"Be honestly and unapologetically you. Because you being uniquely you will allow the people you interact with to feel comfortable being uniquely them - perhaps for the first time in their lives. There is no more authentic way to connect and no greater gift to give." - Scott...
"It's a luxury being a writer because all you ever think about is life." - Amy Tan ***** The Power of Writing: I believe a blog is hands-down the most powerful passion-discovery and career-transition tool on the planet. So I wanted to share a short video tutorial I filmed on...
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” ― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics Over the past few weeks, we've talked a lot about hacking the education system. We're taking learning into our own hands to create our own real-world,...
"If you're going to be walking anyway (and we all have to walk), you might as well make the path worth traveling." - Anonymous With all our recent talk about self-guided education, today I'd like to share the mindset that tends to ensure the most useful...
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot Reader Note: Today's article is a continuation from last week's massive guide on How Formal Education Killed the Passionate Career (+ A Practical Guide for Students, Parents & Lifelong Learners). I wrote this...
“Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire.” - W. B. Yeats Note to Readers: At LYL we take our education very seriously. And while this article may start out as a bit of a rant (I couldn't help myself), this is...
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena...
"Change your surroundings. Change everything." Social Facilitation & The Power of People's Presence In 1898, a man by the name of Norman Triplett did a study on a group of cyclists. He clocked their race times under two different sets of circumstances. In the first, they were by...
"Environment is everything. Who's in your corner?" - The CWA Creed [image credit] First off, if you're new here - welcome to the family! We had a lot of new Living Legends join us in the past few days, and it's an honor to have you here. To catch...
I live by this quote. Like, literally I do. In fact, let's read it again for good measure: "You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with." I believe there is no more powerful life hack in the history of the world than...