Choose to Be a Hero. “A hero is a man who does what he can.” -Romain Rolland Two weeks ago, a group of brave bystanders in Utah banded together to lift a burning car and save a man trapped beneath it. In 2009, a passenger on Northwest Flight 253 leapt onto a burning man to prevent him from detonating an explosive device on Christmas Day. Four years ago, a 50-year old man threw himself onto the subway tracks in Manhattan, just as a train was arriving, to save a man who had fallen after having a seizure. These men and women all had one thing in common: they were ordinary people, just like you and me, and they decided in an instant to do something heroic. According to renowned psychologist Dr. Phil Zimbardo, famous for his Stanford prison experiment, we can all be heroes—and it doesn’t require us to put our lives at risk. Dr. So what exactly makes a hero? A hero puts compassion into action by helping someone in need—whether it’s a friend or a stranger.
How will you be a hero? Photo by merick.fightBoredom. Attitude | Tiny Buddha: Wisdom Quotes, Letting Go, Letting Happiness In - Part 3. How We Miss Out When We Judge. “Judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.” -Wayne Dyer The other day I was writing at a community table at Starbucks when an older man asked if he could sit next to me. Since our chairs were backed up against a wall, I had to get up to facilitate this. I thought he was looking at me in a slightly strange way, but I put this out of my mind. We were sitting side by side in a confined space, not walking down a dark alley together—there was no reason to be alarmed. Several hours after he’d left, he came back in to use the bathroom.
I responded, “Yup, I pretty much live here. Then he asked me what I do. After I told him a little about Tiny Buddha, he told me that his passion is music—and then he offered to show me this trailer for a documentary he’d made. If it were online, I would have posted it, because it moved me, and reminded me how music can inspire, connect, and heal. After it ended, he told me music means so much to him partly because he was born 80% deaf. From Failure to Success. What is a true winner? We may be very familiar of Honda Motors. They’re everywhere, from cars to motorcycles. But do you know the real story of how challenging it was for Mr. Soichiro Honda to establish Honda Motors? Like most other countries, Japan was hit badly by the Great Depression of the 1930s.
His plan was to sell the idea to Toyota. Finally, came the day he completed his piston ring and was able to take a working sample to Toyota, only to be told that the rings did not meet their standards! He refused to give up. By now, the Japanese government was gearing up for war! With the factory now built, he was ready for production, but the factory was bombed twice and steel became unavailable, too. He started collecting surplus gasoline cans discarded by US fighters – “Gifts from President Truman,” he called them, which became the new raw materials for his rebuilt manufacturing process.
After the war, an extreme gasoline shortage forced people to walk or use bicycles. End of story? The Beginning. 60 Ways To Make Life Simple Again. 100 Most Inspirational Quotes Of All Time. Shift Your Perspective in 37 Seconds.