Reading too much.

On my journey through interesting books and those already in my appartment which want to be read I came across and interesting author some time ago, Heinrich Popitz, whose books unfortunately seem to be available only in german (librarything list expanded). He was an sociologist publishing on phenomena of society. I don´t have much knowledge in this area so there are no links to other blogs. His texts are very compact and also a pleasure to read from the way he uses language.

Blogentries which called my atention this weekend:
Spirale des Todes (german only).
The world worst disease.
Both focus on the dilemma of zero sum thinking and their misrepresentation of reality.

This saturday Christmas shopping has begun (to avoid any surprise on my side on the 24th of december about still missing presents)
Best phrase heart on Saturday:
"Ich habe einen Job für dich; du gehst jetzt in den O2 Shop und nervst dort die Leute." (nerven = annoy)

15:30 Lunch

http://www.porcao.com.br

Conbrai is finished

Yesterday the Conbrai event (meeting of internal auditors from all over Brazil) I was visiting here in Rio finished. I will post some photos next week with a funny anecdote .)

#update 18.12.2006: Final day picture of Tom Wargas and me; two professionals @work)

Today I came back from São Paulo and there are just two days left to finish my business here and come back to Frankfurt. There is an airlift between the two cities so that you can go to the airport whenever you want and pretty fast have a flight to the other city. Flying time between both cities is approx. 45 minutes.

Tomorrow a short Trip to Niteroi is planned, let´s see if the plan does fit my schedule.
Cu

Beach Soccer World Cup

Fifa Beach Soccer World Cup


Hope to see some nice games tomorrow.

Arrival

For all those who care:
I have arrived at my destination the weather is not so hot as expected and pictures can be posted after my return.

On tenacity

Via Cem Basmans blog I found a nice to read article on ´What it takes to be great´. A theme that has also been covered in some magazines stating that approximate a timeframe of 10 years of practice was found to be relevant to show outstanding results in an area. It is interesting that talent itself could maybe be overrated when measured against pure will power and some kind of stubbornness.
The main question here is not ´What have you done in the last 10 years´ rather than ´What do you want to do in the next 10 years?´
Since my perspective seems to be for outsiders always a strange mixture of nostalgia and (maybe) absurd forward thinking for me this question is extremely attractive, since it gives me the chance to answer the question myself.
So ... where do we want to be in 2016? :)