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What is your why simon sinek6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And our reptilian brain is responsible for our vital functions such as heart rate and breathing. Our limbic brain is responsible for our emotions, memories, and habits. Our neocortex is responsible for reason, language, and learning. It should be to sell everyone who believes what you believe.įrom the top down, the human brain is broken into three major components: the neocortex, the limbic brain, and the reptilian brain. Your goal should not be to sell everybody who needs what you have. The why is the cause, purpose, and beliefs driving your idea.Īccording to Simon Sinek, people don't buy what you do they buy why you do it. The how is what differentiates your idea. But according to Sinek, inspiring leaders start from the inside of the Golden Circle and work their way out. They start with what, move to how, and then talk about why. Most people communicate by starting from the outside and working their way in. Simon Sinek codified a framework he calls the “Golden Circle”. The great inspiring leaders think, act, and communicate the same way. ![]() He is the author of five books, including Start With Why (2009) and The Infinite Game (2019). Simon Sinek is an American author and motivational speaker. ![]()
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Stealing Heaven by Elizabeth Scott6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() I still remember being surprised by how much fun writing was. I had no idea I wanted to write until I was twenty-seven and wrote a short story at work one day because I had nothing to do and was bored out of my mind. I feel terrible when people say, ‘Oh, you must have stories!’ and all I have is that my mother moved me for talking the first week of classes.Ĭould you tell us about your path to publication? Any sprints or stumbles along the way? And no, it wasn’t traumatic–I knew I was going to have them as teachers from the time I was very young, so I just took it as a given. ![]() ![]() My parents were both high school teachers, and yes, I had them both as teachers when I was in high school. Elizabeth Scott on Elizabeth Scott: “I grew up in a very rural area of Southern Virginia. ![]()
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Hard revolution by george pelecanos6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Pelecanos on a special publisher's tipped in limitation page. Fine, unread copy still in shrink-wrap, in fine dust jacket and slipcase as issued. From AudioFile:īook Description Quarter-morocco. Most recently, he has written a script based on a team in the American Basketball Association for HBO Films. As a screenwriter, he has written an adaptation of KING SUCKERMAN, and was co-writer on the recently completed feature PAID IN FULL. Pelecanos served as producer on several feature films. He is an award-winning journalist and pop-culture essayist who has written for THE WASHINGTON POST. ![]() His short fiction has appeared in ESQUIRE and the collections Unusual Suspects and Best American Mystery Stories of 1997. THE BIG BLOWDOWN was the recipient of the International Crime Novel of the Year award in both Germany and Japan KING SUCKERMAN was shortlisted for the Golden Dagger award in the UK. He is the author of nine crime/noir novels set in and around Washington, DC. He worked as a line cook, dishwasher, bartender, shoe salesman, electronics salesman, construction worker, and retail general manager before publishing his first novel in 1992. George Pelecanos was born in Washington, DC in 1957. ![]()
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The honourable schoolboy john le carré6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() In between Star Wars films, Alec Guinness’s interpretation of MI6 spymaster George Smiley created another character whose influence lingers (Stephen Rea’s jaded spook in BBC2’s The Honourable Woman was, in effect, Smiley redux). Its dour feel saturates both a soot-fogged London and nocturnal East Berlin, where the poisonous triple-bluff effected by the British Secret Service, with Alec Lemas (played by a splendidly ranty Richard Burton) as its unknowing pawn, moves inexorably towards its inevitable conclusion. The rights to The Spy Who Came in from the Cold were snapped up Paramount before the book had even been printed. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (film, 1965) ![]()
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Uncultured by Daniella Mestyanek Young6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() (clickable chapter markers available on YouTube) The next episode, we will focus on how she escaped, adjusted and joined the army, only to be re-traumatized all over again. This is the story of her childhood behind the walls of the compounds all over the world. Daniella Mestyanek Young was born and raised in the Children of God sex cult, who's goal was to raise sexually liberated children with little to no secular education. This is, however, an important story to tell. ![]() This episode is very heavy and potentially triggering. ***CONTENT WARNING: Mentions of child sexual assault/physical abuse, child trafficking and sex*** ![]()
