When you ask someone “What time is it?”, you rarely hear “one thirty three”. But why? Perhaps they haven’t spent the time needed to keep their watch accurate to the minute. And perhaps they judge that “one thirty” is all the precision you really care about. Yet when introduced to the volume of a ball, one hears it is 4/3 pi r3, rather than it is “one half the volume of the box the ball came in” (1/2 d3).

Via Will Price : The three traits great entrepreneurs share are : Passion, Adaptability, Not taking themselves too seriously.

“We should work like the rain. The rain just falls one rain drop after another. It doesn’t ask: Am I making a nice sound down below? Will the plants be glad to see me? Millions and billions of raindrops, only falling.” – Jakusho Kwong (1935 - ), American Zen Buddhist Monk

5 Ways to Start Fresh How do you better the odds that you’ll succeed at a new start? Serial entrepreneur Kamran Elahian has made a life out of starting over. Here are his hard-won lessons for starting fresh – and starting smart. 1. Write a mission statement. You’ll never do work that matters unless you define what matters. Elahian gave himself a sense of purpose by writing a mission statement for his life.

“We should work like the rain. The rain just falls one rain drop after another. It doesn’t ask: Am I making a nice sound down below? Will the plants be glad to see me? Millions and billions of raindrops, only falling.” – Jakusho Kwong (1935 - ), American Zen Buddhist Monk