UPDATE: I'll tell you 10 More Reasons Why Parents Should Not Send Their Kids to College ---> http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/01/10-more-reasons-why-parents-should-not-send-their-kids-to-college/
Things That Don't Matter in Your Presentation!Ayman Sadiq
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We often spend hours together on stuffs that donât really matter in your next presentation. You need to unclutter, focus, provide insight and yes, tell a story to convey the big idea. When you stop wasting time on the things that donât really add any value to you presentation, we finally start adding proper value to the message and objective of your presentation. So here goes a list of things on which you should not even spend a minute. Cheers!
If you are like many people, even the thought of delivering a speech in front of an audience will get your palms sweating. The fear of public speaking ranks high among the most common phobias, and for good reason: most of us approach the situation with the wrong mindset, which in turn makes us live out our worst fears in a public forum.
As Michael Parker notes in ITâS NOT WHAT YOU SAY: How to Sell Your Message When It Matters Most (A TarcherPerigee paperback; on sale January 2016), our fixation on the content of our words â and not the presentation of ourselves â is what brings us down. Once the Vice-Chairman of Londonâs Saatchi & Saatchi, and one of the worldâs most experienced advertising pitch men, having made more than 1,000 pitches in his successful career, Parker has learned first-hand that an effective presentation, a job interview, or even a speech at a wedding hinges on our ability to portray ourselves as passionate, relatable, and collected. But, if we are focused on what we say, and not how we act, we will fail to persuade our audience.
Applied in the boardroom, at the pulpit, or even in conversation, these tenets will help you present better in any situation.
Hi! We're the creative team behind Hypothesis's reports, presentations, and infographics, and we're sharing out our best tips. Please share with someone you think would enjoy this slideshow.
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www.linkedin.com/companies/hypothesis-group
www.instagram.com/hypothesisgroup
24 Books You've Never Heard Of - But Will Change Your LifeRyan Holiday
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For the last five years, Iâve tried to do just that on my popular monthly reading list email. Iâve recommended hundreds of amazing, life-changing books to tens of thousands of people:
http://www.ryanholiday.net/reading-newsletter/
Things That Don't Matter in Your Presentation!Ayman Sadiq
Â
We often spend hours together on stuffs that donât really matter in your next presentation. You need to unclutter, focus, provide insight and yes, tell a story to convey the big idea. When you stop wasting time on the things that donât really add any value to you presentation, we finally start adding proper value to the message and objective of your presentation. So here goes a list of things on which you should not even spend a minute. Cheers!
If you are like many people, even the thought of delivering a speech in front of an audience will get your palms sweating. The fear of public speaking ranks high among the most common phobias, and for good reason: most of us approach the situation with the wrong mindset, which in turn makes us live out our worst fears in a public forum.
As Michael Parker notes in ITâS NOT WHAT YOU SAY: How to Sell Your Message When It Matters Most (A TarcherPerigee paperback; on sale January 2016), our fixation on the content of our words â and not the presentation of ourselves â is what brings us down. Once the Vice-Chairman of Londonâs Saatchi & Saatchi, and one of the worldâs most experienced advertising pitch men, having made more than 1,000 pitches in his successful career, Parker has learned first-hand that an effective presentation, a job interview, or even a speech at a wedding hinges on our ability to portray ourselves as passionate, relatable, and collected. But, if we are focused on what we say, and not how we act, we will fail to persuade our audience.
Applied in the boardroom, at the pulpit, or even in conversation, these tenets will help you present better in any situation.
Hi! We're the creative team behind Hypothesis's reports, presentations, and infographics, and we're sharing out our best tips. Please share with someone you think would enjoy this slideshow.
www.hypothesisgroup.com
www.linkedin.com/companies/hypothesis-group
www.instagram.com/hypothesisgroup
24 Books You've Never Heard Of - But Will Change Your LifeRyan Holiday
Â
For the last five years, Iâve tried to do just that on my popular monthly reading list email. Iâve recommended hundreds of amazing, life-changing books to tens of thousands of people:
http://www.ryanholiday.net/reading-newsletter/
The Great State of Design with CSS Grid Layout and FriendsStacy Kvernmo
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For far too long we've been forced to reuse layout patterns that have worked in the past, creating a web full of sites that all look the same. Narrow timelines, browser support restrictions and lack of a true grid system have led us to create work that is "good enough".
I've spent years exploring how we can make the web a more unique space. With some of the newer CSS techniques available, we can start to make more creative designs. CSS Grid Layout is on the horizon and will play a major role in the design of our sites. Finally having a true, 2 dimensional grid will give our layouts much more flexibility and it is on us to explore the possibilities.
