120 Articles tagged with: Work and Achievement

• Member Spotlight: Kyle Ver Steeg, M.D.

  Editor’s Note: A long-time supporter of The Atlas Society, Dr. Kyle Ver Steeg shared with Senior Editor Marilyn Moore how Objectivist ethics helped him during medical school and throughout his successful career as a surgeon in private practice. … Read Article

• Meet The Girl Boss: A Feminist in Capitalist Clothing

  “She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To hell with that, she thought—and never worried about it again.”  This is as close to a glimmer of feminist… Read Article

• Would Ayn Rand Airbnb? Why a Superhost is a Selfish Host

  My first night as an Airbnb host was a near disaster.

  I thought I was prepared.  Glamour shots of the house – check.  Coffee maker – check.  Linens, towels, toiletries – check.  Hit “go live,” and boom, I’ve… Read Article

• Musk, the Moon, and Musts for Achievement

  If you’re like me, you cheered the announcement by SpaceX head Elon Musk that his company plans to send two people on a slingshot swing around the Moon in 2018. But if you want a future filled with such exciting achievements, take a minute to as… Read Article

• The Super Bowls of Your Life

  The fervor that is American professional football culminates this week in the Super Bowl championship game. Each club and each player earned their resultant place in the game based on their positive performance over a period in their life. This en… Read Article

• The Talent Myth

  While friends and family often compliment my artwork by commenting on my natural talent, people in the artistic community generally avoid that type of praise. Instead, peers evaluate my work by simply stating how good it is, which better credits t… Read Article

• Five Ayn Rand Questions for Heather Wagenhals

  1) Tell us who you are? What’s the couple of sentence summary of what you do and what you’ve done?

  I’m Heather Wagenhals, native Phoenician (from Phoenix, Arizona, that is!), author, speaker, professional coach, and radio talk-show host. I … Read Article

• “Man In the Place of the Gods: What Cities Mean.”

  AN INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR FREDERICK COOKINHAM ON HIS NEW BOOK Q: Tell us what your new book is about. What’s your thesis of Man in the Place of the Gods: What Cities Mean. A: It’s hard to say, because the book is so interdisciplinary. The short… Read Article

• Which Culture Can Make 120 Years Old the Prime of Life?

  Emma Morano, age 116, is the last person alive born in the nineteenth century. New cutting-edge technologies could mean that more than a few people born at the end of the twentieth century will be in the prime of life when they reach that age. But… Read Article

• Success in Business Symposium

  The Atlas Summit, the premiere conference of open Objectivism, is featuring a "Symposium on Success in Business." 

  Ayn Rand was one of the few moral philosophers in history who regarded business as a noble activity, on a par with all othe… Read Article

• Take Your Daughters to Work Day

  April 28 was “Take your daughters to work day,” and I did! (I hope all you parents took your sons along as well!) My five-year-old fraternal twins, Sophia and Allegra, went to the office with Daddy! What did I teach them about what Daddy does,… Read Article

• Celebrating the lives of 3 remarkable Objectivists

  Tibor Machan  (May 15) 

  When Tibor Machan passed away recently, the Objectivist and freedom movements lost a prolific spokesman.

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• A Tale of Two Sanders

  It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of individualism, it was the age of collectivism. It was the epoch of personal achievement, it was the epoch of unearned entitlement. This describes the schism between two Sanders… Read Article

• Ed Snider, RIP

  Ed Snider died Monday, April 11, 2016, after a long battle with cancer.

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• Ayn Rand Diet Plan: Fad Diets, Fat-acceptance Are Anti-Reality

  “A is A. All the pain has come from the effort to evade the fact that A is A.”

  These are the words of John Galt in Atlas Shrugged, summing up the core tenet of the Objectivist philosophy pioneered by the novel’s author, Ayn Rand. If … Read Article

• Atlas Society CEO interviewed

  Atlas Society CEO Jennifer Anju Grossman was interviewed this week by entrepreneur Steve Mariotti for The Huffington Post. 

  In "Channeling Ayn Rand: Jennifer Grossman, Feminist Libertarian Takes Helm of the Atlas Society," Mariotti gives… Read Article

• Unleashing the power of philosophy in business

  What comes to mind when you hear the word "philosophy"? Bearded men in robes walking around in ancient Greece? Academics having abstract conversations that have no practical entrepreneurial use? Or profound advantage through effective strategic th… Read Article

• Steve Jobs (movie review
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  If you’re a fan of Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder and digital age revolutionary, you might find Steve Jobs the movie a bit hard to take. It shows the worst of the man.

  If you’re a fan of Aaron Sorkin, who wrote the screenplay portray… Read Article

• An Open Letter to J.K. Rowling

  Editor's note: Today, July 31,  is J.K. Rowling's birthday. We wish her continued success. In honor of her many achievements, we republish this open letter.

  Dear Ms. Rowling: 

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• Google, Entrepreneurs, and Living 500 Years

   “Is it possible to live to be 500?”

  “Yes,” answers Bill Maris of Google, without qualifications.

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