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Today I found out that there is a 19-year-old physics student at Stanford who is discovering ways to locate and avoid space-debris (or space junk), which will benefit companies like NASA and SpaceX and the ISS. and most of you have heard of the 20-year-old women’s advocate and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate TED conferences… Continue reading

Life gets tough sometimes Maybe more often than just sometimes But if you can survive one day at a time You can go pretty far Good Luck Continue reading

Adam Grant did an experiment in his book “ Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives our Success (Which I highly recommend you check out) He asked employees of a company: “what % of your co-workers do you think steal from the company?” He found that people who often answered this question with high % generally meant that that specific… Continue reading

I began reading Freakonomics today (or more so, listening to it on Audible) One of the main concepts introduced in the beginning is the concept of incentives There are primarily 3 types of incentives in life, when you essentialize it down, you get: Economic Social Moral Each of us is driven by these three main… Continue reading

Sticks and stones may break your bones… But bones heal. Your words will stay with me forever. The scars you cannot see. The beauty and power you’ve granted to me. The insecurities I’ll never forget. Words can make you feel. It’s how we share emotions—how we express anger, hate, love, excitement, confusion, passion, frustration. Sometimes, one… Continue reading

Less is more. My acting teacher in high school, who I deeply looked up to, would always tell us: “Move only to improve on stillness; speak only to improve on silence” Every action needed to have intent behind it. Because when you are on stage, in front of the whole world, everyone can see you.… Continue reading

I think one of the worst things about modern education is our obsession with numbers and test grades. I know for a fact that some people get 4.0s (perfect grades) but that doesn’t necessarily reflect their knowledge or proficiency in certain subjects, because they picked easy courses and lenient professors who are often easy graders… Continue reading

Adam Grant did an experiment in his book “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives our Success” He asked employees of a company what % of the workers do they believe steal/have stolen from the company? He found that people who often answered this question with high %’s, believing their colleagues were thieves, generally meant… Continue reading

In investments, the younger you are, the most risk you are meant to take. In life, the risks you take are what builds character and personality. It’s how we grow. That’s advice given to us from wiser, educated people who have more life experience. They say the greatest risk in life is to not take… Continue reading