Life Lessons

Even a genius has to sell himself… the remarkable resume of Leonardo da Vinci

Before he was famous, before he painted the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, before he invented the helicopter, before he drew the most famous image of man, before he was all of these things…

The Slack setting that could have saved Gawker $140 million

By now, it’s old news that Gawker Inc. has been ordered to pay more than 140 million dollars to wrestler Hulk Hogan. No matter how you feel about the verdict, the lawsuit has surprising implications for your team.
 
One of the…

10 Things You Didn’t Know You Were Doing, That You Should Be Avoiding (According to Our Doctors)

How The World Works

What powers the world isn’t self interest, but the interplay of relationships…

The Heart of Good Relating

The Unconventional Habits of Highly Productive People

“It turns out that the most productive people…

Why It’s Time to Start Working with Your Physiology — Not Against It

I was tired.

Sobre tomar decisões difíceis

Existem momentos em que nós temos todos os elementos necessários para tomarmos uma atitude, mas falta coragem para encarar a decisão correta. Medo. Orgulho. Receio de abrir mão de algo depois de ter investido nisso tanta energia, esforço e recursos.

Ben Horowitz’s & Dick Costolo’s Top 10 Leadership Lessons

The A16Z podcast series delivers brain food in 30 minute chunks. I can actually feel my neurons…

High School: The Breeding Grounds of Mediocrity

Things to remember when you are outside of yourself:

[For us.]

1. It is not the body that is a war. This assumption is always your first mistake. The body is like the earth: Inside there is dirt, there is water, there is blood, tissue, serum, waste. There is room for…

Accomplish more of worth and suffer from less distraction: Deep Work by Cal Newport

Check out these 5 clickbait titles about Esperanto!

What is worse? They are all true!

1) “10 insanely productive affixes in Esperanto. #4 blew my mind!”

The Meaning of ‘Life Highlighted’!

When you see the words ‘Life Highlighted’, what thoughts come to mind? What does this phrase…

Why you choose Netflix over hiking

Applying behavioral economics to your weekend choices.

The Perspective of a Woman in Comedy

I have been studying comedy for 2 years now. 
Since I’ve discovered it, I’ve become the…

Can I trust you with my chicken? & Other important questions to ask potential friends

How Anxiety became my friend.

I was born with a gift. I was funny.
My mum knew it, my dad knew it and hell, even my brother knew it. But, I didn’t believe it. 
I grew up with the thought that no matter what I did, I was wrong. I’m an idiot. I don’t know what I’m doing. 
Let’s be real here, I still don’t…

The Necessity Of Art.

too much art,

too many books,

Sunday Lunch, a fun Punch!

What better way to spend a Sunday than to make it a Fun Day! It was a gala time for the entire team of The College Fever on the past Sunday when we met up with one of our Investors, Durga Das. Such important lessons to take away home and work upon, yet nothing in a rigid or…

Trying to Listen

Hearing is easy. Listening is hard.

My West Indies story

Let me start by saying that I’m Indian, completely and wholly, born to two Indian parents. It is just that I was born in Kingston, Jamaica, West indies.

I left that country when I was just two-and-a-half years old but those first 30 months evidently exercised enough…

#MyFirst: How to Survive a Breakup With Your Best Friend

Когда начать верить в себя?

Иногда в разговорах, социальных сетях, всякого рода постах людей можно увидеть яркую фразу: верю в себя.

Я тоже любил так говорить раньше, моя вера в себя не менялась, хотя не могу сказать, что делал это осознанно и до конца. Однако чтение различных книг…

I am fat. Not your verbal punching bag.

I am fat.

There is no getting around that fact.

Social “fat shaming” has reached an all-time high. When I was growing up there were thin people in movies, TV shows and print media. The social ideal was…

Are you ready to die..?

My conversation with a group of senior citizens.

How and Why to Prepare Your Kids for a Neurodiverse World

It’s Not My Fault Anymore: A Disjointed Rant About The Expectations Set Upon 21st Century Students

“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is…

Having a Purpose is the Purpose

There have been times in my life where I felt like a cog in the wheel, not having the motivation to get…

My Dream Life

I’ve never been the brightest student academically. I've always been average and sometimes below average. I never liked school and not to mention the boring subjects which I was forced to cram, just so I could pass my exams.

You think you know

Life asks us to make decisions based on anticipated feelings. Decisions take place in the moment, but the effects of those decisions play out over time, and humans feel differently at different points in time. When I was 18 I wanted very different things out of life than I do at 23. Some things…

So then I was all like… Why NOT me?

Write something on Medium? Whaaaat? I ain’t got depth for all that. Folks who post pieces here have some big thinky brains. They comment on important issues, offer advice, point out what’s wrong with the world, and often have quite enviable vocabularies.

Fix Your Broken Diet: Step 1

This is without a doubt in my mind the MOST

important step in getting your dream body and most importantly fixing your health.

A lot of people skip it and dismiss it

Be the ingredient that you are!

