Jack Dolinar is a Trinity junior. His column runs on alternate Mondays.
Moment indicated that if I continue at my current rate, I will squander 5.2 years of my life on the screen.
Technology is not inherently evil. It is purposed as a tool. If a smartphone is a Swiss Army knife, apps are the widgets that pop out in order to cater to our various needs. Finding a specific purpose for each tool in our digital toolbox is a step toward improving our quality of life.
Most of us are neither geniuses nor prodigies; our successes require sustained effort and persistence.
In your life at Duke, you are surrounded by people who are motivated, skilled, ambitious and successful, and you can learn so much from them if you are willing to reach out. Most people won’t take that initiative, but learning this fundamental skill can be something that truly separates you from the crowd.
After careful consideration, I realized that by re-imagining my daily goal in a task-oriented manner I was able to regain my old enthusiasm and carry through to the end with vigor.
Transforming my smartphone from a drug into a tool is just one step in that journey.
Every successful individual knows this one secret. It’s a secret that will make you a million dollars, or however much money you want to earn.
We all have that friend who, for the life of them, cannot seem to fail at anything they try to do.
They controlled the majority of the known world for almost a thousand years. They maintained the foremost military of their time.
We live in a world in which victory is unpopular. People have gotten into the shameful mental habit of believing that for every winner there must be a loser, and they have become more concerned with not being the loser than with being the winner.
