Whether on Earth or on Mars, details are everything!
Genius is accessible to anyone. It’s nothing more than asking the right question and spending the rest of your life trying to find the answer.
Know the difference between what IS impossible and what only SEEMS impossible. For instance, changing other people is impossible. Controlling yourself is possible. The sooner you let go of what truly IS impossible, the sooner you can pursue what only SEEMS possible.
Bill James became one of the top 100 most influential people in the world through his analysis of baseball statistics. You can do what he did: Find something you love and learn more than anyone else in the world about it.
Anyone who’s ever sold Girl Scout cookies knows the usual formula: Sell to family and friends, and maybe to some neighbors. Not Katie Francis. She started out by aiming for a world record, beat it, then kept raising her goals. That approach helped Katie, who was in sixth grade at the time, sell what you’d […]
If you read the papers, you’ve probably seen a list of corrections. Most of them clear up errors made the previous day. Not many corrections, therefore, match the one offered by the New York Times in July of 1969. It referred to a story that appeared 49 years earlier. That story had declared “absurd” the […]
If you’re going to do the impossible, one thing is certain: You’re going to have to overcome adversity. That’s what Roz Savage did in setting four world rowing records, including first woman to row solo across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. Today is Day 3 of a 17-day series on “How to Do the […]
Someone once said, “To do the impossible, you must first see the invisible.” Comedy star Jim Carrey used this idea to reach wealth and fame that seemed impossible for a young man who grew up in poverty. He once wrote himself a check for $10 million, envisioning a day when he would earn that amount […]
Why do some people quit while others persevere?
Golf legend Bobby Jones once said, “Golf is played on a six-inch course, namely, the space between your ears.” If that’s true — and it is — then the rest of the golf world better watch out. Rory McIlroy has built a mental game to go with his physical game, and that makes him scary […]