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Knowledge is the ultimate leveler

The value of your college degree is like radioactive material with a half-life of about 3-4 years. So we cannot sit on our laurels and degrees. In 10 years (3 half-lives later), your degree's value would be down to about 10%. Ultimately, which...

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Today, the access we have to stellar books, podcasts, videos, and blogs is mind-boggling. And yet, if we are not careful, it can quickly become a...

Life is complex

The following have a common underlying causative factor: 1. Vulnerability to cults and conspiracy theories. 2. Fundamentalism – religious,...

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Understanding through reflection

I know a few people who read a lot of books but if you hear them talk, very little wisdom comes out. Isn’t that surprising? Why does that happen? My hypothesis is that reading is necessary but NOT sufficient. True understanding comes from...

When you break the limit, your limit goes up

If self-improvement always feels easy, you are probably not doing it right. Here is why. When does your body get better? When it finds that it can’t handle what is thrown at it. When you do an intense run, your lungs can’t meet your body’s oxygen...

Time is limited

If you write 10 emails a day, every week, you send out 50 emails. In 2 years, you would have written 5000 emails. In the amount of time it takes to write 5000 emails, you can write a small book. And while the emails have a shelf life of one day,...

The life starts again

If you flip a regular coin 10 times, on average, you expect 5 heads and 5 tails. But what if the first 9 coin throws all show up 'heads'? Now you are down to the 10th throw. What would you predict? Our gut will very strongly suggest 'tails.' But...

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