February 2009

It Doesn’t Matter If You Win or Lose

by Jarkko on February 27, 2009 · 15 comments

In his recent talk at the London School of Economics (listen the podcast here for free), Thomas L. Friedman, bestselling author of The World Is Flat, and Hot, Flat, and Crowded, made a great point about the financial crashes in history and compared to that of today. His reasoning goes like this: In the late [...]

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Reasons for Going Against The Flow

by Jarkko on February 26, 2009 · 3 comments

There are days when I think life would be so much easier if I just gave up on my most ambitious goals and gave up to the normal way of life. I could sleep longer in the morning, I would be less stressed out, and in the short term, I would have more free time.

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The One Secret To Success: Do Something

by Jarkko on February 21, 2009 · 6 comments

I’ll start by a contradiction: No matter what the title says, just doing things is no guarantee for success. Read Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book, Outliers: The Story of Success, and you’ll hear that success is a combination of hard work, one thousand hours of practice, and equally importantly, pure luck. Being in the right place [...]

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