This talk was presented at CSS Day 2016.
Inspired Storytelling: Engaging People & Moving Them To ActionKelsey Ruger
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Most projects, presentations or initiatives are driven by facts and features the team believes will help them deliver a product or message. While facts and data are important for setting the stage and communicating goals, theyâre rarely what persuades an audience or gets them to take action.
In this workshop, you will learn how to use that connection, by teaching basic skills in visual thinking and storytelling that will that transform projects and initiate action.
A fun approach to talk about how sleeping more and better can help your productivity and effectiveness at work. #SleepingWithTheBoss was an invitation from the TNW CEO,
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten to the team - a nap after lunch to test out the benefits of a good rest.
How to Craft Your Company's Storytelling Voice by Ann Handley of MarketingProfsMarketingProfs
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You know your company's story, but what's the right voice to use in telling it? Find out how to craft your company's storytelling voice. Ann Handley, chief content officer of MarketingProfs and author of "Content Rules" shares tips and ideas for crafting your brand's storytelling voice.
What happens when the digital tools and platforms we make and use for communication and entertainment are hijacked for terrorism, violence against the vulnerable and nefarious transactions? What role do designers and developers play? Are we complicit as creators of these technologies and products? Should we police them or fight back? As Portfolio Lead for Northern Lab, Northern Trust's internal innovation startup focused on client and partner experience, Antonio will share a mix of provocative scenarios torn from today's headlines and compelling stories where activism and technology facilitated peaceâand war.
As a call-to-action for designers and developers to engage in projects capable of transformational change, he'll explore the question: How might technology foster new experiences to better accelerate social activism and make the world a smarter, safer place?
âMany people would be better off if they did less and reflected more.â â Manfred Kets de Vries, INSEAD Distinguished Professor of Leadership Development & Organisational Change
Despite making technological advances to speed up our work, we somehow find ourselves working moreânot less. The busy lifestyle may deceptively make us feel productive and accomplished. But research has finally exposed the tolls of avoiding free time: depression, sleep deprivation, relationship breakdown and poor quality of work, to name a few. Doing nothing may sound like a waste of time, but it's one of the secrets to keeping your brain in top shape.
REFERENCES:
The Importance of Doing Nothing
Manfred Kets de Vries, INSEAD Distinguished Professor of Leadership Development & Organisational Change. (INSEAD Knowledge, 23 June 2014)
http://knowledge.insead.edu/talent-management/the-importance-of-doing-nothing-3422
Doing Nothing and Nothing to Do: The Hidden Value of Empty Time and Boredom
Manfred Kets de Vries. (INSEAD, 2014)
http://sites.insead.edu/facultyresearch/research/doc.cfm?did=54261
Reflection and âDoing Nothingâ Are Critical For Productivity
Ray Williams. (Psychology Today, 15 August 2014)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201408/reflection-and-doing-nothing-are-critical-productivity
Are We More Productive When We Have More Time Off?
Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman. (Harvard Business Review, 17 June 2015)
https://hbr.org/2015/06/are-we-more-productive-when-we-have-more-time-off?
Relax! Youâll Be More Productive.
Tony Schwartz. (The New York Times, 9Feb 2013)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/opinion/sunday/relax-youll-be-more-productive.html
Why is everyone so busy?
(The Economist, 20 December 2014)
http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636612-time-poverty-problem-partly-perception-and-partly-distribution-why
25 statsâ13 positive, 12 negativeâthat reflect the marketing world, including content marketing, social media, email newsletters, analytics, blogging, digital video, and more.
Keep these stats in mind when crafting your marketing strategy.
According to research, over 80% of American workers experience stress at work. Stress at work can make you less productive, angry and even lead to serious health conditions like heart disease. If the stressors of work are becoming too much for you to handle, try these 8 science-backed ways to relieve stress at work.
People love the notion of the sole innovator, but this notion is wrong. Successful companies are usually started, and become successful, with the contributions of at least two people. Yin and yang, maker and seller, dreamer and pragmatist â call it what you will. After the fact, people may recognize one founder as the innovator, but it takes a team to make a new venture work.
Derek Sivers, the co-founder of CD Baby, said it best: âThe first follower is what transforms the lone nut into a leader.â
In some instances the first follower is the first customer, but most often the first follower is the second employee of a company â that is, the co-founder.
There are few factors that can make a company more successful, fun, and epic than an awesome co-founder. There are few factors that can make a company more unsuccessful, aggravating, and pathetic than an incompetent, lazy, or dishonest co-founder.
