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Click here to add this blog to your feed (subscribe to Blog) Two Opinions on Uncovering Our Greatness This is a monthly column on uncovering our greatness, co-authored by Michael Thallium from Spain and Dr Amit Nagpal from India. We aim to share the success stories of great human beings and wish to inspire the readers to uncover their greatness too. -------------------------- Michael Thallium, Spain http://www.michaelthallium.com/en/thallium-vitae/ Ravi Shankar-Music to my Ears It has been a little bit more than half a year since our last post. Personally, I decided to take a break and distance myself from the social media for a while and use my time over the summer, here in Europe, in order to listen to myself, to find myself, to become my own “instrument” and explore my “performance possibilities” (work still in progress, I must say). I took the chance to take a short trip to Edinburgh in Scottland to visit some old friends. Then I spent some time with two v...

Click here to add this blog to your feed and you will not miss out on any story 3E Story Blogathon Post #3 by Michael Thallium  For Day 3 of the 3E Story Blogathon, Michael Thallium shares a unique post on the power of our beliefs, the maps that exist in our mind and how they stop us from uncovering our inner greatness. He rightly says, "Any person who wants to understand and empower people has to pay attention to both his own set of beliefs and the different sets of beliefs of people around."              When you look back at the history of mankind you can’t help but realise how important paradigms are. I first heard of paradigms when I studied Stephen R. Covey’s teachings on how to become a more effective and greater person. It had been many years earlier that Thomas Kuhn, in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, first introduced the concept of “paradigm shift”: rather than solely making progress in linear and c...

Two Opinions on Uncovering Our Greatness This is a monthly column on uncovering our greatness, co-authored by Michael Thallium from Spain (who talks about a great human being from Eastern part of the world) and Dr Amit Nagpal from India (who talks about a great human being from Western part of the world). We aim to share the success stories of great human beings and wish to inspire the readers to uncover their greatness too. -------------------------- Michael Thallium, Spain http://www.michaelthallium.com/en/thallium-vitae/ Ananda Sukarlan-Bridging Indonesia & Spain A confession: I have been putting off the writing of this article for two months. I have been a real procrastinator. And I know that is not the best way to start to write an article on a person who I consider certainly inspiring. However, I learnt two very interesting things from my procrastination, 1. my dear friend Amit Nagpal -with whom I write this series of articles monthly- is a very pati...

Two Opinions on Uncovering Our Greatness This is a monthly column on uncovering our greatness, co-authored by Michael Thallium from Spain (who talks about a great human being from Eastern part of the world) and Dr Amit Nagpal from India (who talks about a great human being from Western part of the world). We aim to share the success stories of great human beings and wish to inspire the readers to uncover their greatness too. -------------------------- Michael Thallium, Spain http://www.michaelthallium.com/en/thallium-vitae/ Dr Karan Singh-Amalgamating the Best of East and West To me the presentation of the book The Seven Joys Of Life by Amit Nagpal was the introduction to a person I had never heard of: Dr Karan Singh ( www.karansingh.com ). I did not have the chance to travel to India for that presentation and meet both my friend Amit Nagpal and Dr Karan Singh. I remember by that time, by the beginning of August of this year 2012 which is finishing in a couple of hou...

Two Opinions on Uncovering Our Greatness This is a monthly column on becoming a great human being and has two opinions on the subject from western and eastern part of the world namely Michael Thallium from Spain and Dr Amit Nagpal from India. Michael Thallium, Spain I would say we all create since we are born. And I do believe it is impossible to live without creating: just the very act of living, of being, is creative. However, I am not going to focus on that kind of creativity we all have, but on that creativity which is acknowledged by others. Let me explain it! I consider myself quite a creative person, and as long as it helps me feel better, it is worth it. Nothing to say about it! But many times my creativity only serves me, not others. And if it doesn’t serve others, then it will rarely be acknowledged. Either you like it or not, we all live in a society and, unless you are an anchorite or a hermit, we all need others’ acknowledgement to some extent. So, this kind of...

This is a monthly column on becoming a great human being and has two opinions on the subject from western and eastern part of the world namely Michael Thallium from Spain and Dr Amit Nagpal from India. Michael Thallium, Spain When I look back I see that adaptability has been a constant feature in my life, especially in the last 20 years. As they say, “There is nothing as constant as change”, but I would also add that if “change” is constant, adaptability is balancing and leads you to greatness.  In my case, one of the things that most contributed to increase my adaptability was learning languages, which in the end led me to “travelling”. I remember the first time I was abroad, back in 1991. I went to Hamburg in Germany, and that was one of the turning points in my life. The Berlin Wall, at least the physical barrier, was no longer there. I remember that, when I arrived in Hamburg, I expected to meet tall, blond, blue-eyed German people, just the stereotype I had...