Importance of Awareness

Doctor Wallace, giving his commencement speech to the graduate class of Kenyon College in 2005, tells that awareness can  help in life. While this advice looks like advice for students, it's something that can help many people to understand life and be aware of life while it's happening. More in the video:

Love Exists

Even when you are 68 years old:

Inspiration to Act and be Happy

Sometimes I come across stories that show me how truly blessed and privileged I am in comparison to many people. I have a healthy body, great opportunities and people around me. These things do not always make me feel powerful, strong, and happy, though. When I watch stories of less fortunate people who went through hardships, they bring me back to reality and inspire me to act. Sometimes, though, I forget about those stories quite quickly, even if I don't want to.

I would like to collect videos with different inspirational stories in this post to remind myself to be thankful for what I have and use my power to keep goodness in our World. I hope these stories inspire you too :)

Causes of Myopia, Nearsightedness

Have you ever heard that myopia can be caused by low exposure to the sunlight? 

I have recently come across a great article Urban Eyes by Nathan Seppa in ScienceNews that summarized current knowledge on reasons for developing myopia, and exposure to sunlight was among of the three main known causes of myopia. I will summarize the article in this post and hope that it can serve someone well.

Golden Triangle of Happiness

After 29 surveys and 12 years of research, Australian scientists from Deakin University lead by psychologist Professor Cummins concluded that there are three keys to happiness:

Design for the Future. NOT Past.

Eddie Obeng talks in the TED video about challenges that businesses currently face: "Environment changes faster than learning".

The main problem, according to him, is that

How to Learn Anything in 20 Hours

In order to become an expert in performing a certain skill, a person needs to practice at least 10,000 hours. But in order to learn a completely new skill, a person needs only 20 hours (and more:)).