by Lisa Genova & [Movie] Still Alice – Julianne Moore’s Oscar-winning
The film, like the book by neuroscientist Lisa Genova that inspired it, isn’t really about other people. The focus is on Alice. It’s through her head and heart that we see the world. The effect is devastating, but not hopeless.
#Alzheimer’s # the poet Elizabeth Bishop called “the art of losing” #what’s your last word not to forget #life and memory
Whether she is discussing traveling across the country with her good friend, Gayle, the life she shares with her dogs or building a fire in the fireplace, Winfrey takes each moment and finds the good in it, takes pride in having lived it and embraces the message she’s received from that particular time.
Through her actions and her words, she shows readers how she’s turned potentially negative moments into life-enhancing experiences, how she’s found bliss in simple pleasures like a perfectly ripe peach, and how she’s overcome social anxiety to become part of a bigger community.
#Joy from moments #she is like us #Oprah’s book club list #Snatam Kaur #a minute meditation
Kaling’s gift for capturing the awkward flutter of adult courtship speaks to what’s so enjoyable about “The Mindy Project” and suggests that maybe she’s the woman best suited to write a “Bridget Jones’s Diary” for the current decade.
Mindy Kaling’s new book ‘Why Not Me?’ reads like . . . Mindy Kaling – By Jen Chaney, September 9, 2015, The Washington Post
#Don’t know why and how I picked this book #Didn’t know who she was #But hilarious and good time-killing
“The ugly and wonderful truth about middle school,” she says, is that “failure is not an if proposition, it’s a matter of when.” Or it used to be. Now that parents shelter their children every step of the way, we have “failure deprived” college students (as administrators at Stanford and Harvard call them) and entitled, anxious 20-somethings who can’t function in a world that’s sometimes cold or cruel or indifferent. So how can teachers snatch back their critical role and give children the necessary space to fail? They could start by making parents read Lahey.
The New York Times, By Julie Lythcott-Haims, August 18, 2015
#Autonomy #an opportunity to learn from our own mistakes #unyielding #grit #believe in what your kids can do by him- or herself #resilience
A Guide to Financial Statements, one of the user guide series from Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) by Dean Michael Mead
The new guide offers taxpayers, their elected representatives, and other users ofgovernmental financial information a comprehensive, easy-to-understand primer on the annual financial reports of local governments.
#Easy to read #Comprehensive guides to users #Benefits of governmental financial statements #Answers to ‘What can you do with’ #Textbook for all levels
Some essays are simply about the coolness that is his life. “Lust” begins with a Lou Reed quotation and slides into a Graham-Greene-meets-Tom-Waits reverie in Hanoi: “I often feel this way when alone in Southeast Asian hotel bars — an enhanced sense of bathos, an ironic dry-smile sorrow, a sharpened sense of distance and loss.” Then we’re whisked away on the back of a scooter for a beautifully observed tour through the city’s streets and pho shops. After debating the cruelty of writing such “food and travel porn,” he gives in and lays out sensual snapshots of international feasts. Somehow, Sichuan peppercorns prompt him to conclude the breathless sampler with the lines: “Pain, you were pretty sure, was always bad. Pleasure was good. Until now, that is. When everything started to get confused.” Until now, that is. When everything started to read as if it were written after the third gin in Cathay Pacific business class.
The New York Times, Sunday book review: Cook’s Tour, by Christine Muhlke, July 16, 2010
The Globe and Mail Published June 11, 2010, by Sasha Chapman, Updated May 1, 2018
And never more so than when being shaped by Jobs. At the end of the book, before declaring Jobs “the greatest executive of our era, the one most certain to be remembered a century from now,” Isaacson takes the long view on his subject’s personality. “Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change,” Isaacson writes. “Dozens of the colleagues whom Jobs most abused ended their litany of horror stories by saying that he got them to do things they never dreamed possible.”
The Washington Post, Michael S. Rosenwald October 23, 2011
#MAC #Iphone #Ipad #ICloud #App Store #It’s about a genius like Thomas Edison or Henry Ford
But isn’t that like saying, “Whatever doesn’t kill us makes us stronger”? Some people overcome difficulties. Others don’t. Gladwell can’t really say why Dr. Freireich is in the former category and not the latter. The best he can do is say that “we as a society need people who have emerged from some kind of trauma,” like Freireich, even though that means that many others who have experienced trauma will not recover the way he did. To which the reader is likely to respond, “And . . . ?”
#Dr. Emil J Freirelch #David Boies #Advantages of disadvantages #Counterintuitive #Thesis #
Forbes, July 6, 2015 –
Simon defines the Why really well in his famous TED talk and his book titled Start with Why. He shows how great leaders inspire everyone to take action.
He calls it The Golden Circle:
Most leaders and companies start from the outside in. They start with What.
He says inspired leaders think, act, and communicate from the inside out. They start with Why.
He says the Why is not to make a profit. It’s your purpose, your cause, and your belief. Why does your organization exist? Why do you get out of bed in the morning? Why should anyone care?
#Simon Sinek # Ted talk # Start with Why # Golden Circle #Book Review #Comments
AICPA Insights guest blog, September 6, 2017 – “Why does reading a book matter? The benefits are plentiful and aren’t just limited to reading non-fiction. One important way reading helps your career is by helping you develop empathy. When you connect with a character and begin to understand their feelings and emotions, you are increasing your empathy. You gain valuable exposure to other perspectives, which can help you better relate to your coworkers and clients.”
#Reading #Career development #Empathy
A Point of View 