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Merry Christmas Baby

Merry christmas baby

Babe you sure did treat me nice

Yeah! merry merry merry christmas baby

Babe you sure did treat me nice

Gave me a diamond ring for christmas

And now I’m living in paradise

Oh! I’m feeling mighty fine this morning

I’ve got good music on my radio

Hey baby, I’m feeling mighty fine

I’ve got good music on my radio

I would love to hug and kiss you baby

While you’re standing beneath the mistletoe

Santa came down the chimney

About half past three

He got all of these presents that you’ll use

See,...

HUMP DAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Perseverance

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Quote of the day

There are million reasons why not, but there is one good reason why, which is this: you just have to persevere.

~GARY VAYNERCHUK.

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS

You really, really shouldn’t have…(The Undercover Economist Strikes Back) , Tim Harford

SUCCESS

This is the biggest obstacle to success, Medium

LIFESTYLE

Solo weddings in Japan: All of the glamour, none of the relationship, Mashable

For the love of stuff(The Meaning of Things),The A...

30 True Things You Need To Know Now

Gordon Livingston, MD is a psychiatrist who has spent the last thirty years listening to other people’s most intimate secrets and troubles.

He is the author ofToo Soon Old, Too Late Smart.Out of his lifetime experience, he has extracted thirty bedrock truths, including:

1. If the map doesn’t agree with the ground, the map is wrong.

Lao-Tzu said ‘He who know others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.’ Perhaps to know oneself is a task which lasts a lifetime, or even more, but it’s the on...

The Ultimate Hitch Cookbook

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For me Cinema is not a slice of life but a piece of cake.

~ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Alfred Hitchcock, an English film director and producer, often nicknamed ‘The Master of Suspense’, pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres.The magazine MovieMaker has described him as the most influential filmmaker of all time,and he is widely regarded as one of cinema’s most significant artists.

This video is aboutThe Ultimate Hitch Cookbook,an an...

TUESDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Handwriting Is A Complex Task

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Quote of the day

Handwriting is a complex task which requires various skills – feeling the pen and paper, moving the writing implement, and directing movement by thought.Children take several years to master this precise motor exercise: you need to hold the scripting tool firmly while moving it in such a way as to leave a different mark for each letter.

~EDOUARD GENTAZ, professor of developmental psychology.

CREATIVITY

Abandon ideas to discover creative ones,...

Writing Compelling Approaches That Express Your Character’s True Feelings

Whereas in Plot & Structurewe got tips on how to build a novel, Creating Character Emotionshelps writers to find creative images, words and gestures to evoke feelings.

Ann Hood gives two pieces of advice:

1. To write like yourself. As Janet Burroway says in her book Writing Fictionthat the ideas must be experienced through or with the characters ; they must be felt or the fiction will fail.

2. To separate life from fiction. We can’t rely on easy emotional associations or true stories to render f...

Your Life Is Your Most Important Project

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Ayse Birsel is chief Deconstruction:Reconstruction officer. As co-founder of Birsel + Seck, she strives to design a life people will love. She is co-author ofRe:Solve The Resolve Story

I used to be a designer of products but now I am designer of life.

I put aside an hour every day to think and not judge what I was doing.

Deconstructing is breaking something apart so you are delinking and breaking the preconceptions so that you can develop a point of view a...

MONDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: The Recipe For Finding Optimal Love

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Quote of the day

Here is the recipe for finding optimal love:

Step 1: Estimate how many people you could date in your life, n.

Step 2: Calculate the square root of that number, √n.

Step 3: Date and reject the first √n people; the best of them will set your benchmark.

Step 4: Continue dating people and settle down with the first person to exceed the benchmark set by the initial √n dates.

~MATT PARKER, author ofThings to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

HEAL...

Creativity and The Artist in The Modern World

The artist appeals to that part of our being…which is a gift and not an acquisition—and, therefore, more permanently enduring .
—Joseph Conrad.

WithThe Giftwe can learn that a gift is kept alive by its constant donation. Lewis Hyde gives it to us.

Thelabor of gratitude

Once a gift has stirred within us it is up to us to develop it. There is a reciprocal labor in the maturation of a talent. The gift will continue to discharge its energy so long as we attend to it in return.

The ‘cult of genius’ tu...

Love Letters to Strangers

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Hannah Brechner has always loved that her family communicates via handwritten letters. In October of 2010, she began writing love letters intended for strangers and tucking them away in libraries and cafes across New York City, for people to randomly discover. Soon, she offered on her blogHannahBrencher.com to write a letter to anyone who needed one. Over the next year, she mailed out more than 400 hand-penned letters. Today she runsThe World Needs M...