Issue 3

A hot topic that has popped up in the last year or two has been that of a work-life balance. For many employees who now work from home in a space where their workplace and safe space have blended into one, they wonder how they can keep these two halves of themselves—their work life and their normal life—balanced. Read Full Story

How do we end poverty? World hunger? High death rates? These are complicated issues that people have been trying to solve for centuries, but Melinda Gates proposes that the solution to many of the world’s problems is to give women a voice “because when you lift up women, you lift up humanity.” In The Moment of Lift, Melinda Gates shares stories and lessons she learned while working with her husband, Bill Gates, through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Read Full Story

¿Cómo se debe buscar el éxito si hay una barrera en el camino?El Marriott Student Review comparte la meta de la Escuela de Negocios Marriott de BYU de “recognize the inherent worth, divine potential, and agency of each person”.[i] Por eso queremos “[connect] the leaders of tomorrow with the issues of today”.[ii] Mas reconocemos que este esfuerzo implica ayuda distinta para diferentes grupos. Read Full Story

We all live in a meritocracy-like society that values high productivity and achievement. This doesn’t leave much margin for error. As such, we’ve trained our brains to find the right answer, to avoid getting distracted, and to employ willpower to remain focused on achieving success. Annabelle Sorensen, however, doesn’t agree with this paradigm. She asserts that we must teach ourselves to allow our brain’s impulses, including the distracting ones, to manage ourselves more efficiently. However, this seems to go against everything we’ve been taught about working hard and striving for specific goals. So how would this mentality help us to achieve the life we really want? Read Full Story

The number was staggering: $1.1 million per player. That’s how much the US Men’s National Soccer team would have made if they accelerated to the World Cup finals. The year was 2019, and the US Women’s National Team had just clobbered Netherlands 2–0 at the FIFA Women’s World Cup. The trophy was packed, the paychecks were written, and the (soccer) ball was dropped—each female player earned only $250,000 in prize money.[1] Read Full Story

“If you’re not giving people something that they can’t get elsewhere, then your podcast will fail.” Such a bold (and bordering brash) statement may give the potential podcaster pause, but Robert Smith is simply being direct. And Smith certainly has the life experience to merit such boldness. While attending high school in Park City, Smith began his radio journal at a local station. He has since continued to hone his skill of storytelling, currently hosting NPR’s Planet Money. Smith shares some of his expertise in a conversation with Grant Frazier on Measuring Success Right. Read Full Story

Jonathan Keats, famous author and philosopher who was “acclaimed as a ‘poet of ideas’ by The New Yorker and a ‘multimedia philosopher-prophet’ by The Atlantic,”[1] assures analog-lovers that “Confirmation comes time and time again. Film refuses to die.”[2] Read Full Story