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Category Archives: Great Books
The Four Agreements and Personal Freedom
The Four Agreements talks a great deal about personal freedom and this excerpt from the book explains it perfectly. The rest of the book details how to recover this lost freedom, which is why it’s quickly become one of my … Continue reading
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Practice
In the movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray plays a weatherman named Phil Connors who gets stuck in a time loop in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Cursed to repeat the same day indefinitely, Connors uses his abundance of time to learn a variety … Continue reading
Posted in Getting Along with Each Other, Great Books, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged bearing fruit, Benjamin Franklin, Bill Murray, communication, Dale Carnegie, Groundhog Day, habits, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Life Hacks, Practice, pruning, self-improvement, skills, time loop
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Free Will
Before this year, I had never given much thought to free will. I thought that humans have free will but was never a major point of interest for me. This year, however, I’ve spent a lot of time reading about … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Duhigg, cyclical time, Eckhart Tolle, ego, emotion, free will, habit, influence, influences, Jonathan Haidt, Neil Howe, patterns, persuasion, Pre-Suasion, Presence, reason, Robert Cialdini, The Fourth Turning, The Power of Habit, The Power of Now, The Righteous Mind, William Strauss
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A Prediction from The Fourth Turning
The following is an excerpt from The Fourth Turning, which was published in 1997 by William Strauss and Neil Howe. This is a piece of their prediction of what will likely occur from approximately 2005 to 2026, though reading the … Continue reading
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Review of The Power of Habit
One of my favorite books is The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. In addition to being an engaging read, it’s one of the most useful books I’ve ever read. Here are a few of the bits I enjoyed the … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Duhigg, cravings, cues, free will, habits, Life Hacks, Review of The Power of Habit, rewards, routines
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Six Simple Steps for Understanding Other Perspectives
I’ve read a lot about communication and I’ve synthesized what I’ve learned about seeing things from someone else’s perspective into this blog post. These techniques work well for me and several friends have said that they also find the techniques … Continue reading
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Tagged calmness, civil conversations, common ground, communication, good intentions, hostility, How to Win Friends and Influence People, perspective changes, points of agreement, Six Simple Steps for Understanding Other Perspectives, techniques, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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Begin with the End in Mind
This is a thought experiment from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People that highlights the importance of Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind. For me, this is one of the most powerful segments from the book and … Continue reading
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Review of 12 Rules for Life
I enjoyed reading 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson. Those of you who have read my post on how much my life has been positively affected by hearing a piece of simple advice from Peterson probably aren’t surprised that I … Continue reading
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Books
I’ve always loved books. As a kid, I’d frequently visit the library and get whatever books looked interesting to me; sometimes I’d already read them and other times they were new to me. This is why I’ve never understood people … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Carl Sagan, discovery, entertainment, information, knowledge, learning, reading
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Review of The Fourth Turning
If you have just a few pieces of a puzzle with tens of thousands of pieces and no reference picture, you won’t know what you’re looking at or how the pieces all fit together. As you gain more pieces, gradually … Continue reading
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Tagged Awakening, Crisis, cyclical time, generational theory, High, linear time, Neil Howe, optimism, saeculum, The Fourth Turning, turning, Unraveling, William Strauss
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