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Day: December 10, 2018
10 Strange Cemeteries You’ll Be Dying To Visit – Listverse
Did you know…
Did you know…
… that today is American Woman Nobel Peace Prize Day? In 1931, Jane Addams became the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Addams was a pioneer settlement worker, founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace. Here’s to Jane!
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Today’s Inspirational Quote:
“I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.”
— Woody Allen
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How Leaders Can Humanize Work Again – Member Feature Stories – Medium
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Leadership
Podcast: Take in the View From the TopBusiness executives from Facebook, LinkedIn, Merck, and others share their management advice and insights in this Stanford GSB speaker series.
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Page-Turners
Five Books To Read Over the HolidaysStanford GSB professors offer up their recommendations for those quiet winter days.
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Insights
2018’s Most-Read StoriesWhat resonated with readers this year? Stories on effective communication, venture capital’s secrets, and workplace culture’s dire toll on American health.
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Streaming
Most-Watched Videos of 2018Listen to IBM’s CEO describe how she created a startup mentality at a tech giant, then learn what your work emails reveal about you, all part of the most viewed videos of the year.
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Resource Round-Up: History Projects, Vocal Health Handouts, and More! | The TpT Blog
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There Are Two Ways to Go About Finding Your Passion — Only One is Right
via There Are Two Ways to Go About Finding Your Passion — Only One is Right
There Are Two Ways to Go About Finding Your Passion — Only One is Right
You’re either one of the two characters in this story.
A logging company hired two woodcutters to cut down 50 trees each.
The first woodcutter started chopping down the trees immediately. He spent hours and hours each day chopping down the trees. The first day he managed to chop down 15 trees, the next day 10 trees, and the next day 5 trees. He grew fatigued and wondered why he was chopping down fewer and fewer trees as the days went by.
The second woodcutter spent the first few days sharpening his axe. In the beginning, the first woodcutter laughed at him saying, “You do know the job is to actually chop down these trees, right?” The second woodcutter paid him no mind and continued to sharpen his axe.
The first woodcutter became puzzled at his behavior. He thought, “ I can’t believe he is just sitting there sharpening his axe while I am doing all of the work!” He grew angry with the second woodcutter and continued to hack away at the trees. 5 days passed and by the last day, the first woodcutter had successfully cut down 50 trees. That very same day, the second woodcutter, with his sharpened axe, cut down 50 trees, in one day.
The moral of the story: Work on “sharpening” your skills before trying to “cut down” the trees in your life.
The Common Misconception We Have About Our “Life Path”
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” Abraham Lincoln.
Passion and purpose are the rage these days.
If you just find that one magical, mythical, wondrous passion, everything will fall into place. So you wait for passion to fall in your lap — and it never does.
Instead, focus on sharpening your saw, so when you see the tree you can whack it down in a few strokes.
I’ve told the story 75 times about the year I read 75 books. I kept hearing that success people read a lot. I wanted to be successful, so I read a lot.
At the same time, I started writing — not for money, not to for fame or business, but for practice. Hell, I had no idea you could make any money writing until much later. I was just tired of being lazy and I wanted to find skills to build.
I figured all that knowledge would come in handy one day and it did.
Those same articles I wrote for free three years ago, help me make thousands per month now. The knowledge I gained from reading helped me become a better writer, make better decisions, and spot opportunities I wouldn’t have noticed had I not been prepared to look for them — this is key.
If you have no idea what you want to do with your life, start trying to get good at something, anything. Having skills without knowing exactly where they’ll lead is better than having no skills and no direction at the same time.
Once you have some skills, you can use them to make more money, improve your life, and find passion through competence, which is the right direction to find it in.
How Skill Building Can Transform Your Life
Let’s say you’re broke and you have no skills.
How are you going to fight your way out of your circumstances? This is the common refrain I hear from most people — they’re too broke, lack resources, lack connections.
The truth — they lack confidence. If you have no skills, you have no confidence. If you develop skills, you’ll build confidence, and that confidence in your skills can help you create any type of life you want.
Here’s a hypothetical example I’ve seen happen in real life more times than I can count.
Jane decided to skip college because she didn’t know what to major in. She bounced around from job to job — making just above minimum wage — and she doesn’t know what to do next. She loves being on her computer — reading articles, playing games, and talking to her friends on social media.
One day, she stumbles across an article on computer programming. It looks interesting to her. She decides she’s going to start learning how to code and signs up for a free beginner’s class.
After taking the beginner’s class, she signs up for advanced courses — still reasonably priced — and after a while, she gets the hang of the process.
She starts putting little websites, games, and apps together — for fun — and continues reading the latest news on tech websites. She keeps coming across stories of other self-taught coders who built careers of their own without degrees or traditional experience.
She follows the same path and ends up with the same outcome — a well-paid job at a startup. It turns out the companies just want to know how skilled you are, not what credentials you have.
I’ve seen this story play out often. Someone learns a valuable skill — for fun at first — then realizes that skill is marketable and uses it to create their own careers.
Here’s a short short list of those types of skills.
