Monday, September 27, 2010
London Underground Map
A design classic.
Connection is the Thing
1932-1933 Throw away scale, throw away geography, connection is the thing. Connect with the destination.Harry Beck's mantra as he designed the iconic London underground map . He was rejected many times until the authorities finally gave in and decided to run a limited print of 500 and proved to be an instant hit.What is it you need to throw away, and which connections should you be making?
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
The Story of Orabrush
You Tube enables normal people to take an idea and put it in front of many people.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Living Upside Down
I like this concept of Paloma Faith's living upside down. Full lyrics below:
Angels watching over me with smiles upon their face
Coz I have made it through this far in an unforgiving place
It feels sometimes this is too steep for a girl like me to climb
But I must knock those guards right down I do it in my own time
I don't care (care care)
I'm half way there (nowhere)
On a road that leads me to straight to who knows where
I tell you what (I tell you what)
What I have found (What I have found)
That I'm no fool (That I'm no fool)
I'm just upside down (Just upside down)
Ain't got no pain (Ain't got no pain)
I aint got no rules (Aint got no rules)
I think I like (I think I like)
Living upside down (Living upside down)
Watchin people scurry by rushing to and fro
Oh this world is such a crazy place it's all about the go go go
Sometimes life can taste so sweet When you slow it down
You start to see the world a little differently When you turn it upside down
I don't care (care care)
I'm half way there (nowhere)
And I'm just soaking up the magic in the air
I tell you what (I tell you what)
What I have found (What I have found)
That I'm no fool (That I'm no fool)
I'm just upside down (Just upside down)
Ain't got no pain (Ain't got no pain)
I aint got no rules (Aint got no rules)
I think I like (I think I like)
Living upside down (Living upside down)
(Whoa Whoa Whoa)
You gotta slow it down
(Yeah Yeah Yeah)
But then you pick it up
(Whoa Yeah Whoa)
C'mon and try a little topsy-turvy back-to-front the right way round
Take it slow slow slow (You gotta pick it up)
Yeah Yeah Yeah (See you slow it down)
Yo Yo Yo (Tell me something something)
I tell you what (I tell you what)
What I have found (What I have found)
That I'm no fool (That I'm no fool)
I'm just upside down (Just upside down)
Ain't got no pain (Ain't got no pain)
I aint got no rules (Aint got no rules)
I think I like (I think I like)
Living upside down (Living upside down)
I tell you what (I tell you what)
What I have found (What I have found)
That I'm no fool (That I'm no fool)
I'm just upside down (Just upside down)
Ain't got no pain (Ain't got no pain)
I aint got no rules (Aint got no rules)
I think I like (I think I like)
Living upside down (Living upside down)
Reid Hoffman
'If you are not embarrassed with your first version, you've released too late." - Reid Hoffman, founder LinkedIn
The Power of Rituals
Success is having a vision. Success is caring about other people.Cool things you do that no one else does.
Give my all every time.
A ritual to get into peak state.
What sets you apart, Michael? - Tony Robbins
Its my standards, every day I demand more from myself than anybody else can humanly expect. - Michael Jordan
What is an area of your life you want to improve?
Write down what it looks like at the moment?
What are the rituals that put me there?
What do you want, what is your vision?
What are the rituals that will get you there? ( something you do at a specific time consistently)
Rain
The nature of the rain is the same , it grows thorns in the marshes and flowers in the garden. Arab proverb
Why You Need to Floss
The Brits analysing the data from a Finnish study.
Gingivitis increases the risk of heart disease, diabetes etc.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Find the Joy in Your Life
I was touched by the ending scene in The Bucket List where Morgan Freeman tells Jack Nicholson in a letter to find the jou in your life.Go towards the joy of your life. Don't waste another moment.
The Best Possibility
Set yourself up for your best possibility.
John Butcher, founder of Precious Moments (sold in Hallmark stores)shares his story about Lifebook.
John Butcher, founder of Precious Moments (sold in Hallmark stores)shares his story about Lifebook.
Blind Painter
Here’s an inspiring story by the Texas Country Reporter:
Call it crazy, call it courageous, call it a case of blind ambition. For john, it’s simple really: epilepsy took away his vision but it didn’t change the fact that this aspiring author has stories to tell. Sight or no sight some dreams die hard.
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Vision and Purpose
5 Questions:
1} Who am I? (Identity)
2} Where am I from? (Source)
3} Why are you here? (Purpose)
4} What can I do? (Potential)
5} Where am I going? (Destiny)
Monday, September 06, 2010
Call of the Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is the creative force in economics.He looks at a desert and wilderness and sees a garden.
They could lose it all and do it over and over again.
