Category Archives: wisdom

259. What is Your Greatest Weakness?

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Thor

A favourite ques­tion in job inter­views is “what is your great­est weak­ness?” I always find the ques­tion puz­zling. It is puz­zling because nowa­days the per­son who inter­views you is rarely, say, a hard drink­ing build­ing super­vi­sor who wants to know … Con­tinue read­ing →

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258. From Small Beginnings …

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Thor

Habits are effi­cient (.. decide daily which side to part your hair on?). Habits are restrict­ing (.. do you really need to check Face Book every ten min­utes?). Har­vest­ing the ten­sion between effi­ciency and restric­tion gives life pur­pose and direc­tion … Con­tinue read­ing →

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256. You Want Me to Explain? You must be kidding.

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Thor

There is an expla­na­tion for every­thing. You know that’s true because some­body always has an expla­na­tion. The world was surely cre­ated in seven days because some­body impor­tant wrote that in a book. Last week a young woman of twenty was … Con­tinue read­ing →

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255. Age, Ambition and Secret Knowledge

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Thor

He used to be a fac­tory man­ager. They booted him out, “too old” at 40. Some­one with an MBA said he wasn’t fol­low­ing best prac­tice. Best prac­tice was what a text book said it was, appar­ently. Actu­ally it wasn’t. The … Con­tinue read­ing →

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253. The Magic Law of Thirty

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Thor

Thirty is a magic num­ber. By 30 Alexan­der the Great was mas­ter of his known uni­verse; (but dead at 33, dummy). So we are sup­posed to be mas­ter of what­ever we are going to be at 30. Well, at least … Con­tinue read­ing →

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249. Are You Real, or a Facebook Image?

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Thor

In a civ­i­lized coun­try the past is an open book and the future is an open oppor­tu­nity. As with coun­tries, so with peo­ple. There are mem­o­ries we laugh about, and things we would rather for­get, but don’t.  If we can … Con­tinue read­ing →

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247. Who Succeeds and Are They Right?

Posted on August 4, 2012 by Thor

The most suc­cess­ful peo­ple of each gen­er­a­tion are usu­ally those most per­sis­tent at act­ing out and defend­ing the ortho­dox­ies of their cul­ture and sub­cul­ture. If they are busi­ness­men it will be the favoured way of doing busi­ness; if they are … Con­tinue read­ing →

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