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#35 Do you have your mental readiness checklist?
Do you have a specific routine or a checklist to assess your readiness to work? How do you do this? I have been thinking about this a...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Jun 19, 20243 min read
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#32 How our Eating Habits Impact Sustainability
The Impact of Dietary Choices on Our Planet Did you know that the global meat industry is responsible for nearly 15% of all human-induced...
Pawel Pietruszewski
May 29, 20245 min read
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#29 Wings for Life
On Sunday, I participated, together with my Monika, in Wings for Life Run. The Wings for Life World Run is a running competition, which...
Pawel Pietruszewski
May 9, 20242 min read
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#28 - 10 Thousand Hours to Heaven
Experts are made, not born What does it take to become an expert? Do you need talent, education, intellect or hard work? Theodore...
Pawel Pietruszewski
May 1, 20243 min read
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#27 The Unexpected Ally: How AI Could Help Rebuild the Middle Class and Boost Our Resilience
The article "How AI Could Help Rebuild the Middle Class" by Professor David Autor made me think about unpredictable nature of complex...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Apr 25, 20242 min read
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#25 The Magical Number 7: The Key to Improvisation
Have you ever been in a situation where you had to think on your feet? Maybe it was a surprise client visit or a sudden change in the...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Apr 10, 20243 min read
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#24 Resilience in paragliding
Short video from a wonderful paragliding trip with Magiclift in Panchgani, India, long after my first flight. Over the past few weeks, I...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Apr 4, 20243 min read
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#23 - 188 Cognitive Biases
Cognitive biases codex is a wonderful piece of work, which brings together all or perhaps most of cognitive biases of humans. If you...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Mar 28, 20243 min read
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#20 Achieve, experience, or learn from obstacles?
I have been reading over the weekend a very insightful book: Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back. Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy provide...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Mar 6, 20244 min read
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#19 Testing Team Boundaries in Sports and Business
Last year, the Polish national volleyball team won 29 from 31 official games, winning all important competitions in 2023: Men's Nations...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Feb 28, 20242 min read
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#18 Pomodoro Technique
Last week I wrote about the interplay between good and bad mood, and how they impact your cognitive powers. Good mood is associated with...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Feb 21, 20243 min read
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#14 China demographic crisis or maybe not a crisis?
I was planning to go back this week to some important topics related to individual and organisational resilience, but I couldn't resist...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Jan 24, 20242 min read
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#12 Precedence of diversity over uniformity
The Stockholm Resilience Center's Planetary Boundaries course offers a profound introduction to Earth's resilience challenges. It...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Jan 10, 20243 min read
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#11 Trusting Experts in a Complex World: Lessons from the Delta Tandem Accident in Interlaken
In our increasingly complex world, we often find ourselves relying on the expertise of others. This reliance brings forth a crucial...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Dec 16, 20232 min read
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#10 There are no talents in aviation
In aviation, talent is overshadowed by the rigor of practice. It's a realm where hours of dedicated practice, not innate talent, forge a...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Dec 7, 20232 min read
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#9 Soaring Through Life's Turbulence: A Pilot's Perspective on Resilience
As an amateur aircraft and paragliding pilot, I like to search for parallels between flying and various life aspects. My amateur status...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Dec 7, 20232 min read
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#8 Half-full or half-empty?
I reflect on the well-worn metaphor of the glass half-full versus half-empty. While optimists may see it as half full and pessimists as...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Dec 7, 20232 min read
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#7 The story of Two Monkeys
Resilient people accept reality, even when it's tough. This acceptance is arguably the hardest part of being resilient. It's particularly...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Dec 7, 20231 min read
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#6 Just learn how to get stuff done!
There are many people who can describe problems, explain why something can’t get fixed. When you get the assignment just nail it, kill it...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Dec 7, 20231 min read
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#5 Bricolage
We're keeping our feet on the ground, forging a clear path through the fog of uncertainty. Now it's time to make plans and put them in...
Pawel Pietruszewski
Dec 7, 20232 min read
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