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| + | == From Dummy to Celebrated Brain Surgeon == | ||
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| + | nterviewer: "At the age of ten you were seen as a dummy. By the age of 12, you were seen as one of the brightest kids in the class. What happened in those two years?" Dr. Ben Carson: "The key thing in those two years is my mother prayed to God and asked for wisdom and came up with the idea of turning off the TV. Should I say this on a TV show? (Laughter) we were allowed to watch only two or three television programs during the week, and with all that spare time, we had to read two books apiece from the Detroit Public Library... | ||
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| + | [[http://goodvillenews.com/From-Dummy-to-Celebrated-Brain-Surgeon-hRM6QZ.html From Dummy to Celebrated Brain Surgeon]] | ||
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| + | == The Man Who Planted A Forest == | ||
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| + | The year was 1979 in Assam, India. Floods had washed a great number of snakes onto a barren sandbar. When Jadav "Molai" Payeng -- then only 16 -- found them, they had all died. "The snakes died in the heat, without any tree cover. I sat down and wept over their lifeless forms." Then he dried his tears and asked forest officials if they could plant trees in that area. When they told him nothing would grow there Payeng quietly began to plant seeds anyway. Thirty years later the 1,360 acre forest he created on the land where "nothing would grow" is home to birds, deer, apes, elephants and even tigers. | ||
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| + | [[http://goodvillenews.com/The-Man-Who-Planted-A-Forest-wJZDji.html The Man Who Planted A Forest]] | ||
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| + | == Paths Are Made By Walking == | ||
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| + | 2012s Baccalaureate speaker at the University of Pennsylvania was an unconventional choice for an Ivy League school. To address their newly-minted graduates, aspiring to dazzling careers, they picked a man who has never in his adult life, applied for a job. A man who hasnt worked for pay in nearly a decade, and whose self-stated mission is simply "to bring smiles to the world and stillness to my heart". | ||
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| + | [[http://goodvillenews.com/Paths-Are-Made-By-Walking-CMdEh4.html Paths Are Made By Walking]] | ||
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| + | == The Importance of Imagination == | ||
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| + | While growing up, Id never really considered how important it is to be imaginative. Its a childhood profession, you could say. It comes naturally. Then we hit an age when were presented with a scantron of bubble-in options, a template for a CV that we need to create, and Excel. At that point, our learning has to fit into certain parameters: within that little bubble, within the one page limit, and within a tiny digital graph. So, what happens to our imagination?It seems to fade. | ||
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| + | [[http://goodvillenews.com/The-Importance-of-Imagination-BvyL3n.html The Importance of Imagination]] | ||
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| + | == 5 Reasons Why Meditation Beats an iPhone == | ||
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| + | People buy iPhones to be universally connected and have a ton of cool functions and features at their fingertips. But as the wise monk Rev. Heng Sure once said, everything we create in silicon already exists in carbon. Id add that the silicon technology is a poor facsimile at best. | ||
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| + | [[http://goodvillenews.com/5-Reasons-Why-Meditation-Beats-an-iPhone-piD3rp.html 5 Reasons Why Meditation Beats an iPhone]] | ||
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