Creative Edge

  Steve Jobs’ Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish Speech at Stanford (2005) When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me. And since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?”And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. Th...

  Philip Wollen   King Lear, late at night on the cliffs asks the blind Earl of Gloucester “How do you see the world?” And the blind man Gloucester replies “I see it feelingly”. Shouldn’t we all? Animals must be off the menu – because tonight they are screaming in terror in the slaughterhouse, in crates, and cages. Vile ignoble gulags of Despair. I heard the screams of my dying father as his body was ravaged by cancer that killed him. And I realised I had heard these screams before. In the slaughterhouse, eyes stabbed out and tendons slashed, on the cattle ships to the Middle East and the dying mother whale as a Japanese harpoon explodes in her brain as she calls out to her calf. Their cries were the cries of my father. I discovered when we suffer, we suffer as equals. And in their capacity to suffer, a dog is a pig is a bear. . . . . . is a boy. Meat is the new asbestos – more murderous than tobacco.   CO2, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide from the ...

Sir Isaac Newton Isaac Newton, a name that may still be seen today cut into the wood of a window sill at King’s School, Grantham, where he studied Grammar and Latin. At first, Isaac Newton seemed to be rather a dull boy, and not very good at his lessons. But he used to use his hands and used to make little machines such as windmills. He caught mice and compelled them to drive some of his little machines.   One day at school, Newton was kicked by a bigger boy who was higher up in the class than he was himself. The kicking made Newton very angry and he turned on the bigger boy and gave him a good beating. He also decided to beat him at lessons, and this made him start to work harder. After that, he improved at his studies, and so perhaps the big boy who kicked Newton did a service to the world.   Newton went to Cambridge University where he studied Mathematics and Science. He started to make discoveries in Mathematics while still at college. However, Newton did not c...

  Iran attacks US troops in Iraq; India issues travel advisory: All you need to know! Iran attacked US troops at military bases in Iraq by launching over a dozen ballistic missiles. The military strike was in response to the US action of slaying top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. India has advised all Indian nationals from avoiding all non-essential travel to Iraq until further notification.   Boeing 737 crashes in Iran: List of all recent crashes involving Boeing aircraft The Ukrainian Boeing 737 crashed just after take-off in Iran’s capital Tehran, killing all 170 onboard. The plane crashed due to technical issues. The plane crash came a few hours after Iran attacked the US military base in Iraq.    Indian weightlifter Sarbjeet Kaur was banned for four years for doping India’s Sarbjeet Kaur was found guilty of doping by the National Anti Doping Agency. The weightlifter had won the 71kg event at the national weightlifting championships in February 2019. She has b...

True Friends        Once there were two friends, a squirrel, and a puppy. The squirrel was called Jojo. The puppy was called Leo. They lived and played together. Their favourite game was racing.      Jojo ran fast and always won. Leo felt bad.      "I will not play with you. You never let me win," said Leo.      "You are so slow, " said Jojo. And they started fighting! Jojo and Leo stopped talking to each other.      One day, it rained heavily. Jojo loved the rain. He jumped and danced in the rain. Suddenly, he slipped and fell. He hurt his leg and could not walk.      "Help!" cried Jojo. "Somebody help me. Leo! Help me!      Leo heard Jojo's cries. He quickly ran out to help his friend. He took Jojo inside his house.      "Thank you, Leo," said Jojo. "You are a true friend!"

  Respect the Elders      Once there was a village named Jholi. There lived a carpenter named Roger. He had a younger son who is five years old. His name was Aston. Roger’s father Dominic was too old and he also stayed with them in their house. Roger began to think that his father is of no use to him since he became too old and unable to do any work. Roger always spoke angrily to his father. Dominic was old man and he remained silently whenever Roger spoke in anger.      One day, Roger gave food in a clay plate for his father to eat. Being too old, Dominic was not able to hold the clay plate properly. He dropped it down and the clay plate broke off. Roger became so much angry and scolded his father. Aston observed this.      The next day, Roger gave a new clay plate. He went to work. When he came back, he was angry to see the new clay plate also broken into pieces. He scolded his father badly and warned him, “Hey old man, if you break th...