EDUCATION AND TRAINING – GROUNDS FOR ETERNAL OBLIGATION?

March 17, 2023.Reading time 11 minutes.

I am always amazed that many companies that train people complain terribly and even see it as a personal insult when the trainee leaves the company after graduation.They are often considered ungrateful, disloyal, and worse. I have never understood this. It is a win-win situation for any company that decides to pass knowledge and skills […]

UPSIDE DOWN

March 10, 2023.Reading time 12 minutes.

WHEN THE WORLD IS UPSIDE DOWN – GIVE IT THREE DAYS In the late 1800s, psychologist George Stratton carried out an experiment to test the mind’s ability to normalise sensory data. He wore a set of reversing glasses that flipped his vision upside down for eight days. For the first days of the experiment, his […]

WORLD WAR III

March 3, 2023.Reading time 19 minutes.

WE HAVE BEEN IN THE MIDDLE OF IT FOR THREE YEARS NOW “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” — Albert Einstein The following is a post that I published here on February, 5th, 2021 and I would like […]

DODGING A BULLET

February 24, 2023.Reading time 15 minutes.

We are strange creatures. What we have we often don’t want and what we want we often cannot have. It is a bit like the grass being or rather seeming so much greener somewhere else. Just very recently I have come to realise that I thought I wanted something so very much and had to […]

CUM DUBITO DECITO – When in doubt, don’t

February 17, 2023.Reading time 12 minutes.

I recently watched the documentary “Tea with the Dames” with Dame Judy Dench, Dame Joan Plowright, Dame Maggie Smith, and Dame Eileen Atkins. Apart from this being lovely to watch, there was one thing that particularly stuck with me. The ladies were asked what advice they would now give to their younger selves and I […]

MY JOURNEY

Tag: Poetry