This SlideShare explains the art of the picking a co-founder and is part of the LinkedIn Influencer series for #mystartupstory.
Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jrmllvr/
When it comes to launching a great career, even the most successful stars, TV personalities, and journalists had to
start somewhere.
Here's what some of the world's most creative professionals learned from their mentors along the way.
Visit https://mentor.linkedin.com for more amazing stories of mentorship.
Making Meaningful Maps: Seeing Geography through Cartographyreroth
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Public lecture organized jointly by the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig University, and the German Cartographic Society | November 15th, 2017. Abstract: Maps have gone viral: they are in our cars, on our phones, and across our news feeds. While the pervasiveness of maps is clear, has this popularity resulted in a tangible improvement to our collective geographic understanding? Is the world any better for the maps we make? In this presentation, I ask how we as cartographers, data scientists, and storytellers might bring more meaning to our work. I hang this discussion across three, multiâmonth interactive mapping projects completed in the University of Wisconsin Cartography Lab that had complementary research and design elements. The projects covered very different datasets and contextsâclimate change, globalization, and environment justiceâbut each afforded a deep engagement with domain experts and target users to puzzle through the design and delivery of a meaningful map product. Across these projects, my opinion on what mattered shifted away from the data, and even the map, to the people and places quantified by the data and represented in the mapâŠto the geography. I conclude by brainstorming ways to bring more meaning to our map designs, helping our audience see the geography through our cartography to enable geographic thinking and promote global citizenship.
The Great State of Design with CSS Grid Layout and FriendsStacy Kvernmo
Â
For far too long we've been forced to reuse layout patterns that have worked in the past, creating a web full of sites that all look the same. Narrow timelines, browser support restrictions and lack of a true grid system have led us to create work that is "good enough".
I've spent years exploring how we can make the web a more unique space. With some of the newer CSS techniques available, we can start to make more creative designs. CSS Grid Layout is on the horizon and will play a major role in the design of our sites. Finally having a true, 2 dimensional grid will give our layouts much more flexibility and it is on us to explore the possibilities.
This talk was presented at CSS Day 2016.
Inspired Storytelling: Engaging People & Moving Them To ActionKelsey Ruger
Â
Most projects, presentations or initiatives are driven by facts and features the team believes will help them deliver a product or message. While facts and data are important for setting the stage and communicating goals, theyâre rarely what persuades an audience or gets them to take action.
In this workshop, you will learn how to use that connection, by teaching basic skills in visual thinking and storytelling that will that transform projects and initiate action.
A fun approach to talk about how sleeping more and better can help your productivity and effectiveness at work. #SleepingWithTheBoss was an invitation from the TNW CEO,
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten to the team - a nap after lunch to test out the benefits of a good rest.
How to Craft Your Company's Storytelling Voice by Ann Handley of MarketingProfsMarketingProfs
Â
You know your company's story, but what's the right voice to use in telling it? Find out how to craft your company's storytelling voice. Ann Handley, chief content officer of MarketingProfs and author of "Content Rules" shares tips and ideas for crafting your brand's storytelling voice.
What happens when the digital tools and platforms we make and use for communication and entertainment are hijacked for terrorism, violence against the vulnerable and nefarious transactions? What role do designers and developers play? Are we complicit as creators of these technologies and products? Should we police them or fight back? As Portfolio Lead for Northern Lab, Northern Trust's internal innovation startup focused on client and partner experience, Antonio will share a mix of provocative scenarios torn from today's headlines and compelling stories where activism and technology facilitated peaceâand war.
As a call-to-action for designers and developers to engage in projects capable of transformational change, he'll explore the question: How might technology foster new experiences to better accelerate social activism and make the world a smarter, safer place?
âMany people would be better off if they did less and reflected more.â â Manfred Kets de Vries, INSEAD Distinguished Professor of Leadership Development & Organisational Change
Despite making technological advances to speed up our work, we somehow find ourselves working moreânot less. The busy lifestyle may deceptively make us feel productive and accomplished. But research has finally exposed the tolls of avoiding free time: depression, sleep deprivation, relationship breakdown and poor quality of work, to name a few. Doing nothing may sound like a waste of time, but it's one of the secrets to keeping your brain in top shape.
REFERENCES:
The Importance of Doing Nothing
Manfred Kets de Vries, INSEAD Distinguished Professor of Leadership Development & Organisational Change. (INSEAD Knowledge, 23 June 2014)
http://knowledge.insead.edu/talent-management/the-importance-of-doing-nothing-3422
Doing Nothing and Nothing to Do: The Hidden Value of Empty Time and Boredom
Manfred Kets de Vries. (INSEAD, 2014)
http://sites.insead.edu/facultyresearch/research/doc.cfm?did=54261
Reflection and âDoing Nothingâ Are Critical For Productivity
Ray Williams. (Psychology Today, 15 August 2014)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201408/reflection-and-doing-nothing-are-critical-productivity
Are We More Productive When We Have More Time Off?
Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman. (Harvard Business Review, 17 June 2015)
https://hbr.org/2015/06/are-we-more-productive-when-we-have-more-time-off?
Relax! Youâll Be More Productive.
Tony Schwartz. (The New York Times, 9Feb 2013)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/opinion/sunday/relax-youll-be-more-productive.html
Why is everyone so busy?
(The Economist, 20 December 2014)
http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636612-time-poverty-problem-partly-perception-and-partly-distribution-why
25 statsâ13 positive, 12 negativeâthat reflect the marketing world, including content marketing, social media, email newsletters, analytics, blogging, digital video, and more.
Keep these stats in mind when crafting your marketing strategy.
According to research, over 80% of American workers experience stress at work. Stress at work can make you less productive, angry and even lead to serious health conditions like heart disease. If the stressors of work are becoming too much for you to handle, try these 8 science-backed ways to relieve stress at work.
People love the notion of the sole innovator, but this notion is wrong. Successful companies are usually started, and become successful, with the contributions of at least two people. Yin and yang, maker and seller, dreamer and pragmatist â call it what you will. After the fact, people may recognize one founder as the innovator, but it takes a team to make a new venture work.
Derek Sivers, the co-founder of CD Baby, said it best: âThe first follower is what transforms the lone nut into a leader.â
In some instances the first follower is the first customer, but most often the first follower is the second employee of a company â that is, the co-founder.
There are few factors that can make a company more successful, fun, and epic than an awesome co-founder. There are few factors that can make a company more unsuccessful, aggravating, and pathetic than an incompetent, lazy, or dishonest co-founder.
This SlideShare explains the art of the picking a co-founder and is part of the LinkedIn Influencer series for #mystartupstory.
Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jrmllvr/
When it comes to launching a great career, even the most successful stars, TV personalities, and journalists had to
start somewhere.
Here's what some of the world's most creative professionals learned from their mentors along the way.
Visit https://mentor.linkedin.com for more amazing stories of mentorship.
Making Meaningful Maps: Seeing Geography through Cartographyreroth
Â
Public lecture organized jointly by the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig University, and the German Cartographic Society | November 15th, 2017. Abstract: Maps have gone viral: they are in our cars, on our phones, and across our news feeds. While the pervasiveness of maps is clear, has this popularity resulted in a tangible improvement to our collective geographic understanding? Is the world any better for the maps we make? In this presentation, I ask how we as cartographers, data scientists, and storytellers might bring more meaning to our work. I hang this discussion across three, multiâmonth interactive mapping projects completed in the University of Wisconsin Cartography Lab that had complementary research and design elements. The projects covered very different datasets and contextsâclimate change, globalization, and environment justiceâbut each afforded a deep engagement with domain experts and target users to puzzle through the design and delivery of a meaningful map product. Across these projects, my opinion on what mattered shifted away from the data, and even the map, to the people and places quantified by the data and represented in the mapâŠto the geography. I conclude by brainstorming ways to bring more meaning to our map designs, helping our audience see the geography through our cartography to enable geographic thinking and promote global citizenship.
ypes and providers are some of the most powerful abstractions within Puppet, and extending them to model resources outside the scope of simple types can make configuration management extraordinarily useful. Taking the step to extend Puppet's functionality beyond standard resources like users and files can be daunting, though, and getting started in Puppet's Ruby libraries is a different beast than the Puppet language. In this presentation we'll look at an illustrative example of how Puppet can be used to manage custom types in a sophisticated and extensible way, ultimately bridging the gap between Puppet types and resources that can be modeled as objects over RESTful interfaces. Using real module code as an example, we'll look at how combining the declarative nature of Puppet resources with any command or REST interface can make managing complicated systems easier (Elasticsearch being the illustrative example). Testing will also be covered to demonstrate how custom types and providers can offer even more code quality and assurance than basic Puppet manifests. Attendees will learn about how to write Puppet modules (including types and providers), how to use Puppet Ruby APIs, module testing, and Elasticsearch APIs.
This keynote was given by Marissa Louie, Principal Designer at Yahoo!
Abstract:
There are millions of web sites and apps that exist, yet only a few of them are accessed on a regular basis. How do we design products that keep users coming back for more? The answer is simple â we integrate emotion into our designs.
