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Known as the self-help guru whose tagline let them has encouraged millions to stop worrying what others are doing or saying, and focus on their own personal growth, has another significant lesson: dont be afraid to keep moving forward to goals. During an interview with Norah ODonnell on CBS Sunday Morning this week, Robbins said, “If you feel stuck in your life, it doesn’t mean you’re broken. It means that what’s missing in your life is growth. And if I can get you to grow and learn in any area of your life, you start to change.” The 57-year-old mother and former lawyerwho, at one time in her 40s, was unemployed and over a million in debtshares her motivational mindset and messages through her books, including The Let Them Theory, and the accompanying namesake podcast. Still, 15 years later, her loyalists still refer to her iconic 2011 TED Talk, “How to Stop Screwing Yourself Over.” In this CBS interview, Robbins said we to accept change in ones life trajectory, building the comparison to sustainable needs: “When you’re thirsty what do you need?” “Water.” “When you are hungry, what do you need?” “Food.” When youre stuck, do you know what you need? Growth. This motivation for self-advocacy can be an astounding motivator for personal growth and change. When one accepts they are ready to move forward, do the work and make the change, positive results happen. And theres data to back this up. Growth mindset interventions are increasing in popularity and can be effective, according to a study published in the journal Psychological Bulletin. A meta-analysis of 53 prior analyses revealed positive effects on academic outcomes, mental health, and social functioning, especially when interventions are delivered to people expected to benefit the most. Furthermore, understanding that change is inevitable can be scary, but key to personal growth, according to an article in Psychology Today. The article offered pointers for self-growth, including to adopt a growth mindset, to engage in activities that broaden perspectives and push you out of your comfort zoneand to remind yourself of the progress youve made thus far. All opportunities that only exist if you feel stuck. After all, being stuck is really just a way to access your full potential: 3 questions that will help you regain momentum when youre stuck Change is a choice: Embrace your power to transform How to train your brain to embrace change And, if being stuck makes you feel like youre broken or behind or a failureremind yourself of your progress, and of your end goal. Envisioning what life looks like once youve achieved your accomplishments can be a great source of motivation, whether its pursuing more education, starting a business, or changing career paths. One quote from Robbins book sums how you can move from what you interpret as being broken, to being an achiever: You dont need anyone elses permission to be happy, to pursue your passions, express yourself more, or to live the life youve always dreamed of. The only permission you need is your own.
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Last week, Google released Project Genie, a powerful new AI-powered platform for videogame design. Project Genie, which is currently only available for Googles AI Ultra subscribers, uses AI to build virtual worlds. That sounds interesting, if not necessarily revolutionary. Videogame developers already model and build virtual worlds all the time. Project Genies simple concept, though, belies the techs potential impact. The new system, and the Genie 3 model behind it, have the potential to forever change how videogames are built and played. Model the World Most videogames today rely on a handful of game engines to render their virtual worlds so they look realistic for players. Engines like Unreal and Unity have long dominated the space. To build a game within them, developers first create virtual spaces, populating them with 3D digital models of objects, characters, buildings and the like. They then release players into their worlds. As a player explores, the game engine renders the currently-visible portions of the virtual world in near real-time, creating the seamless experience of wandering through a realistic environment. Game engines revolutionized game design because they allowed developers to hand off messy and complex things like physics and lighting to the engine. Instead of worrying about modeling how fur moves in a breeze or how fast bullets travel, they could focus on creative jobs like building delightfully scary monsters or realistic weaponry. Game engines come with their own set of limitations, though. Although players are free to explore a world as they please, developers still generally need to create every element of that world themselves. Todays virtual worlds are massive. Players could reportedly spend as many as 130 real-world hours exploring the worlds inside games like No Mans Sky without seeing the same part twice. But even so, everything in that virtual world had to be put there on purpose. The worlds feel huge, but nothing in them is truly new. Worlds on the fly Googles new Project Genie is different. Rather than creating a world piece by piece, the new tool allows