Recently, I hopped into a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right…
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Choosing to be good
President Xi Jing Peng of China said: When I was a small child, I was very selfish, always grabbing the best for myself. Slowly, everyone avoided me and I had no friends.…
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Weakness or strength?
Sometimes, your biggest weakness can become your biggest strength. Take, for example, the story of a 10-year-old boy who decided to study judo despite the fact that he had lost his left…
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Never too late to shine
Once in USA, there was an old man who was broke, living in a tiny house and owned a beat-up car. He was living off of $99 social security checks. At 65…
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UBUNTU
UBUNTU is a very nice story from Africa. The motivation behind the Ubuntu culture in Africa. An anthropologist visiting Africa proposed a game to the tribal children … He placed a basket…
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Learning from mistakes
Thomas Edison tried two thousand different materials in search of a filament for the electric light bulb. When none worked satisfactorily, his assistant complained, “All our work is in vain. We have…
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Finding one’s balloon
Once, a group of 50 people was attending a seminar. Suddenly, the speaker stopped and started giving each participant a balloon and asked them to write his/her name on it using a…
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People
Once, an old man was sitting on the outskirts of a hamlet. A traveller passing by approached him and asked, “Sir, how are the people in this village? I am planning to…
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Two seeds
Two seeds lay side by side in fertile soil. The first seed says, “I want to grow! I want to send my roots deep into the soil beneath me, and push my…
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Never say die
We rarely find examples of insistent persistence for success, like those of Abraham Lincoln. Born in poverty, brought up in a log cabin, he had to face defeat throughout his life. He…