Battle for the internet | Technology. Inspiration and Chai. For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learnt never to underestimate someone's capacity for growth. Some changes were phenomenal. Each experienced a variety of emotions, as expected, denial, fear, anger, remorse, more denial and eventually acceptance. When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently, common themes surfaced again and again. 1. This was the most common regret of all. It is very important to try and honour at least some of your dreams along the way. 2. This came from every male patient that I nursed. By simplifying your lifestyle and making conscious choices along the way, it is possible to not need the income that you think you do. 3. Many people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with others. 4. 5.
The Top of My Todo List. April 2012 A palliative care nurse called Bronnie Ware made a list of the biggest regrets of the dying. Her list seems plausible. I could see myself—can see myself—making at least 4 of these 5 mistakes. If you had to compress them into a single piece of advice, it might be: don't be a cog. The 5 regrets paint a portrait of post-industrial man, who shrinks himself into a shape that fits his circumstances, then turns dutifully till he stops. The alarming thing is, the mistakes that produce these regrets are all errors of omission. You forget your dreams, ignore your family, suppress your feelings, neglect your friends, and forget to be happy. I would like to avoid making these mistakes. Don't ignore your dreams; don't work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy. which I then put at the top of the file I use as a todo list.
Happiness Is The Ultimate Economic Indicator. One factor that is increasingly being cited as an important economic indicator is happiness. After all, what good is increased production and consumption if the result isn’t increased human satisfaction? Until fairly recently, the subject of happiness was mostly avoided by economists for lack of good ways to measure it; however, in recent years, “happiness economists” have found ways to combine subjective surveys with objective data (on lifespan, income, and education) to yield data with consistent patterns, making a national happiness index a practical reality. In The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being, former Harvard University president Derek Bok traces the history of the relationship between economic growth and happiness in America. Ironically, perhaps, this realization dawned first not in America, but in the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.
L'entreprise totalitaire n'est pas la plus performante. À l’échelle d’une civilisation L’Homme est conduit par la liberté d’action. L’histoire en offre des exemples inlassablement répétés. Jacqueline de Romilly l’exprime avec éclat dans un texte de 2008 consacré à l’engagement : « Les Athéniens lorsqu’ils travaillaient pour un maître ne se donnaient aucune peine et aussitôt libérés, travaillant pour eux-mêmes, ils firent un grand effort et connurent de grands succès. Ceci se traduisit d’ailleurs dans les faits puisque d’abord la liberté et l’enthousiasme des combattants rendaient compte de succès des Grecs contre un envahisseur bien plus nombreux, et que bientôt la démocratie à Athènes coïncida avec un effort extraordinaire dans tous les domaines et en particulier dans le domaine culturel où apparaissent alors tous les chefs-d’oeuvre. » Il est indéniable qu’à l’échelle d’une civilisation ou d’une société la liberté d’action et son corollaire, l’autonomie, peuvent être à l’origine d’une ardeur exceptionnelle et de grandes réalisations !
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