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Dima was on his way to Moscow for yet another course — he worked for a firm offering solutions for risk management and corporate security: sometimes he ran the analysis, and sometimes the training, as he was about to do now. He travelled in style, on the Sapsan, sipping coffee from a branded cup with great pleasure. That was how he rewarded himself for a job well done, even if the job in question was still ahead of him. The German ICE, repainted in line with the ideas of Russian Railways, sped c

There is a well-known saying that character determines destiny. But what is this character? Some people have a difficult one, others an easy-going one. It can also be stubborn, or soft, or the kind that everyone acknowledges with involuntary admiration: now that is character! And it is generally held to be almost impossible to change.

Long ago, when I turned up for my first official course on the S-Theory with Dimitri Korenev at Freud's Legacy, he began by saying that there are two utterly different civilisations on our planet — and they are not men and women, but introverts and extraverts.

It all happened at an advertising agency. Sasha and Nastya were the leading specialists in the business of making things beautiful, and eternal rivals who were destined either to raise the agency to heights it had never seen before or to sink it for good.