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You Can Do Cool Sh*t

Agrawal’s adventures in leaving the well-trodden path behind and diving into the risky yet exhilarating unknown are the basis for Do Cool Sh*t: Quit Your Day Job, Start Your Own Business, and Live Happily Ever After– a self-help book for would-be entrepreneurs in need of a friendly kick in the pants.

Why should you do cool shit?

We are all born these golden creatures, these golden statues, and we have this authentic self inside of us. Over the course of the years, society and our families a...

Quiet Your Mind When Listening, Learning and Discovering Your Inner Self

The Book of Lifepresents365 Daily Meditations on Freedom, Personal Transformation, Living Fully, and Much More, from the Man the Dalai Lama Described as “One of the Greatest Thinkers of the Age”

Listen with ease

Have you ever sat very silently, not with your attention fixed on anything, not making an effort to concentrate, but with the mind very quiet, really still?

Then you hear everything, don’t you?

You hear the far off noises as well as those that are nearer and those that are very clo...

Quite Your Mind When Listening, Learning and Discovering Your Inner Self

The Book of Lifepresents365 Daily Meditations on Freedom, Personal Transformation, Living Fully, and Much More, from the Man the Dalai Lama Described as “One of the Greatest Thinkers of the Age”

Listen with ease

Have you ever sat very silently, not with your attention fixed on anything, not making an effort to concentrate, but with the mind very quiet, really still?

Then you hear everything, don’t you?

You hear the far off noises as well as those that are nearer and those that are very clo...

The Benefits Of Good Posture

Good Posture Made Easy: Look and Feel Your Best for Lifewill help you to help yourself. It is an illustrated, easy-to-read guide that will help anyone who works/plays at the computer, sits, drives, sleeps or stands (ie. everyone) to ensure that their daily activities are supporting their health and well being.

Has anyone ever told you, “Stand up straight!” or scolded you for slouching at a family dinner? Comments like that might be annoying—but they’re not wrong.

Your posture is the foundat...

How To Invent Yourself

As a professor at Yale, Bill Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation’s brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critically and creatively, and how to find a sense of purpose.

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Lifeis agroundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and living that elite schools should be—but aren’t—provi...

Is There Intelligent Life Out There In The Universe?

That question is more complicated than you might imagine.

What constitutes intelligent life? How does it come to be? How many totally random happenstances occurred just so we could exist, and could those happenstances occur again elsewhere out there? Why, as Fermi so astutely asked, haven’t intelligent beings communicated with us yet?

Theoretical physicist Brian Greene, author of The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos,a Columbia University professor, and chair...

Is There Intelligence Life Out There In The Universe?

That question is more complicated than you might imagine.

What constitutes intelligent life? How does it come to be? How many totally random happenstances occurred just so we could exist, and could those happenstances occur again elsewhere out there? Why, as Fermi so astutely asked, haven’t intelligent beings communicated with us yet?

Theoretical physicist Brian Greene, author of The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos,a Columbia University professor, and chair...

HUMP DAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing, Self-Publishing & Better Living: Productivity

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Quote of the day

You’re effective when you do the right things and you’re efficient when you do the things right.

~JASON GREENE, author ofProductivity: The Only 7 Tips You Need To Rapidly Increase Your Productivity(Double, Triple)

WRITING

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We can tella lot about people by the way they speak. What people say or don’t say speaks volumes. As the writer, it is our job to unders...

Is Happiness the Purpose of Life?

InHappiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill, amolecular biologist turned Buddhist monk, described by scientists as “the happiest man alive,” demonstrates how to develop the inner conditions for true happiness.

Who wants to suffer? Who wakes up in the morning thinking: ‘I wish I could suffer all day’?

We all strive, consciously or unconsciously, competently or clumsily, passionately or calmly, adventurously or routinely, to be happier and suffer less. Yet so often confus...

What Really Matters At The End Of Life

At the end of our lives, what do we most wish for?

In What Really Matters gleaned from her work as a hospice physician, Dr. Karen Wyatt shares the life lessons and spiritual transformations experienced by her patients and their loved ones at the end-of-life.

For many, it’s simply comfort, respect, love. BJ Miller is a palliative care physician at Zen Hospice Project who thinks deeply about how to create a dignified, graceful end of life for his patients. Take the time to savor this moving ta...