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Caravaggio by Sebastian Schütze6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our company credo. TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Five accompanying chapters trace the complete arc of Caravaggio's career from his first public commissions in Rome through to his growing celebrity status and trace his tempestuous personal life, in which drama loomed as prominently as in his canvases. Each of his paintings is reproduced from recent top-quality photography, allowing for a vivid encounter with the artist's ingenious repertoire of looks and gestures, as well as numerous detail shots of his boundary-breaking naturalism. This edition offers a neat and comprehensive Caravaggio catalogue raisonné. Today, he is considered one of the greatest influences in all art history. Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial: violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run. Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), was always a name to be reckoned with. ![]()
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Nick carr the shallows6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Understanding Media, a cult classic, was a resounding warning shot to all consumers of media. The influential work most notable for Carr’s purposes was arguably Understanding Media, by Marshall McLuhan. Dyson’s Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence on the significance of Artificial Intelligence. ![]() Kandel’s In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind on the science of the brain, Paul Saenger’s Space between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading on the history of the book, and George B. To write his own book, Carr looked to references on a plethora of topics. Far before The Shallows was published, as Carr acknowledges in the “Further Reading” segment of the book, writers have been expressing concern about the effects of technology on our intelligence and our quality of life. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Two Frenchwomen have very different relationships with the supernatural side of Paris: Selene, the leader of House Silverspires, struggles to step into the shoes of its founder, the mysteriously missing Morningstar (aka Lucifer), and House alchemist Madeleine must balance her addiction to angel essence against her fears of being sent back to her former master, Asmodeus. Sixty years later, the city is still in ruins. ![]() In this rendition of history, Paris was devastated by a Great War that began in 1914-a war waged by its competing houses of Fallen angels and witches. Nebula-winner de Bodard makes her big-house debut (following the Obsidian and Blood trilogy, published by Angry Robot) with a gripping tragedy of forlorn individuals caught up in an angelic version of the Cold War. ![]()
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A Minute to Midnight by David Baldacci6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Oh, to find out what happens, you will have to read the book. Since Atlee is FBI, she offers to help the local sheriff untangle this murder, when…….Īnother body shows up, this one dressed in a tux and a top hat. WTF? Andersonville has not had a murder in….forever. In Andersonville, Atlee finds a few folks who remember her from 30 years ago, and are somewhat helpful in filling in missing information for her, when……Ī body shows up dressed in an old-fashioned marriage veil. Stationed in the two person (the other person being her assistant, Carol Blum) FBI office in Shattered Rock, Arizona (near the Grand Canyon), Atlee is having anger issues related to her 30 year old crisis and her boss gives her some time to visit her old home in Andersonville, Georgia to see if she can gather some cold-case info (and closure) on Mercy’s kidnapping. She is not making the progress she hopes. ![]() This is the second book in the Atlee Pine series.įBI Special Agent (and former Olympic weightlifter) Atlee Pine is convinced she has found her twin sister’s kidnapper.ĭaniel James Tor is a sociopathic killer spending the rest of his miserable life in a federal supermax prison in Colorado, and Atlee is there to visit him for the third time as she tries to understand why he took Mercy and almost killed Atlee (known then as Lee) when they were both 6 years old. ![]()
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Plantinga where the conflict really lies6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() How is it different from the evolutionary theory (standard one)? The naturalistic evolutionary theory believes in a blind and unguided natural processes.In my class, we talked about the idea of an undefeatable defeator.Hoping my understanding is correct, I have the following questions I'm seeking clarifications on: Self-defeating idea of naturalistic evolution of beings. Their very belief in naturalism is undermined. Naturalists are, according to their own view, not reliable. The latter part allows us to logically deduce that all beliefs held by Reproduction, without much consideration for producing true beliefs. Our cognitive faculties has been to evolve to enhance survival and Theory is self-defeating if one believes in the naturalisticĮvolution of beings, then he/she believes that the main purpose for I have been reading Plantinga's argument against naturalistic evolution and have come across the following understanding:Īccording to Plantinga, believing in naturalism and evolutionary This is my first semester of Philosophy so I hope I'm not asking obvious, low-level questions. My advanced apologies if my question is not appropriate for this website. ![]() |