1. It is a common observation that people with great talents are often only indifferent students.

1. It may result, instead, from self-absorption and the inability to pay attention to the ordinary tasks at hand.
2. The reason for mediocrity is obviously not the absence of ability.
3. No one, for example, could have predicted Einstein’s great achievements on the basis of his mediocre record in school.
4. The only sure way an individual can interrupt reverie-like preoccupation and self- absorption is to form a deep attachment to a great teacher or other benevolent person who understands and has the ability to communicate with the gifted individual.

6. Therefore whether gifted individuals find what they need depends on the availability of sensitive and intuitive mentors who have a vocation in cultivating talent.

1. These values presuppose that each participant is a profit centre bent on maximizing his or her profits to the exclusion of all other considerations.
2. How do economic values relate to other kinds of values?
3. This limitation arises because economic values express only what an individual market participant is willing to pay another in free exchange for something else.
4. That is not a question that can be answered in a timeless, universally valid manner, except to say that economic values (alone) cannot be sufficient to sustain society.

1. Almost a century ago, when the father of the modern automobile industry, Henry Ford, sold the first Model A car, he decided that only the best would do for his customers.
2. Today, it is committed to delivering the finest quality with over six million vehicles a year in over 200 countries across the world.
3. And for over ninety years, this philosophy has endured in the Ford Motor Company.
4. A vehicle is ready for the customer only if it passes the Ford ‘Zero Defect Programme’.

1. Okay, so it’ll be some time yet before protein-enriched potatoes can actually plug India’s nutrition deficit.

1. But the labs are busy, and the promise of biotech glory has upped the life sciences and genetic engineering ante.
2. Nice number. But are they world-beaters?
3. Or before DNA-group-specific medicines and diet targeted food brands hit the market.
4. It’s a specialization in which India turns out some 700,000 post-graduates and 1,500 PhDs every year.
5. India alone has 800 biotech companies hoping to leverage the country’s high-gray-matter concentration and low cost advantage to crack global apps.

1. For 40 years he’s been dating gals under 30, the latest is Marin.
2. Nancy Meyers’s Something Gotta Give, the film, doesn’t need ‘Something’s Gotta Give’, the song.
3. The sixty something guy is played flamboyantly by Jack Nicholson, playing himself, but going under an alias, is a congenital womanizer – actually, make that a congenital babe-iser.
4. The opening situation is identical – sixty something guy, twenty something girl – but everything’s a lot easier these days.