by xteng | Liberalism, Life Skills, Motivational, Political, Prejudice & bias, Primary Education, Soft Skills
Malala Yousafzai: Winning the Nobel Peace Prize at 17! Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, the largest city in the Swat Valley in what is now the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. She is the daughter of Ziauddin and Tor Pekai Yousafzai and...
by xteng | Education Technology, Higher Education, Life Skills, Online learning, Skill Development, Soft Skills
What it Might Look Like to Safely Reopen Schools As a part of the lockdown, along with all other institutions, schools across the country were shut in the month of March. While status quo exists as of now, it is becoming increasingly obvious that this cannot remain so...
by xteng | Corona Chronicles, Life Skills, Motivational, Soft Skills, Work Life Balance
Isolation vs. Solitude – II Continuing last week’s exchange ….. here’s a thought …..what if we were to recalibrate the meaning of isolation? Just in our minds? Just for now? What if we were to – albeit temporarily – swap meaning and...
by xteng | Corona Chronicles, Life Skills, Motivational, Soft Skills, Work Life Balance
The Power of 21 Ever heard of the 21 Day Habit Theory? Well…here it is….The 21 Day Habit Theory was first introduced by Maxwell Maltz in the 1950s. His research concluded that “many…. commonly observed phenomena tend to show that it requires a minimum of about 21...
by xteng | Corona Chronicles, Life Skills, Motivational, Soft Skills, Work Life Balance
Isolation vs. Solitude – I The dictionary meaning of the word isolate is to cause (a person or place) to be or remain alone or apart from others. And so, isolation is the process or fact of isolating or being isolated. The literal meaning of another word...
by xteng | Corona Chronicles, Motivational, Soft Skills
We Shall Overcome This is one song we’ve all heard and whole-heartedly sung at some time of our lives. Strangely, when we sang this in school it was not quite clear what it was that we were going to overcome. Or that, what was that utopian existence that we were...