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The Importance of Role Models

Strategic Considerations To me it has always been of paramount importance to have a vision of my model identity. In order to develop towards that ideal my role models would help me strengthen that vision. One effective strategy to find fitting role models is to pick the right environment. Certain organizations will promote specific types of personalities over others. For example in the military there is a tendency to recruit engaging, clearly structured people who have a natural preference to take decisions and action in the face of danger, i.e. under pressure. Thus firm leadership is a skill that is highly valued in military organizations. Other organizations might promote creativity, diversity, individualism and so on. Ask yourself which values you regard as the most precious and then look out for organizations whose values might match best. How To Be A Role Model The good news: setting the bar for being a role model will entirely be up to you. It is your own mind first that you need...

Lessons Learned from Ninjago

Masters of the Multiverse One of the highest privileges in life is to relive childhood with your own offspring. The experience of being a parent is by far the most intense and life changing transformation that any person might go through. Being accountable not only for your own, but also for another person's actions and life is a tremendous responsibility. As overwhelming as this might sound, there are definitely also some perks to the job: you get to watch Ninjago. As a kid I was seriously into Lego. Short disclaimer: I am -sadly- not affiliated with Lego in any way. The following statements regarding Lego are only my own opinion and not advice of any kind. It's perfectly ok if you're not the Lego type of person. A life without Lego is entirely ok, though meaningless ;-) Lego is just cool. My brothers and I used to throw together all the different sets and construct entirely new structures. At one point we rebuild robots from Transformers that could change into different m...