Measuring your life
In deciding how we want to live our lives going forward, a good advice to heed is to start with the end in mind. A relevant question when it comes to starting with the end …
Transformation is from within
Robert Greene shares that the key to transforming oneself is from within in his TED talk. He shares from his own life experience of how he faced many setbacks in his aspiration to be a …
Grit
Angela Lee Duckworth changed her career from management consultant to teacher to psychologist. As a motivational psychologist studying predictors of success in various contexts, she found grit to be a significant predictor of success. She …
What is success in life?
G. Richard Shell’s book Springboard looks what is success and how to achieve it in your life. Before he started his academic career at Wharton Business School, he had spent most of his twenties unemployed, …
What makes a good life?
The Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the world’s longest longitudinal studies of adult life began in 1938 with the tracking of 268 Harvard sophomores to inquire into what leads to healthy and happy …
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying
Bronnie Ware, author of best selling memoir, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying worked in palliative care for eight years. She wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets expressed by the …