![]() ![]() Knowing how to get facts more important than having them ![]() Use mind to think not as warehouse for facts The Thinking you do is more important than the brain you have Remind self often it’s Better to wear out than rust out Never sell yourself short.Ģ cure yourself of excuseitis, the failure diseaseīe genuinely Grateful you are as healthy as you are Remind yourself you are better than you think you are. The title of the book made me think this would be all about exponential and 10X thinking and creativity, but in fact it was just about how to succeed in life, be effective at your work, and be a good human being throughout. The book reminded me a lot of How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, another classic on similar subjects. ![]() It started off kind of dry and folksy, and I didn't know what all the fuss was about, but as I got into it, I realized how much timeless wisdom and good advice there was collected in these pages for all areas of life. Schwartz, and it was on my reading list for a while, and now I finally had a chance to read it. Tim Ferriss has constantly been mentioning The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. ![]()
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![]() But he’s firmly back in her life before she knows it, and not only is he older, he’s impossibly more handsome, more teasing and more everything. She just never expected Brock to be a part of her life again. She takes a job at her father’s martial arts Academy and she’s going out on her first date since a failed relationship that was more yuck than yum. ![]() It takes six years to slowly glue together the shattered pieces of her life, but Jillian is finally ready to stop existing in a past full of pain and regret. The same night her childhood love, Brock ‘the Beast’ Mitchell, broke her heart, her life was irrevocably altered by the hand of a stranger with a gun. Jillian Lima’s whole world was destroyed in a span of a few hours. Full of familiar, fan-favorite characters and no two people more deserving of a happy ending, Fire In You will burn bright beyond the last page… ![]() From the # 1 New York Times and International bestselling author comes a richly moving story about heartbreak and guilt, second chances and hope. ![]() ![]() ![]() HOUSE OF SECRETS is really fun start to a series that promises to keep readers invested and enchanted. The Walker siblings are a lively, unique bunch, and the world in which they find themselves is full of danger and tests of their loyalty. It’s a fast-paced, imaginative, funny story that’s got heart and laughs. I’m not even kidding–so it goes without saying that I’m so excited to be able to tell you all how much fun Chris Columbus and Ned Vizzini‘s book is. Welcome to my stop on the HOUSE OF SECRETS blog tour! I was stoked to read this book–HELLO! It’s blurbed by J.K. Suddenly the siblings find themselves launched on an epic journey into a mash-up world born of Kristoff’s dangerous imagination, to retrieve a dark book of untold power, uncover the Walker family’s secret history and save their parents. Now the family is moving into Kristoff House, a mysterious place built nearly a century earlier by Denver Kristoff, a troubled writer with a penchant for the occult. ![]() ![]() but everything changed when their father lost his job as a result of an inexplicable transgression. ![]() Summary: The Walker kids had it all: loving parents, a big house in San Francisco, all the latest video games. Source: ARC from the publisher for blog tour ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Human potentials, on the other hand, are strong in areas long important for survival, but weak in things far removed. “Computers are universal machines, their potential extends uniformly over a boundless expanse of tasks. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality Figure 12.2 illustrates this four-level multiverse hierarchy, one of the core ideas of this book.” ![]() ![]() Whereas all the parallel universes at Levels I, II and III obey the same fundamental mathematical equations (describing quantum mechanics, inflation, etc.), Level IV parallel universes dance to the tunes of different equations, corresponding to different mathematical structures. The first three levels correspond to noncommunicating parallel universes within the same mathematical structure: Level I simply means distant regions from which light hasn't yet had time to reach us, Level II covers regions that are forever unreachable because of the cosmological inflation of intervening space, and Level III, Everett's "Many Worlds," involves noncommunicating parts of the Hilbert space of quantum mechanics. “In other words, the idea is the there's a fourth level of parallel universes that's vastly larger than the three we've encountered so far, corresponding to different mathematical structures. ![]() ![]() His father was a successful lawyer and Verne was able to travel from a very young age. He had a fairly peaceful and comfortable childhood. Jules Gabriel Verne was born into a middle-class family in the French city of Nantes in 1828. He was a key literary figure, but also a revolutionary in the scientific world. Verne used science in his books and reinvented fictional travel stories. He even incorporated scientific and technological advances of the time. He gave countless details and explained how each machine worked. The French writer recorded all the details of his inventions in his books. ![]() ![]() When submarines were still no more than a fantasy and electric motors didn’t exist, Verne created the Nautilus, a perfectly detailed and developed submarine. In his writing, Jules Verne managed to successfully combine engineering, science, and literature. It’s also incredible how a man from the 19th century was able to predict some future discoveries and inventions. Immersing yourself in Verne’s incredible adventures is fascinating. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When their error was exposed, the original sightings, it seems, were forgotten. The Gloucester sea serpent faded from memory because the New England Linnaean Society got it wrong, creating a new species based on a snake plagued by rickets. Whatever it was, it was not a hoax or a hallucination. ![]() Stephenson’s sea serpent mural, likewise, has become a fixture of the community, perhaps more so than the monster itself. After he retired, he returned to Gloucester and formally began his training as a painter, and became a local fixture until his death in 2013. Robert Stephenson had only graduated from high school when he painted the beast in 1955, before joining the Army. ![]() It has four stubby legs, each with ferocious claws, and a long jaw and red sliver of a tongue. On a large boulder that marks the end of the beach, a long, loosely coiled creature that looks a bit like the ampersand on the Dungeons and Dragons logo. Any weekend now, though, the tourists will be back, breathing life once more into Cape Ann.ĭown on Cressy Beach, on a shoal of rocks beneath a promontory, there is a mural of the sea serpent. For months the town has sheltered in place through the winter, like any seaside town-half the houses empty, the businesses with reduced hours. The whole town seems to be holding its breath for the tourist season, just about to begin. A rainy, early spring day in Gloucester, Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a queer woman living in Seattle, Berney expects that medical spaces will be designed with her in mind. Questions of where to acquire sperm, how to aid conception and how to know if you are receiving adequate medical care unfold through a series of well-drawn scenes. Once they agree, the book moves on to explore the unique concerns of two women pursuing pregnancy and making a family. It’s a decision that cannot be rushed and requires both women to be patient and steadfast. But her partner, Kellie, is less sure, and Berney shares their story, relating how she and Kellie stayed present with each other as they felt their way through the decision to start a family. Her longing is palpable and moving in The Other Mothers: Two Women’s Journey to Find the Family That Was Always Theirs as she expresses her desire to care for another little creature, to nurture a life and see it thrive. From a young age, writer Jennifer Berney knew she wanted a baby. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her sister suggests adoption, but Macey and Ben aren’t interested in pursuing that path.until a three-legged Golden Retriever named Keeper wags his way into their home and their hearts. After her fifth miscarriage in six years, Macey worries that the family they’ve always dreamed of might be out of reach. The only thing missing is what they want the most. Macey and Ben Samuelson have much to be thankful for: great friends, a beautiful-if high-maintenance-Victorian house on idyllic Tybee Island, and a rock-solid marriage. “A multi-leveled, beautifully written story that will glow in readers’ hearts long after the last page is turned.”-Kristan Higgins, New York Times bestselling authorĬan the course that they’ve set for the future handle a slight detour.? The first novel in a new series from bestselling author Nan Rossiter tells the moving story of a couple struggling to start a family and the young foster girl with a heart condition who changes their lives forever. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm afraid I must counter that this argument is somewhat misguided. The mathematics involved is merely the argument, voiced recently in genuiune scientific forums, that the parameters of the universe are just right for life and therefore are evidence that the universe was created with us in mind. Together with these aliens, a representative of humanity `goes to meet his maker' in the far reaches of space where god is apparently preventing a supernova from destroying the Earth. ![]() Here, we encounter aliens who view the existence of god (a creator of the universe) as a scientifically proven fact. Though it is considerably less mathematical than Factoring Humanity, it holds together a bit better as a novel. (click on names to see more mathematical fiction A list compiled by Alex Kasman ( College of Charleston) ![]() ![]() ![]() Sentient, meanwhile, is the director-focused management-production company that packaged and produced Maps to the Stars, David Cronenberg‘s latest outing that netted Julianne Moore a best actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival. It’s also the third pairing for Rona and Heineman with Studiocanal it follows Non-Stop, one of Studiocanal’s biggest action hits, and Gunman, which Open Road is due to release Feb. ![]() The deal marks the first for Rona’s and Heineman’s newly formed Picture Company and the first under its pact with Studiocanal. ![]() And it launched an acclaimed series for Wood, whose real name is Tom Hinshelwood. While the plot is something spy-thriller fans may have seen before - a hitman on the run, chased and double-crossed by many parties - the book was widely praised for having a charismatic lead and for the creativity of the relentless action. MIPTV: Benedict Cumberbatch to Star in TV Adaptation of Matt Haig Best-Seller 'How to Stop Time' ![]() |