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Retrospective

Looking over the past dozen or so entries, I believe that I can see a trend!?

There was a string of entries related to Tango, followed by (most recently) non-Tango reflections and other thoughts. This coincides with a period where I devoted a fair amount of time to Tango (be it dancing as well as teaching). Now that I am back from my Christmas/New Year break and with a number of activities planned in the near future, I am sure there will be a lot more of Tango-related stuff appearing here soon!

Mutual exclusion?

Saw the following quote today. However, can’t say that I am entirely convinced by it.

We can judge others or we can love others – but we can’t do both at the same time.

Author Unknown

Cultural roots

The past week saw two big religious festivals taking place in Singapore: the Deepavali for Indian Hindus and Hari Raya Puasa for the Muslims. As a result, every where you went, it was easy to spot the traditional costumes for these two cultural groups. However, believe it or not, come Chinese New Year time next year it will be extremely difficult to see a similar array of traditional Chinese costumes on the road, except among the elderly.

Super action

Simply could not resist posting this online after I received it by email!

Let’s see how many of these characters you can recognize??

Leadership and creativity

Learnt a few things about leadership from a very a knowledgeable colleague today.

It seems that as early as the Ancient Greek days, Plato had laid down a recipe for team/community motivation:

  1. Ethos: Make people feel that they belong to the team – in fact there is some recent psychological studies which indicate that IQ can be affected by this sense of belonging.
  2. Pathos: ‘Create’ (or, most of the time, just point one out) a common enemy – take for example all the war propaganda both in the past and the present.
  3. Logos: Use logic to round out the corners – by now, you have done all the hard selling.

Secondly, as a result of Larry Leifer’s work at Stanford University, it seems that the number of unique noun-phrases interspersed in our daily written or oral communications can be a good gauge to the quantity of creative ideas.

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