What are your Top3 restaurants ⭐️⭐️⭐️- How to find happiness ☘️- Interview with JM Jancovici 🎙- What is a good CEO 💪- Eloge du chemin 🛣
Happiness is the result of your own actions.
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#1. Top3 restaurants of (my) world ⭐️⭐️⭐️
TL;DG From my personal experience over the past few years.
Do you know that French Gastronomy has been part of the UNESCO world patrimony since 10 years ?
Well, not being a ‘critique culinaire’, i can however share my top 3 list of best restaurants of my world.
> Marc Veyrat, la Maison des Bois. Marc Veyrat is definitely an ‘hors category’ chef not only because he refused to be part of the famous Michelin guide. Eating at La Maison des Bois, in the small village called Manigod near La Clusaz ⛷, is an exquisite experience. Over 70 years old, the chef receives you in person and he comes to your table to explain each and every culinary experience he prepared for you. Passion and surprise is probably what defines most accurately this very fine restaurant. To date, la Maison des Bois is just the finest restaurant I have ever been to.
> Arnaud Lallement, l’Assiette Champenoise. What a wonderful table in Reims, the capital of Champagne. I have recently been stunned by the mix of modernity in taste, this chef is able to create always staying close to the traditional French cuisine. Anything you eat there is just excellent. The dosage between taste and simplicity is perfect. This cuisine is ‘gourmande’ and stays in a narrow path where excellence never goes too far in extravagance. Simple but excellent.
> Guy Savoy, la Monnaie de Paris. Elected '“Meilleur Restaurant du Monde in 2020”. What an incredible truffle soupe with the equally famous truffle ‘brioche’. You eat there excellent food with an astonishing view on the Seine river. You will just feel Paris is paradise when eating at la Monnaie de Paris.
I am curious to know if there are any other restaurant you would think of. Feel free to suggest any other fine table that are part of your Top3.
#2. How to find happiness?
TL;DR From this website 👉 Live a better, happier life by Arthur C. Brooks. Takeaways by the great Patrick Kervern.
How to Find Happiness and meaning according to Arthur C. Brooks ?
Mother nature doesn’t care about your happiness. She wants you to pass on your genes, that’s it. Happiness is the result of your own actions. Every religious tradition teaches this and the literature in social psychology and neuroscience finds it to be manifestly true. Yet, the smartest people in the world sit around wishing they were happier.
Imagine saying I wish I spoke French, and then not buying a book to learn. You can’t wish knowledge into your head any more than you can wish happiness into your life? Knowledge and happiness are not immaculately conceived.
High performing individuals are chased by a ghost, a phantasm of their own creation. This hungry ghost can get very dark if you don’t take care of your spiritual hygiene. Today we’re given so many mental hacks, bio-hacks, and it’s really just laziness. It’s a lack of willingness to put in the effort. You need to work, not hack.
#3. Interview with JM Jancovici 🇫🇷
TL;DL From this podcast 🎙 👉 Jean-Marc Jancovici, Décroissance, Nucléaire, Innovation published on June 12 from an interview with Generation Do It Yourself.
Jean Marc Jancovici dirige Carbone4 et TheShiftProject et nous éclaire sur le défi énergétique que le monde doit relever:
Inutile d'acheter une Tesla car le véhicule est tellement lourd que son bilan énergétique est probablement médiocre ; la production d'électricité nécessaire pour l’alimenter repose en grande majorité sur de l'énergie fossile. Mieux vaut conduire une voiture électrique légère (Ex. Une Zoé) en auto partage.
Jean Marc ne prend plus l’avion et effectue tous ses trajets en train ou en vélo électrique pour des déplacements responsables.
Le digital produit 4% des gaz à effets de serre. La nourriture 30%. Nous devrions concentrer nos efforts sur l'électrification des transports de marchandises (indispensables) plutôt que de se focaliser sur le passage à l’électrique des voitures particulières (dont il faudrait pouvoir se passer).
Pour les entreprises, lutter contre le réchauffement climatique nous amène à réfléchir au paradoxe de la décroissance. Cela signifie également d’accepter … de ne plus augmenter les salaires ou de ne plus faire de ‘offsite’ d'entreprise en avion.
Pour + d’infos, la BD à ne pas manquer Le monde sans fin (Jancovici- Blain Ed. Dargaud), le site web The Shift Project et le site Ilnousfautunplan.fr
#4. What is a good CEO?
TL;DL From this podcast 👉 C’est quoi un bon CEO? published on June 3rd from an interview with Jerome Lecat by Sebastien Couasnon at Tech45.
Jerome Lecat is the founder of Scality since 2009. Scality is the 3rd company he started from scratch. His tips are very short but so precious for CEOs in quest for becoming a good or better CEO:
Growth mindset, listening skills, decision making and capacity to say no, humility rather than charisma.
Communicate intention rather than details.
Jerome Lecat thinks that bienveillance is not necessarily a quality of a CEO. He thinks this personal trait is deeply personal. ‘Bienveillance’ is just a human trait not a CEO trait.
#5. Eloge du chemin
TL;DR From this article 👉 Eloge du chemin published on June 24 in La lettre de Umanz by Patrick Kervern.
Le chemin fait advenir :
"La suprême récompense du travail n'est pas ce qu'il vous permet de gagner, mais ce qu'il vous permet de devenir." John Ruskin
Le chemin fait apprendre:
“Ce n’est pas le chemin qui est difficile, c’est le difficile qui est le chemin.” Sören Kierkegaard
Le chemin est le bénéfice :
"Tout le monde veut vivre au sommet de la montagne, sans soupçonner que le vrai bonheur est dans la manière de gravir la pente." Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cent ans de solitude.
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