Prague Leaders Magazine Issue 04/2014

Page 21

How to Survive analysis

the age of intelligence? enjoy, restore and maintain brain synapse. Take destiny into our own hands and have the feeling that life The Stone Age did not is not bad and we still enjoy end because we ran out of it. We do not want to be stones, neither is age of a copy, „used matches“, intelligence going to end getting into blind alleys and due to the lack of brains take one step forward and or neurons. This does not two back. We want to stop mean we can let our brains being afraid of unknown idle. The American writer things and risks. Gore Vidal once said that We just want to be happy in our personal and professional life, to be effective as long as „the brain that doesn‘t feed possible and useful for people close to us, in our itself, eats itself“. profession too. from different regions but In the professional part of our lives are three What characterizes today‘s world and therefore crucial abilities: to be able to decide, to be able they have one thing in also us? Yes, neurons die, but are also born. Quite to learn and to be creative. To these abilities often we reconcile with our destiny, sometimes we have to add also the social and emotional common, their brains are we feel burnt-out. We feel that things are not attributes, communication skills, selfpromotion, art going that well as they used to be when we of getting on well with other people and art to bear not idle, and this ability were young. Parents, schools, companies and the strain. they transfer to other surroundings are killing the natural creativity in us. We point the finger at those who caused our people. unjust fate and collecting thousands of things In my recent book Máte that upset us. We solve crisis by rearrangement of seats on the board of Titanic. We are getting old, na víc! (You can do better) The fact that at any age you can do better than that is clear and indisputable. Anything won‘t mirror neurons along with empathy disappear. happen without you, let‘s paraphrase Hamlet - To I focused on brain. This be is to do and vice versa. book should be about We would like to bring From “The Information Age Arena” by Ivan how to train and use ones Pilný our creativity back, be and Tereza Kučerová published recently by Albatros Media brain more effectively. It more efficient, learn to By Ivan Pilný ■ Member of the Parliament, ANO party also includes the testimony concentrate and relax, President of Tuesday Business Network of several people, whom fight the fate, look for české znění naleznete na našich stránkách www.leadersmagazine.cz thousands of things that we I highly respect. They are Today is not an age of information (what is information anyway and what are just bytes?), neither is it the age of the digital highway (they are usually blind alleys), or even the age of knowledge (everything can be found on Google), it is the age of intelligence.

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