have some trees. One of them is big, it has grown very tall and wide.It's nice, it keeps shade, and I've seen colleagues who smoke go out there to smoke. But this tree has also spread a lot underground. Somehow its seeds have...