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Bookpickings.brainpickings. Culture - Feeling lovesick? These books can help. Dear Textual Healing, Unrequited love is not the only issue that 10th grade girls like me go through, though it is pertinent.

Culture - Feeling lovesick? These books can help

I am an avid reader with a love for modern teen fiction as well as 17th, 18th, and 19th-Century historical fiction; particularly drama at royal court. I have close friends, and quite an obsession for a certain 12th grade boy who barely notices me. Please recommend some literature that I would enjoy... 7-books-you-should-read-increase-your-productivity. Learning to be more productive is one of the best things we can do to be more effective and efficient with everything that we do.

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Being more productive means stuff takes less time, you make fewer mistakes and you make better quality progress towards some desired outcome. That said, it’s amazing they don’t teach basic productivity skills in schools and colleges. So, I’ve put together a short list of some of books that teach the essentials of productivity that everyone can benefit from. 1.The 4-Hour Work Weekby Tim Ferriss.

12 Books Steve Jobs Wanted You to Read. Toward the end of his life, Steve Jobs was open to the idea of an afterlife. 30 Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once In Their Lives. As March is National Reading Month in the USA, we thought we’d make a list of the 30 most influential and brilliant books you should read in your lifetime!

30 Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once In Their Lives

How many of these books have you read? Take a look and let us know! 1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Published in 1960, this timeless classic explores human behaviour and the collective conscience of The Deep South in the early 20th century. 2. 1984 by George Orwell Although 1984 has passed us by, George Orwell’s dystopian, totalitarian world of control, fear and lies has never been more relevant.

Books, Arts and Culture, Technology, Architects, Education, Products, Research. Simulation and Its Discontents, by Sherry Turkle (MIT Press, 2009) | “If a book’s worth can be measured by how many times you’ve cited it, or how many people you’ve recommend read it, then Simulation and Its Discontents may be the most valuable book I’ve ever read.

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And reread, sentence for sentence. Turkle is an incredible writer but it is the larger story she tells, of architects and scientists being introduced to computers in the 1980s, that sustains my interest years later. 25-essential-books-that-every-college-student-should-read. There is no college student who would like reading books, they say.

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Can you believe it? We hardly think so! Yes, reading is fashionable. Again. And every college student is always in fashion as a rule. Books widen your vocabulary;books help students find new models for academic writing;books improve your cognitive skills;books expand your view of the world around;books let students remember grammar and punctuation rules autmatically;books help students learn a subject better;books help you avoid a social exclusion (according to this study of the Basic Skills Agency). How to Get Out of Your Own Way and Unblock the “Spiritual Electricity” of Creative Flow.

By Maria Popova “No matter what your age or your life path … it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.”

How to Get Out of Your Own Way and Unblock the “Spiritual Electricity” of Creative Flow

“Art is not a thing — it is a way,” Elbert Hubbard wrote in 1908. But the question of what that way is, where exactly it leads, and how to best follow it is something artists have been grappling with since the dawn of recorded time and psychologists have spent decades trying to decode, outlining the stages of creativity, its essential conditions, and the best technique for producing ideas. In 1978, a few months after she stopped drinking, artist, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, composer, and journalist Julia Cameron began teaching artists — by the broadest possible definition — how to overcome creative block and get back on their feet after a “creative injury.” Art by Sydney Pink from 'Overcoming Creative Block.' Writing in the introduction to the 10th anniversary edition, Cameron adds to the most beautiful definitions of art: David Whyte on the True Meaning of Friendship, Love, and Heartbreak.

By Maria Popova “Heartbreak is how we mature… There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.”

David Whyte on the True Meaning of Friendship, Love, and Heartbreak

“Words belong to each other,” Virginia Woolf asserted in the only surviving recording of her voice. But words also belong to us, as much as we belong to them — and out of that mutual belonging arises our most fundamental understanding of the world, as well as the inescapable misunderstandings that bedevil the grand sensemaking experiment we call life. Cele mai bune cărți interzise din istoria literaturii. Cele mai frumoase cărți de dragoste. Un top al celor mai frumoase cărți despre iubire cred că ar întruchipa o culme a subiectivității în materie de lecturi.

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How successful people work less—and get more done. Josh Kaufman - Bestselling Author of The Personal MBA and The First 20 Hours. Amazon. 10-books-you-should-read-get-rich. The journey to get rich requires certain tools.

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Although many seem to ignore this, books can help you build your mind, zeal and knowledge to become successful and rich. Therefore I have taken the effort to look through some amazing books that can do a lot to get your financial journey oriented in the right direction. 1. The Millionaire Next Door This classic which was first published in 1996 and written by Thomas J. 2. Robert T. 3. Steve Siebold author of “How Rich People Think” has spent 30 years interviewing 1, 000 millionaires and billionaires to figure out what distinguished them from the average person. 4. Written in an era of Great Depression, author and former adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt interviewed over 500 successful people to discover the keys to good fortune. 5. Directed towards the middle class earners who are making entry level pay, author Farnoosh Torabi talks about how you can save money in certain areas of your life.

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Better than Before: A Psychological Field Guide to Harnessing the Transformative Power of Habit. By Maria Popova. Leapșa cărților necitite – fii cool pe Facebook! Prof. Daniel Kahneman: "Thinking, Fast and Slow" 7 Essential Books on the Art and Science of Happiness. By Maria Popova From Plato to Buddha, or what imperfection has to do with the neuroscience of the good life. If you, like me, are fascinated by the human quest to understand the underpinnings of happiness but break out in hives at the mere mention of self-help books, you’re in luck: I’ve sifted through my personal library, a decade’s worth of obsessive reading, to surface seven essential books on the art and science of happiness, rooted in solid science, contemporary philosophy and cross-disciplinary insight.

Amazon.com: Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (9780307273604): Mason Currey: Books. Andreea Raicu - Téléchargements mobiles. Take college and university courses online completely free. In recent years massive open online courses (MOOCs) have become a trend in online education. The term was coined in 2008 by David Cormier, manager of web communications and innovations at the University of Prince Edward Island. The first MOOC was created the previous year, at Utah State University. Today, there are hundreds of thousands of courses available online at no cost. You can study anything from business to zoology in your own home at no cost. MOOCs are designed like college courses but are available to anyone anywhere in the world, at no cost.

Coursera is perhaps the most well-known of the online education facilitators. EdX is another non-profit course site created by founding partners Harvard and MIT and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has their own open courseware, where most of the materials used in the teaching of almost all of MIT's subjects are available on the Web, free of charge. European institutions are also getting in on the act.

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Psychology. Literature. 40 Books To Unlock Your Creativity And Get You Started On Your Life's Best Work. Reading about creativity is a great way to inspire yourself, learn about what others have done in your field and motivate yourself to do your best work yet. There are plenty of books available out there to read about creativity, Amazon has a whole section dedicated to it, with over 5,000 titles currently available. To narrow it down a bit, here are our top picks to get you started on your journey of creativity.

What do they have in common? If you pick up a few, we think you’ll agree: according to some of the world’s most successful creative minds, creativity is something we all possess. These 40 books teach your how to reach out and grab it. 01. Lazy thinking is the bane of creativity. 02. Throughout this series on creativity, we have always said that tenacity and determination are just as important to creativity as that initial bright spark. 03.