How to make your own luck, Van Gogh's never-before-revealed sketchbooks, how to be a nonconformist, and more Hey Dianne Clay! If you missed last week's edition – why grit, not IQ, is the key to success, the odd habits of famous writers, an illustrated morphology of bad pedestrians, Bob Dylan in pictures for kids, Stephen Hawking animated, and more – you can catch up here. And if you're enjoying this, please consider supporting with a modest donation. How to Make Your Own Luck "All creators need to be able to live in the shade of the big questions long enough for truly revolutionary ideas and insights to emerge." “You are what you settle for,” Janis Joplin admonished in her final interview. In the introduction, Glei affirms the idea that, in the age of make-your-own-success and build-your-own-education, the onus and thrill of finding fulfilling work falls squarely on us, not on the "system": If the twentieth-century career was a ladder that we climbed from one predictable rung to the next, the twenty-first-century career is more like a broad rock face that we are all free-climbing. “Avoid socks.
Stress Management A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water and asked, "How heavy is this glass of water?" Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g. The lecturer replied, "The absolute weight doesn’t matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it." "If I hold it for a minute, that’s not a problem If I hold it for an hour, I’ll have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you’ll have to call an ambulance. He continued, "And that’s the way it is with stress management. "As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again. "So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down. "Relax; pick them up later after you’ve rested.
And Then I Met A Teacher He met a teacher, and it changed everything. Jim Wengo was fresh out of high school when he started working at the local butcher shop. But his high school agriculture teacher, John Krivokapish, had other plans for him. When he heard of an area college work study program for those who could score well on a civil service exam, Mr. Removing the blood stained apron, Jim followed his teacher to the local college where he took an exam on the spot. He kept working as a butcher while he finished his degree. Dennis Queen had a difficult relationship with his father. After a four year tour of duty, Dennis returned home. These are both true stories told to me by men who have personally inspired me by their examples. Four years ago, we started a program at my school called Mentor 180. Last year, we had one young lady who came to us having failed the year before and having endured devastating loss in her family and personal life. She met a teacher and a mentor, and it changed everything.
M's Head Starfish - Inspiration for all teachers OUT Ash Beckham: I'm going to talk to you tonight about coming out of the closet. And not in the traditional sense, not just the gay closet. I think we all have closets. Your closet maybe telling someone you love her for the first time or telling someone that you're pregnant or telling someone that you have cancer or any of the other hard conversations that we have throughout our lives. So within a matter of weeks, it happens again, "Are you a boy or are you a girl?" It was the easiest hard conversation that I have ever had. At some point in our lives, we all live in closets and they make us feel safe, or at least safer than what lies on the other side of that door. So why is coming out of any closet, why is having that conversation, why is it so hard? When you do not have hard conversations, when you keep the truth about yourself a secret, you're essentially holding a grenade. And I had a choice in that moment, as all grenade throwers do. Thank you Boulder.
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