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April 23, 2023
Being In Motion Vs Taking Action
[Morpheus to Neo]: Come on! Stop trying to hit me and hit me! –The Matrix (1999) Being in Motion Vs. Taking Action Sometimes people confuse the two because being in motion can feel like taking action, but it’s important to recognize that they are not the same. Being in motion is a necessary step towards […]
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June 1, 2020
Choose Yourself
You can either commune with James Altucher’s insights, but one thing you have to admit: when reading his book Choose Yourself! (or his blog), one feels like getting the right stimuli, even I could say getting superhuman powers, to become a Superman or a Wonder Woman, ready to save the world. No wonder why he has […]
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May 20, 2020
Every single intelligent person on the planet should read these books
Neil deGrasse, an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator, when asked which books should be read by every single intelligent person on the planet, listed the following eight books: 1.Holy Bible To learn that it’s easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself. 2.The System of […]
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May 18, 2020
Quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt
Ive always thought I wasnt a quitter till I read The Dip. Seth Godin considers winners those who quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt. Winners, he says, seek The Dip. On the contrary, losers either fail to stick out The Dip or they never even find the rigth dip to conquer. Quit the wrong []
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May 13, 2020
A life-altering perspective on the attainment of success
I came across Deepak Chopras The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by chance. The first thing I do when I get into a house is to go to the library (if any) and check out the shelves. For me, the books unveil part of the soul of their owner. I am not sure if this transformational book []
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February 16, 2020
New Findings on Great Performance
The author ofTalent is Overrateddiscovered that there is this body of scientific research that he (and almost nobody) didn’t really know about, and when he got into it, Geoff Colvin thought it was incredibly interesting and also extremely important. So he wrote about it. Talent is Overratedsheds some light on how even though most people […]
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February 8, 2020
Why some ideas stick, and others disappear?
Chip Heath & Dan Heath, authors ofMade to Stick, are interested in how effective ideas are constructed—what make some ideas stick and others disappear. In this way, they tell us that what stick is systematic creativity. Highly creative ads are more predictable than uncreative ones. It’s like Tolstoy’s quote: ‘All happy families resemble each other, […]
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January 31, 2020
Mastering New Skills: The Art of Learning
The Art of Learningis not about the story of a prodigy, but about how to pursue excellence through a love for the process of learning (or also called deliberate practice). To walk a thorny road, we may cover its every inch with leather or we can make sandals. Approaches to learning The author ofThe Art […]
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January 12, 2020
The Difference between Conscious Mind and Subconscious Mind
“You are victim of the rules you live by”—Jenny Holzer. Conscious Mind vs Subconscious Mind Humans have a conscious mind and a subconscious mind. The conscious mind is all the things you are currently aware of and thinking about. It contains all the thoughts, memories, feelings, and wishes. This also includes our memory, which is […]
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March 22, 2018
LinkFest ~ Best Reads on Writing, Screenwriting & Self-Publishing: Home Again
Alice: You know I’m forty, right? Harry: I knew that, like ballpark. –Home again, 2017. WRITING Script Classics: Everything I Needed to Know About Character Development I Learned From a Fish | WritersDigest.com Characters in Cars Thinking, or, How to Deal with the Passage of Time | WRITERS HELPING WRITERS® Should Your Main Character Be Likable? | Writer […]
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