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Books
Artists’ Inspiration & The Creative Process
Aug 17th
“… a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.”
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of “Eat, Pray, Love”, talks at TED about artists’ inspiration, the creative process and a different way to think about creative genius.
You may also like to get the video at the TED blog and view the 408 comments.
Within or without? Does our inspiration come from our unconscious or the right brain or does it come from God, a muse or our daimon?
Does our ego get in our way?
I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
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TED: Ideas worth spreading, Riveting talks by remarkable people & free to the world!
Open Source Textbook Maker: FlatWorld Knowledge funded with $8 Million
Mar 24th
Free Online College Textbooks
Flat World is the world’s first publisher of open source commercial textbooks. Flat World’s textbooks are written by world-class authors. The company makes its books available as free web-hosted textbooks. It earns revenue and pays its authors royalties by providing students with options to purchase print-on-demand soft cover textbooks, audio textbooks, and self-print individual chapters at a fraction of the cost of traditional textbooks. The company enhances the learning experience by offering low-cost digital study aids like mp3 study guides, interactive web quizzes, and digital flashcards. Faculty prefer the open-source approach employed by Flat World because it gives More >
Timothy Ferriss on the 4-Hour Work Week
Nov 29th
Timothy Ferriss wrote the bestselling book “The 4-Hour Workweek.” This video (only 28 minutes) is a great introduction to the premise of the book. Also visit his blog. The book isn’t about how to work only four hours per week but how to focus on effectiveness over efficiency. His thrust is to reduce the amount of work you do while increasing the quality of your output. Vision, hard work and persistence help as well.
10 Great Web 2.0 Books
Nov 14th
Web 2.0 is changing how the world communicates and does business. Pick a book or two and broaden your understanding – Recommend starting with The Cluetrain Manifesto.
(click on the book covers for reviews at Amazon.com)
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Book Review – Personal Development for Smart People
Oct 31st
Personal Development for Smart People
The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth
Steve Pavlina, who I have long admired, recently sent me a copy of his new book to read and review. Steve is a phenomenally successful writer and blogger who has been blogging on personal development for over four years at: StevePavlina.com. Along with working on his blog and amassing a huge amount of valuable content, he has read more than 1,000 books on personal development.
This book is reminiscent of Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People , which I thoroughly enjoyed. I’ve used Covey’s 7 Habits book in mentoring for years More >
