“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.” – Michel Foucault Foucault claims “that it is not necessary to know exactly what I am”, and I have mixed feelings about this. I
Category: Adult
Be Who You Weren’t
Our life can be summed up as a constant conflict between getting to know ourselves and developing ourselves. Yet, do we ever wonder why we’re never able to completely get to know ourselves? It’s because we don’t have a stable form. Yes, we don’t have a stable form even when we can look in the
Conflicts are the essence of stories
If we go by the meaning of the word “conflict”, it means disagreement or an argument against an opinion or idea. There are over seven billion humans on this planet following different religions, speaking different languages, belonging to different cultures, etc. There are humans who think alike on some matters but they do not necessarily
A blackcountry lass
My grandfather bought my father a garage on the corner of Prince’s End High -Street. Behind the garage was an area known as the Lost City, full of -character and back-street abortions. Although a rough area known for street fights, money was to be made there. Known as Laws of Tipton, which sold a variety
God, give me a harder conflict
Do you have a book full of the past histories of your nation? Or do you have a book that speaks about the lives of those that are powerful and successful? Look deeply into the book, look intently and real deeply, what do you see? After a lot of reading the next thing you ought
Hate Trap
Watching The Hate You Give, where the story remains somewhat hidden from justice as always, makes me wonder: if they can’t afford justice on screen, what can they avail in the real world? But the real world is something I consider a hate trap. Once, a scholarly man remarked “Hate attracts hate”. Chances are, he
Different Behavioural Outcomes
Are you who you were? Are you who you are? Are you what you wanted? Are you who you will be? Do you believe in change? I want to discuss the statement that is credited to one Michel Foucault. The statement goes this way, “I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what
Innovation & Customer’s Insights: Coming Together, A Beginning; Working Together, A Success! Henry Ford’s Success and Failure
Did Ford utter these words? Is this maxim correct? Is it wrong? What prompted this statement? What did he really mean? Wow, a whole lot of questions already but guess what, I’ll take you through a journey of enlightenment and let the answers to all of these questions flow from your understanding. According to legend,
A Story Worth Telling
“If there is no conflict, there are no stories worth telling – or reading.” — Veronica Roth Do you agree? “Wholeheartedly! The internal conflict rose from within and formed a raised, rigid bar-shaped lump between my breasts. My mind wondered what was wrong as my body urged my fingers to continue exploring the invader. As
Contented Customers – Only Until The Next Gadget Appears!
A principle in marketing is that the customer is always right. This gives rise to the assumption that customers should be given what they want. Sales people are warned that if they ignore the needs of their customers, the business will soon be on life support. Ford’s comments ignored this rule and yet we still drive Ford cars today. His
La haine n’attire pas la haine, elle l’engendre
The revolution will not be televised, Gill. It will be Twitter-ised. It will also be hate-driven, because nowadays hate is more profitable than love. I’m an optimist. I once read that optimists were those who believed we lived in the best possible of worlds. Pessimists were those who feared this might be true. And yet…
To the Unknown You
You must be thinking, what’s the deal about this insta-caption worthy title? As mystical as it sounds it has a lot to do with the subtext intended. When asked upon to tell them something about yourself, what’s the first thing you know for sure about you and what do you want to make others believe
Absolute
On the day I was born, I was defined. A female to the doctors, a daughter to my mother, and a sister to my siblings. I was given a name, baptized into a religion, characterized by a language though I still had yet to utter a word. I grew up striving to understand the norms
Heart of the Story – Conflict
Story telling is an art which should fascinate listeners or readers. If someone speaks or writes that two persons, one male, John, and one female, Jennie, met, got married and had children, how many people would like to listen to or read this story is the big question. A boy is born, brought up, becomes
Conflicts Are Stories
Growing up, I always wondered why people would talk about negative news more than the positive. This had been one of the questions that was always a thorn to my intelligence and one that I never got an answer to until it slapped me in the face in 12th grade. The truth is, there are
People Change, It’s Called Life
“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.” – Michel Foucault. When you wake up in the morning, do you just sit around and wait for the sunset, or do you
The Unseen Truth
When it comes to personal growth, it’s true that we don’t spend enough time to self-reflect because we don’t think there is a problem. As a culture we work to preserve longstanding traditions, but don’t seem to acknowledge those who enforce specific biblical and philosophical traits for their own benefit. Dictatorships, war lords, terrorists, politicians,
Learning To Become Who We Are Is Not The Main Interest In Life
Seeing life from the perspective of what we are, rather than what we can learn to do, limits our abilities. Equipping ourselves with new developments and skills is how we make a meaningful life. We don’t really have to limit ourselves to what we are; the task and interest in life is to become not
Moral Responsibility and Becoming Someone New
“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.” Foucault’s words remind me: if you want to understand yourself, you should focus not on who you are but on who you have
A Vicious Cycle
I want to think that babies cry the way they do at birth because it is their first time making contact with the negative energy present in the world, as if transmitted in thick waves. It is an energy fuelled and powered by the intense animosity people direct at each other. They cry because they