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Ikea's Christmas Experiment Sweetly Shows That Kids Want So Much More Than Toys Yo, grinches. I challenge you not to tear up, just a little, as you watch "The Other Letter," a holiday video from Ikea created by McCann Spain. Young children are asked to write two letters saying what they want for Christmas.

For the weekend with words of Kare Anderson: But here's the icing on the cake: It's not just the first opportunity that you do with somebody else that's probably your greatest, as an institution or an individual. It's after you've had that experience and you trust each other. It's the unexpected things that you devise later on you never could have predicted.

Be an opportunity maker We all want to use our talents to create something meaningful with our lives. But how to get started? (And ... what if you're shy?) Writer Kare Anderson shares her own story of chronic shyness, and how she opened up her world by helping other people use their own talents and passions.

How to teach it? We have an idea...

'Grit' might be more important than IQ. Now schools need to learn to teach it. Grit has been called the secret to success — but schools don't yet know how to instill it in kids.

Thinking in other ways and forms... Why not?

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