A Socrates story of Success

This is how the story starts, the story of the secret of success……. Once upon a time there lived a young man, who wanted to know “THE SECRET” of success. He used to travel long distance in search of it, meeting all the intelligent people around the known world of his times. After his many failed attempts, he looks for the most intelligent person on the earth, the one who can for sure give him the “THE SECRET”. He goes on a voyage to meet this person who will give what he was desperately looking for. This young man meeting Socrates asks...

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Boring is best

Quibblers will, of course, find more holes in all this than there are in a chunk of Swiss cheese. The Economist ranked Switzerland as the best country to be born, as per their survey in 2013. America was helped to the top spot back in 1988 by the inclusion in the ranking of a “philistine factor” (for cultural poverty) and a “yawn index” (the degree to which a country might, despite all its virtues, be irredeemably boring). Switzerland scored terribly on both counts. In the film “The Third Man”, Orson Welles’s character, the rogue Harry Lime,...

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