Hello all!
Answer to Friday’s conundrum: Asking about the camels passing each other, hopefully you’ll be able to make sense of the picture as I think writing it down would be more difficult to understand! In this, R are camels travelling from left to right, and L are the camels going from right to left.
I think the title is pretty self-explanatory so, without further ado, I’m going to give you the brief life story of one of the richest and most famous Brits – Sir Richard Branson.
Born on 18th July 1950 in London, Richard Branson is the founder of Virgin Group. While Virgin was officially founded in 1970, his start to the rise of the business world started 4 years earlier. He had very poor academic results and was (I guess, still is) dyslexic and on his last day of school, his headmaster told him he would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. So after dropping out of school, aged 16, he launched his first successful business (after trying to sell Christmas trees and budgerigars) which is a magazine called Student. The first issue appeared in 1968. In 1970 he starts his own mail-order record shop not only does he opens up his first shop on Oxford Street a year later, but a year after that he opens a recording studio too! By 1980, Virgin Records had gone international and would later be sold for $1bn.
He was knighted in 2000 for “services to entrepreneurship” which, given everything he’d done, I guess that’s fair enough. However, he didn’t just give up and accept he is one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time, he continued to innovate and create at the same rate (if not more-so) than before! Since then, he’s launched more airlines, got his own Formula 1 team and gyms across the globe. But, perhaps most interestingly, he’s launched Virgin Galactic – he’s aiming to be the first person to commercialise space travel… Though he does have tough competition against both NASA and Elon Musk (founder of Tesla) and his SpaceX project.
Just as a few extra facts, he called it Virgin because of his inexperience in the business world. He’s also got his own private, luxury island (Necker Island) where you can pay $4,280-6,900 per couple per night (either 4 or 7 nights) but it looks incredible and you may even be lucky enough to be there at the same time as him and meet him. Just to make sure he really has done everything, he’s published 7 books as well, 4 of which were since 2010. And finally, as of January 2016, he the 9th richest Briton with a net worth of roughly £3.6bn.
I guess he took the “jail or a millionaire” conversation to heart and ran with it. But anyway, I hope you all enjoyed this and maybe even learned something new. I’m not gonna lie, he is definitely some sort of inspiration to me and you can probably see why! Who’s an influence for your life? Let me know what you think.
Keep well ’til tomorrow, great things to come!
Ross *)”(* Coles
CONUNDRUM: One of these spirals is formed with a single piece of rope that has its ends joined. The other spiral is formed with two separate pieces of rope, each with joined ends. Can you tell which is which by using only your eyes? Sorry, no tracing with your finger!
QUOTE: “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over” – Richard Branson.
FACT: Cherophobia is the fear of fun.
JOKE: Years ago I used to supply Filofaxes for the Mafia. Yes, I was involved in very organised crime.
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