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What Kind of People will not Succeed in Life

Once there was an old blacksmith who was famous for making the best swords in the country.

The soldiers came to him from different cities, even from distant borders and he made magnificent weapons for all of them.

Moments that define us

Think about a defining moment in your life. A moment that had major impact on who you are today. A moment that made you rethink your priorities.

I wonder how many of you are thinking about adversity — an accident, a broken relationship, failing at something that…

The Power of Bicycles

As children, without car or driver’s licence, it is the bicycle that provides with the ultimate sense of freedom and independence. As adults, the bicycle provides different type of freedom — freedom from work, freedom from stress, freedom from routine. The bicycle scratches our itch for…

The Art Of Managing Life’s Transitions

When you first step into seasons of change, you often feel that you’ve lost control. Like you have lost a part of yourself. The feelings of anxiety or the lack of control seem like common experience when you go through seasons of change. As a matter of fact, we…

What School Tests Do Not Measure

School tests do not measure:

• Creativity

Learning in the 21st Century

Most exam halls ban mobile phones. They do not want students to copy off the Internet. Why? They assume that:

• There is only one correct answer to every question.
• Students should learn that answer as exactly as taught.

To What Extent Does College Matter

If you want a good job: you need to be highly skillful.

Influence Of College

Good colleges have collaborations with industry giants and top research universities and labs which makes it easier to get jobs or…

Inspiration is Perishable

We all have ideas. Ideas are immortal. They last forever.

What doesn’t last forever is inspiration. Inspiration is like fresh fruit or milk: it has an expiration date.

My Commentary on Outliers

People don’t rise from nothing. We do owe something to parentage and patronage.

Success follows a predictable course. It is not the brightest who succeed, but those who put in more efforts than everybody else. Some people don’t outsmart you, they happen to…