Yesterday Bill Gates wrote an article about the skills you need to succeed. His main point was on the value of ongoing learning.
I also place a high value on having a passion for ongoing learning. When I was pretty young, I picked up the habit of reading lots of books.
It’s great to read widely about [...]
It was a cold and windy night… [backspace] As I sit by my window with the snow outside [backspace].
Part of me wants to do one of those “up till now” sort of posts, but I don’t think anyone would care. Maybe someday I will go back and take a look in retrospect. But for now [...]
I was thinking today about the things i want to write about and i realized how beneficial it might be to me to look back at my day (or few days because i don’t figure it would be very fun a fun read at all) about what i did right or wrong in selling and [...]
To take an idea, and turn it into something real and tangible. Wood, being relatively inexpensive, easily manipulated into whatever shape you’re looking to make. What a perfect medium! I’ve always had an interest in design. For as long as i can remember, from legos mansions to dirt super highways, I’ve been taking those design [...]
Our lives are overflowing with information. Everywhere we look we are being screamed at by all sorts of media: books , movies, magazines, blogs, podcasts, newspapers, TV shows, and much more.
At some point we have to make a decision about what to do with it all. We have to either turn it off and throw it away, ignoring it all because we can't take anymore. Or we have to sort the wheat from the chaff, figure out what it is telling us, consider what we can learn from it, and implement that practices that can make us better.
Lernr is about that process of learning what we can from different sources and applying it to our lives.
The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
~ Mark Twain