Where do you see yourself five years from now? What do you see yourself doing and who is the person that you see in the mirror? Someone once said that, “in five years you will be all about the books that you read, the people that you associate with, and the things that you do”. […]
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Baltazar Gracian was a 17th Century Jesuit who studied and wrote about Europe’s most powerful and successful people. He studied the lives of royalty and their counsel, and Europe’s great ambassadors and successful merchants. The fruit of his investigation was the “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, which today is published in several languages. As you
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“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main”… John Donne 1624 There are a few negligible myths of the self made man or self made woman but in reality we can not achieve or succeed when we are isolated from others. It
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Studying music has benefits for the student in that he or she develops self-discipline, logic, and single-minded concentration. When a child or an adult studies music, they are transcending several disciplines simultaneously. Whether studying the Piano, the Clarinet or Cello, learning music involves learning history, culture, math, literature, and organizational skills. It is common for
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You want to become who you are. As complex and as intangible as that is, and as improbable that you’ll ever fully know, you owe it to yourself and to everyone you encounter to discover more of what you’re made of. The essence of you today, is the internal fabric of your unique abilities and
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Baltazar Gracian was a 17th Century Jesuit who studied and wrote about Europe’s most powerful and successful people. He studied the lives of royalty and their counsel, and Europe’s great ambassadors and successful merchants. The fruit of his investigation was his book the “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, which today is published in several languages.
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The expression “Big Fish” was first used in the early 1800’s to signify a very important or influential person. The Big-Fish-Little-Pond effect is a term introduced by educator, Herbert W. Marsh, in the 1980s from a study which hypothesizes that low achieving students feel intimidated and have a low self concept in an educational environment
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