The best scientists from the last five centuries were extraordinary human beings with great powers of observation, imagination and deduction. They expanded the limits of our world and thinking through their boldness and willingness to go where others did not dare. What success lessons can we learn by studying their lives? Galileo Galilei: Believe in yourself, even if you are alone. Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 Astronomer, […]
In March 2013, one of India’s wealthiest Indians, Azim Premji, announced that he planned to donate the equivalent of $1.2 billion of his wealth to be used for charitable and developmental purposes. By any measure, it was a large amount of money — about Rs. 83,567,400,000. Premji wanted the money to be focused on getting a high quality education to Indian children who weren’t getting […]
Once upon a time, there lived two young farmers, Mehnat and Hoshyar, both growing rice in their plots of land. Growing rice is not easy. One must anticipate the rains correctly and plant the seeds before the season’s rainfall begins. If the rains are delayed then the planting could go waste. Tending to the rice requires many many hours working with bent back in the […]
Once upon a time, in the Chinese town of Hangzhou, there lived a boy called Ma Yun, though that might not be the name you know him by today. His parents were traveling musicians, earning so little money that they could hardly even be said to be belong to the lower class. Ma Yun was not much good at anything, it seemed. He failed his […]
Two of the most successful and powerful people in the world today were both children of middle-class Indian families born in India. But that is not what propelled them to global success. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google since 2015, and Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft since 2014, lead two of the largest, mostly revered corporations on earth. Both come from unostentatious childhoods in India, and […]
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