“Sharpen the Saw means preserving and enhancing the greatest asset you have–you. It means having a balanced program for self-renewal in the four areas of your life: physical, social/emotional, mental, and spiritual. – Stephen Covey The idea to sharpen the saw or blade comes from the analogy that a blade that is consistently sharpened will never get […]
Change
Learn to Steal
If you steal from one author it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many it’s research. Wilson Mizner We’ve been taught that stealing is a “bad” thing. Well, what is good and what is bad is subject to interpretation. Stealing material is illegal and unproductive in most cases, but what if we steal mentally? What I mean […]
Scarcity is the Root of all Evil
You cannot advocate decency and ethics. You must design the conditions that eliminate the problems. In scarcity, people will tend to steal. If you make things available, people tend not to steal. ~ Jacque Fresco Let’s face it, the lack of something makes people want to take it is from other’s. Scarcity is literally the […]
Time Management
The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. – Stephen R. Covey Time Management Time is one of the most important concepts ever. If we spend more time than we have to on something, we are wasting something irreplaceable. Time management is completely underrated. The small details are what count. For example, like […]
Learning to Let go of Closure
I’m not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There’s no closure. -Larry David Sometimes things happen and that’s all there is to it. You can’t make everyone happy and reading into a situation too much is usually a waste of time. Learning to let go of closure is probably […]
College is a Waste of Time
“I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.” – Agatha Christie This sounds like blasphemy, but logic sways on how ineffective college and school really is. For starters, school is an institution that is has […]
The New Year Resolution
Resolutions shouldn’t only be reserved for a New Year – Amir Aribokill Don’t get me wrong, I’m not knocking New Year resolutions. If anything, I promote a resolution. But, I’d much rather make consistent small resolutions through out the year instead of a small lump of huge ones at the beginning. Coming up with small, […]
Efficiency is the Key Principal to Success
The Connecticut Shooting
Learning to Learn
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. Thomas Szasz Learning to learn is something that usually flies over so many heads. School never gives us the tools to help us […]