developers to upload concept art or even a simple text prompt. Google Genie 3 model, which underlies the system, then transforms those inputs into a seamless, virtual space that players can move within. Crucially, though, Project Genies worlds arent bounded, like the worlds of traditional game engines. Genie 3 imagines its worlds on the fly, literally creating them fresh as a player explores. That means Genies worlds are effectively infinite. As a player reaches the bounds of the world, the Genie 3 model simply expands them, imagining new parts that have never existed before. In an example video, Google shows a developer asking the system for an undersea world. Project Genie spins up a virtual coral reef environment, with the player controlling a realistic-looking fish. As the fish swims around the reef, Project Genie adds new parts seamlessly. As the player-controlled fish swims upwards, the system even creates realistically-shimmery water above the virtual reef. The user could presumably have their fish leap from the ocean into the air, and Project Genie would go right on imagining new parts of the worldperhaps an ocean landscape complete with (hopefully friendly) seagulls, buoys and boats. Truly open worlds Currently, Project Genie has some serious limitations. It can only perform its magic for about 60 seconds at a time, before its imagined worlds go off the rails. Its also limited to 24 frames per secondimpossibly slow for a modern game, where FPS can easily hit 120 on a powerful computer. Practically, this means Project Genies worlds have movement thats too choppy for real world use. Project Genies demo games also lack actual gameplay elements, like rules and goals. You can only swim around as a fish for so long before getting boredeven if the virtual reef around you is being automatically generated by an insanely powerful AI. The bones are there, though. And the implications for the future of gaming are massive. As the Genie 3 model improves, game designers could use it to create worlds that players could explore forever. Each time players loaded a game, theyd be experiencing something completely newand theyd never run out of territory in which to play. Genie 3 could potentially also create bespoke models of a world, tailored to individual players. Imagine playing a game like Grand Theft Auto, but with the action taking place in your hometownwhether you live in Los Angeles or Lincoln, Nebraska. And Genie could create entirely new kinds of gamesones where the player actively participates in building the world. Because Genie can accept prompts and imagery, players could provide input on the places theyd like to explore. Genie could then build them a custom world based on their ideas. Traditional game designers are clearly taking note. The stocks of gaming companies like Nintendo and Roblox promptly dropped when Project Genie was announced. So-called open world gameswhere players explore an environment for hours on end, sometimes without specific goalsare already massively popular. Making those worlds truly open and unbounded using Genie would almost certainly make the games more compellingand better selling. For now, Project Genie is a cool demo. Soon, though, its AI magic could spell disruption for an entire industry.
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The 2026 Winter Olympic Games kick off in Italy on Friday, with top athletes from across the world competing for not just any prize, but for the most expensive medals in Olympics history. The Milano Cortina-based games come as the value of precious metals have skyrocketed, most notably gold and silver. Gold was worth about $2,500 per ounce when the Paris Summer Olympics took place in 2024. Now, less than two years later, gold sits at just over $4,800 per ounceand even thats a significant drop from its recent record-high of about $5,600 per ounce just last week. Silver averaged around $28 per ounce during the last Olympic games, but is now valued at about $77 per ounce. Again, this is a downturn from a high of over $121 per ounce at the end of January. [Photo: Fondazione Milano Cortina 2026] How much are Olympic medals worth during the 2026 winter games? At time of writing, a rough calculation shows that each gold medal is worth about $2,176up from about $900 in Paris. Meanwhile, a silver medal is valued at about $1,245, based on the metals current worth. Notably, the Olympic gold medals havent been pure gold in over 100 years, as CNN previously reported. Instead, they are now made up of 500 grams of silver and just six grams of gold. The silver medal is solely made of 500 grams of, well, silver. There will be 735 Olympic medals and 411 Paralympic medals awarded during the two events. Each medal is a thickness of just 10 millimeters with an 80 millimeter diameter. Of course, the cost of each medal is more significant for the manufacturer than the recipient (you can learn more about how the Olympic medals are made here). Olympic medals are not commonly sold and, when they are, typically go for a lot more than face value. In January, swimmer Ryan Lochte sold three gold medals for about $385,000, Swimming World reports. Previously, he sold six Olympic medals for $166,000.
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