Hassan Hamdoun

Welcome to the third episode of the Life series. A series dedicated to life as I see it from different perspectives. In this episode I am interested in discovering more about reactions and pro-actions to being a useful homo sapien while keeping a positive attitude to life challenges Let me start with the some key influences:  Stress is internal to us. Humans feel stress due to anxiety, fear, anger, worry ,etc. It is manageable. How manageable it is depends on how much we know ourselves.  Pressure is external to us, it is bring/taking from us. Some of the pressure we face- is something we cann't do anything about. Some we can mange with some self-determination and resilience. above all, this is the most external, most noisy effect we have in life, yet it is inflated and takes more that it should for us humans. I say this because of the way we usually handle external pressure. Proactiveness /Reactiveness  For me proactiveness is about  controllin...

While preparing for a talk last month in London, the strategic vision for Sudan sustainable development, organised by Sudan Diaspora, Sudan knowledge www.sudanknowledge.org on 21 June 2019, I read-up on well-being as an alternative measure to GDP and found it  intriguing The exi sting notion of measuring prosperity of a nation using Gross Domestic Product(GDP), that is the sum of all income from all internal activities. It exclude products made outside the country. GDP= national output = national expenditure) produced in a particular country. Looking  at the country as a nation with contributions from citizens living abroad taken into account , we get the Gross National Product(GNP). so GNP= GDP + net property income from abroad GNP is the value of all goods and service produced by nationals- whether in the country or not. Both GDP and GNP for that matter, don't tell us much about the nature of economic activity. It is th...