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August 17, 2015
How To Run: Do’s and Don’ts
Evolutionary biology professor Daniel Lieberman, whose studies are the scient
ific backbone for Chris McDougall’s Born to Run
, gives five pointers on how he thinks you can run long distances better and injury-free.
One. Don’t overstride.
Overstriding is when you stick your leg out in front of you and you land with your foot in front of your knee and really way in front of your hip. A lot of people think they’re running hard when they do that. You know why? Because they are running hard.
So d...
TUESDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing, Self-Publishing, and Better Living: Intelligent Disobedience
Quote of the day
“I am helping to train a guide dog that will assist an individual who is blind. At my stage of training, the dog is learning to be comfortable in busy social situations and to obey all the basic commands she will be given when working as a guide dog. When I finish this part of her program, she will go to a more skilled trainer who will teach her Intelligent Disobedience.”
What do you mean by intelligent disobedience?
“Most of the time it’s really important that the dog obey...
August 16, 2015
The Five Levels of Attachment
In The Five Levels of Attachment
,Ruiz explores the five levels of attachment that cause suffering in our lives. The levels are:
Level One: The Authentic Self
The first level of attachment represents the Authentic Self, the living being that is the full potential of life. It describes that force that not only animates the body but also gives life to our mind and our soul.
The Authentic Self is always present, and it is on...
Overcoming Procrastination
Procrastination is not just about procrastination. It’s about a fundamental dilemma between what is good for us now and what is good for us in the long term, says workplace psychologist Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational
.
A fundamental dilemma between what is good for us now and what is good for us in the long term
As a university professor, procrastination is one of my favorite things, of course because I view it every time. And every semester I see the good intentions of my stu...
MONDAY LINKS ~ Best Reads on Writing, Self-publishing, and Better Living: The Art Of Seduction
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Quote of the day
Her seductive power, however, did not lie in her looks […]. In reality, Cleopatra was physically unexceptional and had no political power, yet both Caesar and Antony, brave and clever men, saw none of this. What they saw was a woman who constantly transformed herself before their eyes, a one-woman spectacle.
Her dress and makeup changed from day to day, but always gave her a heightened, goddesslike appearance. Her words could be bana...
August 13, 2015
Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life
Based on a legendary course Roth has taught at Stanford University for several decades, The Achievement Habitexplains:
Did Shakespeare write his plays?
Shakespeare and His Authors: Critical Perspectives on the Authorship Quest
iondeals withThe Shakespeare Authorship question – the question of who wrote Shakespeare’s plays and who the man we know as Shakespeare was – is a subject which fascinates millions of people the world over and can be seen as a major cultural phenomenon.
Some people question whether Shakespeare really wrote the works that bear his name – or whether he even existed at all. Could it be true that the greatest writer in the...
WEEKEND LINKS ~ Reads on Writing, Self-Publishing, and Better Living: Personality Not Included
Personality matters. Being faceless doesn’t work anymore. The theory of PNI is that personality is the answer. Personality is the key element behind your brand and what it stands for, and the story that your products tell to your customers.
~ROHIT BHARGAVA, author ofPersonality Not Included: Why Companies Lose Their Authenticity And How Great Brands Get it Back, Foreword by Guy Kawasaki
WRITING
Mind Mapping: A Pantser’s Path to the Perfect Story, Writers in the storm| Tw...August 12, 2015
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Acquiring The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
takes us through the stages of character development.
Habits 1 through 3 make up the “private victory” – where we go from dependence to independence by taking responsibility for our own lives.
Acquiring habits 4 through 6 is our “public victory”: Once independent, we learn to be interdependent, to succeed with other people. The seventh habit makes all the others possible – periodically renewing ourselves in mind body, and spirit.
1 HABIT ONE –...
The Chemistry of Social Networks
In Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Sh
ape Our Lives — How Your Friends’ Friends’ Friends Affect Everything You Feel, Think, and Do,
renowned scientists Christakis and Fowler present compelling evidence for our profound influence on one another’s tastes, health, wealth, happiness, beliefs, even weight, as they explain how social networks form and how they operate.
How have human social networks changed over the millennia?
Well I mean for thousands of years...
