This post will be different than usual. The Resilience Center run by Dr. Gail Wagnild - an expert on individual resilience, offers the resilience assessments tools. I want to invite to take two fun tests available on their website and see how much we learnt together about resilience and what new insights we can get from the Resilience Center.

"Every man carries Two Bags about with him, one in front and one behind, and both are packed full of faults. The Bag in front contains his neighbours’ faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.

If you work 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year, for 40 years, your career will last approximately 80,000 hours.

Does a community need generational change to progress from one stage of development to another? After an article about innovation...

"Let's have some resilient fun" shows some important topics in a more relaxed and joyful way. After all, humour is quoted as a desirable...

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Memento mori is not about cultivating a fear of death, but rather about using the awareness of death for reflection on how we live.

Do you have a specific routine or a checklist to assess your readiness to work? How do you do this? I have been thinking about this a...

On Sunday, I participated, together with my Monika, in Wings for Life Run. The Wings for Life World Run is a running competition, which...

What does it take to become an expert? 10 thousand hours is a common threshold indicating the min effort to reach it.

The article "How AI Could Help Rebuild the Middle Class" by Professor David Autor made me think about unpredictable nature of complex...

Is Forecasting Political and Economic Events Feasible? Many researchers argue that forecasters are prone to multiple errors - they are...

Have you ever been in a situation where you had to think on your feet? Maybe it was a surprise client visit or a sudden change in the...

Short video from a wonderful paragliding trip with Magiclift in Panchgani, India, long after my first flight. Over the past few weeks, I...

Cognitive biases codex is a wonderful piece of work, which brings together all or perhaps most of cognitive biases of humans. If you...

I have been reading over the weekend a very insightful book: Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back. Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy provide...