Archive for the ‘Food for thought’ Category
Highlighting a motivator from the Philippines
01
Apr
I recently encountered this young motivator from the Philippines. He's a self-made young man who decided to change his mindset and elevated himself out of his condition through hard work. He is now sharing his philosophies with the world. He maintains a blog aptly titled ZeroDramas. It's about the power of positive thinking. He draws on examples of his own life and how his transformation is motivated by his new outlook on life.
With his permission, here is a re-post of one of his articles Winner vs Whiner:
Whining is easier to do than winning that is why most people choose to do this when they feel that defeat will conquer them. Anyone can choose whether he wants to be a whiner or a winner but sometimes whiners have a lot of out of the world reasons and don’t want to admit that he is doing badly so I differentiate the attitude of a winner and a whiner and I also explain here the result of their performances.
- Winners never lose hope just for a second while whiners are hopeless and full of dramas.
- Winners use desperation for progression while whiners use desperation for destruction.
- A winner never quits while a whiner never tries.
- Winning creates self satisfaction and confidence to anyone while whining creates low self esteem and forever regrets.
- A winner practices self reliance while a whiner is very dependent.
- A winner is ready for trials and the most difficult consequences while a whiner always choose the easiest path.
- Winning is fun and very addictive while whining only gives burden and pain.
- A winner always find solutions and acts in a very timely manner while a whiner always find excuses and never take the first step.
- A winner loves action while a whiner loves procrastination.
- Winning doesn’t need noise to get noticed while whining needs a lot of non sense activities to catch some attention.
- Winning is for grownups while whining is for babies.
I hope you enjoy it and follow his blog. Cheers!
New Idea alert: Startup Coursera to Deliver Cloud Course Content
08
Mar
Kyle Johnson authored the following article for WIRED.com
Another pair of Stanford faculty said this week they were starting a company around Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs). According to Inside Higher Ed, engineering professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller have started Coursera, which includes content from Stanford, the University of Michigan and the University of California, Berkeley.
Joshua Kim argues that not every institution of higher education needs to offer MOOCs. I tend to agree, but for different reasons. The cloud services model works because a few large entities (think on the scale of Amazon or Google) provide an infrastructure service with the reliability and cost structure smaller companies can’t match.
When you frame MOOCs as educational cloud services, you see that incubators like MIT and Stanford can provide course content at a scale very few institutions can match. And just as with IT infrastructure, if an institution can get educational content from the cloud that is of better quality and lower cost than they can create in-house, they should consider it.
Innovative faculty at any institution can take this core content and use it to enhance a student’s experience at their local campus. The quality and type of faculty interaction combined with guided group leaning experiences can provide the differentiation for which college and universities are looking, and the growth in educational cloud services provide the opportunity for faculty to focus on providing tailored experiences for their students.
Earlier this year, Stanford faculty member Sebastian Thurn teamed up with partners David Stavens (also at Stanford) and San Francisco researcher Michael Sokolsky to start Udacity. Their aim is to provide high quality, university-level education at a low cost.
Quote du jour: Our deepest fear…
05
Mar
This quote is originally from Marianne Williamson but is often attributed to Nelson Mandela's inaugural speech. It's from her book A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles", Ch. 7, Section 3 (1992).
Quote du jour: Leonardo Da Vinci
09
Jan
"Good design is the perfect balance between science and art"
-Leonardo Da Vinci
