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Slow Philosophy & Soft Power

Influencing People

Modern Medicine & your mind XX

Institute of Language & Communications, Turkey

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By - Edmond Fernandes

Director, Collaborative Initiatives,Representative, Republic of India, ILCS, Turkey.

Author, “ Small things That Matter Much.”

Medical Journalist & MBBS Candidate. 3

Competence & Conscience

The crisis of our time relates to the disastrous divorce of competence from conscience.

Once professionals begin to practice, they stop thinking beyond the technical aspects of their work.

Professionals must be able to make judgments that are not only technically correct but also ethically and socially considerate.

Ernest Boyer 4

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Under standing Slow Philosophy.

- do you get up in the morning and reach your mobile phone first ? Or do you brush your teeth.?

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Do you look at your clock often and are you always in a race to go somewhere?

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Ask yourself,

if you don’t get where you are going, what is the worst that can happen in such a situation? Does it really affect your life?

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We live in a culture in which being over-worked has become a status symbol.” - Edgar Cahn.

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A wise man once sat in the audience and cracked a joke - all of themlaughed like crazy.After a moment he cracked the same joke again & a little less peoplelaughed this time...He cracked the same one again & no one laughed !!! Then he smiled and said ''when you can't laugh on the same joke again & again then why do you keep crying over the same thing over & over again''FORGET the past and MOVE ON? SLOWLY? 12

6 PRINCIPLES OF LIFE1. No point using limited life to chase unlimited money.2. No point earning so much money you cannot live to spend it.3. Money is not yours until you spend it.4. When you are young, you use your health to chase your wealth; whenyou are old, you use your wealth to buy back your health. Differenceis that, it is too late.5. How happy a man is, is not how much he has but how little he needs.6. No point working so hard to provide for the people you have no timeto spend with. 13

Walks in the park, The chirping of birds, Rosy sunsets, Picnics by the water; The BEST Things in life are FREE.” - but do you get it?

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You do not have everything you want, but you have everything you need.”

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Slow down, enjoy what you have with you.

Do something other than your prototype work

Spend time with people and not with gadgets

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Say NO to invites and invest personal and family time sometimes.

Look at what you can modify from your daily routines.

Quit TV, Smoking and alcohol.”

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You are the soft power. Your life can make a difference. But are you willing to be that difference? To go that xtra mile ?

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“Talk to People about themselves and they will listen for hours.”

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Give every person you meet, the care and attention you would give a friend and everyone will be your friend.”

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Don`t criticized ,condemn or complain

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Learn it!!! nobody likes tantrum and every body is angry on each and every thing

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Speak ill of no man, speak good of all.” Speak in such a way, as if you are being recorded.

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Victories are made of small advantages, of a wise suggestion, of an opportune politenessof sleepless tact, immovable calmnessand patience that no folly, no provocation, no blunder can shake.” - Lord Salisbury.

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Institute of Language & Communications, Izmir, Turkey !!

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