When your butt is in the corner you will be surprised at what you can achieve.
They could lose it all and do it over and over again.
When your butt is in the corner you will be surprised at what you can achieve.
Become Legendary
Look me in the eyes. It's okay if you're scared, So am I. But we're scared for different reasons. I'm scared of what I won't become, and you're scared of what I could become. Look at me. I won't let myself end where I started, I won't let myself finish where I began. I know what is within me, Even if you can't see it yet. Look me in the eyes. I have something more important than courage, I have patience. I will become, what I know I am.
Harley Davidson Story
Focus on Strenghts
Build Slowly
Sell to big customers
Leverage big brands- who you can partner up with who knows their brand. Harley Davidson partnered up with the Police Department and the Allies
Innovate
Build Slowly
Sell to big customers
Leverage big brands- who you can partner up with who knows their brand. Harley Davidson partnered up with the Police Department and the Allies
Innovate
Monday, December 14, 2009
What Dreams May Come
In the instant that you love someone
In the second that the hammer hits
Reality runs up your spine
And the pieces finally fit
And all I ever needed was the one
Like freedom fields where wild horses run
When stars collide like you and I
No shadows block the sun
You're all I've ever needed
Baby you're the one
Bird Songs
Here are presented the following bird songs (some names sound pretty weird to a German native speaker):
00:00 blackbird
00:30 blue titmouse
00:48 great titmouse
01:08 yellowhammer
01:37 hoopoe
01:48 skylark
02:11 nightingale
02:40 thrush nightingale
03:08 swift
03:23 chimney swallow
03:43 grey wagtail
04:03 chaffinch
04:18 sedge warbler
04:35 wren
Friday, December 11, 2009
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Saturday, September 05, 2009
The Picasso Principle
There’s a story (true or false, I don’t know) about the famous artist, Pablo Picasso.
It seems a woman came up to him and asked him to sketch something on a piece of paper.
He sketched it, and gave it back to her saying: “That will cost you $10,000″.
She was astounded. “You took just five minutes to do the sketch,” she said. Isn’t $10,000 a lot for five minutes work?
“The sketch may have taken me five minutes, but the learning took me 30 years,” Picasso retorted.
And of course, we’re all horrified when someone tells us it may take several months, even years to be successful in our business. We know better, but we still fall for the super-duper-trap of ‘learn how I made $4 million in 24 hours.” We still want to know the quick and easy way of doing things.
Next time someone gives you that crappy pitch of how one tweet made them $7000, or how they made $2 million, or how they have twenty thousand surfboards, remember the Picasso Principle. That they’re hiding the years of toil and slog. And that you will end up paying the $10,000— only to find out that hard work is indeed inevitable.
Psychotactics.com
It seems a woman came up to him and asked him to sketch something on a piece of paper.
He sketched it, and gave it back to her saying: “That will cost you $10,000″.
She was astounded. “You took just five minutes to do the sketch,” she said. Isn’t $10,000 a lot for five minutes work?
“The sketch may have taken me five minutes, but the learning took me 30 years,” Picasso retorted.
And of course, we’re all horrified when someone tells us it may take several months, even years to be successful in our business. We know better, but we still fall for the super-duper-trap of ‘learn how I made $4 million in 24 hours.” We still want to know the quick and easy way of doing things.
Next time someone gives you that crappy pitch of how one tweet made them $7000, or how they made $2 million, or how they have twenty thousand surfboards, remember the Picasso Principle. That they’re hiding the years of toil and slog. And that you will end up paying the $10,000— only to find out that hard work is indeed inevitable.
Psychotactics.com
Live the Problem
Be willing to make yourself uncomfortable. You have to hurt to grow, it’s been said, and in life just as in weightlifting and distance running, that certainly is what I’ve seen. The things that hurt most, help most. Trying to dodge problems only deepens them—and makes you feel worse for not having the courage to confront them.
I’ve read that the Greeks believed the greatest of all virtues was courage, because courage made all the others possible. That ancient wisdom has always felt right to me.
Harry Beckwith, author of You Inc
I’ve read that the Greeks believed the greatest of all virtues was courage, because courage made all the others possible. That ancient wisdom has always felt right to me.
Harry Beckwith, author of You Inc
Monday, December 29, 2008
When you first wake up...
The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.
Monica Baldwin ( an ex nun who spent 28 years in a convent freom age 17 to 45 )
Monica Baldwin ( an ex nun who spent 28 years in a convent freom age 17 to 45 )
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Key to Life - Running and Reading
The Key to Life - Running ( Swimming) and Reading
When you are ou there running or swimming , and you are tired and you want to quit if you can defeat that person who tells you to quit then you will win.
