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Ric Elias was a passenger aboard Flight 1549, which crash-landed in the frigid Hudson River in New York in January 2009. As his plane went down, he learned a few things about himself and his life. Here’s his story. [5 minutes, 3 seconds]
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Mitch Albom did a story recently that really hit home for me personally and I imagine it will for others as well. It’s entitled, The College That Rejects You May Do You a Favor.
Our second daughter is going through the college application/decision process. While our first daughter pretty much knew where she wanted to go, applied and got accepted, our second daughter’s process has been more involved.
Of the eleven schools she applied to, she was accepted to five and wait-listed at two. She has received the acceptances and polite rejections with maturity way beyond her years. She is now focused on narrowing the field so she can commit to a school by May 1st.
Her mother and I, however, are enraged. Why wouldn’t every school accept our daughter? She is intelligent, hard working and dedicated to giving to others in addition to going to a great high school, getting fantastic grades,
notable standardized test scores and has a list of extracurricular activities that exhausts me just to read. Any school would be lucky to have her.
This year more than any other, a lower percentage of students are being accepted to colleges nationwide. And with the common application process (filling out a single college application that can be sent to as many schools as you’d like) the universities are filled to the brim with qualified candidates. So while our daughter stands out from the view point of anyone who knows her, not all of the school admission personnel are able to see what we see. From a biased parent’s point of view, that is not easy to accept.
We’ve been there for her through the years. Putting bandages on the cuts. Picking her up when she falls. Opening doors when we can. We’ve been needed less and less as she has grown through her high school years and she is handling the first step in her transition, selecting a college, just fine.
As a parent, however, it can be very hard to watch, overcoming the desire to jump in with an Elmo band-aid or a phone call to the dean of a college. With that said, she has some great schools to choose from and I know she will have a magnificent college experience. And as Mitch Albom reminds us, “When you get older, you realize college doesn’t make you, you make college.”
Well said, Mitch.
Just because we’re frustrated and may not understand a college’s opaque reasoning doesn’t mean we’re right or we know better – despite what our hardwiring and years of parenting experience have instilled in us.
We’re learning something, even now. Even through this.
Come to think of it, maybe it’s already doing us a favor.
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“Don’t worry too much about security. You will eventually have a deep security when you begin to do what you want.”
— Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones
(Via Merlin)
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Lots of good things for you today. If you want some weekend reading and some guaranteed ammunition to make you look like the smartest web geek around, well, you’ve come to the right place. Sit back and enjoy.
The perpetually-maligned font Comic Sans has an educational benefit. How? Because researchers at Princeton University have learned that making something more difficult to understand improves long-term learning. More specifically, they found that changing a typeface from something clean and legible (like Helvetica) to something more difficult to read (like Comic Sans) increased learning in classroom settings. (Ed. note: I expect a gloating email from a certain colleague who is a closet fan of Comic Sans any second now.)
A year of practical thinking: in 2010, Giles Turnbull promised himself he would learn one thing each day. Here’s his full list. Some sample entries:
Remember the hysteria about how the MMR vaccine might be linked to autism? Remember otherwise sane parents opting out of MMR vaccinations for their children? Well, it turns out that not only was the study that suggested the link wrong, but actually fraudulent. (Here’s the full paper from the BMJ, if you’re interested in a more detail-rich picture.)
Meet a former professional liar. Interesting exposé of the luxury jewelry business from Clancy Martin, a tenured philosophy professor-cum-jewelry salesman.
If you let industrialized food companies make decisions for you, this might not sound like the utterly awful idea it is.
Finally, I don’t know why I find this sign so funny. It’s as if he’s falling and yelling, “I’m fabulous!” at the same time.
Have a good weekend, everyone.
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MIPRO Consulting is a nationally-recognized consulting firm specializing in PeopleSoft Enterprise (particularly Enterprise Asset Management) and Business Intelligence. You’re reading MIPRO Unfiltered, its blog. If you’d like to contact MIPRO, email is a great place to start, or you can easily jump over to its main website. If you’d like to see what MIPRO offers via Twitter or Facebook, we’d love to have you.
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If you can’t draw as well as someone, or use the software as well, or if you do not have as much money to buy supplies, or if you do not have access to the tools they have, beat them by being more thoughtful. Thoughtfulness is free and burns on time and empathy.
—Frank Chimero, What advice would you give to a graphic design student?
(Via SvN)
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“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” — Spencer Johnson
(Thx @ColinLewis)
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“If there’s one quality of successful people, they’re unreasonable in their expectations of themselves, not so much other people, but themselves. Unreasonable in what they expect, unreasonable in the demands they make, unreasonable in how much they give. He’s [Nelson Mandela] completely unreasonable. And those are the people that rule the world.
For a woman to be on a bus many years ago and say no, that was unbelievably unbelievable for Rosa Parks, but that made her a leader; that was her power. And there are people who are willing to say no, not another moment, not another, and those people have the power to change anything.”
– Anthony Robbins
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"I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it."
(via Bob Sutton)
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TED has a very good talk by Tony Robbins about what shapes our behavior, what drives us to do what we do, and what fulfillment is all about. Very much worth 20 mins of your life.
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