Learning from a Penguin – Leave the rock and start to swim
It’s a pity, that this wonderful story by Eckhard von Hirschhausen about a penguin is available in German only. To those who understand German: lucky you – stop reading and watch the video now! To the rest: a penguin is considered to be a clumsy, stodgy animal when placed on a rock in a zoo. But if it jumps into the water, it becomes one of the most amazing, economic swimmers you can find amongst all animals. It can swim for 2000 km consuming energy equivalent to 1 liter of fuel only. Amazing, isn’t it? Now think about the value of different personalities. Not everyone is a penguin. There are…
About Becoming Better
You don’t know when you will fail until you got there. Often it is quite easy to understand, when we have become better. We feel that we are successful in doing something. Problems are solved or procedures make sense to us. But, looking at the results does not really describe how we got there. Would we be able to reproduce the process and become better in other areas doing the same again? Obviously it would be great if we would know upfront what it takes exactly to become better, as we could plan for it much more efficiently. Reading many books, practicing things we have learned, literally taking any arbitrary…