Sometimes in life, we struggle trying to be someone else, or live someone else’s life, with the feeling…

Do one thing each day that scares you

Failure is the first step in the process. Failure is inevitable. At the very least, we will…

Eram sete e oitenta

Aproveitou-se da minha distração, olhando para o celular enquanto esperava a atendimento chegar para mais uma reunião no…

What did Roosevelt, Carnegie and Napoleon had in common…

Once someone asked Jim Farley “How to be successful”; He said “You tell me”. The person told that you can remember thousand names; Jim replied “No you are wrong, I can remember fifty thousand”.

Learning to love our ever changing selves

Hello, I’m Mariana and I’m a pessimist. I was a pessimist. I’m only a pessimist…

Rule Number One: Never sell your soul

Being raised in between an audacious Colombian family and a smart-mouthed, no-shit-taking Italian family, I was taught crying is for pussies and showing emotion translates into showing weakness. I would let any type of sadness or regret wreak havoc on me for the…

The upside downside to living abroad

Once you’ve seen the other side of something and it’s good, returning to the familiar can be…

Key Question: You Can’t or You Won’t?

From time to time, you’ve probably been tempted to — or actually did — utter the word…

Why It’s Good To Let Your Inner Rebel Child Play

Inspired by Miles.

Growing up with two artist parents makes you a hyper aware child. I was always aware that my parents were sensitive to the world around them, cared about me (and EVERYONE) so deeply and were easily affected by the pain of those they loved. I understood that they had really great times. really bad times…

The smell of gunpowder and blood

Legend says, that the people of Kannur are violent.

They say that all her citizens have a definitive, unwavering political stance and that on any given day of the week, they would have, on his/her person:

Comment devenir écrivain en 5 conseils indispensables !

My Tennis Coach Taught More than Tennis

Tennis has not only given me much, it has taught me much. It’s no accident that tennis…

Why confidence is an important skill for being a strong leader….

Having people skills always has been key to getting ahead in this world. Just take a look…

Hold On, Move On

When To Stay & When To Walk Away

“I don’t want to be someone in my…

Pivoting pole star

“A tale of identifying my identity”

I believe all of us are a piece of sperm, what identity do these complex protein molecules have?

A biological reaction which leads to few chromosomes jumping here and there gives you…

When I was in high school windows 95 was the operating system and I still remember the day my best friend got his first email account. Different times back then. Everything wasn’t at your fingertips yet and I’m glad that didn’t start anything. I would rather work with someone with life experience and knows what it’s like be to an employee. There are…

Yoga and Inhabiting the Body

Post by Mary Smith

Our discussion started with our first impressions around yoga: “You have to bend in weird places”, and “you have to be able to stand on your head” also, “I think of leotards”, and “naked yoga — goes with culture”. It seemed that once…

If a Foodie Trust it….I Must Eat it

First, just say the word foodie out loud. You can not tell me it is not one of the more fun words…

4 Easy Ways to be Sensational and Single

There are very few absolutes when it comes to finding great love. However, one thing I know for sure is this: Almost everyone I know who found the love of a lifetime in what seemed to be a magical effort-free way, was absolutely having a blast being single.

The single trait all winners possess

They tend not to read medium articles espousing the many traits of winners. Because they are too busy fucking killing it.

Saying Yes! to You: Why it matters so freakin’ much

Our boss “should” praise us; our partner “should” compliment us; our kids “should” thank us. But how often do any of these things happen? If we keep waiting around for them, we begin to feel very, very empty.

Screens, Smoke and Haze

The blue haze from her eyes illuminates your face.

You Know that Feeling? theonewhenyouknowyou’rereadyforgreat

12 Warning Signs You Are Not Living Your Purpose

“You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your…

Life Lessons I’ve Learned At 18

Being 18 is crazy. You have to start planning out your life, and it's such a large adjustment from…

Subtlety Amiss

Do you wonder where the different sounds are hitting you from? Does the excess of sound and light bother you? Are you bothered by speech and thought patterns that people rapidly catch up to?

Yes, it is rather perturbing that the obvious is more important than the implied. I…

How falling on my ass got me re-ASS-essing

Thanks to conversations with couple of friends and a month off from kick-boxing, I’ve realised “consciously” that consumption has diluted and hampered my evolutionary cycle.

They Laughed When I Took On The Dead Files But When I Started To Sell!

How Do I Know What I’m Good At?

I really want to live and create a space doing what I know I’m good at. The thing in life that drives my soul. The thing that keeps me up at night. The thing I do effortlessly. The thing I’m really good at. The thing that’s referred to as my calling. Yes! I want to do that…

5 Lessons I Learned On A Trip To The Islands

How to Live Life — Seriously?

A weird question isn’t it? No one likes to be told how to live life. Most of us really hate it when…

To my 15 year-old daughter in rehab

My precious Elle,

I think about you every minute of every day and miss you terribly. The hardest thing I’ve ever done was take you to that residential treatment center 48 hours ago. I hated not being able to tell you the whole truth but was…

When happiness is in disguise

I was making them happy by doing something that doesn’t make me happy.

Try seeing things as they are without trying to change them

Listening without fixing

Your vision is not meant for everyone.

