Meet A Playboy Entrepreneur Who Went From Making Millions To Making an Impact. Mary Gannon, Ohio Teacher With No Arms, Instructs And Inspires With Her Feet. Mary Gannon instructs and inspires with her feet.
She uses her toes as naturally as if they were fingers, writing on the board, typing on the computer and passing out papers. Gannon, born with no arms, teaches math and science at Harding Middle School in Lakewood, Ohio. But it's her handling of a disability that provides life lessons. “If it’s going to inspire or help people for them to be or do better in their lives, then I’m OK with that and I hope that people gain something from me,” Gannon told Fox 8. One of the motivational signs that Gannon posts for her students is "Life has no limitations except the ones you make. " She takes the message to heart. She hopes her "can-do" attitude will rub off on her pupils, some of whom are struggling. Gannon, who is independent to the point that she can drive herself around, is definitely getting her message across. Eighth grader Cambri Griffin said to the Patch that Gannon "teaches you that you can do anything you want to do no matter what.
" Oh, My Hand: Complaints Medieval Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Illuminated Manuscripts. The Unknown Inventor Whose Work Is Saving The Developing World. If you’re a lucky inventor, maybe you come up with one big thing that makes an impact on people.
Ashok Gadgil, the winner of the 2012 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation, has produced two inventions that have changed the lives of people in the developing world, and is now working on a third. How has he pulled this off? It helps that Gadgil, a professor in the Department of Civil Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, has a science background.
But his explanation is fairly simple: "In each case it was becoming aware of how serious the problem was and then being aware that actually there is some technical solution that could help. It’s like you find a puzzle, but the nice thing about this puzzle is that if you solve it you’re making people’s lives better. " Gadgil started his career helping developing countries not with an invention, but with a program to promote utility-sponsored energy efficiency.
And so he did. And as for that award money? Would You Invest in This Kid? In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home.
He did it through sheer ingenuity, without any formal training. His windmill made him famous, and he has since traveled all over the world speaking at leadership conferences. But one thing hasn’t happened for William Kamkwamba: Investors have not given him money to build more windmills and extend that electricity to his neighbors, and the entire village. Had Ekekwe been born in Texas, he might be a young CEO running an energy company by now, because the funds would inevitably flow. But, in Malawi, most investors would be concerned about the fact that there’s no legal system in place to protect William’s ideas from his friends, who might begin to copy them. There are so many stories like this in Ghana, Nigeria, and Angola.
I’ve traveled around the world and have seen smart people everywhere. Legal Nomads. 20 Inspiring Young Female Founders To Follow On Twitter. Spend Less Time On Planes And More Time With Worms. I recently had the pleasure of collaborating with Peter Sims, the best-selling author of Little Bets and co-author of the best selling book True North.
If you haven’t read Little Bets yet (and you should), it’s about creating huge business successes through a methodical series of smaller failures. In Vegas terms, it would be the equivalent of losing at the $1 tables until you figured out how to accumulate so many chips that you required a police escort to your hotel. Sims references a little better by the name of Muhammad Yunus, who launched the microfinancing industry with Grameen Bank and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. In the 70s, Yunus was an economics professor in Bangladesh during a severe famine that killed thousands upon thousands of people in India. As he taught his students about theories and macro solutions to global economics, a very real, very tangible problem was literally starving people to death at the doorsteps of his university.
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