Asking yourself and those around you whether they want to spend energy on a particular goal can lead to some uncomfortable yet necessary conversations. This brief piece from the Harvard Business Review has significant implications for leaders, teachers, and those learning from them.

“You’re looking for three things, generally, in a person,” says Buffett. “Intelligence, energy, and integrity. And if they don’t have the last one, don’t even bother with the first two. I tell them, ‘Everyone here has the intelligence and energy—you wouldn’t be here otherwise. But the integrity is up to you. You weren’t born with it, you can’t learn it in school.”

This piece from the Farnam Street Blog will show you that the choices you make, specifically how you choose to treat those around you, is crucial for leveraging success.

In this recently updated piece, a high school teacher breaks down an under-addressed problem facing education: apathy. While we are constantly revamping classrooms to be more exciting and engaging, we still see students disinterested. 

How can we motivate our students to be intrinsically motivated? How can we expose them to small successes that will fuel their passion?

"The evidence is clear: Academic excellence is not a strong predictor of career excellence. Across industries, research shows that the correlation between grades and job performance is modest in the first year after college and trivial within a handful of years."

Adam Grant's recent article for the New York Times sheds light on the fallacy of higher GPAs leading to success after college.

Higher education institutions are faced with a real problem, many of the degrees their students are receiving have become outdated, either by being focused on one career or skillset. 

Some institutions are facing this problem head-on, however. By partnering with industry leaders like Adobe, "[t]he idea is that students learn how to create a project that can be used in the real world, drawing on the skills a student would need in a business setting rather than those they’d use for taking a test. They also learn the “soft skills” that employers say are increasingly difficult to find in a job candidate."