Education has been a hot topic lately and one of the biggest innovation to occur in this space as of late has been the Khan Academy. The Khan Academy is an amazingly simple yet brilliant platform that utilizes web video to engage with students and teach effectively

Welcome back from the holiday’s! I’m sure everyone (myself included) is settling back in for work or school or what not after the holiday season, and here are 10 tips to think about for the new year. 1. Be Selfish The only way for you to become more giving, to help others, and become a better person is to first be happy with youself. So prioritize, be selfish and make sure that you’re happy because that’s the only way you’ll be able to share that happiness with others. 2. Travel The best experiences you’ll have and always remember are from the times you go abroad. You’ll learn so much from being in a new environment, understanding a foreign culture, and meeting people. If you get an opportunity to travel, take it. 3. Be Mindful The world is moving 1,000 miles a minute nowadays and we often don’t have time to just be. Its important to give yourself some time, preferrably on a daily basis, to just sit in silence, reflect, and take in what’s happening in your life. You’ll be surprised how much you can get from such a simple exercise. 4. Always Carry a Notebook It doesn’t necessarily have to be a notebook, it can be your smart phone, your laptop, really anything where you can note things down and keep with you. You never know when inspiration will

One of a number of great quotes from writer Oscar Wilde, but this one is by far my favorite. So what does this mean? Essentially Mr. Wilde is equating gaining experience to making mistakes. I feel this is a brilliant insight because its so true that all experience really is from mistakes. We don’t learn further about things we already know, we learn about things that we don’t know and that either manifests in a mistake in one of two ways. Either its internally something you’re unsure on and take a chance to see the outcome. You may be right in the end and it could be the correct decision, but that unsureness is essentially you worrying about making the wrong choice, making a mistake and that in itself is a lesson learned. The other side of the coin is quite simply making a true mistake and when you do, its something you usually learn from quite quickly. All in all a great quote from Oscar Wilde and a revealing fact that we need to make mistakes to learn and grow