MORE PARTICIPANTS, EASIER WORK
“Many hands make light work” has become a fairly well-known aphorism. The phrase can be attributed to the English playwright John Heywood, who wrote during the sixteenth century. The idea can also be found in many other languages around the world. A related Tanzanian proverb says, “Two ants do not fail to pull one grasshopper.”
ONE BILLION ACTS of PEACE
Here, Chade-Meng Tan explains how cooperation can change the world, in describing a project undertaken by Tibetan students in India that is doing just that.
JANUARY IS NATIONAL BLOOD-DONOR MONTH
LEARN IT and KEEP IT
In his book Outliers, writer Malcolm Gladwell develops the idea that it takes roughly ten thousand hours of practice to achieve mastery in a field. Many critics and studies have worked to debunk this theory. Author and podcaster Tim Ferriss aspires to teach readers how to be world-class performers in a fraction of that time. But how long does it take to lose a skill? HopesandDreams recently spoke with several leading experts to find out the answer.
BUT HOW MANY LICKS DOES IT TAKE to GET to the CENTER of a TIDBIT?
A tidbit is, as Merrium-Webster tells us, “a choice or interesting bit (as of information),” or “a small piece of news or information.” Outside of the US and Canada, the preferred spelling is “titbit.” Obviously the word also often refers to a select little piece of food, and grammarist.com tells us that “the first syllable likely comes from the archaic colloquialism tid, meaning tender.”
Hope you all had a wonderful weekend, and that things are off to a very good start for you this week. See you here next time . . .
Hope you all had a wonderful weekend, and that things are off to a very good start for you this week. See you here next time . . .