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Best Classic Books to Read

Best Classic Books to Read
Reading classic books can boost your learning experience. There are some reasons why classic books can do that: they have stood the test of time, they give you different “lenses” to look through, and they will most likely be relevant even to the far future. Reading the classics is an excellent intellectual exercise which will arm you with a lot of powerful intellectual tools. To find good classic books, there are trusted recommendations that can help us. The recommendations are found in the books How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles van Doren, and The Well-Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer, both of which I believe are high-quality books. While I believe a book which is recommended by any of them is good, I think it’s safe to say that a book which is recommended by both of them is great. So without further ado, here are the recommended classic books along with the Amazon and free download links (if any): Novel Autobiography and Memoir History Drama Poet

23 Practical Things You Can Do to Make Your Life More Fulfilling How can we live a more fulfilling life? While there are things we can do which are more long-term in nature (such as the ones in 37 Lessons to Help You Live a Life that Matters), here I’d like to focus on practical things which we can do today. As I wrote in my post about being indispensable, human needs can be classified into eight levels in the Maslow hierarchy. The more your needs at the higher levels are met, the more fulfilling your life will be. Money for example, mainly meets your need at the physical or at most esteem level. As you can see, the two highest levels are self-actualization (realizing our own potential, self-fulfillment, peak experiences) and transcendence (helping others realize their potential). So here are 23 practical things you can do to make your life more fulfilling: Think about this question: If you have only six months left to live, what would you do not to regret your life? If you liked this post, please give it a thumb up in StumbleUpon.

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How to Read Classic Books Effectively A few weeks ago I wrote a post entitled 48 Classic Books to Boost Your Learning Experience. It lists 48 classic books which are mentioned by both How to Read a Book (by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles van Doren) and The Well-Educated Mind (by Susan Wise Bauer). I believe the 48 books are great books which will boost our learning experience. The next question, after knowing what to read, is how we should read them. One book which has very good tips on reading classic books is The Well-Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer (which I mentioned above). All right, let’s start. Grammar stage(“Grammar” here means the building blocks, the foundational knowledge of each academic subject) In this stage, we just absorb information without evaluating it. When we read classic books, we should follow these three stages. Here are some specific tips on how to do these three stages of reading: 1. 2. The second stage of inquiry – logic-stage – differs enormously from genre to genre. 3.

A List of Books | 623 of the Best Books ever Written CTA Tattler The 10 Most Disturbing Books Of All Time In my younger days if I heard a book or movie was disturbing or hard to handle I generally took that as a challenge. Most books generally turned out to not be too bad, but occasionally I’d come across something that would leave me with a sick feeling in my stomach for weeks. I’ve largely outgrown this “genre” of late, but here are my picks for the ten most disturbing books of all time. 10. Blindness is a book with a truly horrifying scenario at it’s heart: what if everyone in the world were to lose their sight to disease in a short period of time? 9. Anti drug crusaders should stop airing goofy commercials that nobody takes seriously and start pushing to have Requiem For A Dream made required reading for every high schooler in the country. 8. Naked Lunc is another ode to drug addiction. 7. 6. Bleak. Cormac McCarthy’s novel deals with a father and son dealing with a cataclysmic event (probably a meteor strike) that has left the world barren and gray. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.

Chicago « Blogging a Healthier Chicago Gallup shows us how Chicago and America feel today Well-being across Chicago's congressional districts We’ve been sending these three links around the office today, and we thought that you all might want to check out these awesome graphs and maps too. The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index will collect and measure the “daily pulse of the nation’s well-being” over the next 25 years. You can look through the data they’ve collected so far and see how our nation’s health has changed over time and how it changes across our nation. For instance, we weren’t feeling too well earlier this year. Or, for us Chicagoans, here’s a map of our cities congressional districts, part of a national map made by America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). Posted in Chicago, Health in the News Tagged america, Chicago, community health, gallup, health, news, public health, well-being, wellness Cost of obesity in California nearly doubled in 6 years Posted in Chicago, Health Care Reform, Health in the News

Online Speed Reading tools and software Simply start by clicking on the Play button on the left. Reading is that one activity that we do every day but we don't really practice. Most people learn the basics of reading in kindergarten and never graduate to the next levels. You are probably using the same basic rudimental tools and techniques that you learned when you were 6. The average American person reads at an average speed of 180 to 240 words per minute and has done so since he was 16 years old. Does it make sense that we hit our best performance at age 16 and that we don't improve much after that? Keep in mind less than 10% read at 400 words per minute and less than 1% faster than 600. Have you ever wished you could take one of those costly speed reading courses? The problem with those courses is that you have to keep practicing those techniques until they become second nature. That's the goal of this site. We are here to keep you focused and to help you improve your speed reading everyday. What is sub-vocalization?

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