- Writing
- Editing
- Design
- Coding
- Video production
- Marketing
- Public Speaking
In fact, if you know a little bit about each area, you’ll have a weapons grade level skill stack — a group of related skills that have an exponentially greater value when combined — and you can pretty much take over the world.
Not only are these skills marketable, they’re accessible to all of us (hint: If you want to practice your writing, there’s this website that allows anyone who signs up to publish their work…….)
You can find online courses for dirt cheap on almost anything. You can build these skills on the side of your job — just for fun at first — and market them once you get the hang of them.
You can start developing skills for the sake of developing skills right now, but some of you won’t because you’re stuck in mental prison.
How to Escape Mental Prison
It’s a simple theme — one that permeates through every self-help article.
It’s simple and repeated because it works really really really well.
Work on yourself first, worry about your circumstances second.
Your circumstances can, in fact, block you from certain opportunities, but only when you have no skills. When you have skills, you realize all the traditional routes to success your Mom and 5th grade teacher told you are garbage — get a degree, entry level job, and let your soul rot away for 40 years.
This is 2018. The Golden Age. Where you can start a business for $100 bucks and learn for free what used to cost one hundred thousand dollars.
What do you have to complain about?
If you spend time working on yourself, the circumstances will fall into place for you. You can even think of the future you want — the industry you want to be in — and reverse engineer those skills.
I promise you. If you become so good you can’t be ignored, opportunities will come to you.
It’s all there for the taking.
But you have to escape from mental prison. You have to stop believing things that are no longer true about the world. You can get smarter.
While you’re building the skills you need to succeed in the Golden Age, Read books. When you are done reading those books, read some more books.
Yes, the articles about reading books are a little played out, but reading often is a superpower. I can’t explain why exactly, but it’s more useful than you can imagine.
A well-read person with a skill stack can’t stay in a mental prison because they’ll be ‘awake’ and realize the prison doesn’t exist.
Figure out what skills are required to get to the top, and work on them relentlessly.
I guarantee you if you work on yourself the universe will respond to you in a positive way. It may take a while for it to catch up, but it will. Opportunity + preparation = Success.
You may feel like you are in that forest with 100 trees right now. Take the time to sharpen that axe of yours. Wait until it’s so sharp that it will obliterate anything in its way, and when the time comes for you to clear the forest, swing it is hard as you can.
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Agri. Export Policy
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Scientists create 10-minute test that can detect cancer anywhere in the body – Big Think
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Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans. Music legend John Lennon said this decades ago, and it still holds true! What do you do when your plans seem to be stuck?
“Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don’t expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon and Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.”
Mr Lennon sure knew what he was talking about. “You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”
Inspired to begin a week that’s wonderful this Monday morning? We offer a selection of startup stories that embody the spirit of getting it done by yourself.
Stories you shouldn’t miss
Checking in into a hotel in India is a huge problem if you are an unmarried couple. It tends to bring out the moral police and inane questions if full force! That’s why bootstrapped hotel aggregator LuvStay is focusing on couple-friendly options, and promises safe, clean, and budget-friendly options for the day or longer durations.
Everyone’s familiar with the ubiquitous Qwerty keyboard – it’s on our PCs and our smartphones. But Ka-Naada, a Bengaluru-based company founded by an NRI, is passionate about ensuring that Indians have a keyboard that can flawlessly type all Indian languages without struggling with the standard qwerty keyboard. Guru Prasad has launched an Indic keyboard that can be applied to any language based on the Brahmi script.
Digital and AR-VR seem to be the way to go. Reason enough for these IIT alumni to bootstrap their way to a top film production studio. Hyderabad-based Raasta Studios now makes corporate films, product and event videos, and commercials for corporates, governments, startups, and studios.
A Bengaluru-based startup is offering students in rural areas a fully immersive experience of outer space. Founded by Dinesh Badagandi, TareZameenPar brings the marvels of outer space to lakhs of students in rural Karnataka. The startup has six mobile planetariums, each outfitted to carry all the equipment needed to run a show.
Passwords make modern lives run like clockwork. But what happens if your password gets stolen? Bengaluru-based neoEYED can protect your data even then! Founded by Alessio Mauro and Tamaghna Basu, neoEYED uses AI algorithms to identify anomalies in an organisation’s security system and can raise appropriate alerts for immediate action.
The co-living market is crowded, but Zolostays has held its ground by zeroing in on the one aspect that a business can be proud of – customer experience. Founded by Nikhil Sikri, Akhil Sikri, and Sneha Choudhary, Zolostays now has 134 properties, each managed by a team of reliable caretakers, cleaners, cooks and a concierge, with little or no intervention from the founders.
Exam time is often a time for last-minute cramming. But what do you do if you don’t have the notes? Don’t panic for Delhi-based Notesgen has you covered. The notes aggregating startup is building a global community of users who can upload their notes, price them and share them on the platform to be bought by their peers.
