Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Crucial Difference Between Success and Mastery
Maria Popova, brainpickings.orgThe lost art of learning to stand “where we would rather not and expand in ways we never knew we could.”
“You gotta be willing to fail… if you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far,” Steve Jobs cautioned. “There is no such th…
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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
You might find it hard to imagine gravity as a weak force, but consider that a small magnet can hold up a paper clip, even though the entire earth is pulling down on it.
Harvard theoretical physicist Lisa Randall, one of the smartest women in science today and author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World, among others, offers this deceptively simple yet brilliant perspective on grasping gravity.
(via It’s Okay To Be Smart)
In Honor of International Women’s Day
This image was for an Amnesty International event in Mexico City in October 2013 raising awareness of the rights of migrant women.
The message: “I Am a Woman” and “My Rights Go Where I Go.”
I don’t need easy, I need possible.
Jorge Gutierrez, Mexican basketball player recently signed to the Brooklyn Nets http://mashable.com/2014/03/06/nba-jorge-gutierrez/
Your New Favorite Player Just Made the NBA
Sam Laird, mashable.comEvery once in a while, a sports story comes along that’s so inspiring — so improbable and such an incredible testament to the potential of human will — that whatever game the main character plays ceases to matter at all.
Jorge…
The story of Jorge Gutierrez and his hoop dream is an inspiration.
Struggling to live with other undocumented ball-playing teens, Gutierrez was under-nourished and developed an iron deficiency and anemia. In one summer-league game, Gutierrez’s right (and favored shooting) hand “turned blue” and became virtually useless. He scored 18 points left-handed.
I can’t wait to buy his jersey. Read on.
