The Only Failure is Failure to Learn
David Damberger works with Engineers without Borders. In this talk he explains the importance of facing up to failure – not…
Tag: human development
The Roots of Rights
On December 10th, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Nowadays,…
Did You Know…
Did you know that The Cat in the Hat was written in 1954 using the reading vocabulary of…
Going Your Own Way
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction…
Making a New Reality
We sometimes mistake the way things are for the way they have to be. Even when our institutions…
I am Spartacus…
In their book, Half the Sky, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn tell the story of an Indian neighbourhood –…
Getting the Full Story
My intention is not to advertise The Guardian but this ad is just too good and its message…
The Scientific Method
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill…
Dynamic Coherence
Human beings have so many dimensions and yet we don’t use them all. We fragment and compartmentalize and split –…
Beloved
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Victor Hugo Syracuse University Professor Stephanie…