In this presentation, Marissa Louie will teach us:
Emotional themes: What gets users hooked
Emotional toolbox: Design elements that make your users feel great
How to integrate positive emotions to influence behavior and increase user engagement
How to add personality to a product
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Meet Marissa
Marissa Louie is a UI, UX, and Product Designer whose designs have been experienced by over 1 billion users. She is a Principal Designer at Yahoo!, where she has led design efforts in Search and Homepage and Verticals. She founded First Designer Co., a design community that supports designers with mentorship, design critiques, and job opportunities.
She has been an iOS Art Director at Apple, Product Designer at Ness Computing (acquired by OpenTable and now part of Priceline.com), and Co-founder of three tech startups. Her work has won numerous awards, including Apple's App Store Best of 2012 for Ness Computing.
Integration of Risk Assessment and Chemical Characterization (MD&M Minn. 2017)Russell Sloboda
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The Toxicological Risk Assessment (TRA) is an important tool in the safety assessment of biomedical devices, providing a chemical-based approach which complements a traditional animal-based testing program. The need for TRA is growing and in some cases, may be considered as a means of circumventing animal testing in the safety evaluation of devices.
Based on results of the chemical characterization, the TRA provides context to the chemistry data and the leachable compounds identified therein, which includes compounds expected to be found and compounds that are unexpected. The objective of the chemical characterization study is to identify and quantify substances that may be released from the test article during clinical use and in practical terms, is comprised of incubations of the test article in various media, e.g., water, ethanol, or hexane, at specific temperatures and durations.
By considering the end use of the characterization data in the TRA during the design of the chemical characterization study it can be assured that the study provides the most useful and informative data. Considering the needs of the TRA can also help in determining appropriate detection limits for the analysis, which in turn can help in determining the amount of test material needed for the study. Further, coordinating with the risk assessment team during the design of characterization study helps ensure that the data are usable and presented in the most suitable manner. By working together, the TRA and chemical characterization study provide an understanding of the impact of potential exposures on the overall safety of a device.
As developers we write code everyday, only to frown at it a week after that. Why do we have such a hard time with code written by others and ourselves, this raging desire to rewrite everything we see? Writing code that survives the test of time and self judgment is a matter of clarity and simplicity. Let's talk about growing, learning and improving our code with calisthenics, readability and good design.
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The chance to design for 43 different languages and 200+ countries comes with the challenge of balancing a lot of information per pixel. Booking.com gets millions of users everyday with different needs and goals, and designers need to understand how to best approach them without bringing more complexity to the product. In this talk we will go through how Booking.com deals with that problem using design to best leverage Machine Learning with personas, user journeys and AI to build a personalized experience to our customers.
The difference between designing for everyone and designing for context is in the understanding of who your customers are, their intent with your product and what can we do to anticipate their needs without disrupting the experience. Data Science is a powerful tool to get to that goal, but without a well thought of design behind it the intended experience will probably not be fulfilled.
A robust risk assessment process is central to maintaining a strong Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance program. In this new Accenture presentation we explore how financial services firms can set-up an effective process. Visit our fraud and financial crime blog post for more on AML risk assessment program: http://bit.ly/2aPlQQ7
Tradition Essay. School essay: Family tradition essayHeidi Marshall
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Graffiti Art Or Vandalism Essay. Graffiti: A Form of Art or Vandalism Free E...Brandy Rose
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Students, digital devices and success - Andreas Schleicher - 27 May 2024..pptxEduSkills OECD
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Andreas Schleicher presents at the OECD webinar âDigital devices in schools: detrimental distraction or secret to success?â on 27 May 2024. The presentation was based on findings from PISA 2022 results and the webinar helped launch the PISA in Focus âManaging screen time: How to protect and equip students against distractionâ https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/managing-screen-time_7c225af4-en and the OECD Education Policy Perspective âStudents, digital devices and successâ can be found here - https://oe.cd/il/5yV
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
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This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
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The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesarâs dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empireâs birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empireâs society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
We all have good and bad thoughts from time to time and situation to situation. We are bombarded daily with spiraling thoughts(both negative and positive) creating all-consuming feel , making us difficult to manage with associated suffering. Good thoughts are like our Mob Signal (Positive thought) amidst noise(negative thought) in the atmosphere. Negative thoughts like noise outweigh positive thoughts. These thoughts often create unwanted confusion, trouble, stress and frustration in our mind as well as chaos in our physical world. Negative thoughts are also known as âdistorted thinkingâ.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
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This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
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down in hopeless debt.
When will they get
to live life?
