Perhaps it’s true to say that no one actually fears heights or change or the unknown, or whatever their particluar brand of fear is. What they really fear is the out-of-control feeling they experience when confronted by these things. Take flying. The tendency is to focus on the plane. But it’s nothing to do with the plane.
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Bill Gates
He controls something the world’s PCs can’t live without. But he’s neither as good nor as bad as the publicity.
Gates was a rapt teenager watching his friend Paul Allen, cofounder of Microsoft, type at a computer terminal in 1986. He dropped out of Harvard in 1975 and later became Microsoft’s chief and cofounder.
The Most Valuable Quality–Persistence
If you first attempt at achieving your goals seems futile, should you move on and do something else? Absolutely not! You can’t give up so easily.
Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource in shaping the quality of life.
How to Protect Children from TV Violence
American children watch an average of three to four hours of television daily. Television can be a powerful influence in developing value systems and shaping behavior. Unfortunately, much of today’s television programming is violent. Extensive viewing of television violence by children causes greater aggressiveness.
Sometimes, watching a single violent program can increase aggressiveness. The impact of TV violence may be immediately evident in the child’s behavior or may surface years later. The American parents are advised to protect their children from excessive TV violence in the following ways:
