Daily Lessons / blog posts

Do you know the name Scott Adams?

He’s the creator of the last funny newspaper comic, Dilbert. 

And a few years ago, he wrote a book about how he achieved success called “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life.” Read More >

Have you heard?

Small is the new big.

It’s the small things you do every day that can change your life.  Read More >

“I just need to speak more.” 

I hear that a lot.

My reply, “No, you don’t.” Read More >

I have a friend in Prague who teaches people how to quit smoking. 

“How did you quit?” I asked him one day.

“I read a book,” he told me.  Read More >

“What are doing in Bansko?” asked a Bulgarian student with a surprised look on his face. 

“Working and skiing,” I replied. 

And when I’m neither working nor skiing, I’m travelling.  Read More >

Yesterday I taught you the difference between “original” and “traditions.” 

If you write a song, it’s an original song: there’s no other song like it in the world — it’s unique. 

If you use your grandmother’s recipe to bake a pie, it’s a traditional dish in your family.  Read More >

I travel a lot.

And everywhere I go in Europe I see this mistake:

Here it is again Read More >

A reader from the former USSR writes: 

“Before I thought that school methods are only used in USSR, but now I see this is a worldwide problem.”

When I was a kid in the ‘80s, if you wanted to reject a classmate’s idea and do it with style, you questioned the origin of that idea.  Read More >

In the future, will the robots take your job?

Will they take my job?

That’s the big topic this winter. Read More >

Before there was Friends…

Before there was The Simpsons

Even before there was Dallas… Read More >