Historical heroes usually have mediocre or subordinary children, and they seem to run out of family resources on their own. There will always be more mediocre emperors than wise emperors, and at least one in the first century will be dominated by a mad emperor. This was the diversity in unity, which he considered the goal of the empire. He allowed the soldiers to give their ethnic-specific battle cry voices and orders in their own language. Since the Roman Empire was a vast country, managing diversity must have been a very important task. Only those who like such work should do that. For example, it was forbidden to sell slaves to prostitution or gladiator training centers. He thought that forcing others to do something needs to be carefully regulated by law. This quote suggests that it takes time to make a law. Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when the presume to anticipate custom. If it’s too complicated, a clever person will find a way to easily get through the mesh of laws. If a law is too strict, people go against it. Taking responsibility is to help the team and it’s the management task. When someone took responsibility, we could easily do difficult tasks that we couldn’t do ourselves. When he found a disliked task, he immediately made it into a research subject and tried to find a way how we can enjoy the task.
#Memoires of hadrian how to#
Management skill How to deal with a task I don’t like I can imagine listening skill was also important in this era. When listening to a person, forget everything else and focus on that person. The emperor’s advice of listening is very simple. However, reading a book is more reliable than observing people. Interesting is that he thought books also lie as well as humans. It is surprising to me that he can read many books in AD.
He wrote people often try to hide their secrets from our eyes or trick them into believing they have them.
#Memoires of hadrian free#
And he thought his strong point was he was more free and obedient than other people.
Even though he had been living with himself for 60 years, he still misunderstand himself.įor example, he confessed that I’m a little embarrassed that I have a dirty desire to be loved and get attention at all costs. The emperor said studying myself is the most difficult and dangerous but most fruitful method. The emperor was a very thoughtful person, described the following three things to learn about human existence. I want to share what I got from this book. There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty. And the author describes the special enthusiasm for the book as follows This book has been featured by many people as a masterpiece. The story from the emperor reminds us of the scenery as if we were traveling in ancient Rome. Hadrian’s memoirs are written in the form of letters from Roman emperor Hadrian (76-138 AD) to his successors.
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