The Anonymous Widower

Rules For Success? – A Quote

I’m going to start with a quote.

The only thing that all successful people share is that they are robust, resilient and resourceful.

It comes from an opinion in The Times of March 2^nd, 2011 entitled “We’ve disabled a generation through kindness.” It comes from one of their regular writers, Alice Thomson and she goes on to say how we’ve all been too kind to all our children, by mollycoddling them too much and not letting them use their intelligence.

 Just a quick question, but how many of you came up to Liverpool for your first year on public transport with just a very large suitcase?

I’ll just add a bit more about Alice, so you can see where she’s coming from.  One of her great great-grandfathers was J.J. Thomson, the discoverer of the electron and a grandfather was William Bragg, who won a Nobel Prize for Physics and headed the Royal Institution. So she has a rather unusual background for a journalist.

So now I’m going to tell you about my group of Electrical Engineering students at Liverpool and what some of us did later.

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March 9, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | World | Rules For Success