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Baby steps
Baby steps It’s all about baby steps I still remember these words from my grade 8-9 basketball coach 1% better every day Whether that be personal life, academics, career, health, or basketball 1% better every day Don’t worry about being a millionaire overnight Celebrities aren’t made by one movie (they usually did several crappy movies Continue reading
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Different circumstances
Today I went to Milton Herschel School and man this school is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen It must be over 4 times as big as Vilanova’s 250 acre campus Children lived in mansions which houses up to 14 kids The school where they took classes looked more like a tiny college And there Continue reading
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knowledge x action
Knowledge is power, they say So learning is a superpower But knowledge alone isn’t powerful Knowledge used to inform action is true power Genuine power The thinker, and the doer Be both Continue reading
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Knowledge Gaps
Closing knowledge gaps lead to more insightful discussion More innovation Better ideas Creativity and levels the playing field Education is the cornerstone of today’s society Information is what we get out of education But what is truly important is the application of that information Information is becoming cheaper and cheaper While excitement for education and Continue reading
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How do we know anything is real…? Descartes brings up the question of dreams and reality: how do we know what is truly real? Do we even know anything? What if what we perceive as “reality” is simply a dream–and when we supposedly “wake up” from our dreams, we simply wake up into another dream? Continue reading
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Diversity leads to greater ideas
Diversity leads to greater ideas It leads to collaboration among people with different cultural and life backgrounds, allowing better perspectives when tackling certain problems But the issue is that humans are inherently afraid of diversity We would rather talk to and spend time with people who are like us Diversity leads to more conflict because Continue reading
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Knowledge is power
How much do you value education? Books? The internet? And how much do you value your knowledge? Knowledge is power. It’s an overused aphorism that remains true. The 21st century saw the world enter into the digital information age, propelled forward by the internet, the smart phone, and soon, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Those Continue reading
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Certified
The paradox of the information age is that now more then ever, if you have access to the internet, it is quite possible to become self-taught at anything you wish. Knowledge is readily available. But the paradox is that now more then ever we see people have become infatuated with certification. Someone needs to approve Continue reading
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Knowledge Gaps
What makes a person more qualified or capable of doing something than the next person? Usually it’s because of a knowledge gap. The role of a professor is to close that knowledge gap. The role of a student is to apply that knowledge and further their own skill. The role of a university is to Continue reading
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