What’s more important for your personal success; your educational background and job skills or your personality? If your answer is education, of course, then I need to disappoint you! Our personality determines our life experience, shapes our performance and consequently, determines our success or failure. Job success or failure, and job satisfaction, depend on our
I didn’t know him very well. He was my neighbor and didn’t have a close relationship with anyone I knew of. No friends, no contacts. I respected that. To my surprise, he approached me the other day, directly and openly. “I want to confess,” he said. “I am sorry, I am not a priest and
A couple of days ago, I got a phone call from my cousin asking me an interesting question: “What to do when you feel down?” “I’ve been feeling blue for many days,” he said, with no particular reason to feel that way. “Do you believe I am getting depressed?” was his question. “Nobody can tell
I was seated with a group of people when someone said to me: “What have you done to improve your life?” I didn’t expect that kind of question, so I asked for clarification. “I mean,” he said, “What have you done to study, improve or change your life? Probably, you’ve studied many years to get
It was the day after my friend lost his job. He is a brilliant guy, and I still don’t understand how someone with his quality can lose his job. I was with him and his colleague from his previous company at a small restaurant in the downtown area. “I failed”, said my friend, watching people
Do you believe you know the answer? After reading this article, your definition of joy may be different. I was walking along the busiest street in the city. The weather was nice, and I must say I experienced a sense joy of just being there with others. I was not alone, but with a friend
