The sweetgreen concept was created by three friends who needed a place to hang out and eat healthy food. They followed their Vision step by step and it became more than they had ever dreamed of. Watch this video where Jonathan Neman, Nathaniel Ru, and Nicolas Jammet talk about how it all started. [ld_video]

OLGA KHAZAN, JUL 12, 2018 Carol Dweck, a psychology professor at Stanford University, remembers asking an undergraduate seminar recently, “How many of you are waiting to find your passion?” “Almost all of them raised their hand and got dreamy looks in their eyes,” she told me. They talked about it “like a tidal wave would…

“Have a vision. It is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible.” – Shiv Khera While many people define genius differently, most agree that Richard Feynman was one. There is probably no better example of his brilliance than his famous talk, There’s Plenty of Room…

Teach For America began in 1989 as student Wendy Kopp’s senior thesis at Princeton University. While many of her college classmates were embarking on lucrative careers in law, medicine, or finance, she followed her passion and instincts along a different path. At the time, academic outcomes for low-income children had not changed in a century,…

“In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.” – Dalai Lama “These Americans are the most peculiar people in the world. You’ll not believe it when I tell you how they behave. In a local community in their country, a citizen may conceive of some need [that] is not…

[ld_video]     When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. But I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my country. When I found I couldn’t change my country, I began to focus on my town. However, I discovered that I couldn’t change the…

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“The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” —Anne Frank In the year 1812, a Rabbi named Menachem Mendel Leffin published a book on effective spiritual accounting. His book, called Cheshbon HaNefesh, is a practical, step-by-step method of introspection and self-understanding that sounds much more like a modern day self-help manual…

The Art of Self Awareness [ld_video]

“Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.” —John Wooden So I’ve been thinking lately that it’s not enough to be experienced. The people in public life we really admire turn experience into graciousness. Those people, I think, see their years as humbling agents. They see that, more often than not, the events in our lives…