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Now, I know there are many principles and views that have been provided by professionals and experts of communication as viable ways of communicating ideas and views clearly. Nevertheless, I must make it clear to you that though all those ideologies such as boldness and confidence, mastery of language, knowing what to say and how to say it, adequate preparation, etc. are indeed effective working tools, but they are not complete in themselves as all time-working tool for communicating ideas. Until you have tried to apply them, you may not really know the depth of what I am trying telling you here. Just as life does not become whatever has been said it is, until you have lived it yourself, so also these principles are not, until you have applied them. But the essence of my taking on this is to save you from the pains of unknown. So, my argument here is that those principles you already have as yardsticks for communicating ideas clearly, though true and effective, are not complete i...

By Seth Godin on TED 2003. I'm going to give you four specific examples, I'm going to cover at the end about how a company called Silk tripled their sales; how an artist named Jeff Koons went from being a nobody to making a whole bunch of money and having a lot of impact; to how Frank Gehry redefined what it meant to be an architect. And one of my biggest failures as a marketer in the last few years -- a record label I started that had a CD called "Sauce." Before I can do that I've got to tell you about sliced bread, and a guy named Otto Rohwedder. Now, before sliced bread was invented in the 1910s I wonder what they said? Like the greatest invention since the telegraph or something. But this guy named Otto Rohwedder invented sliced bread, and he focused, like most inventors did, on the patent part and the making part. And the thing about the invention of sliced bread is this -- that for the first 15 years after sliced bread was available no one bought it;...

As a part of what you need to know before going to higher institution for you to achieve the very best in your education, I have taken this extract from my book " The Radical Road Map for Undergraduates  to help you avoid the mistake that many graduates and undergraduates made and which has reduced many to unemployable graduates in society. So bear this in mind as you are preparing for university. DIFFERENT TYPES OF EDUCATION This may sound funny to many, but indeed there are different kinds of education, about seven kinds, in every society. It was after I had finished from college did I realize this when I sought for a job in an aspect I didn’t have the education, and I was rejected. So there are about seven types of education in every society which will be good if you can acquire a little knowledge about each aside your major, namely:            Literate education          ...

A paraphrased extract from my book The Radical Road Map for Undergraduates It is generally believed that one cannot be two things at a time, especially in an academic setting. That is, is either you are academically sound and be street foolish or you are academically foolish and be street wise or sound. This is a thinking of an atrophied brain. It is possible to achieve both - academic prowess and street wisdom. There is no point in building up yourself to be the best in your school, only to come back to the larger society and find life not very comfortable. There are lots of graduates out there with good academic results in their hands, but they are still thinking of how to survive in the society because while studying they neglected their society in their academic study. I will say they build themselves for the school, to become the champion in the school. (Read about how students build themselves only for school under why ‘I wrote this book,’ and why you should study about ...