Stop Being an Information Junkie

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I’m an information junkie, but I’ve noticed that unless I take action I end up forgetting everything in a matter of days. I’m also a pretty slow reader so if the information finally goes down the drain, it’s really nothing more than a waste of time. And if I’m simply wasting time, and not even [...]

Try Many Things and Discover Your Passion

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I’ve just returned from a trip to Europe (which is why we haven’t had any updates, sorry). I highly recommend that you visit Trier if you happen travel around western Germany or Luxembourg in summer—the green hills just make you feel as if you had ventured right into the heart of Hobbiton; and the home [...]

Completely Free Online Courses at iTunes U

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We all know that iTunes Store has huge libraries full of songs, movies, TV shows, and audio books that you can buy. But there’s also a special section mysteriously named iTunes U (I believe the U stands for university). This part of the store, however, can be freely used, meaning that you don’t have to [...]

Learning Is Not Only Gathering and Classifying Knowledge

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“…true education means mind development; not merely the gathering and classifying of knowledge.” ~ Napoleon Hill Compulsory education does many things well, but it fails to genuinely communicate the most important lesson to young students—that education is not the memorizing of dates and formulae, but the development of the mind. Anyone with a healthy brain [...]

The Habit of Going the Extra Mile

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Napoleon Hill is my favorite writer on success. His texts are an invaluable source of inspiration because of their practicality; anyone can start applying the principles immediately if he so chooses. So today, I would like to borrow the title of one of the chapters in his book, The Master-Key to Success (which I highly [...]

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