It took me a long time to understand that I don’t need…

Guess What? I Have No Clue Too.

Today I decided to write this article. Tomorrow I might decide to delete it.

As I am sitting reading the previous line I just can’t decide to keep on writing or to give up and do something else.

Walk your path

#100DaysOfQuatrains #Day42

TALENT…

I truly believe that TALENT is a “gift from God”. Funny thing is, our talents were meant to be shared freely for others to appreciate and…

Considering A Little More Tolerance

Tolerance is what makes a health freak look at a fat person eating a giant cookie and think…

Burnt Soul

Her

The tears I couldn’t hide,

Yes, You Need Help. Start Asking For It

The world is your resource, ask for what you need

Elder Brother Syndrome: Being Good is Overrated

When I was in middle school, a teacher told me a common bromide that he and his family lived by. The mantra was that “you should suffer and sacrifice in your youth, so you don’t live in regret later.” He explained that by sacrificing all your…

Metamorphosis

There is nothing wrong with changing your mind as you grow

When You Have To Choose a Different Path

Yesterday, as Henry David Thoreau once put it, “in my afternoon walk I would fain forget…

Daniel, I have no advice. Great, huh? I’m 61 and am just beginning to pursue my writing. I made a different choice bevause I needed health insurance. I wrote copy for ads, marketing materials and annual reports. But most of my “career” wasn’t about writing. Still, I wrote every day. And long before there were blogs on even an internet. Weird. And I…

Why it is Must to Sign Up for Active Holidays?

What is the first thing that strikes your mind when you hear the word Holiday or Vacation? Most people unquestionably end up picturing them, sunbathing in a tranquil beach landscape. As bizarre as it may sound, it has been estimated that only one out of four people actually…

I’m a Selfish Parent and I Make No Apologies

There’s no guide to being a parent, regardless of how many books get published on the subject. You can develop lots of strategies for helping your kids succeed, but there are way more ways that you can screw them up — and you will. One thing that is…

Catchy Headlines — Latest Online Copywriting Strategy

Great headlines are one of the keys to online…

Déjà vu?

Book: “The Past Life Perspective: Discovering Your True Nature Across Multiple Platforms” by Ann Barham

Book Review by Mary Mikawoz

Have you ever met someone and been automatically in sync with them, be they male or female? Conversely, have you ever met someone and…

Lies

“Nisha was my ex-girlfriend”, said Sahil to his girlfriend. She accepted it with full trust in him. As soon as she turned her back to move back to her class, Sahil said, “Nisha ke bare mei isko bola hai ki meri ex-girlfriend hai, bhai kabhi bolna mat isko ki woh sirf meri dost thi, apne aap ko upar bhi to rakhna hota…

its okay?

The only constant in my life has been these demons in my mind,
this sickness has always been there when no one else is around.
When everyone has gone and left me alone, it is there.
It wraps my mind in its arms and tells me it will always be there,
forever,
when everyone else is dead and run for the hills.
My…

A Hundred Billion Galaxies

Perhaps you’ve heard that there are a hundred billion galaxies in the Universe. That’s a soul-crushing number…

About being 25

25. That weird age where 30’s call you young & 20’s think you can’t party anymore. Kind of stuck in the middle, you try to keep the…

The Egg Theory

We are hard boiled

Tough at the exterior, mushy on the interior

We are the sunny side up

A ray of optimism

We are the scramble

That is really great to see this like that. Life is also doing stupid thing and “wasting” time for those we love or doing thing unproductive but that we enjoy. To be constantly in a productive mood is neither healthy nor part of having a good life.

Previously on…

Some months ago I wrote:

It can be difficult, it will certainly be, but how important is to prove to yourself that you can really do it? For us, obese by Binge eating disorders, fighting the weight is not just to fight against the body, but to fight against the brain, against…

Rotomaker Academy

The innovation and popularity of computer graphics has actually changed the way digital photographers made use of to create…

Why Writers Should Surround Themselves with Courageous People

Finding our talent, better yet, our passion is something we should all achieve

Medium start

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사진을 올리거나 글을 쓰고 싶은 욕망은 언제나 항상 가득한 것 같다. 그래서 항상 블로그에 관심을 갖고 새롭게 시작하지만 이내 곧 소홀해 지고 방치하다가 삭제하고 다시 시작하는 일의 반복이다.

어떻게 하면 이러한 일을 막을 수 있을까 생각을 하다 보니 주요 원인이 크게 2가지 있는 것 같았다.

steel.

Last summer, I signed up for a gym membership.

To whom it concerns: Depression

reaching the light

Weekly Journal 11

3/31/16

11:10–12:30

In today’s class we had a recap on leadership. In addition to that we went over Sappho’s poems and the questions that were assigned with the reading.

So much truth in this one sentence. Love the reinforcing message of this piece. Stop dipping your toe to test the water — jump in and make a splash!

Don’t Take It Personally

“Why is this happening to ME??”

I bet you heard it often. Or said it often (?). But do you ever wonder amongst 7 billion people on earth; why would you be the object of this particular happening? Are you the chosen one?

Why those who Don’t have Much often have the Best Smiles