Archive for December, 2009

Academic Earth

An Ivy League education is viewed as the opportunity to learn from the top professors in the world. While this is true, many have not realized the effect the internet has had on knowledge. It is no longer monopolized through top schools and the barriers to learning are being torn down. Academic Earth, conceived by Richard Ludlow while at Yale, is one of those sites. It boasts an impressive list of schools (Berkeley, Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford U Michigan, UCLA, Yale) that offer entire courses in various subjects through the website. Now that you have no more excuses about your lack of opportunities, go learn! Academic Earth

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

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Ever wondered where the hit motivational movie “The Secret” got its ideas from? The Strangest Secret, a short story by Earl Nightingale, proposed a startling claim and was just as popular as the new hit movie about half a century ago. The story claims to have stumbled upon a secret that has been the root cause of every successful man since the beginning of time. It is something that every great genius discovers and uses to his advantage. Its basic premise is that a man’s life is nothing but the sum of his thoughts. In even simpler terms, it can be summed up in one sentence: You are what you think about. It won a Gold Record in 1956 and is the only recorded message to win that award.

The video can be seen below the jump and it is worth listening to in its entirety at least once every month.

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