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TWith college:
A) You learn very little that you use
in real life.
B) You are so burdened by debt that you
canât use your new-found knowledge
to create real freedom and joy for
yourself.
C) A young person can use their energy
in many other ways than just college.
9. y x
o
So, in lieu of college, here are:
I couldâve made this list 100 alternatives long.
But I think you should come up with alternatives
as well. Thereâs lots of ways to get experience,
learn skills, make money, avoid debt, find
happiness, avoid sadness, and deal with the fear
that you arenât accomplishing something simply
because you didnât choose the too-easy path of
going to college at the age of 18.
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xThis is the college of the streets.
And when you have to eat what you
kill, you learn extremely fast.
START A BUSINESSy
You learn how to come up with ideas that
will be accepted by other people. Most kids
graduate college with an atrophied idea
muscle. Starting a business forces you to
exercise that muscle every day.
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xYou will meet other foreigners
traveling. You will learn what
poverty is. You will learn the value
of how to stretch a dollar.
TRAVEL THE WORLDy
You will often be in situations where
you need to learn how to survive
despite the odds being against you.
You will learn you arenât
the center of the universe.
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xCREATE ART
Creation doesnât happen from inspiration.
It happens from perspiration, discipline, and
passion. Creativity doesnât come from God. Itâs
a muscle that you need to learn to build.
Why not build it while your brain is still creating
new neurons at a breathtaking rate than learning
it when you are older (and for many
people, too late).
Spend a year learning how to paint. Or how to
play a musical instrument. Make a band and
tour with it. Or write 5 novels. Learn to
discipline yourself to create.
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MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH
This will teach you how to write. How
to communicate. How to sell yourself.
How to deal with people who hate you. How
to deal with the psychology of failure
on a daily basis. And, of course,
how to make people laugh.
Spend a year learning how to do
standup-comedy in front of people.
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WRITE A BOOK
Write a novel about what you are
doing instead of going to college.
Youâll learn how to observe people.
Writing is a meditation on
life. Youâll live each day,
interpret it, and write it.
16. y x
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WORK IN CHARITY
If you do any of these items for a
year, two years, maybe ten, then
maybe go to college? Why not?
Itâs your life.
What is going to serve you better in life:
taking French Literature 101 or spending
a year delivering meals to senior
citizens with Alzheimers, or curing
malaria in Africa.
17. y x
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MASTER A GAME
Once you master one game, it teaches you
âhow to masterâ in general. This is an incredibly
useful skill to learn. Particularly if you can do
it for cheap. A chessboard and some chess books
cost a lot less than a college
education.
Mastering a game builds discipline, lets
you socialize with other people of all ages
and backgrounds but who have similar passions,
and helps you to develop the instincts of a
killer without having to kill anyone.
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WANT TO BE A DOCTOR?
So before you sign up for ten years of
hell and a million in debt do this:
Volunteer at a hospital, or at a morgue,
get in touch with your element, see what
they do, how they work, you may find
doctors donât quite know as much as you
thought they did, you may find
you donât like being vomited on.
Donât you need a degree? Maybe.
20. y x
o
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WANT TO BE A Lawyer?
Work as a paralegal, do it for
free for a year, see what really
goes on in the law firm.
Watch those lawyers working 80 hours a week,
sleeping in the office. See the first year
associates come in with their huge debts to
pay only to find themselves in caucus rooms
full of boxes with boring documents that they
have to highlight for at least a
year or two. See if you want that.
21. y x
o
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Do aNYTHING YOU WANT
FOR ONE YEAR.
take a break.
Lower your expectations about
what you need to accomplish so quickly. In the
past 100 years lifespans have more than doubled.
Thereâs no rush at the age of 18 to dive into five
more years of stress.
Take a break. Itâs when you lower your expectations
that the full range of possibilities becomes open
to you. Try it and see what happens,
what passions fall your way.
22. y x
o
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xGO TO UNCOLLEGE.ORG
Take courses in things you are
interested in.
The web is an amazing thing. They didnât
have it when I began college. But there are
sites like uncollege.org where you can see
a full list of courses being offered online
by universities from all over the world.
From Stanford to MIT to random
courses on just about any topic.
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o
What am
I grateful
for today?
What spiritual
practice did
I do today?
13
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x
DO THE DAILY PRACTICE FOR A
YEAR and see where it takes you
The basic idea is to kick start your
health, your idea muscle, your creativity,
your motivations, & your spiritual life
Exercise
How Many Hours
Did You Sleep?
What Did You Eat
Today?
PHYSICAL
What Negative People Did you
ignore?
