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If We’re Not Interested In Learning What Are We Interested In?
Autopoiesis tells us that people are only interested in what they are interested in. But if you are a leader you really must be interested in learning and here’s why.
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Looking Back To Look Forward
“What has been will be again; what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Ecclesiastes
Saudade is a Portuguese term that sits at the intersection between longing and nostalgia. It expresses something so familiar because to yearn for things we no longer have, or never had, is a powerful one and as the perennial advertising adage goes –
“Nostalgia sells, because it removes the rough edges from the good old days.”
Johannes Hofer, a Swiss Physician, first coined the term nostalgia. He combined two Greek words, nostos meaning homecoming and algos meaning suffering. This was in1688 and he was prompted by the need to describe a phenomena he was witnessing in Swiss mercenaries returning home after being in service to various European monarchs. They were displaying a listlessness and dissatisfaction which the French call ennui, because they were yearning to return not just to their home but to a time before they left.
