Hardly anyone I have ever talked to has found their job truly fulfilling. The question I often ask myself, therefore, is whether the job market is rotten or whether something is going wrong with the attitude toward work. Time and again, I run across a quote from philosopher Alan Watts: "This is the real...
Jean-Paul Sartre had a very special view of life. For this reason, or because he was a philosopher, he also wrote down some of them. In this post we will take a closer look at the most famous, the most beautiful and the smartest of them. "If you are lonely, if you are alone, you are in bad company". Jean-Paul...
This article is about answering the question, "How to live?" It's not about how to survive - we humans have gotten pretty good at that. What we still struggle with as a species, however, is filling our lives with meaning, and as a result, many feel lost....
Taoism has been gaining more and more attention lately as people look for ways to live a simpler and more stress-free life. But what is Taoism? How did it come into being? And what are its main principles? In this article, we take a detailed look at Taoism - from its history and philosophy to...
Simone de Beauvoir, born January 09, 1908 in Paris, died April 14, 1986, is considered the most important female existentialist as well as a pioneer of feminism. As a writer, she wrote numerous novels, essays, short stories and memoirs. She was also the longtime partner of Jean-Paul Sartre. Simone de Beauvoir came from a very good household and was raised a Catholic-Christian...
Want to learn how to live a good life full of happiness? Buddhist philosophy can help you do just that. In this blog post, we'll discuss the 3 Noble Truths of Buddhism and how you can apply them to your own life. We'll also talk about the 8-fold path to enlightenment and...
Setting goals is easy, you would think. And somehow that's true. But often the goals are not reached. So something seems to go wrong from goal setting to goal achievement. The reason for this is often quite simple: we don't know how to set the right goals and how to work towards them. There are...
That our society is strongly defined by performance is no big news. In itself, there is nothing bad about performing, but it is important to know the limits of one's capacities. Only those who perform sustainably can do so over the long term. What is the meritocracy? As a performance society is a form of society...
"You must strive yourself.The Buddhas only show you the way." BUDDHA In this quote from Gautama Buddha - the founder of Buddhism - it is made clear why we cannot rely on any kind of guru to enlighten us. To understand this quote completely, I would like to tell you about my younger self:...
Derek de Solla Price was a British historian of science who made some groundbreaking observations. In this article, we will focus on his most famous observation: Price's Law. This states that in any work domain 50% of the work is done by the root of the workers. At first glance, this sounds much more complicated than it actually is. The...
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