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Without a doubt, friends play a crucial and supportive role, but more often they are helpful in the survival mode and not in the development of virtues of thrift and self-reliance. We have inadvertently limited ourselves from accessing newer opportunities by huddling together with like-minded peers, being in constant contact with the same few people.
She proceeds to arrange the pieces of paper on her table, as though you don’t matter. She has seen many like you before, she says. Does she know who you are?And how could life move on so normally with so many misfortunes pursuing you?
The Last Man Who Knew Everything. That is the title of a biography of Thomas Young written in late 2006 by Andrew Robinson. Young was the quintessential polymath. A physician by profession, he dabbled in fields as varied as physics, music, literature, medicine and Egyptology making lasting impressions.
What does inspiration look like? For an engineer, it could be coming up with a design that is an intersection of beauty and mathematical rigour, all the while being strained for time. Perhaps it is… Read more →
It is he who puts in deliberate practice, and this means setting targets, practicing, incorporating a feedback loop with self-evaluation, external criticism and correcting mechanisms.
I believe that most of us are simply just coasting through life. Our talents, our minds, our capacities for growth and service are all largely underutilised, if at all.
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