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Where do you get your news?

April 14, 2009

I am not really a news person. I don’t listen to radio talk shows just like my Uncle who unfailingly turns on his radio early in the morning to listen to political and social commentaries. I am not fond of watching news on TV as well.

I just find our local TV news show too sensationalized or full of unnecessary reports of violent happenings around the city. Do we really need to know about a certain person’s crime committed against his neighbor because of some petty quarrel? C’mon media people, we want news that prioritizes more on social and community issues.
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On learning life’s lessons

Life offers us varied challenges and each day we learn from our successes and mistakes. Some would readily say that “experience is the best teacher” when it comes to most of life’s lessons. While nearly everyone would agree to this known saying, our experiences may not be the best teacher there is according to a business guru. He stressed that the best teachers are those who have been there, they are called mentors.

Do we really have to go through a trial and error process to experience or learn some of life’s lessons? It is best to get our lessons from those who have been there and became successful. It simply is a waste of time and effort to go through painful experiences just so to learn from them the hard way.
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