FAMOUS FAILURES

It is a common fact that many success stories, both past and present, have at one point experienced failure.  Failure comes in all shapes and sizes, and not even the greatest entrepreneurs, thinkers, entertainers, and inventors are except from this concept.  Below are some famous figures throughout history that have walked through failure and emerged as successful.  Bill Gates: Famously known as the founder and CEO of tech empire "Microsoft", Bill Gates did not realize he was destined for greatness when he dropped out of Harvard and his first business "Traf-O-Data" failed miserably.  Albert Einstein: Besides having...

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WHY THE MOM IS SO AMAZING A FEAT !

Here are 8 reasons why India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) is just amazing according to The Better India : The Mangalyaan mission cost India $73 million (~Rs.450 crores) which is even cheaper than an eight lane bridge in Mumbai which cost $340 million. It is less than the budget of film “Gravity” which was about $105 million and about one-tenth of what the US has spent on MAVEN, making it undoubtedly the most cost-effective inter-planetary space mission to have ever been undertaken anywhere in the world! In real terms, when distributed over the population of 1.2 billion, every Indian has contributed Rs.4 per towards the mission. Mangalyaan...

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A TALE OF TWO WAYS OF THINKING

In 2012, an international team of scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on the Swiss/French border announced they had demonstrated the existence of the elusive Higgs Boson. This was a monumental effort. It took more than 10,000 scientists ten years to build the LHC and a further four years to reveal the Higgs Boson. The LHC cost more than $4bn. It is the most complex machine ever built. It creates and accelerates beams of protons around a 27Km ring to within 0.000000009% of the speed of light. To process the vast quantities of data produced as trillions of protons collide each day, the LHC has a network of 100,000 linked...

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WHAT IF SATAN IS REAL?

Imagine for a moment, a world in which God and Satan actually exist. God is omnipresent, omnibenevolent and omniscient. Satan, like God, is a spirit with supernatural powers, including the ability to communicate with people. Satan likes to make life difficult for God and for humans. In the Bible, God is shown to be an incompetent, jealous, vain, monster who will kill people for the least reason. He had to start the human race twice because he didn’t like how it went the first time. He had to make a second covenant with humans because the first one didn’t work out. He had to rescind many of his laws because they were not good. He...

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WHICH PROFESSIONALS ARE THE LEAST TRUSTWORTHY?

1) Pastors 2) Politicians 3) Bankers 4) Plumbers 5) Car salespeople 6) Lawyers I rate pastors as the least trustworthy because they ALL tell you lies—they have to or they would be out of a job. They say they know things they can’t possibly know and some will threaten you with eternal torture if you doubt them. They are professional liars. Politicians often lie but, at least, they try to avoid outright lies (it’s embarrassing to be caught out.) Instead, their techniques are to mislead and confuse or not to answer a question whilst pretending to. Magicians practice sleight of hand; politicians practice sleight of mouth! I put...

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