Ron Winnegrad has been a Perfumer and teacher for 46 years. As a perfumer, Ron has been able to express the world he sees through a rainbow of olfactive and emotive visions. As a teacher, Ron has helped others to see fragrance through his own multi sensorial lens.
Martin Luther King Jr said; “your work is something you get better at over a lifetime, and it should touch many other people. It should satisfy the SOUL’S yearning for righteousness.” All real work requires discipline; to engage in DELIBERATE PRACTICE, in order to MASTER a skill. Bill Bradley […]
The scholar Martin Buber tells the story of a person who said that when he dies and appears before the heavenly court, they could ask him. “Why were you not as great as Abraham?” and he would not be afraid; after all, he was not given Abraham’s intellectual gifts. They […]
Anybody can be trained to SMELL, if they have a sense of smell, it’s all about FOCUS. SMELL is a language, and like any language, it takes years of repetitive learning. The SMELLING practice becomes almost meditative. You must set aside what you think and FOCUS on what you FEEL. […]
MEMORY sounds like a natural talent, it turns out to be a LEARNABLE SKILL. Incredible MEMORY capacities are sleeping inside all of us only IF WE USE THE RIGHT TECHNIQUES TO AWAKEN THEM. So ditch the bad study habits you learned in school and start using some of the following […]
According to David Brooks people have a choice between TWO MOUNTAINS to climb that can shape their life. People on the FIRST MOUNTAIN spend a lot of time on reputation management. They are trying to win the victories the ego enjoys. This self-improvement technique usually consumes individuals starting out in […]
Wolves are known to have a high level of intelligence. The wolf has the capacity to express a wide range of EMOTIONS including; CARING, LOVE, LOYALTY, SADNESS, WORRY, GRIEF, JOY and HUMOR. Unlike human’s, wolf expressions are always genuine, reflecting their inner truths. Wolves are truly SOCIAL animals. Native […]
In a recent post, THE SONG OF THE UNIVERSE, it was discussed how the Native Americans see all in nature as a “YOU” not as an “IT.” This way you are able to learn from nature. The founder of Aikido, M. Ueshiba, wrote the book THE ART OF PEACE. This […]
We live in a culture of SELFISM—a culture that puts an emphasis on SELF, on SELF-CARE, and SELF-DISPLAY. We all want to live a life of meaning, the good life. The philosopher, J. Royce said that the good life means tightly binding yourself to others – giving yourself away with […]
You can’t have SUCCESS without GIVING emotion, you can’t have emotion without GIVING empathy, you can’t have empathy without GIVING humility, you can’t have humility without GIVING collaboration, you can’t have collaboration without GIVING GRATITUDE. To have GRATITUDE you should show THANKFULNESS or APPRECIATION all the time for the GIFT […]
BE A BELIEVER, BE A BELIEVER OF TRUTH, BE A STORYTELLER OF TRUTH. W. Benjamin said regretfully; “the traditional side of truth, WISDOM, is dying out.” He attributes this to the rise of unconsidered and plentiful information. We move from data to information to knowledge to WISDOM. We have […]
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