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Study Abroad - How can I differentiate myself in the post-COVID 19 era
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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...
The Pygmalion effect is the phenomenon whereby others' expectations of a target person affect the target person's performance.
A corollary of the Pygmalion effect is the golem effect, in which low ex...
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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...
Reactionary response vs long term strategy
These days, as we try to stay patient and hopeful while dealing with the Coronavirus pandemic and its associated lockdown and self-isolation, there is...
If you know any young person or even read the newspapers, you would have heard about cryptocurrency and the promise of quick wealth by investing in Bitcoin or Ripple – the two more famous of the...
A lot of my students ask me whether it really matters that they get into top schools. We all know that getting into a top college like Harvard or Stanford is extremely difficult, and addit...
