Education Vs Financial Freedom. In the “About Me” section of my blog (which I wrote 5 years ago), I spoke about how “if you want to get rich, don’t go to school”.
I think this point is worth bringing up again. Especially at a time when US Student Loans has exceeded the US$1 trillion mark! Its quite worrying that such large numbers of young adults are barking up the wrong tree when trying the make their way in the world. I assume that most rational young adults go to school and choose careers because they eventually want to achieve financial freedom.
If that is their true objective, then a key strategy is to spend less than you earn and to invest the difference over time. I was watching this Ted Talk below by Sugata Mitra over the weekend. 8 math talks to blow your mind. Mathematics gets down to work in these talks, breathing life and logic into everyday problems.
Prepare for math puzzlers both solved and unsolvable, and even some still waiting for solutions. Ron Eglash: The fractals at the heart of African designs When Ron Eglash first saw an aerial photo of an African village, he couldn’t rest until he knew — were the fractals in the layout of the village a coincidence, or were the forces of mathematics and culture colliding in unexpected ways?
Here, he tells of his travels around the continent in search of an answer. How big is infinity? There are more whole numbers than there are even numbers … right? Arthur Benjamin does “Mathemagic” A whole team of calculators is no match for Arthur Benjamin, as he does astounding mental math in the blink of an eye. Scott Rickard: The beautiful math behind the ugliest music What makes a piece of music beautiful?
The Sacred Geometry Of Music. The Sacred Geometry Of Music by Andrew Lorimer Music uses the laws of vibration to manifest aurally what exists at the center of everything.
Into our reality springs a non-visual harmonic law that is universal. The 8 Types Of Pro Adventurers - Adventure Sauce. This post is a part of our series designed to help you go on the Adventure Of Your Lifetime. Do you want to wake up every day… Create cool shit, connect with badass people, and get paid to adventure? Well… Then why not become a Pro Adventurer? Yo… to be an adventurer here at Adventure Sauce, you don’t need to… Climb mountains with a pick axe and a gnarly beard.Sail around the world in a rickety wooden boat and a hook for a hand.Or travel around the world without any luggage and one set of clothes. Lojong. Lojong (Tib.
བློ་སྦྱོང་,Wylie: blo sbyong) is a mind training practice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition based on a set of aphorisms formulated in Tibet in the 12th century by Geshe Chekhawa. The practice involves refining and purifying one's motivations and attitudes. The fifty-nine or so slogans that form the root text of the mind training practice are designed as a set of antidotes to undesired mental habits that cause suffering. They contain both methods to expand one's viewpoint towards absolute bodhicitta, such as "Find the consciousness you had before you were born" and "Treat everything you perceive as a dream", and methods for relating to the world in a more constructive way with relative bodhicitta, such as "Be grateful to everyone" and "When everything goes wrong, treat disaster as a way to wake up. " History of the practice[edit] Atiśa journeyed to Sumatra and studied with Dharmarakṣita for twelve years.
Geshe Chekhawa is claimed to have cured leprosy with mind training. 1. 2. Six Keys to Changing Almost Anything. By Tony Schwartz | 10:58 AM January 17, 2011 Change is hard.
New Year’s resolutions almost always fail. But at The Energy Project, we have developed a way of making changes that has proved remarkably powerful and enduring, both in my own life and for the corporate clients to whom we teach it. Our method is grounded in the recognition that human being are creatures of habit. Fully 95 percent of our behaviors are habitual, or occur in response to a strong external stimulus. In 1911, the mathematician Alfred North Whitehead intuited what researchers would confirm nearly a century later.
Most of us wildly overvalue our will and discipline. The Attitude that Guarantees Success. Top 10 Ways to Increase Your Happiness. How I Made $5500 Writing Books for Amazon Kindle. August marks 3 years since I’ve begun learning how to make money online in a residual (automated) manner.
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