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.
With all the technology upon us, we are caught in this vision of perfection. We have forgotten that FAILURE is an ingredient of learning. People today are so fearful of FAILING that they will avoid taking risks. And risks are where we get the opportunity to be innovative. Steve Jobs […]
It is difficult to swim upstream, but do we know which way the stream is flowing? Lao Tzu believed that a constant awareness of the PATTERNS IN NATURE will bring us insights into the parallel patterns in human behavior. Much of our energy is wasted in supporting our beliefs, […]
Steve Jobs insisted on “WALKING MEETINGS” with business associates to resolve creative problems. Now Mark Zuckerberg and others from Silicon Valley are doing the same. Nikola Tesla took daily WALKS to mull over his ideas before he put them down on paper. Nietzsche said, “All truly great thoughts are conceived […]
We all want to be appreciated, respected, treated equally and loved. When we do not experience these attributes we tend to feed the evil wolf within us all. As stated from an earlier post, TWO WOLVES, we have two wolves within us. The good wolf, has peace, love, humility, empathy, […]
To paraphrase Susanne Langer; Perfume, like language, is an expressive form. Its parts not only fuse together to yield a greater unity, but in so doing they maintain some degree of separate existence, and the sensuous character of each element is affected by its function in the complex whole. Which […]
Your PURPOSE in life is be happy and feel good about yourself. If you are going down the path of self importance, self interest, greed and power then you have lost YOUR PURPOSE. Doing your job every day you can get lost and lose your vision of your youth. Most […]
Top achievers utilize the process of DELIBERATE PRACTICE to help them focus on their technique. One gives their FULL ATTENTION rather than just their time. It is necessary to have instant feedback from a mentor. When one incorporates the constant feedback into the training it becomes ingrained into habit, then […]
Every decent job, today, demands more skill and LIFELONG LEARNING. Stop LEARNING and you could find yourself not able to hold a job. The work world today is where we can analyze, prophesize and optimize with a precision unknown in human history. The notion that we can go to […]
CREATIVITY is within us all, there is no need to test anyone for CREATIVITY. Everyone has the capacity to be CREATIVE. Many researchers have found that CREATIVITY is attributed to simply hard work—about 10,000 hours of it. The individual should possess a capacity for endurance, concentration, commitment, motivation, playfulness, openness, […]
The Webster Dictionary definition for TEAMWORK is; ACTING TOGETHER for a common cause; coordinated effort as A GROUP. Native American, Joseph Marshall III, has this definition for TEAMWORK, ”A bow without the arrow is of no use, likewise for the arrow. If a bow is seen alone, one wonders […]
A Perfume Whisperer 