MasterClass
Sep 22, 2017
- confidence
- inspiration
see also: Behavior > Attitude; Behavior > Determination
7:45 we have more connections than we ever did before but we have fewer meaningful relationships and find it harder to form a deep connection with the people that we care about the most
Marianna Pascal shows how the secret to speaking English with confidence is all about attitude, not ability.
Meet The Man Who Wants To Diversify Silicon Valley By 2040
November 07, 2013
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/11/07/243783500/meet-the-entrepreneur-who-wants-to-change-silicon-valley
only about 1 percent of tech entrepreneurs in that section of Northern California are African-American.
He’s set up an internship program called Code2040 to bring black and Latino engineering undergrads to the Valley.
Born into poverty and raised by a single mother in the projects of the New York City borough of Queens, Walker says the only way to make sure he didn’t have to go back to it was to work hard — and make money.
First, he landed a full scholarship to a top-flight, New England boarding school.
“A lot of my classmates had a confidence that I’d never seen before,” he says. “It was almost as if the world just worked for them in a way that they expected it to.”
“… your company just could not be destined for the level of success it should be destined for”
related:
https://franzcalvo.wordpress.com/2016/05/28/gilded-age
http://www.npr.org/2013/11/27/247168494/-nprblacksintech
http://www.npr.org/2014/01/23/265239095/people-assumed-i-was-a-tech-whiz-because-im-asian
Stigma Allure
http://spq.sagepub.com/content/75/3/219.abstract
The importance of making connections
2007
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12374460