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Achieving Success Comes Down to One Thing: Connecting With People

Success

Growing up, I dabbled in just about everything—from band and choir to basketball and acting—because I needed to know more about all the things life offered. Your teaching methods, clothes, the booger in your nose during allergy season—all of it. Stay curious and open minded. Be willing to connect with new people.

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Hearth: A Writer Explores the Concept of Home During Her Early Career as a Writer in Delhi, Mumbai and the U.S.

Success

Roti, Kapda aur Makaan” (food, clothing and shelter) was the political cry of independent India’s socialism in the 1960s and ’70s (including a Hindi film with the same title). My grandfather, a popular science writer, considered a nation-builder, had seen difficult times growing up. I didn’t bother explaining, and hung up.

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The ups and downs of working from home

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This meant starting up my home computer from 1997, connecting it to my dial-up internet and attempting to log onto the torturously slow remote email system. I guess I saw working from home as either skiving off or something the grown-up managers did with their superior equipment! No make-up, no hair styling… no clothes.

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Love CSI? How About a Career in Computer Forensics?

On The Job

Consider events in just the past year: • Hackers broke into a Zappos' server, giving them access to the records of 24 million customers of the online shoe and clothing retailer. Why the growing demand for such specialists? Attacks on U.S. infrastructure, such as energy and water utilities, have been documented. .