“The future happens very slowly and then all at once,” says technology writer Kevin Kelly.
Humans have evolved from hunter-gatherer origins and are hard-wired to respond to instantaneous c...
The short answer is “doing the things you like really well, and then being smart in presenting your case”. Actually, you do not prepare to get into a top school, you prepare to b...
A news article in 2018 about an auction at Christie’s of a painting called Portrait of Edmond Belamy caught my eye. This painting sold for about $432,500, about 43 times its reserve price. So, w...
What activities can we do sitting from home for profile building
When you are in the midst of preparing for college admissions, The Great Pause, a.k.a the COVID lockdown could come as a shocker...
If you are worried about your kid’s addiction to Diablo, Hearthstone or Dark Souls (these are some of the more popular games which kids play these days), then you are not alone.
However, this m...
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...
Abundance vs Scarcity Mindset in the Context of Education and Career Pathways
Economists have known for hundreds of years one fact:
“In a competitive marketplace, price always falls to the mar...
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...