What People Did you Connect?
What positive people did you
bring into your life?
Emotional
Idea List (with
functionality so people
can track ideas)
What Did You Read Today?
(not counting media)
MENTAL
SPIRITUAL
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xTAKE A JOB
Youâll learn how to work. Youâll learn about
customer satisfaction. Youâll be forced to
deal with people who are not like you
(and you might not even like).
These are skills not taught in college and
many people learn them too late in life
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alternative
x
WRITE A SCRIPT
FOR A MOVIE
Go ahead, try it. You wonât be able to do it
later. Watch a bunch of horror movies and
then write a script for one. Get Syd Fieldâs
book on writing screenplays.
It might be a crazy idea. When you are 40!
But itâs certainly not a crazy idea right now.
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o
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alternative
x
DIRECT A DOCUMENTARY
ON SOMETHING YOU ARE INTERESTE in
For instance, do you like baseball?
Track down everyone who has caught the baseballs
of record-breaking hits: Babe Ruthâs homerun record,
Hank Aaron, Derek Jeterâs hitting record, etc.
Iâm making this up off the top of my head.
I hate baseball. But a documentary like this has
a nice arc: with each segment, for instance:
what made Ruth such a success, or Aaron, or
whoever. Why was the baseball so coveted?
Follow its rise in price over the years
and see who owns it now and why.
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o
17
alternative
x
AUDITION IN BROADWAY
FOR A WHOLE YEAR
And you never know, you
could be a star!
See what it takes, how you can do it.
Acting is not a bad skill to learn no
matter where your life takes you.
And you will build friendships and
contacts from all walks of life.
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o
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alternative
x
VOLUNTEER GARDENING
AROUND YOUR
NEIGHBORHOOD
You will learn about real estate,
about gardens and plants.
Shovel snow in the winter. You will
learn about your community.
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alternative
x
BECOME A REAL
ESTATE AGENT
See if you have what it takes to sell things.
You will learn marketing, sales, interior
design, the basics of architecture, and again
you never know who you can meet in the
process of this that could catapult your
career in a completely different direction.
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xTAKE UP YOGA
Yoga is a way of life that cleanses
the body. Itâs about nutrition. Itâs about
being honest. Itâs about meditation. Itâs
about being kind to people.
And, getting back to the physical,
you will get into BRUTAL shape. Is that
such a bad thing to do for a year than
spending $50,000 going to
a school.
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x
GO TO 4 VIPASSANA MEDITATION
RETREATS WITHIN ONE YEAR
They are completely free and brutal.
Get to see how your mind works.
Vipassana, which means âseeing things as
they areâ, is a style of meditation that
requires intense sitting and diving into the
mind. Observing what it does to you.
Itâs completely free and there are centers all
over the world. A retreat takes ten days. You
will learn more in those ten days about your
mind and your body than you can
learn in six months of college.
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o
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alternative
x
STUDY WHATEVER IT IS YOU
ARE INTERESTED IN.
GET IN THE GAME.
If you are interested in
something, dive in.
Read books, try it out,
become somebody.
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o
23
alternative
x
BECOME A CONNECTOR,
MAKE THINGS HAPPEN
You might say, âWell donât I have to
be already big in an industry to connect peopleâ.
Your personal network has real value.
Networking does happen in college but
it is 1/10 the networking you can do on
your own.
Here is what you do: get someone who is an expert in a
field you are interested in to agree to give a talk. Letâs
say itâs about entrepreneurship. Get a law firm to
sponsor it and use Facebook to market the event. BAM!
Youâll meet a million people.
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x
BECOME A PARTY
PLANNER
Sweet 16s, Bar Mitzvahs, Weddings. Figure out
all the people in your area that offer services
for parties. Then offer to organize events for
cheap. You can be cheaper than any other
planner out there because your personal
expenses are cheaper. And, again, the
networking you develop will be invaluable.
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LEARN AND MASTER A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Include a trip at the six month mark so you
will see if you are really learning it. I took
French for five years in high school and
college. I cannot speak to you one word of
French.
The way to learn a language is to
intensely study it 5â7 hours a day
and then go to that country and
speak it. And you will learn it.
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x
Are charities wasting too much
money on salaries? Do research;
write an article, do a blog, a
documentary, expose the problem.
GRAB WHATEVER IT IS
THAT IS BUGGING YOU,
BOTHERING YOU
UPSETTING YOU,
SOLVE THE PROBLEM
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o
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xMake a blog, syndicate it, write about every
piece of content you can about your passion.
