Professor Srikumar Rao, creator of popular graduate course Creativity and Personal Mastery, says that anything you think you can get to make you happy is something you also can “unget.” His view is that happiness is hard-wired into us and therefore there is nothing we need to get, do or be to be happy.
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Even the most industrious of us can benefit from an occasional push to get or keep us going.
My efforts to get out and walk for exercise, for example, were sporadic until I joined a neighbor who walks her dog. We both were happy to join forces because it’s just easier [...]
Madame C.J. Walker, born Sarah Breedlove in poverty-stricken Louisiana in 1867, went from picking cotton to become the first Black beauty mogul and millionaire. But it was not a straight line.
“There is no royal flower-strewn path to success,” she once observed. “And if there is, I have not found it – for if I have [...]