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We Need to Talk About Confidence
“The topic of confidence is too often neglected by serious people: we spend so much time acquiring technical skills, and so little time...
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teodoratakacs
- Jun 11
- 12 min
What Do You Do With an Idea?
“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and...
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teodoratakacs
- May 7
- 17 min
How Are You Creative? 7 Ideas to Unlock Your Creative Energy
“If you want a good idea, start with a lot of ideas.” Linus Pauling A few months back I participated to a workshop organized by the...
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teodoratakacs
- Apr 9
- 3 min
Understand Your Core Values
Wherever you might be on your life journey, you will for sure change in the years to come. "Understand Your Core Values" is a personal...
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teodoratakacs
- Mar 26
- 10 min
Of Perfectionism and Other Demons
I didn’t know what perfectionism was when I was most struggling with it. I couldn’t see the signs, not to mention the possible ways to...
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teodoratakacs
- Mar 12
- 1 min
6 Ways to Find More Meaning in Your Life
All my life I have been struggling with a feeling of not being good enough, so I constantly chased self-improvement and learning how to...
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teodoratakacs
- Mar 7
- 9 min
What We Value and What We Do. This Daily Game of Tic-tac-toe
“One person’s trash is another person’s treasure”. Annie Duke, How to decide I have days when I wake up extra ambitious and I plan to do...
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teodoratakacs
- Feb 11
- 15 min
How I Learned to Trust My Intuition
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.” Albert Einstein We are sometimes so focused on...
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teodoratakacs
- Dec 23, 2022
- 14 min
If You Want More Meaning, Start with Purpose
“He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.” (Friedrich Nietzsche) “Purpose provides activation energy for living.”...
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teodoratakacs
- Nov 13, 2022
- 8 min
We Need To Talk About Leadership
For a long time, I believed that leadership was about being smart, strong and confident. A good leader was someone who knew it all and...
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teodoratakacs
- Oct 9, 2022
- 9 min
10 Books That Helped Me Grow
And when I say grow, I think about becoming calmer, braver, more disciplined, compassionate, less biased, driven, creative and resilient....
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teodoratakacs
- Aug 29, 2022
- 8 min
Do You Care What You Share?
Do you ever have moments when you feel a strong impulse to share something with others and you just do it automatically? Maybe when...
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teodoratakacs
- Jul 1, 2022
- 15 min
Flirting With Our Possible Selves
I first came across this idea of flirting with possible selves, while reading Range, by David Epstein. The story of Frances Hesselbein,...
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teodoratakacs
- Jun 13, 2022
- 6 min
Be More Playful With Yourself
“Follow your dreams” is the worst advice you can give. It’s impossible to do without self-knowledge, which takes years. You discover your...
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teodoratakacs
- Mar 23, 2022
- 12 min
What's Your Superpower?
It was a Friday afternoon, and I was preparing for the last meeting of the week. I was tired and found it difficult to focus. Maria, a...
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teodoratakacs
- Feb 1, 2022
- 9 min
Did You Think It Would Be Easy?
A long time ago, someone told me a story. It was about a girl, born in a middle-class family of German origins, in a small village close...
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teodoratakacs
- Dec 31, 2021
- 10 min
Less Ego, More Shared Moments
A few years ago, I read a story that changed my perspective on death and helped me put my long-lived anxiety at the thought that I might...
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teodoratakacs
- Nov 30, 2021
- 15 min
Who We Are Is How We Spend Our Time
Most of my life I was busy doing, running from one thing to the other. It’s only a few years ago, in my mid thirties, that I also started...
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teodoratakacs
- Oct 31, 2021
- 13 min
Lost Your Motivation? Maybe That's a Good Thing
Sunday is my favorite day of the week. I get up around seven, do my morning routine, enjoy a coffee while catching up on some readings,...
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teodoratakacs
- Oct 2, 2021
- 7 min
What Are You Holding On To?
At the beginning of September I had just finished re-reading Dan Pink’s Drive and I was writing about the difference between motivation...
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teodoratakacs
- Aug 31, 2021
- 11 min
What If Joy Was a Choice?
Do you believe in Work-Life balance? What does it even mean? When I think about balance, I visualize an old fashion balance scale, the...
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teodoratakacs
- Jul 29, 2021
- 18 min
You Live, You Learn
I have always been a learner, like we all are, just in different concentrations. Some of us learn by reading, others by socializing...
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teodoratakacs
- Jun 17, 2021
- 16 min
If You Want to Change Something, Start With Your Mindset
We often associate change with very specific habits or abilities we want to grow. But we could also start with reflecting on our mindset.
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teodoratakacs
- May 17, 2021
- 11 min
Feeling OK There?
I thought that doing more was the solution I needed; that by doing more, I was doing better. I was wrong.
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