Beyond the Rhetoric

“I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.”

You may or may not be all that familiar with Ken Venturi. He isn’t quite as household a name as Jack Nicklaus or Tiger Woods, but Venturi was a very successful [...]

It’s perfectly healthy to have dreams. When you were little, perhaps you dreamed that you would some day become a professional basketball player in the NBA or maybe a major movie star in Hollywood. Whatever the case, these dreams can provide young ones with hope and direction.
However, it is unfortunately true that most people shouldn’t [...]

“Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.”

While it may not be completely true that you are only limited by your imagination, it is only by trying to achieve the impossible that you can experience the extreme limits of your ability. In this [...]

“If you don’t fail at least 90 percent of the time, you’re not aiming high enough.”

A pioneer in object-oriented computer programming and window-based graphical user interfaces, Alan Kay is currently an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at UCLA. He has also been a senior fellow at HP Labs, a visiting professor at Kyoto University, and [...]

It might be a difficult decision and a bold move to make, but it is ultimately in your best interest to step outside of your comfort zone. Many of us lull ourselves into a state of complacency, falling into a routine that remains largely unchanged. You may look for situations that present the least amount [...]