Remembering the words of wisdom or witticisms from Charles "Sparky" Schulz, who was widely regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists of all time.

He was the creator of the comic strip, Peanuts, with Charlie Brown and his gang. As a matter of fact, I grew up with the Peanuts.

Throughout the nineties, I often used his entire 8-part animation series, This is America, Charlie Brown (particularly The Great Inventors, The Wright Brothers and NASA Space Station), in conjunction with my 5-1/2-day workshop program for kids, Science and the Art of Discovery.

Pearls of Wisdom from the Oracle of Omaha, a nickname for billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who is arguably one of the greatest investors of all time.

He is called the Oracle of Omaha because the investment community very closely follows his investment picks and comments on the market, and he lives and works in Omaha, Nebraska.

This is my response to a question on Quora:

"What are some useful methods of increasing vocabulary?"

I like to suggest that you adopt a Index Card Strategy, say using 4x3 cards for their pocket portability, from the standpoint of self-quizzing or testing while "learning-on-the-go": commuting or waiting in queue.

Whenever you come across a new word, write it down on one side of an index card, with its dictionary definition, along with characteristics and traits of the word, plus all the grammatical variations.

To extend your understanding of the new word, explore similar words (synonyms), opposite words (antonyms), and even examples and nonexamples.

On the flipside, make your sentence constructions by using the new word, to demonstrate your thorough understanding.

Naturally, you can also copy the original sentence from which you have found the new word.

Whenever you come across the new word in other writings, or in conversations, or in the news, write the full expression down on to the flip side of your index card. This is called sentence mining.

Next, you proceed to do your level best to make use of the new words within the context of their many sentence configurations in your everyday activities: conversations, dialogues, discussions, meetings, emails, blogging (if any), writing reports or proposals, doing presentations or sales pitches, webcasting or podcasting, etc.,

Replicate this elaborate process with chosen words already inside your prevailing vocabulary repertoire, thus creating opportunities to expand similar possibilities along the same lines. You can even use organising themes for the words so as to expedite your learning.

This process may seem like a burden, but it's worth your while, as you are applying the multiplier effect to your vocabulary building and generation, especially from the standpoint of application-context possibilities.

To sum up, the fire test of your rich vocabulary comes from your consistent and massive appplications in everyday, real-world communication with real people, as much as possible.

This is actually Steve Jobs' original quote at his Commencement Address of Stanford University in 2007.

It's our passion that makes us crave for constant and never-ending improvement.

Also, it's our ardent love for our work that encourages us to keep doing what we do even if we encounter several challenges.

We don't let setbacks stop us from being successful.

More importantly, if we are to do great things, we must always be motivated to take bold initiatives!

It's not just fitness; but in practically everything we do, for I always believe, where there's will, there's a way to initiate action to produce the desired results!

Worth noting!

It's better known as the 40% rule as parctised by the US Navy SEALs!

The 40% rule reminds us that no matter how exhausted we might feel, it is always possible to draw on an untapped reserve of energy, motivation, and drive that we all possess.

It's the key to mental toughness!

The human mind is indeed an amazing thing. It both propels us forward and holds us back.

As I read and ponder, it's obvious that continuous and never-ending improvement, renewal and rejuvenation is the name of the game, while living in today's VUCANT world.