I am very grateful to the guests, the moderator and those present at the event! We had a very nice time, we laughed while exchanging advice, sincerity and, most of all, humanity.
You can find here the link to the live of the event.
You can find here the link to the live of the event.
No one can do it all alone, and the much needed change in the workplace cannot come unless we are more to demand it.
All the stories included in my book (interviews, getting hired, being
fired or resigning) are our stories. You are not alone, we are more!
On the 8th of October, at 18:30, the Carturesti Modul Bookstore welcomes us with open arms to talk about change. Come and join us while we talk about
what demotivates us and what we can do in order to improve things and create healthy work environments.
To get the conversation started, you can watch
again the interview I did with Derrick.
This spring, my new book, ‘Corporation. Typologies and Survival Guide’, started the change movement.
Since I received a lot of questions about
the book, I asked Derrick if we could film an interview and talk about them. Due to the typologies presented in my new book, people might get the
wrong idea, that I think all colleagues, managers, and all environments are
toxic. How better to prove otherwise than by having a former colleague
interview me?
The interview is in English, but it has Romanian subtitles (when watched on YouTube).
Derrick
and I talked about why it is important to talk about the typologies that drain
us in the workplace, why we need the change and how we can initiate it so that
we can work in a positive work environment, and what were my inspirations when writing it.
I hope you’ll enjoy this interview and do share your thoughts about it!
Today, someone said to me something so beautiful that I want to share.
When you're young, do take care of your body because as you get old it will avenge the bad things you did to it.
I gently opened the book and smiled at the author’s dedication because it reminded me of how my children’s story got to exist. My nephew is the one that gave me the idea for the Sugu the squirrel and Hapciu the dog, since squirrel is our conspirical.
Through the ‘Alexandru
the Rabbit’, Ana brought me a loss joy because it reminded me of the magical
powers we believed we had when we were children (and I don’t think that there
ever were children not to believe in their magical powers). We were one with
our favourite characters, all things had soul and reason, and communicating
with them was complex and fulfilling. We ignored or we did not even care what
others believed, since we knew that the connection with anything around us (be
it invisible) was strong and real. Culcus, the domestic rabbit, reminded me of
that magical connection we used to have and that we could not see differences
between us and the animals. Culcus easily renounces its fears and wants to
learn how to read, while the boy Alexandru starts to hop and to love the salad,
and soon both of them learn valuable things from each other.
But the greatest lesson is learning
about their own identity, about who they truly are inside themselves, and this
lesson is by far the most beautiful one, whether you’re human or rabbit.
If you're interested, I've got other books written by Ana Barton that I could recommend you - here and here.
The August issue of the cultural magazine Arges arrived with yet another beautiful surprise. Special thanks go to Mrs. Simona Fusaru.
Every one of us fights their own battles. From outside, everything
seems easy and we sometimes give ourselves hard times for not being able to
deliver some things, make true some plans, just as easy as it seems for others,
anyway. We have expectations, realistic or not, and they worn us down or their
reflection wear us down when we look at ourselves in the mirror and ask about
what we did wrong.
‘Shaworma with ice-cream’, Oana Ninica’s book, starts from there – faced with the reflection,
after the fall. In hindsight, if you have courage to look, you can analyse what
went wrong and you can choose if you are going to struggle some more or if you
will give up. Fear is the embedded character, in all pages of the book. It does
not do anything, but it is there, you feel it, you know it, you recognise it
from the things that happened to you. Sometimes, you laugh at it and at the ridicule
of letting yourself get carried away by it; and other times, fear seams a
Colossus that laughs at you and your try to measure your strength with it.
‘Fear kills. The opposite of fear is
not courage, as most would say. The opposite of fear is only the TRUTH.’
And at the end, something sublime.