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5 Traits of The New Entrepreneurz or FreshBizers

A month ago or so, I met Ronen Gafni, the author of The New Entrepreneurz,in New York. He shared some of his insights on the new entrepreneurial mindset and I confess, my Dear Readers, I played the devil’s advocate (I can’t help! Sometimes the lawyer I have inside comes out.), even though I felt we were sharing the same approach on how to play the business game, and perhaps also the life game. He did it quite well because he left me wanting to learn more about the Win-to-the-Winth-Power thin...

What Makes Muscles Grow?

The better you understand anatomy, the better you understand yourself. The Muscle Book clearly identifies all the major muscles of the human body and shows how they work.

We have over 600 muscles in our bodies that help bind us together, hold us up, and help us move. Your muscles also need your constant attention, because the way you treat them on a daily basis determines whether they will wither or grow. Jeffrey Siegel illustrates how a good mix of sleep, nutrition and exercise keep yo...

The Riddle of the Self

For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Waking Up is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.

What are we calling ‘I’?

One thing each of us knows for certain is that reality vastly exceeds our awareness of it.

One question immediately presents itself: Where am I that I have such a poor view of things? And what sort of thing am I that both my outside and my inside are so obscure? And outside and inside of what? My sk...

Life: Your Greatest Design Challenge

Determining what defines a happy life is more difficult today than it was for previous generations. In this video, designer Ayse Birsel, author of Design the Live you Love, demonstrates how a shift in perspective can help bridge this newfound difficulty. Once you deconstruct your life, she explains, you’ll be able to determine values, opinion, strategies, and vision for everything else moving forward.

How to have a good life

Today I think there are no roadmaps as to how to have a good life....

Epicurus on Freedom and Friendship

In Travels with Epicurus, Klein uncovers the simple pleasures that are available late in life, as well as the refined pleasures that only a mature mind can fully appreciate.

On freeing ourselves from the prison of everyday affairs

In Epicurus’s view, true happiness is a bargain, like, say, boiled lentils–or a yogurt dip. In a serene old age, who really feels deprived if he can’t feast on slow-roasted pheasant or, for that matter, the poached salmon with truffles my wife and I dined on just...

Everything We Know of Female Sexuality is Changing

So much of what we assume is true about female sexuality stems from spuriousresearch from the 1990s that’s slowly and surely being tossed out in favor of new findings. Critically acclaimed journalist Daniel Bergner has spent a great part of the past decade researching this topic for articles and other publications, including his 2013 book What Do Women Want?

In this video, he dives through the common misconceptions and explains how female sexuality is not naturally predisposed to be restr...

Jefferson and The Pursuit of Happiness

In The Happy Life, Malouf traces our conception of happiness throughout history, distilling centuries of thought into a lucid narrative. He discusses the creation myths of ancient Greece and the philosophical schools of Athens, analyzes Thomas Jefferson’s revolutionary declaration that “the pursuit of happiness” is a right, explores the celebration of sensual delight in Rembrandt and Rubens and offers a perceptive take on a modern society growing larger and more impersonal.

The United States...

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Quote of the day

If the passions are the mind’s great dramas, the emotions are its actors. Throughout our lives they rush through our minds like an unruly river, determining countless states of happiness and unhappiness. Should we try to tame this river? Is it even possible?

The easiest way to distinguish between our emotions is to examine their motivation and their results. If an emotion strengthens our inner peace and seeks the good of others, it...

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WRITING

How to write dialect, Elizabeth Spann Craig| Tweet

What determines a heavy accent is who is listening! If the person listening speaks the same as you, then you won’t notice an accent. If the person listening has never heard anyone speak like you, then YOU have a heavy accent.

Emotional Wounds Entry: Being the Victim of a Vicious Rumor, Writers Helping Writers| Tweet

Characters, like real people, are unique, and will respond to wounding events differently. The vast array of pos...

How Do Superforecasters Predict the Future?

The science of prediction is of particular interest to University of Pennsylvania professor Philip Tetlock, a political scientist who has written a new book on the subject: Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction.

In this video, Tetlock runs through the thought processes of professional media prediction-makers whose livelihoods depend not on being right, but on being right enough.

Famous pundits virtually never make falsifiable forecasts

We know virtually nothing about the forec...