Swarthmore Professor Timothy Burke, of Easily Distracted blog, has authored a couple of valuable posts for students. While Professor Burke most often posts about his area of expertise, Modern African History, he’s written some very insightful pieces for prospective and current College Students.

First is Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay . Professor Burke navigates […]

In Parts 1 and 2 of this series, you’ve worked to identify a sense of purpose. Your next step is to use this life purpose statement to help find work that you love. How do you do that?
If you followed the previous exercises to the letter, you should have spent at least 7 days […]

In Part 1 of the Finding Work You Love series, you wrote down 10 or so of your most important life experiences and searched for some golden threads amongst them. Did you find some important themes? Did any new ideas come about? Hopefully, some of the words will stand out as important and invigorating […]

In my new series of posts, “Finding Work that You Love,”  I hope to share a process of finding a career that you really love.  Further, I’d like to stimulate thoughts and discussion around the way we express our true values and desires in our actions.  I believe this process is the same for reaching any goal or result […]

Over the holidays, I came across a very insightful post on the goalsguy.com site. Titled ‘The Ten Commandments of Goal-Setting,’ the post is a perfect accompaniment to your New Year’s Resolutions. Goals Guy nails the most important point in his first commandment, ‘Thou Shall Be Decisive.’
Success is a choice. You must decide what you want, […]

I came across this really cool free music service called Pandora. The creators of Pandora call it “a music discovery service designed to find and enjoy music that you’ll love.” By using the Music Genome Project’s database of hundreds of musical attributes or ‘genes,’ the service suggests music that’s similar to your tastes. You simply […]

In this week’s Carnival of the Vanities , Retire at 30 posted a very controversial piece about entitlement, work, delayed gratification, and today’s young adults.
Everybody would like $1 Million tomorrow, but how many people look at the world around them and ask what problems they could fix to create $1 Million in value? […]