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June 23, 2013
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May 23, 2013
The 5 Best High School Graduation Gift Books
What's the lamest high school graduation gift you've seen? How about a good book instead, for college prep or just for pure fun. Hey, I had to sneak my book onto this list.
The Best High School Graduation Gift Books
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May 22, 2013
My new blog: Social Media & Harassment Training for Employees
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.
Warren Buffett
I started a new blog a few months ago and will actively post newsworthy items:
Binder Law Training - Social Media & Harassment Training
Recent posts include:
Deleting online content is a tough task
Offended employee's tweet sets off a social media tsunami
The inspiration for this blog came from my years of conducting law training combined with teaching Social Media Law and Internet Law. Through these experiences, I co-published an article entitled:
Social Networks and Workplace Risk: Classroom Scenarios from a U.S. and EU Perspective,
30 Journal of Legal Education, pages 1-44 (2013)
I hope you find my past and future posts on this cutting edge topic useful.
Perry
Binder Law Training - Social Media & Harassment Training
(PerryBinder.com)
TOP TAKEAWAYS: SUCCESS IN ADJUSTING TO COLLEGE LIFE
TOP
TAKEAWAYS: SUCCESS IN ADJUSTING TO
COLLEGE LIFE
- Every college has many social and
career-focused organizations. Figure out
which groups to participate in for fun and for your future.
- Learn what your strengths are and how to
use them in stressful situations. You
already know what your weaknesses are – now figure out how to compensate for
them.
- Live life with no regrets but understand
the consequences of your decisions, whether they relate to classes, your
future, or personal matters.
PERSONAL
MOTIVATOR GOALS
Based
on Motivators 67-99, list three specific goals you will work on this year.
1.
2.
3.
College Success Motivator #99 - If possible, study abroad for a summer or semester. You’ll learn more about...
COLLEGE SUCCESS MOTIVATOR
#99
If
possible, study abroad for a summer or semester. You’ll learn more about life and yourself
than you will at your home institution.
Florence, Italy: http://perrybinder.blogspot.com/
College Success Motivator #98 - Here’s proof that there are many avenues to happiness...
COLLEGE SUCCESS MOTIVATOR
#98
Here’s proof that there are many avenues
to happiness. Preliminary findings in a
research study on Happiness reveals that the most happiness-inducing activities
in descending order are: Intimacy; Sports/running/exercise; Attending
theater/dance/concert; Singing/performing; Attending an
exhibition/museum/library; Hobbies/arts/crafts.
See
the Mappiness Project at http://www.mappiness.org.uk .
May 21, 2013
College Success Motivator #97 - Recommend to others the books which move you. Ask them...
COLLEGE SUCCESS MOTIVATOR
#97
Recommend
to others the books which move you. Ask
them to do the same for you.
Appendix E
Books that Motivate Professor Binder
The following books motivate me for
different reasons, whether it’s a book’s message, humor, or carefully crafted
words:
A People’s History of
the United States
by Howard Zinn – A historical perspective written about those who never get to
write the history books.
Biographies:
Ted Williams by Leigh Monteville
& Rod Serling by Joel Engel – I
love reading biographies of people who are no longer alive, so you get a
glimpse of their vibrancy in youth and the fragility of life toward the end.
Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe - The best
written book I’ve ever read.
Bright Lights Big City by Jay McInerney- A
wild and dizzying novel written from the hip.
Fire in the Streets:
America in the 1960’s
by Milton Viorst – This book discusses a lot of the volatile issues facing
America in a turbulent decade.
Essentials of
Screenwriting
by Richard Walter, Four Screenplays
by Syd Field, and How to Write a
Screenplay in 21 Days by Vicky King – Any writer can learn a lot about
structure from these books on the screenwriting process.
Heaven is a Playground by Rick Telander – The
best sports book ever written.
On Writing by Stephen King – The
word master offers a memoir with insights into his writing madness.
The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne
– A short story which reminds readers to appreciate what they’ve got, and not
obsess over trying to make a good thing perfect.
The Buffalo Creek
Disaster
by Gerald Stern – An excellent book which details a lawyer’s effort to hold a
mining company accountable for the deaths of several miners and family
members. This book does not offer the
fast-paced Hollywood glamorized version of a law case. Instead, the reader learns about how slow the
litigation process can be.
The Fifties by David Halberstam –
This 800-plus page book provides parallels between United States politics in
the 1950’s and politics near the turn of the century.
The Pre-Historic History
of the Far Side
by Gary Larsen – Larsen, a legendary cartoonist, adds commentary about his
cartoons in the funniest book I have ever read.
May 20, 2013
College Success Motivator #96 - Take a law or philosophy course if you seek different perspectives on...
COLLEGE SUCCESS MOTIVATOR
#96
Take a law or philosophy course if you
seek different perspectives on justice.
“Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of
the whole of humanity.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, author of The Gulag Archipelago, in a letter written in October 1967
May 19, 2013
College Success Motivator #95 - Take a Personal Finance course. Even philosophy majors can’t debate...
COLLEGE SUCCESS MOTIVATOR
#95
Take
a Personal Finance course. Even
philosophy majors can’t debate the meaning of a balanced checkbook.
May 18, 2013
College Success Motivator #94 - Empathy towards others is not a weakness. It is a...
COLLEGE SUCCESS MOTIVATOR
#94
Empathy
towards others is not a weakness. It is
a quality of maturity, strength, and clarity.
