Learn more, do more, be more

A few wise words from Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, about becoming successful:

What should I do with my life? How do I bring my different interests together into a career? Most freshly graduated youngsters are a bit lost about what to do and how to continue on with wise moves. Here's a secret - that feeling of uncertainess about the future will never really go away.

The world IS changing and there is no clear and safe way anymore to secure a career. It's of key importance to be able to adapt. For anything desirable there is competition - many people WANT your dream job. The idea is to create a competitive advantage.

Your assets are what you have going for you now (your brains, your funds, your connections etc), your aspirations are where you would like to go in the future, and the market realities are what people will actually pay you for.

You might think that just graduated from the university and with no real work experience, you don't have much to offer to the world yet, that you can't make a real positive diference. Guess what - you'll be surprised how valuable your existing skills and connections are to those who don't have them.

Just ask others: "How can I help", and learn to understand other people's needs.

Learn to interact with people - in the end they control opportunities, resources and funds. 

In other words - if you are looking for an oportunity, you are really looking for a person.

It's quite likely that someone you know, already knows someone who could help you.

The people you spend time with shape who you are..

...and who you will become! The fastest way to change yourself 

is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

Making mistakes is part of the learning process. You won't learn until you have tried!

If you want to start with something, maybe it would be a good idea to start interning with someone you admire, make connections, and see what happens. Offer to help out for free. Actions are what will get you somewhere, not planning.

In college, the most successful students make the fewest mistakes. But the most successful professionals learn to take intelligent risks. Ironically, in the hectic modern world, the biggest risk you can take is trying to play it safe with your career choice. There is always going to be some uncertainity and that's normal!

Don't dismiss a career path just because you keep hearing how risky it is - precisely for those beliefs these paths have less competition. Often the best oportunities are those with the most question marks.

Though two things you should never risk - losing all your economic assets or permanently damaging your reputation. And, rather value a chance to learn something important to a chance to get instant high salary.

Graduation is not the end of learing, we are always works-in-progress. In the world of work, every day is exam day. If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. And the worst you can do, is not move at all! So start moving. Now!

-Reid Hoffman

It's about how you finish

"It's not about big ideas, 

it's about how you finish them. 

I don't want to have high target and finish it at 70%." 

- Teemu Hamalainen 

of Image magazine Helsinki. 

Joy flows from within you

If you say that you like to do something, then that's really an illusion. Under an illusion, it seems that the joy you get from doing something, is coming from that specific activity you enjoy - but that's not true. Joy is not coming from WHAT you do, but it's flowing FROM you, INTO what you do, and from there on it keeps flowing into the world around you, beginning deep from within yourself. The false belief that joy comes from what you do is normal, but dangerous as well, because it makes you believe that joy begins from outside and is not dependant of you, yourself. After that you expect from the world that it would OFFER you joy and happiness. But the world can not offer you that. This is the reason why so many are living in constant frustration. The world is not offering them what they think they need.

"The primary cause of unhappinness is never the situation 

but your thoughts about it."

 -Eckhart Tolle

Melt away your woes

If you’re feeling stressed or fed up with the world then just sit back, put your feet up and gaze at the screen. This utterly stunning time-lapse video by photographer QT Luong will melt away your woes in an incredible three minutes of jaw dropping scenery that will remind you what an incredible world we live in.

We thank Luong for enduring unpleasant temperatures, fierce winds and altitude sickness so that he could tickle our visual senses. 

Check it out:

LINK

Naaaaaants ingonyamaaaaaaaaa bagiiithi baba

One of the most epic moments of childhood.. :)

...but worth to be watched again and again 
and remembered!

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From the day we arrive on the planet 

And blinking, step into the sun 
There's more to be seen
 Than can ever be seen 

More to do than can ever be done.

It's the Circle of Life

And it moves us all

Through despair and hope

Through faith and love

Till we find our place

On the path unwinding.

Follow the silent pull of what you love

"If any ounce of you wants to do science, it's your duty to do it." 

Don't let others tell you anything diferent. Everything is possible! Follow the silent pull of what you truly love and you can't go wrong! 

Carpe diem!

Sometimes good things fall apart, so you could build better things for tomorrow. 

Life must go on - it's our choice if we drag along looking down in the dust, or keep our heads up high and enjoy the ride. In the end, that's what it is - just a ride. We live and we die and everybody has been given a certain amount of days, of experiences, in between. Don't fear a life that's changing! Fear a life unlived. Most people lead safe lives, set lives; most people don't take chances; most people merely exist, that is all. Go out there and do something extraordinary! Live! Take a chance! Feel! Trust in life! Enjoy the ride - it's here for you and it won't last forever! You are stronger than you think and the world is more amazing than you can possibly imagine.. but not taking the first step, you'll never find out. 

The saddest thing in this world is a life unlived - a "what if" in the end of it.

So smile, and don't wish away your days for better ones to come. 

Life is happening NOW!