• The need for a mission

  • May 6 2022
  • Length: 15 mins
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The need for a mission

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  • What is the sense of a mission?
    Starting with Albert Camus - his novel The Stranger and his idea of The Rebel - we will explore why it is vital to be a stranger to ourselves to embrace a mission: accept, at a metalevel, this leap of faith, a trick of mind to identify and share a common direction so that single individuals can contribute to control the direction of something they are just part of.
    One episode of the famous series The Office, by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, then adapted for American television by Greg Daniels, will show what interesting core all missions share and why it is important to use them with a grain of salt.
    In the end, we will hear Carlo Ancelotti, one of the most succesfull football coaches, speaking about quiet leadership: how embracing a mission is always about playing a game, swinging between illusion and reality - believing in a goal but always being strangers to it. Enjoying the ride.
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