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Esa Saarinen is a famous philosopher in Finland. He is currently a professor at Helsinki University of Technology.
My friend say he might be the relative of famous Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen.
Today's topic is "inspiration, motivation and meaningful things in life"
In his speech, there are seven elements he think that construct what we have become and in what kind of situation we are at the moment. These seven elements are also the key points that could turn ourselves become what we might want to become. They are micro-behaviours, leverage points, big picture, expectations, non-obivious, attitude, up-lifted.
Before these, he is talking about he trying to bring this style of speech, tender but dynamic.
Micro-behaviours means the micro scale interaction between you and the others. Everyone has certain rules when he/she encounters social situation, but the rules wasn't a must-obey one. What brings interests is when people didn't follow their rules and why they don't. What create the good things out of micro-behaviors are still the tacit respect and encouragement to the others.
Leverage points means that: think of a person's life span. There is always an important point for himself. And the outcome of a leverage point always somehow define what we are and where we are at the moment.
But all these things will happen still align to some Big Pictures, how much gift (talents) we have shown (pursue), and how much we haven't shown (pursue).
Then it leads to the question of what are our expectations and how they affect our life. We could expect more then what really happens and vice versa. And it definitely affects how we handle the situation and opportunities.
It influences how we choose between obvious and non-obvious choices. Quite many times we don't know how the non-obvious can be helpful or significant to our life. But back to the leverage points, it quite often is a non-obvious situation.
So how is our attitude to the life become important here. How we face the difficulties of obvious and non-obvious. Are we always somehow "holding back" because the mixing effect of expectation?
can't remember what is about up-lifted
He also talks about naivete. Somehow this word contains negative meanings. But think about those successful people, didn't they always hold some level of naivete inside their mind that brings the power of trying to achieve the aspired goals?
In the end he talked about couple of interesting things. How to have balancing act? Our focus should be trying to grow, to compete against our own possibilities and opportunities. Think and re-think about that life is an axis, what is happening on this axis now and then.
reference:
- Amazon.com: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (9781400062751): Carol Dweck: Books
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9OlmPyjsNU
Muhammad Ali @ Atlantic Olympic 1996 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYHguBEXkac
Michael Jackson Earth Song - Maailman ihanin tyttö
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