I am often confronted with the sight of my kid lying around doing nothing, and the desire to push him to do something, anything (except lying around), becomes the blinding thought.
Trained on a consta...
Profile building is basically the process of acquiring skills and qualities over time with the help of projects, internships, competitions, and extra/co-curricular activities. A strong profile is requ...
Everyone wants to make it to Ivy league
The Ivy League is a group of extremely selective colleges in the US. IVYs refer to super selective schools.
Traditionally, the IVY league refers to 8 co...
Summer Programs = Explore
The concept of summer school is fantastic as it allows the kid to explore and learn. It is more like a seminal enriching experience of life. In our opinion a student should s...
Information was wealth. Access required assiduous effort and whoever made it and worked to develop an information arbitrage gained supernormal profits. It led to a lot of zealous gatekeepers tryi...
How often have we come across this quote: Be like a duck. Calm on the surface but always paddling like the dickens underneath. Attributed to Michael Caine, the actor. For the common man, it is usuall...
Leonardo Da Vinci, the genius who painted the fabled Mona Lisa was a scientist and an inventor way ahead of his times. His depiction of the human body was precise because of his anatomical studies: he...
Most of my ‘successful’ mentees have worked extremely hard to get into colleges or career paths that they are currently at. While I have constantly talked about the value of persistence an...
I have always looked to simplify life around me, and most of the times it has been easy, because I have been ruthless about throwing out things that were not in use at the time of the clean-up. Simila...
