Offbeat | Soul Chocolate https://www.soulchocolate.org Chocolate for your soul Mon, 11 Jan 2021 09:23:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.9 https://www.soulchocolate.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cropped-SoulChocolateSiteIcon-32x32.jpg Offbeat | Soul Chocolate https://www.soulchocolate.org 32 32 Don’t ape, have the self-belief to find your own way https://www.soulchocolate.org/dont-ape-have-the-self-belief-to-find-your-own-way/ Mon, 11 Jan 2021 09:23:10 +0000 https://www.soulchocolate.org/?p=3997 MANY MOONS AGO, when I was still a student, the fad was to study English literature if one had no specific career goals or one’s results were below par. As a bright student who loved ...

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]]> Life rules your kids must learn before leaving school https://www.soulchocolate.org/life-rules-your-kids-must-learn-before-leaving-school/ Fri, 11 Sep 2020 09:06:21 +0000 https://www.soulchocolate.org/?p=1961 EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE, the Internet throws up articles attributed to Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Recall, for instance, the fine piece that went viral five-six months ago on lessons the coronavirus pandemic could be ...

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]]> Be kind — A newspaper seller’s lesson for Bill Gates https://www.soulchocolate.org/be-kind-a-newspaper-sellers-lesson-for-bill-gates/ Tue, 03 Mar 2020 13:24:52 +0000 https://www.soulchocolate.org/?p=347 Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. So said the American novelist, Henry James. Rings true? ...

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]]> Auschwitz: Life lessons from a dreaded death camp https://www.soulchocolate.org/auschwitz-life-lessons-from-a-dreaded-death-camp/ Thu, 30 Jan 2020 18:35:31 +0000 https://www.soulchocolate.org/?p=274 On the 75th anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, a woman who survived the dreaded World War II concentration camp told a media channel the reason she escaped burning to death in ...

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]]> Thank you, dear guardian angel, for saving my life https://www.soulchocolate.org/thank-you-dear-guardian-angel-for-saving-my-life/ Sun, 26 Jan 2020 10:25:51 +0000 https://www.soulchocolate.org/?p=258 As a child, I would often wonder what a ‘guardian angel’ would be like. How I would spot one if it glided past me. Whether it would have a silvery halo or shimmering wings that ...

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