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What is the most important thing you've learned on your own?
In three sentences, explain something that you've learned without being told by another person -- something you've figured out all by yourself. Here's an example:
"I learned how to paint with water colors by reading a book and searching for YouTube videos. It took me a while, but I figured out some techniques that really work for me. I'm not an expert yet, but I have discovered a real joy in painting."
It can be anything -- a practical skill (like painting) or a knowledge set (like how to use mathematics).
Anna Kazcorowska 10+
Anna Kazcorowska 10+
That it's ok to criticise concepts, ideas and philosophies, that's it's not ok to criticise people because they have them.
That getting rid of confirmation bias and being open might get you somewhere.
That combination of logic, rationality and humanism can help everybody as long as those things are not used to hurt anybody.
That the best book ever written so far is wikipedia because it keeps changing thanks to collective effort and controll.
That these are really interesting times.
Isn't there an old Chinese curse? "May you live in interesting times?" It may be a curse or maybe a blessing when you realise that anything's possible.
zhang shengfa
Leanne Atack
Ben Jarvis 50+
i learned this a long time ago but wasn't completely aware of it until recently. the best teachers never taught me anything (and especially never told me anything) but rather created situations and set tasks and restrictions where i could not but learn and increase my skills and potential in order to achieve them.
Anna Kazcorowska 10+
Show me - and I'll remember
Let me act - and I'll understand"
Confucius
Funny thing being that I actually remembered that quote when being told...
David Reed
Scott Armstrong 50+
that you need to make up your own mind.
disregard any advice that does not agree with what you are aiming for.
Leslie Tullis 500+
If you work hard and make sacrifices, you can earn the chance to have one thing.
But that one thing can be anything.
Don Larson
there is no hell but only Love, which is God's permanent state. Furthermore, it is arrogant of us to think we are
that important in the whole universe to be able to effect the perfection that is God.
Renessa Bak
to fix without putting another on the spot , be charmingly disarming to where no one would think to harm you
we are all speaking of one and the same universe, and we are all let see it in our own right and we are all hear to live and share our storyes to enrich one another's sense of creation and life's manifest on earth
Bradley Peterson
Gustavo Eda
Anton Holzer
Most of the time I prefer asking the internet over talking to non experts or discussing a topic that actually has a solution. I've wasted so many time discussing a topic with a simple answer that each of us could have found in a matter of seconds on the web.
That way I learned that the victor of a discussion is not always right.
Ronney Kendall
I have learned to be patient, it will be okay.
Miracles happen.
Mateo Salazar
Parents usally tell you how to live, but it seems they have left that task to me. That is quite a task!!!
At the beggining I used to blame them for the mistakes in my life, since they never gave me any advice on how to lead my life.
I am OK with it now and I actually got to do what I wanted to do and to think what I wanted to think. How did I do it? Thanks to the curiosity that has invaded my mind and the goals that I have set to myself!
My dad now says: "how dull it would be for you to be like me". The amazing thing is that he is a great person, but he encouraged me to be myself.
abderrahmane thabet
Annaliza Pagaoa
Moira Jost
mohamed yosrie
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mary kariuki
Michael Farber
Scott Bell
1. Most of the things we do, say, or believe are culturally programmed into us....they are not original thoughts
2. The Ego settles too quickly & easily for simplistic explanations.
3. If we understand a problem, we do not need the solution, the answer will come out of it, for they are not separate.
(J.K.)
-Learn from that which has no thing to gain...........nature is a good start
Testing Cancer
satha arumanayagam
Kirby Burt
Vicki Feng
I have learned that a healthy state of mind not only affects your physical well being but also your relationship with others.
I have learned that one needs to cherish and treasure what one has, because sometimes life don't give you a second chance.
Elisabetta Tovo 20+
Mary Kolk
A Cleveland Clinic doctor who saw us recently looked at my husband and said, "do you know you would be dead by now if it wasn't for Mary's program?" He was so impressed, he made arrangements for us to tell our story to the local NBC channel.
Dr. Marsh of The Ohio State School of Medicine heard our story and asked us to give the opening remarks to a lecture by Gary Taubes (one of my heroes) author of Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat. Mr. Taubes was at The Ohio State University at the request of Dr. Marsh.
I have created a Keynote (Apple for Powerpoint) presentation and go everywhere delivering hope and help to other diabetics. They need to know that through the right knowledge, they can become an empowered patient and a proactive partner with their doctor in their own healthcare.
Scott Bell
Mary Kolk
The 20 years when my husband was so very ill from diabetes were not so much fun for either of us but he has been back being himself for the past ten years. We're grateful for all we've been given especially in terms of his good health.
Mary
Nina Kearney