Essays on Passion

This article written by Jonathan Gruber on American Economic Review determines the incidence of mandated maternity benefits. This paper is interdisciplinary of public, labor and health economics. Until 1970s insurers treated maternity with previous conditions and inabilities. Maternity Mandates were enacted by few states and...

A basic definition of grit would be “having passion and perseverance for long-term goals.” Passion means to have the ability to have stamina, and sticking with your future day in and day out for years and working really hard in order to turn your future...

Growing up, I was a very basic child. You could learn a lot about me from a quick glance in my closet. You’ll find no clothes, but shelves filled with motorized Lego kits, fantasy books, model rockets and remote control cars. I had the simple...

Have you ever wanted to burn calories and get fit? Swimming is important to me because it supported me to have great health and refresh my mind after a hard day of school. And the reason I started. I loved swimming and learned it when...

When it comes to life there are things people do because it is their passion, they fall in love with that thing, embrace it and seek to help it grow. There are strong feelings for that thing. On the other hand there is reason. Things...

This book was recommended to me by a Fund Manager of a VC fund that I had done due-diligence for, called Grit Lab VC. One of the 2 Fund managers had been working in the VC field for more than 25 years and has worked...

Have you ever felt that your life was shaped by someone’s dream? But what if living somebody’s dream is not that bad after all? That even though you’re ok and glad about whatever decisions were taken those decisions were not yours. Well, I have experienced...

Starting from an early age, music has been my passion and has taken up a prominent part of my life. Beginning to learn the piano at the age of 3, my interest in music grew when I first won the championship in a junior piano...

Following my shadowing preceptor down the hospital hallway, I can clearly remember the strange noises that I cannot yet decipher from the rooms that we were passing by; however, it was this moment that something clicked — my intrigue in psychology and the nervous system....

I have always felt a strong desire to understand how individuals are affected by certain disorders and experiences – in particular, how developmental disorders such as autism can affect behaviour, communication and social functioning. Having a brother diagnosed with autism at the age of five,...