“You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. …
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Learn
“To Learn and not to DO is not to Learn”
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone
Are we so complacent and narcissistic that we don’t see what “could be” and just “what is”? Having challenges allow us to grow and if we don’t grow we die. Simple. Rohan Rajiv, the author of A Learning A Day reminds us: One way to measure if we’re stuck in our comfort zone is to …
Elevate Your Mind
This quote is from Adam Bornstein, he’s the writer and editor of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Website: Arnold’s Pump Club: Lift Up The World. I read this regularly for health tips but mostly for the inspiration. This quote illustrates the importance of lifting your mood to feel your best. “(S)tudies even suggest that feeling elevated can potentially …
Kung Fu
“Kung Fu lives in everything we do, Xiao Dre. It lives in how we put on the jacket, how we take off the jacket. It lives in how we treat people. Everything — is Kung Fu.” – Mr. Han, The Karate Kid (2010) HT alearningday.blog
Prove that you can do something hard – Read this post, kids!
This post is the best advice to give kids…. period! Get out there and prove you can do something hard! When a precocious yet nonconformist teenager asks why they need to learn calculus, what should you say? You know they will never use it in adulthood, outside of certain career choices. You could say, “It’ll …
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Try this…. Thanks Seth
Empathy, a cycle of skills improvement, developing new attitudes and showing up in service often accompanies the careers of people who get from here to there. Ambition is insufficient. Seth Godin
Happy Happy
Discipline is the way to freedom.
Herding trading algorithms
Have we squeezed all profits from the capital markets? Make sure and buy hedged ETF’s so you can make your 10% this year.
What should we (as a planet) do?
Sounds like a it might be a few hundred years before this happens but great idea from Kevin Kelly: “What we would really like is to have a N=100 study of hundreds of other technological civilizations in our galaxy. From that analysis we’d be able to measure, outline, and predict the development of technologies. That …