Robert Grant in his inspiring TED talk on “Beautiful minds are free from fear” mentions Nelson Mandela: Nelson Mandela spent 29 years in prison as a political prisoner, having done nothing wrong except expressing his ideology and philosophy. Every day while they made him chip stone, he remembered one poem by William Earnest Henley: Out…
When I first moved to California, I discovered my love for avocados. Growing up in Austria, I knew that fruit mostly from pictures in magazines or cookbooks but I couldn’t find them easily in the stores. When avocados became a staple in my kitchen in Santa Monica where I was living when I first moved…
Tim Ferris, entrepreneur and author of the bestseller “The 4-Hour Workweek” quotes in one of his weekly blogs the English poet and hymnodist William Cowper (1731-1800) who said: “I believe no man was ever scolded out of his sins.” What a quote! I don’t want to get too philosophical about it, but I want to give…
