Loads of things are written on why Angela Merkel advocates a rigourous debt cut policy, attracting overt criticism from Keynesians like Paul Krugman and overt hostility from electorates in Greece and elsewhere. (As usual, she will probably soften her way at some point but is still waiting for what wi… Read full post »

 Aikido is a martial art that is merely defensive and different from all others. Its creator, Morihei UESHIBA, often respectfully called "O Sensei", underwent a deep spiritual transformation. After a lifelong quest that made him kill people as a soldier and then led him through a variety of trad… Read full post »

I have this small gift to American readers or to whomever is of Protestant confession or has any interest.

A few days ago, I was in Eastern Germany, in Eisleben, now Lutherstadt-Eisleben (See on map). Eisleben is located in a rather declining region where the population grows older because the youth… Read full post »

May we be using the wrong figures to evaluate wealth, progress and innovation?

GDP

The gross domestic product of a country, i.e. roughly the value-added generated by its economy, is often used as an indicator of wealth and progress. The growth or decline of the GDP is a figure many… Read full post »

Relationships: How we spend more time destroying than nourishing them, and how we can change this.

Part IV of "Uniform Thinking - and how to go beyond"

Many people have the impression that life owes them something. This impression might be a transfer, a generalization after the impression that their… Read full post »

Some thoughts on how to switch off the autopilot - perhaps for the first time in life - and start to run our life the way we want to.


Many of the things we do, we do automatically.

We spend most of our time in reaction mode. On autopilot.

Each society defines a certain… Read full post »

Why stepping out from the jail of comparing yourself with others might be where true freedom and change start

The essence of the first part of this series was that belief and understanding exclude each other and are two differing mechanisms to grasp (or deny) reality. In terms of shares of brain… Read full post »

Uniform thinking does not necessarily materialize as everybody thinking the same things in the same way. It is more subtle. In a time when everybody thinks he or she has an opinion and should make it known to the world, uniform thinking hides within uniform controversies. When everybody fights over t… Read full post »