09 Mar How Red Bull Makes Money Selling Nothing
Does Red Bull actually make anything, or is it just a very expensive logo on a racing car?...
Popular Culture
02 Mar Facial Recognition- the good, the bad and the ugly
Does your face already exist in a database you never consented to?...
28 Feb How Do the Olympics Make Money? The Olympics Business Model Explained
Do you actually know where most Olympic revenue comes from, or do you just assume it's ticket sales?...
27 Feb why does Japan work so hard?
Is "dying for your company" a metaphor in your culture, or a literal risk in someone else's?...
03 Feb Explainer: What is the ‘metaverse’?
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in B1 - Intermediate, Business, Complete Lesson Plan, Other, Popular Culture, Science, Technology
Greg McKeown saw first-hand how success can lead straight to professional and personal failure, during his career evaluating and coaching Silicon Valley executives. The heart of the problem, he says, is the insidious idea that we can do it all. As entrepreneurs and executives find...
03 Feb NFTs Are Fueling a Boom in Digital Art. Here’s How They Work
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in Art, B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Economics, Partial Lesson Plan, Popular Culture, Technology, WSJ
Greg McKeown saw first-hand how success can lead straight to professional and personal failure, during his career evaluating and coaching Silicon Valley executives. The heart of the problem, he says, is the insidious idea that we can do it all. As entrepreneurs and executives find...
03 Feb 3 Great Untruths to Stop Telling Kids
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in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Big Think, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology, Science
Do you actually know which three "truths" you were raised on that researchers now call actively harmful?...
03 Feb The happiness formula?
Can you actually define what makes you happy, or do you just know it when you feel it?...
02 Feb The Real Reason Schools Give Kids Summers Off
Does your company give employees time off in summer, or is that just something that "happens" because everyone else does it?...
30 Nov Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
What if the thing quietly destroying your productivity is not laziness or poor time management, but your own success?...