Adele Crete-Laurence remembers the moment when she really started to feel like a leader. In air cadets, I worked my way up to second-in-command of the whole squadron, she says. As I stood in front of everyone on parade, I thought back to when I first started cadets and thought, That person in the front seems so old! And now, Im that person
Continue ReadingOctober20, 20205 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Why has emotional intelligence(EI) been a buzzword since the 1990s
Continue ReadingAfter a century, the world population faced a new pandemic that fast spread globally, affecting individuals both physically and mentally. Covid-19 started in late 2019 in Asia, spreading so fast that despite the global connectivity and highly sophisticated information technology and communication systems, the interconnected society of the 21st century was incapable to fast react in order to avoid contagion and prevent the worst.
Continue ReadingIts about chess, but its not about chess, Anya Taylor-Joy recalls saying when she met Scott Frank, writer and director of Netflixs stylish seven-part drama The Queens Gambit (premiering October 23). In just a few hours, the actress devoured the Walter Tevis novel that Frank was adapting, then literally ran, she says, to their lunch meeting. She knew she had to play Beth Harmon, whose rise from Kentucky orphan to international 1960s chess superstar is as wild as it is hopeful.
Continue ReadingIt doesn't take a game-theory maven to map out where the pieces on the chess board are set to land when it comes to the Bruins' blue line. More than a week into the start of free agency, Don Sweeney's moves outside of trades are rather limited when it comes to finding avenues to beef up his club's defensive corps
Continue ReadingLev Vygotsky Lev Vygotsky has been an iconic figure for several generations of psychologists in Russia and overseas.
Continue ReadingSo, the winner takes it all And the loser has to fall FPL is Bjorn again! There were some huge scores posted around the community as the super troupers of Kane and Son hit double digits and Werner finally scored thanks to the infamous Southampton high line. Elsewhere, injuries to Van Dijk and De Bruyne look serious enough to cause disruption to the title race as well as the world of FPL
Continue ReadingThe 1980s musical "Chess," with a storyline set around a Cold War-era chess event and with music by ABBA'sBenny Andersson and Bjrn Ulvaeus, is world-famous. Somehow, it was never performed in Moscowuntil last Saturday night
Continue ReadingSo when Frank, a long-time friend, invited her to join the series and spend a few months shooting in Berlin, Heller saw it as the perfect opportunity to, in her words, keep my street cred as a director who was an actor. As a director who seeks out projects about the uncomfortable things that people dont talk about, Heller found that Alma embodied those same sensibilities: Shes someone who has a lot of pain in her past, and that makes her most interesting; shes not some version of a 50s housewife that doesnt feel real. So much of what I try to do as a director is to tap into that thing that has made somebody the way they are.
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