The cat has been out of the bag for a while now when it comes to plastic and the effect it has on the environment. That’s why Ecosac, which aims to be the “bag of India”, wants Indians to say goodbye to plastic, one reusable bag at a time. The startup offers a range of “bags for life” – shopping bags, travel bags, sports bags, laundry bags, lunch bags, and multi-utility bags.
The India-UK FutureTech Festival will host the finale of TECH Rocketship Awards, an initiative that provides India’s tech entrepreneurs and scale-up businesses a chance to win international business development support in the UK and the launch of startup funds. The festival is also bringing together businesses, academicians, and policy makers from the two countries to enhance partnerships in the areas of healthcare, innovation, digitisation, electric mobility, clean energy, and cyber security.
The Amazon AI Awards grand finale will take place on December 13, 2018 at ITC Gardenia, Bengaluru to honour people and organisations who are doing amazing work in AI with cutting-edge technologies. Finalists will pitch to a jury and the winners will be announced on the same day. The jury includes eminent leaders from Amazon and program partners as well as AI experts from the industry. Know more.
The scientific reason you want to squeeze cute animals
Quotes of week
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Implicit obedience
” Baba explained:
MB:It is very difficult to be without wants. “I want to sleep, I want to eat” — these are wants. “I do not want to sleep or to eat” — this also is a want. It is therefore rather impossible to be without wants. What then is the solution? Hafiz provides one.
Hafiz has said:
“Only the grace of the Perfect Master can make you free from all wants. Even if a wee bit of the effulgent glory of God were to be revealed, you would become millions of times brighter than the Earth’s sun. If for one slight moment you have the fortune to drown yourself in the Ocean of Love, do not hesitate. That moment does not come frequently. As soon as the Master says: ‘Drown!’ do not hesitate. Drown the moment the Master commands you to drown. Don’t worry about what the world will think of you. The world will call you mad, but you should not hesitate.
“If even one hair of yours is dipped in the Ocean of Love, you become ‘wet’ eternally. In that bliss of Union with the Beloved that you then enjoy, there is no break. It is continuous. From head to foot you become God if in this path you become footless and headless.”
How to become footless and headless?” asked Baba.
MB:Do whatever I tell you. Do not use your mind. When the Will of the Beloved becomes your will, then you are footless and headless. Yet all this is impossible — even the very desire for union with Beloved God is madness. So there remains only one solution, and that is to become the very dust at the feet of the Perfect Master.
Implicit obedience to the Perfect Master is the only answer. Where his orders are concerned, follow them literally. Do not use your head to analyze their significance. Do what the Perfect Master wants you to do. Let your feet move at his command. Let your life be lived in accordance with his behest. This is becoming footless and headless.”
LORD MEHER , 1st ed, Vol. 17 & 18, pp. 5761-5763, Bhau Kalchuri 2000 © Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust
Music: The part of your brain that will never get lost to Alzheimers
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Leadership
Podcast: Take in the View From the TopBusiness executives from Facebook, LinkedIn, Merck, and others share their management advice and insights in this Stanford GSB speaker series.
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Page-Turners
Five Books To Read Over the HolidaysStanford GSB professors offer up their recommendations for those quiet winter days.
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Insights
2018’s Most-Read StoriesWhat resonated with readers this year? Stories on effective communication, venture capital’s secrets, and workplace culture’s dire toll on American health.
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Streaming
Most-Watched Videos of 2018Listen to IBM’s CEO describe how she created a startup mentality at a tech giant, then learn what your work emails reveal about you, all part of the most viewed videos of the year.
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ROK Movement – Random Acts of kindness
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Pick up somebody else’ tab next time you go for a coffee
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See someone struggling with lots of bags? Offer to help them
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Help someone struggling with heavy bags
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Fight climate change – go vegetarian for today!
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We all love surprises! Buy someone an unexpected gift
Cultivate Discipline
To cultivate discipline in one’s self requires self-determination and honest effort if one desires to tread knowingly and consciously the path of love.
This discipline may at first appear dry as dust, but with perseverance it will automatically blossom and be transmuted into the very life of the lover.
LIFE AT ITS BEST, p 64
By Meher Baba
An Avatar Meher Baba Trust eBook June 2011
Copyright. AMBPPCT
Did you know ….
Did you know…
… that today is Charlie Brown Christmas Day? “A Charlie Brown Christmas” premiered on this day in 1965. Trivia fans: Just before her remarks about Christmas being a big commercial racket, Lucy refers to Charlie Brown simply as Charlie. This is the only time she does this in any of the TV specials: every other time it’s Charlie Brown.
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Today’s Inspirational Quote:
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
— H. Jackson Brown Jr
Sweetheart #2 :) Free verse by Jay :)
Sweetheart #2
Free verse by Jay
A fiancee, however hard it tries,
Will always be gorgeous.
Does the fiancee make you shiver?
does she?
How happy is the sweet babe!
Are you upset by how melodious it is?
Does it tear you apart to see the babe so perfumed?
The wooly cutie sings like a haired beauty
Down, down, down into the darkness of the cutie,
Gently it goes – the wooly-minded, the woolly, the woolly-headed.