While other guys are sleeping I'm working
While other guys are eating I'm working
The person who works hardest wins.
Reading :
There is no new problem you can have that someone hasn't already solved and written a book.
Love what you do and do what you love.
When you are ou there running or swimming , and you are tired and you want to quit if you can defeat that person who tells you to quit then you will win.
While other guys are sleeping I'm working
While other guys are eating I'm working
The person who works hardest wins.
Reading :
There is no new problem you can have that someone hasn't already solved and written a book.
Love what you do and do what you love.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
The Creative Habit
Twyla Tharp, choreographer, and author of The Creative Habit,talks about creativity.
Asking Questions
Jonas Salk , discoverer of the polio vaccine on the importance of asking questions.
'You never have an idea of what you might accomplish. All that you do is you pursue a question and see where it leads. The first moment that a question occurred to me that did influence my future career, occurred in my second year at medical school.'
'You never have an idea of what you might accomplish. All that you do is you pursue a question and see where it leads. The first moment that a question occurred to me that did influence my future career, occurred in my second year at medical school.'
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
20/20 vision for 1 billion people
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/dec/22/diy-adjustable-glasses-josh-silver
Josh Silver , professor at Oxford University takes up the huge challenge of providing DIY glasses to one billion of the world's poor.
Josh Silver , professor at Oxford University takes up the huge challenge of providing DIY glasses to one billion of the world's poor.
LifeStraw Portable Water Filter
Half of the world's poor suffer from waterborne diseases and this tool contains a halogen-based resin which is claimed to kill 99.9999% of bacteria and 98.7% of viruses that can cause deadly diseases.
Trevor Baylis and the Wind Up Radio
The world famous inventor invites us into his home to give you an insight into how he got into inventing.
The Solar Cooker
This is a solar cooker workshop in Nyala, Darfur. As the women look for firewood around the displacement camps they face the danger of rape and abduction. Solar cooking offers an alternative to using firewood for cooking.
A colorful array of characters have fun as they use their solar stoves in Bosaso, Somalia.
A colorful array of characters have fun as they use their solar stoves in Bosaso, Somalia.
Jawed Karim and the Story of Youtube
Jawed Karim co founder of You Tube talks about the story of You Tube at the University of Illinois commencement speech.
Turning Dream into Fiction
Last weekend i went to see Twilight with my daughter and was surprised that I liked the film as I expected it to be a childreen's movie. Stephenie Meyer's story of how the book was conceived is also very inspiring.
The Beauty of Cherry Blossoms
sakura photoclips
BGM : Love Poem (Spring Waltz OST)
photos taken from http://www.goopunch.net/freephoto/
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Reducing Inequities
I hope you come back to Harvard thirty years from now and reflect what you have done with your talents and energy and judge yourself on not only your professional accomplishments but how well you addressed the world’s deepest inequities, how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity. Bill Gates
Sunday, December 07, 2008
Warren Buffet's stock picks
"Some guys read Playboy, I read annual reports" Says it all.
Warren Buffet says he looks at companies, not countries. When asked the secret behind his success in stock picking he replies that while other people reads Playboy, he reads annual reports.
Warren Buffet says he looks at companies, not countries. When asked the secret behind his success in stock picking he replies that while other people reads Playboy, he reads annual reports.
Bourne Ultimatum
Paul Greengrass, the director of the Bourne films explains why the character of Jason Bourne has such wide appeal.
The Mamma Mia Story
Judy Craymer's dream became a reality when she overcame numerous obstacles to bring the ABBA musical on stage which became a world wide hit and now has followed it up with a big screen movie.
The Story of 7UP
I came across this interesting story while reading Donald Trump's 'Why we want you to be rich':
Being stubborn is a big part of being a winner. [...] My father used to tell us this story about a guy who loved soda, so he went into the soda business, with a product he called 3UP. It failed. So he started again with a product called 4UP. It failed, too. So he decided to name his product 5UP and worked just as hard to make it work, but sure enough, it failed again. He realized that he still loved soda, so he tried again with a product named 6UP. It failed, and he gave up completely. Then, a few years later, someone else came up with a soda product and named it 7UP, which became a huge success.
I wonder if it is true.
Being stubborn is a big part of being a winner. [...] My father used to tell us this story about a guy who loved soda, so he went into the soda business, with a product he called 3UP. It failed. So he started again with a product called 4UP. It failed, too. So he decided to name his product 5UP and worked just as hard to make it work, but sure enough, it failed again. He realized that he still loved soda, so he tried again with a product named 6UP. It failed, and he gave up completely. Then, a few years later, someone else came up with a soda product and named it 7UP, which became a huge success.
I wonder if it is true.
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