Suppose you are walking to work and by the side of the road there is a pond. Before your eyes a three-year-old, who was playing a bit too close to the water, falls in. What do you do? Do you risk your expensive suit and jump in or do you pretend not to notice and [...]
For a couple of months now, I have been thinking a lot about long and short term goals – and therewith, you could say, about purpose – which has attracted my attention to definitions of success. Fellow Gibburtian Robert had pointed out to me the very eloquently presented idea of Alain de Botton on this [...]
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