Jan. 2, 2024

Happy 2024!

"Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently." - Shimon Peres

Shimon Peres was an Israeli politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Israel from 1984 to 1986 and from 1995 to 1996 and as the ninth president of Israel from 2007 to 2014. Peres was born Szymon Perski, on 2 August 1923, in Wiszniew, Poland (now Vishnyeva, Belarus), to Yitzhak (1896–1962) and Sara (1905–1969, née Meltzer) Perski. The family spoke Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian at home, and Peres learned Polish at school. He then learned to speak English and French. In 1994 he won the Nobel Peace Prize along with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

How Not To Be Paralyzed By Failure

Entrepreneur Sara Blakely, the founder of Spanx, on failure: "When my brother and I were growing up, my father would encourage us to fail. We'd sit around the dinner table, and he'd ask, "What did you guys fail at this week?" If we had nothing to t…