Source Just think of a few of the challenges athletes face. They may have to cope with exhausting training schedules, lost matches, injuries, missed milestones, heartbreaking failures, and personal adversity. If they are female they may have to face health problems related to irregular eating habits and menstruation which in turn can aggravate bone loss. Here… Read More »
In the great epics of India, Ramayan and Mahabharata, war ends not with celebration of victory but with transmission of knowledge . In the Ramayan, Ravan lies mortally wounded on the battlefield and the monkeys are celebrating their victory, when Ram turns to his brother , Lakshman, and says, “While Ravan is a brute, he is also… Read More »
-By Leo Babauta, the founder of the popular Zen Habits Blog. I remember one evening, when my life was pretty different and I was overweight and deeply in debt and a smoker and had such a hard time changing things … I wasn’t feeling too good about my life. I felt horrible about myself, and wondered why I was stuck. I felt hopeless… Read More »
– Inspired from the writings of Jason Leister. In order to start making progress, we need to deconstruct what it means to learn. Throughout life you’ve probably believed that reading something and being able to explain what you read to another person is learning. That’s more or less what traditional education has defined as learning, and… Read More »
“Let’s begin with this idea,” Morrie said. “Everyone knows they’re going to die, but nobody believes it.” He was in a businesslike mood this Tuesday. The subject was death, the first item on my list. Before I arrived, Morrie had scribbled a few notes on small white pieces of paper so that he wouldn’t forget.… Read More »
Two neighbours came before Jupiter and prayed him to grant their hearts’ desire. Now the one was full of greed, and the other eaten up with envy. So to punish them both, Jupiter granted that each might have whatever he wished for himself, but only on condition that his neighbour had twice as much. The greedy… Read More »
After being diagnosed with a bone tumour in his left leg, Albert Espinosa, now an engineer and a popular spanish screenplay writer, then a 14-year-old boy from Barcelona, battled a 3 per cent survival chance with positivity and black humour. A decade in hospital, 83 chemotherapy sessions, and bartering his left leg, lung and a chunk… Read More »
BY JOEL RUNYON Intelligence Manual Skills Physical Fitness Creativity Critical Thinking If I were to make a top 5 list of the traits that are traditionally seen as MVTs [most valuable traits], you’d probably see those 5. One or two might be switched out, but a lot of people talk about those 5 traits but… Read More »
– by PAULO COELHO A farmer knocked heavily at a convent’s door. When the brother doorkeeper opened the door, the farmer stretched out a magnificent bunch of grapes to him. “dear brother doorkeeper, these are the most beautiful grapes produced in my vineyard. And I come here to give them to you as a gift,”… Read More »
Yashiko was a wealthy samurai warrior in ancient Japan. He cut a fine figure; his armour and sword were of the finest workmanship. His ornaments were of the finest variety: silver, copper, gold and bronze. He lived with his wife and elderly mother in an elegant tiled house in the best quarter of the town.… Read More »