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What Managers Can Learn from Great Philosophers
In the expression “creative thinking”, the keyword is not creativity; the keyword is thinking. With the help of great philosophers, you will rediscover the art of thinking.
Notes on 1 Lectures I Watched in This Course:
Two Types of Change: Perception and Reality
2 People I Have Learned About in this Course:
Heraclitus (535-475 BC)
Taught that there is ever-present change in the universe
  • "No man ever steps in the same river twice"
  • self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom
  • lonely life
Parmenides (515-450 BC)
Founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy (universal unity of being), taught that change is impossible
  • existence is timeless, uniform, necessary, and unchanging