Discovered that I love management case studies. Case studies, to me, are small revelations. I see changes in the product offerings of companies but have no information on what triggered those change. Case studies are insight in these changes and are real stories that I love to hear. I have ordered a case studies compilation from Amazon.
Very impressed with Paulo Cohelo's Zaphyr. Book is a journey on self-discovery. Here are some random excerpts from the book -
1- The story we have been told is that all men can always get an erection. When he can't, the man fells useless, and the woman is convinced she is not attractive enough to arouse him. Its taboo and so man doesn't talk about it to his friend. And tell the woman the old lie "its never happened to me before"...... If he had trusted more in the love of his friends, if he had told the truth, he would have found out that he wasn't the only one. If he had trusted more in the love of the woman, he would not have felt humiliated. p81
2. The master had a buffalo. The animal's widespread horns made him think that if he could manage to sit between them, it would be like sitting on a throne. One day, when the animal was distracted, he climbed up between the horns and did just that. The buffalo, however, immediately lumbered to its feet and threw him off. When his wife saw this, she began to cry. "Don't cry" said the master, once he had recovered. "I may have suffered, but I also realized my dreams".p85
3. I went to the train station today and learned that the distance between the tracks is always 143.5 cm or 4 feet 81/2 inches. Why this absurd measurement? I asked my girlfriend to find out and this is what she discovered. When they build the first train carriage, they used the same tools as they had for building horse-drawn carriages. And why that distance between the wheels of the carriage? Because that was the width of the old road, the carriage had to travel. And who decided that roads should be that width? Well, it was decided by the war chariots width, that were pulled by two horses, placed side by side took 143.5 cm space.
So the distance of our state of the art tracks is determined by the war chariots used by Romans....
What this discussion has anything to do with marriage.... It has everything to do with marriage. At some point in history, someone turned up and said: when two people get married, they must stay frozen like that for the rest of their lives. You will move along side by side like two tracks, keeping always the same distance apart. Even if sometimes one of you needs to be a little farther away or a little closer, that is against the rules.p118
4. We chose to stay outside, outside a world that is fast collapsing, outside people who live in constant fear of losing something, who walk along the street as if everything was fine, when, in fact, everything is bad, very bad indeed! Don't you beg too?Don't you ask from your boss to pay the owner of your apartment? p167
5. Accumulated knowledge is useful when it comes to cooking or living within your means or....Do you believe that your past love has taught you to love better. No on the contrary, in order to surrender myself to him, I had to forget the scars left by other men. p178
6. The teacher of the archery says that no shots could be repeated, and there is no point trying to learn good shots or bad shots. What matters is repeating it hundreds and thousands of times, until we have freed ourselves from the idea of hitting the target and have ourselves become the arrow, the bow, the target. At that moment, the energy of "thing" guides our movements and then we begin to release the arrow not when we want to, but when the "thing" believes the moment has come. p205
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