This document discusses the importance of slow philosophy and soft power. It argues that professionals must be able to make judgments that are technically correct as well as ethically and socially considerate. It advocates living slowly and mindfully, enjoying free things like nature. It provides principles like not chasing unlimited money or working too hard to spend time with people. It emphasizes speaking positively of others and treating everyone like a friend to influence them through soft power. The overall message is that people should slow down, be present, make considered judgments, and influence others through kindness.

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2. Slow Philosophy & Soft Power
Influencing People
Modern Medicine & your mind XX
Institute of Language &
Communications, Turkey
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3. By - Edmond Fernandes
Director, Collaborative Initiatives,
Representative, Republic of India,
ILCS, Turkey.
Author, “ Small things That Matter
Much.”
Medical Journalist & MBBS
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4. Competence & Conscience
The crisis of our time relates to the disastrous
divorce of competence from conscience.
Once professionals begin to practice, they
stop thinking beyond the technical aspects of
their work.
Professionals must be able to make
judgments that are not only technically
correct but also ethically and socially
considerate.
Ernest Boyer 4

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7. Under standing Slow Philosophy.
- do you get up in the morning and
reach your mobile phone first ? Or
do you brush your teeth.?
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8. Do you look at your clock often
and are you always in a race to go
somewhere?
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10. Ask yourself,
if you don’t get where you are
going, what is the worst that can
happen in such a situation? Does it
really affect your life?
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11. We live in a culture in which being
over-worked has become a status
symbol.”
- Edgar Cahn.
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12. A wise man once sat in the audience and
cracked a joke - all of them
laughed like crazy.
After a moment he cracked the same joke
again & a little less people
laughed this time...
He cracked the same one again & no one
laughed !!! Then he smiled and said ''when
you can't laugh on the same joke again &
again then why do you keep crying over the
same thing over & over again''
FORGET the past and MOVE ON?
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13. 6 PRINCIPLES OF LIFE
1. No point using limited life to chase unlimited
money.
2. No point earning so much money you cannot
live to spend it.
3. Money is not yours until you spend it.
4. When you are young, you use your health to
chase your wealth; when
you are old, you use your wealth to buy back your
health. Difference
is that, it is too late.
5. How happy a man is, is not how much he has but
how little he needs.
6. No point working so hard to provide for the
people you have no time
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14. Walks in the park, The chirping of
birds, Rosy sunsets, Picnics by the
water; The BEST Things in life are
FREE.”
- but do you get it?
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15. You do not have everything you
want, but you have everything you
need.”
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16. Slow down, enjoy what you have
with you.
Do something other than your
prototype work
Spend time with people and not
with gadgets
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17. Say NO to invites and invest
personal and family time
sometimes.
Look at what you can modify from
your daily routines.
Quit TV, Smoking and alcohol.”
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18. You are the soft power. Your life
can make a difference. But are you
willing to be that difference? To go
that xtra mile ?
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19. “Talk to People about themselves
and they will listen for hours.”
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20. Give every person you meet, the
care and attention you would give a
friend and everyone will be your
friend.”
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22. Don`t criticized ,condemn or complain
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23. Learn it!!! nobody likes tantrum and
every body is angry on each and every thing
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28. Speak ill of no man, speak good
of all.”
Speak in such a way, as if you are
being recorded.
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29. Victories are made of small
advantages, of a wise suggestion,
of an opportune politeness
of sleepless tact, immovable
calmness
and patience that no folly, no
provocation, no blunder can
shake.”
- Lord Salisbury.
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30. Institute of Language &
Communications, Izmir, Turkey !!
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