Understand at last that you have something in you more powerful and divine than what causes the bodily passions and pulls you like a mere puppet.
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We don't have control.
How to build a creative culture in your company
To create a creative culture, you need to have the infrastructure for it. This needs to be a top to bottom commitment. Creating a creative culture means aligning all the functions to the ideals. It means making sure the values of the company reflect it. This means the whole organizational structure has to support it.
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A company should create an environment that nurtures cooperation. It should remember that creative people, who core responsibility is to develop successful products, need freedom to act.
Manegment nurtures creativity by their actions. It is also nurtured through an environment that allows the right people to interact and act. A nurturing environment is more than colorful walls and action figures. It has to start with the physical design of the spaces the people are going to work in. When the design of the workplace is done right, it creates intersectional thinking, and a creative culture can emerge.
Read MoreWhat we control and what we don't control
We control our opinion, choice, desire, aversion, and, in a word, everything of our own doing. We don’t control our body, property, reputation, position, and, in a word, everything not of our own doing.
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Don't waste your time looking back
Don't waste your time looking back, you're not going that way.
- Ragnar Lothbrok
I started watching Vikings only last year and went through it like a maniac. In one of the episodes I was struck by this simple line that Ragnar speaks. The writers managed to take a well known verse and make it new and fresh and feel like something Ragnar would say. Either way, meditate on this one as you prepare for the next week.