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Picturing things in a more beautiful and detailed way that I live out everyday in my head before it is seen in the open by anyone else.

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• A reply on Conversation: Universities that pride themselves on developing future global leaders are actually failing in this regard. Do you agree or disagree?

  Apr 27 2013: Mr Ryan,
  You seem to have a first hand experience of what you speak about. Is there a place where you a detailed study of this idea of yours is documented and available for others to access?

• A reply on Conversation: Universities that pride themselves on developing future global leaders are actually failing in this regard. Do you agree or disagree?

  Apr 27 2013: Jim agree with you absolutely. Can you explain the lashing out part it seems interesting?
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  A reply on Conversation: Universities that pride themselves on developing future global leaders are actually failing in this regard. Do you agree or disagree?

  Apr 24 2013: I completely agree with you Kamren. You have the voice of truth and we need to give these students a sense of pride and empower them to take initiatives and start running with what they have.

• A reply on Conversation: What happens when different people come together to play the same game with different rules without knowing about the differences?

  Apr 22 2013: Chris
  Thanks for your honesty. We are often irritated by actions that originates from a different mindset that is different from ours. And that is what happens when people with different cultural backgrounds come to work together. This difference in rules of engagement and success affects are our success in engaging with them.
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  A reply on Conversation: What happens when different people come together to play the same game with different rules without knowing about the differences?

  Apr 21 2013: Colleen,
  Its always pleasant to read your comments on any subject. Your open-mindedness and amiable spirit is just a gift to the TED community. I can't agree any more with you. It depends on our ability to approach a new interaction or engagement with empathy and a desire to learn what the other party's views are. Despite the potency of our nature and nurture, our choices to be flexible is what makes us who we eventually become
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  A reply on Conversation: What happens when different people come together to play the same game with different rules without knowing about the differences?

  Apr 21 2013: Thanks George, it will be good to expand this point a bit.

• A reply on Conversation: What happens when different people come together to play the same game with different rules without knowing about the differences?

  Apr 21 2013: You are absolutely right

• A reply on Conversation: What happens when different people come together to play the same game with different rules without knowing about the differences?

  Apr 21 2013: Thanks ZX Style, your response is right on point. Yes we have people whose values and beliefs allowed them to design their individual rules of success in a certain way. Yes it could be very similar among people in a mono cultural environment but it breeds conflict and distrust in an intercultural workspace.
  Thanks for your insight it will be good to hear more from you.
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  A comment on Conversation: What advice would you give a younger you?

  Jul 15 2012: I would tell the younger me that life is a sum of infinitely tiny moments and that we are all products of our choices and decisions. That no matter what or who I may try to blame for my present circumstance, the small choices I made in those tiny moments have brought me thus far. I will tell myself to always do things from my guts and with courage knowing fully well that I and only I shall be praised or blamed for my failures and successes. I shall tell the younger me to be strong enough to be myself as long as that me is loving enough to purse at different moments to think about others and their welfare.
  
  I shall plead to the younger me never for any reason to think of considering the crossing of those ethical lines that define who I am for the vain promise of making more friends because no one wants to walk life's road with another lost man with no values or principles. I will advice the younger me to love life and make the most of every moment I have been presented with in life for that is the only thing that I can't gain back.
  
  Above all I shall tell myself to love the Lord my God with all my heart, with all mind, with all my soul, spirit and body and to consider anyone who claims that there is no God with pity because all men are fallen and are living in a fallen and broken world where everyone's pride and relentless pursuit of self glory has blinded his eyes and prevents him from seeing the boundless evidence of God in all creatures of His.

• A comment on Conversation: How can I make my TEDx enticing for the students of our university?

  Jan 25 2012: Dear Ayesha,
  
  When is your TEDx event and what name is it....I am also organizing TEDxUOWD in Dubai and asking the same questions you ask. can you send me an email lets meet up and brainstorm on some ideas.