Mills Scofield

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How to Have an Impact without Electricity and the Internet

Mills Scofield

I began traveling to Haiti as a volunteer in 2007 and moved here in 2010 to launch an organization called GOALS. In Haiti, I read more books, do more yoga, write more essays, and cook more meals. I don’t have internet on my phone, don’t work on projects late at night or on weekends, and almost always take a real lunch hour.

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Lessons From BIF-7

Mills Scofield

Dan Pink, known for his fabulous books A Whole New Mind and Drive , talked about 2010’s two Physics Nobel Prize winners, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, breakthrough in extremely thin graphene. What if you make it into small achievable steps? What if you step back and look for obvious, simple (perhaps not easy) solutions?

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