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About Me — Slavo Petrik

It wasn’t obvious to me from the beginning. Whatever I did in my life, wherever I traveled and whoever I met, I always somehow ended up writing about it or at least doing a written part of that thing. I always knew what I wanted to do. The way was…

About Me

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About Me — Slavo Petrik
About Me — Slavo Petrik
About Me

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Jul 16, 2021

A Morning Story

5:20 AM. You’re slowly opening your eyes. Your mind is surfacing out of morning meditation. Calm feeling. Flowing happiness. A feeling that today you can get an inch closer to your dream life. A morning story that you always wanted. But that story looked very different 20 minutes ago… << 5:00 AM. A piece of…

Mindfulness

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A Morning Story
A Morning Story
Mindfulness

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Published in Writers’ Blokke

·Jan 11, 2021

Dealing with Authority

A brief glance at my watches. 6:30AM. Looking through the small window, I saw that we are approaching the terminal building. Tokyo Narita is a nice airport, but somehow that morning, my mind was not up to speed to appreciate it. …

Life Lessons

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Dealing with Authority
Dealing with Authority
Life Lessons

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Published in Blue Insights

·Jan 10, 2021

Reason Why I Stopped Following My Hobbies

The story of friendship and people around us — I remember the day when I came back from two weeks of holidays spent with my grandma. My father lifted me up to the shelf that was too high for me. I was about 5 years old and smaller than most children in the classroom. There it was. A beautiful…

Life Lessons

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Reason Why I Stopped Following My Hobbies
Reason Why I Stopped Following My Hobbies
Life Lessons

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Jan 9, 2021

How to Come Up with the Best Ideas

An unusual way to let your brain help you. — Switching off my computer and lights in the room, I left the notes on the whiteboard. Outside was a cold December evening in Sweden. Almost midnight. After a couple of hours trying to develop a solution for one of my projects, I just gave up. …

Life

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How to Come Up with the Best Ideas
How to Come Up with the Best Ideas
Life

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Jan 4, 2021

Wrong Flight, Sir!

“Where did you get this flight ticket, sir?” asked the tall lady at the transfer desk. I got a bit worried, with a long line of nervous travelers behind me. The late evening rush at the JFK airport for sure added to the urgency. “Air France,” I answered with my…

Life Lessons

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Wrong Flight, Sir!
Wrong Flight, Sir!
Life Lessons

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Published in Blue Insights

·Dec 18, 2020

Life Doesn’t Have a DELETE Key

It really does not. — “Dear prof. ” No, no. How to start this e-mail? “Mr. “ No, hmmm. Delete. For the last 10 minutes, I’m trying to type an e-mail to my former Ph.D. thesis supervisor. Start and delete. Start, delete. It’s not easy. This bridge has been burned. The story started in 2008…

Life

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Life Doesn’t Have a DELETE Key
Life Doesn’t Have a DELETE Key
Life

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Dec 17, 2020

The Change

6:00 AM. Alarm. New day. Today I will make it. I’ll go out running for 30 minutes. Morning has quickly passed, and suddenly it’s 9:00. Time for coffee. December in Sweden is dark, cold, and rainy. You don’t want to see the complete picture. …

Life Lessons

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The Change
The Change
Life Lessons

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Dec 16, 2020

20 Years, No Change

The doors opened, slightly screeching. I entered the computer shop in my hometown in Eastern Slovakia. “Good morning.” “Morning,” sounded reply somewhere from the back. The year was 1995, and right behind the door was a shelf with my dream computer, Commodore Amiga 1200. The price tag was above my…

Life

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20 Years, No Change
20 Years, No Change
Life

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Dec 15, 2020

Change This Habit

The world is so complicated that making correct judgment on the first time is unlikely. — “Next, please.” called the receptionist. I took our passports and put them on the reception desk. “Good evening. Petrik. We have a reservation.” Looking into the computer, the young receptionist quickly found our reservation and prepared the keys. “I apologize for that,” he said, pointing to the large group of…

Life

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Change This Habit
Change This Habit
Life

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