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#1 Ten to Zen is based on my years of experience and professional training, but it is also based on a common-sense approach gained from observing what actually works for people.
#2 I live with my partner, Mark, and we have a dog named Kate. Kate teaches us how to live calmly. She is the master of Zen. Every time I've run a marathon, I've brought my travel card in case...
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#1 The neck is a dead giveaway. It starts to go at 43, and there's nothing you can do about it. You can put makeup on your face and concealer under your eyes, but that won't help you conceal your neck.
#2 If you are a certain age, you try to avoid looking in the mirror. If you have to, you begin by squinting so that if anything bad is looking back at you, you are already...
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#1 I was on a slope about two hours away from Wakayama Point in 1974, waiting for the time to pass. I had met and talked with Norio Suzuki two weeks before, and he had left a message for me to meet him there again. I was still afraid it might be a trap.
#2 When I met with Major Taniguchi, he gave me a pack of cigarettes with the chrysanthemum crest of the emperor on...
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#1 I was seven years old when I saw my father's neck bulge as he searched the neighborhood for men who might have been following my mother home. I didn't know that people could live together harmoniously without punching holes in the walls or kicking the dog.
#2 My mother, Linda, was twenty-five years old and the most beautiful woman I ever saw. She had long silky hair...
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Book Preview: #1 Africa is a vast, ancient continent with endless plains and forests. It is a country of death and renewal, and humans are only visiting.
#2 A hunter was watching a pride of lions feed on a carcass, when he saw a lioness climb onto her back legs and begin feeding. He never shot the lioness, because he knew that he would be in big trouble if he harmed a female.
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Get the Summary of Samuel Moyn's Humane in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, Samuel Moyn asks a troubling but urgent question: What if efforts to make war more ethical-to ban torture and limit civilian casualties-have only shored up the military enterprise and made it sturdier? To advance this case, Moyn looks back at...
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Get the Summary of William H. McRaven's Sea Stories in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, and the raid to kill Osama bin Laden.
Sea Stories begins in 1963 at a French...
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Book Preview: #1 I was 45 years old, unmarried, and my waistline was long since vanished. But today, I thought, the maroon dress looked very smart. I was going to the party with Betsie, who was seven years older than me.
#2 I had loved to step into the customers' part of the shop with its glass case full of watches. It was still dark outside because the shutters had not been drawn...
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#1 I was a night person until I realized that I was missing out on important parts of life. I reluctantly became a morning person, and I've never looked back. Mornings are like a secret that I've been missing for years.
#2 The first two mornings are chaos and then overwhelm, while the third morning is calm and control. With Miracle Mornings, you can wake up with energy...
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#1 There are many faces of London, depending on whom it is speaking to. For tourists, there is the pageantry and ceremony of the Changing of the Guards, which is for the tourists. For locals, there are the suburbs with their semi-detached houses, hedges, no-through-roads, and parks.
#2 The second place to go with this story is to look back at 2 Woodberry Grove and ask why Pompolo,...
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#1 The Moores were a typical family with two kids and no money. They switched to a Baptist church after their old community shunned Christy because she got pregnant out of high school. They eventually bought a Japanese restaurant in a strip mall in Georgia.
#2 Christy used to take her daughter to the public library for toddler time. One day, she grabbed a book, Wuthering...
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Book Preview: #1 My parents were very different in temperament. My mother was the one who looked back, fretted, and viewed with alarm. My father lived for the future, and he always hoped for the best.
#2 When my father and his family arrived in Concordia, they were greeted by two brothers, T and Erv Medlin, who told them they had never before seen a Jew who wasn't a peddler. When...
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#1 There are two ways to experience the police in America: as the people you call when there is a problem, or as the people who are called on you. For many, the police are the ones who are called on them.
#2 I was a college student at the time, and I was carrying weed to a Republican convention. I was almost caught, but fortunately nothing bad came out of it. With...
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#1 I grew up in a church where the intercessors were always sad looking people, and I did not see them as happy. I did not know that it was possible for intercessors to be happy.
#2 I spent so much time carrying so many feelings inside of me and internalizing them as if they were my own that I became depressed. I took those words as truth and became a quiet one who was...
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Get the Summary of William Strauss and Neil Howe's The Fourth Turning in 20-minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five-hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four eras, or "turnings",...
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#1 The first principle of intellectual integrity is not to hide from truths, no matter how ugly or challenging they may be. Yet there are truths today that many people are choosing to ignore because they do not want to see or understand them.
#2 The world is already nightmarish for many humans and animals, and it is possible that we will look back on these times as...
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#1 Ray Pagano, the founder of Videolarm, had a life after business when he decided to think about leaving in 2004. He had other interests and passions that he wanted to pursue, and he had a limited number of years to pursue them.
#2 Pagano knew he had to extract himself from the company in order to get a good deal. He knew that as long as he was essential to the company's...
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#1 Manifesting is not just thinking something is going to happen, it is encompassing that reality with your entire being. It is standing on a hearth and believing you're on the stage of an arena. It is writing songs and feeling that what you write will reach the masses.
#2 I was in Atlanta with my best friend, Bugus, who was rapping. We needed to get on MTV, so we went...
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#1 I am an artist, and I have been for most of my life. I am the one who is supposed to be feeding people's souls, but I have failed to do so. I have extended that care into a vision for culture at large.
#2 The key to recognizing genesis moments is to remember that every moment is fresh. Creativity applied in a moment of weakness and vulnerability can turn failure into...
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#1 I was born in 1933 in London, England. I suffered from rickets, a disease of poverty that causes weak bones, and I tottered up and down those stairs in surgical boots. I left school at 16 with a small handful of exam passes, and found and got sacked from a handful of menial office jobs.
#2 I learned early on that everything can have its good side for you personally....
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