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When you get inspired, do you take action? When Steve Jobs gave his famous 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech, Forrest Li was a student in the audience. Inspired, he decided to[...]

Two years ago, 20 year old Australian student Monique Murphy fell from a 5th floor balcony at a University party in a fall that left her in a coma: Monique[...]

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I worked hard through school and graduated from University of Cambridge, and then I had to spend 10 years unlearning everything I had learned before I could succeed as an[...]

If you ever feel like it’s taking too long to achieve success, just think “Momofuku”. One of Japan’s most famous entrepreneurs, Momofuku Ando, kept persevering despite failure and bankruptcy until[...]