Esmond’s August, 2018 (31 Captivating Days)

Esmond Ye
Esmond Ye
Sep 1, 2018 · 7 min read

“Success without fulfilment is the ultimate failure.” — Tony Robbins

I want to begin this month’s exposition with a story articulated by author Alex Banayan. It’s a story of a young teacher, full of hope who was teaching as part of Teach for America in Baltimore at an incredibly tough school. She was dealing with elementary school kids and realised just how hard of a situation they were all in.

One day, she decided not to teach math and instead get the kids to draw pictures of their biggest dreams. So she passed out sheets of…

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