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Two Man Staff Drills from China Spinning Staff Techniques Learn the deadly combination of strategy and attitude Decoding Chinese Form

I asked a group of lucky and unlucky volunteers to spend a month carrying out exercises designed to help them think and behave like a lucky person. Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn - Telegraph

Table of Contents - Microsoft Research Edited by Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley, and Kristin Tolle

Manifesto for Agile Software Development James Grenning Jim Highsmith

This talk centered on Hamming's observations and research on the question ``Why do so few scientists make significant contributions and so many are forgotten in the long run?'' From his more than forty years of experience, thirty of which were at Bell Laboratories, he has made a number of direct observations, asked very pointed questions of scientists about what, how, and why they did things, studied the lives of great scientists and great contributions, and has done introspection and studied theories of creativity. The talk is about what he has learned in terms of the properties of the individual scientists, their abilities, traits, working habits, attitudes, and philosophy. You and Your Research

Jennifer Burns on the surprising popularity of a libertarian her Even the mea culpa of Rand's most famous fan and follower, former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, has done little to dent the appeal of her radical individualism and libertarianism, which Rand shaped into a philosophy she called Objectivism. But all this makes a certain amount of sense.

As a former philosophy student, I was reminded of Aristotle’s concept of “ hamartia ,” sometimes known as a “fatal flaw”: What carries you up will also bring you down — cdixon.org – chri

This isn't a philosophical statement at all. The Universal Law of Leverage

Philosophy since the Enlightenment, by Roger Jones

Buddhism in a Nutshell - Characteristics It advises all sentient beings how to accord with and manipulate the principle, in order to pursue the ultimate liberation and happiness by the highest level of wisdom. It is much more than a science, a philosophy or a religion. To be more exact, believing in Buddhism is a process of learning!