The Internal Monologue

Failure Teaches More than Miraculous Success Failure is very important, and gathering the right failure data is even more important. For instance, it starts when animals are born, such as humans. The life of a baby is full of failures. Watching a baby elephant learn how to use its trunk was very interesting. Back to humans! Human babies are master experimenters and experiment for the longest time into their 30s. But some never trust their instincts completely and continue experiencing and learning new things mainly from their failures; these are your atypical scientists. Babies have the drive to test everything around them. Thanks to our Robotic Education System , we kill this innate behaviour very quickly. I hope technology will get us to a point where we have individualized homeschool-based learning through online channels. This is where the metaverse for education comes in.  Failure data can be the difference between successful leading individuals or companies and those that are...

Time - The Ultimate Currency It is much more than the clock on the wall or your wrist or smartphone. Just like many other things in life, we understand time differently. Different cultures and religions around the world have different philosophies about time. We have "African time", "Asian time", etc. Others see it as eternal, while others see it as limited. Some don't even celebrate birthdays because it reminds them of the existence of the death date. Let's do a bit of time maths. The life expectancy in South Africa is 65 yrs, meaning you have roughly 24 000 days to live or 570 000 hours. So if you are 25yrs old, you have already spent your 219 000 hours (38%), they are gone, and you'll never ever get them back. Of course, these numbers are very rough estimates, but they bring about a new perspective and sensitivity. Time is the ultimate currency. Everything else that I know in life can be recovered and/or stored for future use; time lost is lost foreve...