What has the world come to when a 12-year-old boy walked on the stage and said to the panel: “I want to ask you a question. It is a serious question. Please listen carefully, because it is important to me. I have already tried to commit suicide a few times. Tell me: What is the meaning of life?” Life without understanding the meaning of life is not worth living. And meaning comes only through...
Wars are terrible. They bring out the worst and the best in people. There are many lessons to be learned from wars. Take for instance the following two incidents. There are two famous incidents where armies crossed the Alps. The first one was Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps in 218 BC. It was one of the major events of the Second Punic War, and one of the most celebrated achievements...
I read somewhere: Let’s get one thing straight, if something catastrophic hasn’t happened to your organization yet, trust me, it will. This means that we need to understand that sooner or later in our increasingly fast-changing world, where even the way things change is changing – your organisation or business will be affected by sudden and dramatic changes in society. Take the...
Ever felt that you were working and working on something and then one day everything simply stops and you know it was much ado about nothing. Perhaps a book you were writing, investing time into a project, trying to establish an NGO. Nothing will come from it. It was a waste of time. Maybe the fillowing story will encourage you as it encouraged me. I visited a country where Christian missionaries...