Italian-American jazz guitarist Joe Pass [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pass] once said: > If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterwards. I’ve been thinking about it for a while and its, almost lyrical, resemblence to life touched me. Any failure…
“Do feelings of deprivation drive entrepreneurs and economies?,” asks Rosabeth Moss Kanter [http://blogs.hbr.org/kanter/2010/11/mark-zuckerberg-and-misery-as.html], a professor at Harvard Business School. After watching ‘The Social Network [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/]‘ one evening this week, I was left with feelings of inspiration and…
We have so many choices these days, and so little time to make a choice. From the choice of the right breakfast cereal to the choice of the right health insurance, we are trapped in an endless spiral of everyday choices. Last night, I watched a TEDGlobal talk by Sheena…
Michael Levine once said, “Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.” While some may own but hate a piano, a pianist only has true gratification and unconditional love for it. A recent article in the New York Magazine, titled “All Joy…
Another year has nearly come to an end. A new decade is set to begin. It’s amazing how time just whisks away. What’s also amazing is how much we can learn about ourself in time just by paying a little more attention to that sound in our head.…
> When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. This beautiful Buddhist proverb is a true declaration of an open mind, a mind of a learner. Ever since I heard this proverb, I often wondered if it reflected more than what meets the eye. A few years ago, I…
> “You see this goblet?” asks Achaan Chaa, the Thai meditation master. “For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring…
> The first person to live to be 1,000 years old is certainly alive today … whether they realize it or not, barring accidents and suicide, most people now 40 years or younger can expect to live for centuries. Sounds overly optimistic? A Cambridge University geneticist, and many other researchers,…