Category: Monday Motivations

Monday Motivation….. September 23, 2013 (137) Once upon a time, teacher teaching Maths to seven-year-old Arnav asked him, “If I give you one apple and one apple and one apple, how many apples will you have? “Within a few seconds Arnav replied confidently, “Four!” The dismayed teacher was expecting an effortless correct answer (three). She…

Monday Motivation….. September 16, 2013 (136) Once upon a time a father was busy reading a magazine and his little daughter every now and then distracted him. To keep her busy, he tore one page on which was printed the map of the world. He tore it into pieces and asked her to go to…

Monday Motivation….. September 09, 2013 (135) Once upon a time the marine biologist was doing a research experiment on behavioral studies. He placed a shark into a large holding tank and then released several small bait fish into the tank. As you would expect, the shark quickly swam around the tank, attacked and ate the…

Monday Motivation….. September 02, 2013 (134) According to scientists, the bumblebee’s body is too heavy and its wing span too small. Aerodynamically, the bumblebee cannot fly. But the bumblebee doesn’t know that and it keeps flying. Learning how bumblebees fly requires taking into consideration the roughness and flexibility of their wings. Bumblebees actually have 4…

Monday Motivation….. August 26, 2013 (133) Once upon a time there was a farmer who sold a pound of butter to the baker. One day the baker decided to weigh the butter to see if he was getting a pound and he found that he was not. This angered him and he took the farmer…

Monday Motivation….. August 19, 2013 (132) One day some wise men, who were going about the country trying to find answers to some of the great questions of their time, came to Nasreddin’s district and asked to see the wisest man in the place. Nasreddin was brought forward, and a big crowd gathered to listen.…

Monday Motivation….. August 12, 2013 (131) Once upon a time a man was on his way to the market with his donkey carrying two sacks of wheat. After a little while he was tired and they rested under a tree. When he woke up from his nap he could not see the donkey and started…

Monday Motivation….. August 05, 2013 (130) Once upon a time there was a farmer who discovered that he had lost his watch in the barn. It was no ordinary watch because it had sentimental value for him. After searching high and low among the hay for a long while; he gave up and enlisted the…

Monday Motivation….. July 29, 2013 (129) Once upon a time, there was a selfish man. He liked everything to be his own. He could not share his belongings with anyone, not even his friends or the poor. One day, the man lost thirty gold coins. He went to his friend’s house and told him how…

Monday Motivation….. July 22, 2013 (128) Once upon a time there was a boy who loved eating sweets. He always asked for sweets from his father. His father was a poor man. He could not always afford sweets for his son. But the little boy did not understand this, and demanded sweets all the time.…