BECOME A PERSONALITY
o
This teaches you how to build a website. How to
do research in the real world (as opposed to
research about Oliver Cromwell or whatever you
are studying in college), how to distribute your
ideas, how to become a better
writer and communicator, etc
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WRITE AND PITCH YOUR
OWN TV SHOW
o
Every day come up with 10 ideas for TV
shows and how you would shoot them.
Before you finish your first year of
doing this you will have at least
several good ideas you can go ahead
and shoot.
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GO TO MOTIVATIONAL
SEMINARS
o
You donât have to spend $5,000 to
attend a Tony Robbins seminar but you can spend much
less and get just as much value from any number of
speakers who have been successful in life and now
want to transmit that success to you.
Thatâs valuable information they will be imparting.
Imagine year learning from these mentors. Do your
research, make sure they are good, put in the time to
ensure the message is one that resonates with you and
that the teachers have integrity, and
then go for it. Learn.
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xYou are beautiful no matter who you are
or what you look like. Learn the fashion
industry. Work in it. Intern in it. Pose for it.
Wear a bracelet and have those pictures
appear in a pamphlet. Thereâs nothing
wrong with trying.
BECOME A MODEL OF
WHATEVER YOUR SIZE IS
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xNo matter what people say, if you want to
do a tech startup, go out to San Francisco,
go to the tech meetups, learn who the
movers and shakers are, learn how to
code, and start a business.
GO TO SAN FRANCISCO AND
MINGLE WITH SILICON VALLEY
Your networking ability there
is 1,000 times what it would be
in Kansas City
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o
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xYou want history? You donât need to spend
$200,000 in college learning it. Go to
HISTORY. Go to all the places. Learn the
lessons learned on those very spots. Think
about them. Study them. You will survive on
your wits. You will become more of a world
citizen than any young person stuck on a
3 square-mile college campus
in the middle of nowhere.
VISIT ALL THE ARCHITECTURAL
HISTORIC SITES OF EUROPE
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Thousands of spiritual seekers a year hike
this trail in Spain. Paulo Coehlo has
written books about it. Many people have
said it has changed their lives. Before you
rush head first into the crushing world of
materialism give yourself a chance to
experience what a spiritual quest might
look like.
BACKPACK EL CAMINO THE
SANTIAGO â THE WAY OF
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alternative
xSimilar reasons as above. But you
learn how to survive on your own, in
the woods, without a soul in sight.
You may never get this chance again
to confront your fears, your sense
of self-worth, and your loneliness.
HIKE THE
APPALACHIAN TRAIL
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alternative
xMake your own list of alternatives
that really resonate with you. This is
my list of what I think will work for
young people. Add to it.
And email me at altucher@gmail.com
and give me more alternatives.
MAKE YOUR OWN LIST
OF ALTERNATIVES
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Every week I study a new virtual mentor. Right now Iâm
studying the life of Howard Hughes. Iâve also been studying
the life of Gandhi. These are people who changed the world
Who created things. People who mastered
the fields they found themselves in.
37
alternative
xI still do this. A few weeks ago I watched
every Woody Allen movie. I read his books.
I read every interview he did. I wrote a blog
post: Nine things I learned from Woody Allen.
Because I spend so much time trying to get to the essence of
his work and art, my efforts were appreciated and the
article proved to be enormously profitable.
a virtual mentor
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xThis might seem like a joke. Youâre
only 18. But run for city council. Or run
for mayor. Become familiar with all the
issues in your town.
RUN FOR OFFICE
This will teach you how to speak. Again,
how to come up with ideas. How to
communicate them. How to allocate
resources. How the political
power system works.
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xUse kickstarter, for instance, to raise the money.
Make a difference. By the way, who are you raising
funds from? Rich people. Successful people. People
you can learn from. People you can later ask advice
from. People who will remember you because they
will say, âthis is an 18 year old who caredâ.
Raise funds for a cause
you feel strong about
Guess what? There are not that many
18 year olds who care. Now you can
be one of the few.
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xIf you donât want to watch a movie
every day read one book a week that
you and one of your parents pick and
discuss it at the end of the week.
WATCH A MOVIE
A DAY FOR A YEAR
Movies are about life. They are about pain.
They are often about the troubles of
adulthood. What a better education then to
watch these movies and discuss them with
an adult who has maybe been
through some of these issues.
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o
Give yourself a chance. Give your
parents a chance. At least spend a year
trying the above.alternatives or one of
your design. Maybe spend two, or even
three. Heck, maybe spend the rest of
your life doing one of the above.
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Iâm sure if you do that you will make the
world a better place. And when that
happens, everyone who goes to college will
benefit from the smart choices you made.
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