Author: adriandobre

E S A R I N T…

J’ai décidé de ne plus jamais me plaindre. Je viens de m’apercevoir qu’à part mon œil, il y a deux choses qui ne sont pas paralysées. Mon imagination, ma mémoire. L’imagination et la mémoire sont les deux seuls moyens de m’évader de mon scaphandre. Je peux imaginer n’importe quoi, n’importe qui, n’importe où. Me faire caresser par les vagues à la Martinique, rendre visite à la femme que j’aime… Me prosterner devant Ozymandias, le roi des rois. Je peux imaginer n’importe quoi. Vivre mes rêves d’enfant, mes ambitions d’adulte… Jean-Dominique Bauby

Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon sur Amazon

Risk by Dan Gardner

Dan Gardner draws on studies and social experiments to explain how our perception of risk is often biased. A very good read with lots of examples. Actually, so many examples that my kindle version didn’t allow me to make all the highlights I wanted to make while reading this book. Throughout the book the author mentions two systems:

System One is the more ancient. It is intuitive, quick, and emotional. System Two is calculating, slow, and rational. I’ll call the two systems Gut and Head […] Head is our best bet for accurate results but it has limitations. First, Head needs to be educated.

Gardner, Dan (2009-12-23). Risk (p. 31). Virgin Digital. Kindle Edition.

 

How and Why to Find a Mentor | Psychology Today

A very good day start with this article from Alex Lickerman. Finding a mentor is a work in progress on my list and this article gave it a push forward.

First, in a true mentor-disciple relationship, the mentor, contrary to what many believe, is not intrinsically superior to the disciple. Human beings have a tendency to conceive of all relationships in terms of power and authority: all of us tend to think of other people as either superior, equal, or inferior to us. A mentor-disciple relationship, on the other hand, functions optimally only when both mentor and disciple consider themselves fundamentally equal. If they don’t, the greatest hope they share—that the disciple will surpass the mentor in accomplishment—will almost certainly never come to pass. For a disciple to learn most effectively from a mentor, he must resist the impulse to place the mentor on a pedestal and himself at the mentor’s feet, because if he refuses to believe that he can become as great as the mentor, he never will.

via How and Why to Find a Mentor | Psychology Today.

learning to be humble – blind man running

It was at the beginning of the year when I did my weekly run in Cinquantennaire park in Brussels. After a few laps I saw two people running side by side. Only when they got closer I managed to see the scarf that held the two together. One was blind. This comes to mind from time to time. If that man does not find a reason to complain, why should I? Respect!