When the disruptive, innovative entrepreneur Elon Musk was thinking about the electric car, the most common reason he would hear why his idea was doomed was the price of batteries. Batteries have always been plagued by two problems — high price and the need to keep recharging. An affordable electricrca was impossible, Musk would be told, because batteries cost $600 per kilowatt-hour. “It’s not going […]
And what trivial.Many people think of philosophy as someone else’s cup of tea. Philosophy seems dry stuff, for scholars and men of words, not those engaged in the daily hard work of living, working hard and trying to make something useful out of their lives. And yet, we are who we are today because of the great guiding lights who questioned what they saw, trying […]
There were just about 2,013 people on earth whose wealth exceeded a billion at the start of 2019, according to a survey by Forbes magazine. The select few who made it into this list are exceptional human beings by any reckoning. They are men of initiative, action and enterprise. They think ahead, dream dreams others don’t dare to, and have the drive and vision to […]
There are only a few hundred human beings at any given time in human history who are placed at the pinnacles of power. These are individuals who, by popular vote, have been placed in positions in which they held the power to change the destinies of nations, peoples and even the planet itself by their decisions and policies. Even the least of them had to […]
The growth of human civilization has always been fuelled by extraordinary men and women who dared to push the envelope on what was possible by daring to think the impossible and dream bigger than anyone else had dared. Some of them became rich and famous, others were honored years after their deaths — but all of them have important success lessons to teach us. Some […]
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