Obama’s Back-to-School Lessons

September 9, 2009 Education
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President Obama continues to impress me because I believe one of the essential responsibilities of a great leader is to be a good role model. In this relatively short talk to high school students, he has taught some life lessons that all students should learn in their lives (and we are all students our whole [...]

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Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

September 1, 2009 Inspiration
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Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch lost his life to pancreatic cancer on July 25, 2008. This was his last lecture at the university about how he achieved his childhood dreams. Randy is not only a smart guy and a great teacher, I admire him because he lived his life knowing how to prioritise what was [...]

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Ian Thorpe’s Dirty Little Secret

August 13, 2009 Leadership
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Ian Thorpe is a household name in Australia but our indigenous issues and failures are both unpopular and taboo. So it was a complete surprise to me when I discovered the following speech he gave at the Beyond Sport Summit in London on July 9, 2009.
Australian Olympic Committee President John Coates once said that “in [...]

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What’s Wrong With What We Eat

August 9, 2009 Health
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Food has become a commodity thanks to the mass production and marketing engines of our developed economies. We take the convenience of the supermarket for granted and no longer care about what we are eating or where it has come from. Moreover, the supermarket chains are driven by profit and not the health of their [...]

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The Art of Living Every Minute of Your Life

June 20, 2009 Inspiration
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Dr Rachel Naomi Remen shares some of her stories about finding meaning and satisfaction in our lives. Rachel believes that stories have the power to change our experience of life, to see ourselves differently, to become more without becoming different. Stories have a lot more power than data and they are a function of the [...]

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Barry Schwartz on Our Loss of Wisdom

June 20, 2009 Philosophy
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Rules are imposed to stop people from taking responsibility and obeyed when people are too lazy to think for themselves. It’s okay to question and break the rules because you are an intelligent, thinking and responsible human being.

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Lost Generation

June 20, 2009 Inspiration
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Jonathan Reed created this video for the AARP U@50 The contest, launched in August 2007 on YouTube, gave people between the ages of 18 and 30 the chance to submit short videos on the subject of what they expect their lives to be like at age 50.

I am part of a lost generation
and I refuse [...]

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Picture These Shocking Stats

June 20, 2009 Art & Design
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My understanding of good art is that it should challenge the status quo and give us reason to react. Chris Jordan’s work is simply effective by helping people to see and connect with the statistics with which we are inundated. “This is 1 million plastic cups. Which is the number of plastic cups that are [...]

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