ON THE PATH TO ALL-ROUND IMPROVEMENT
1. Paresthesia – the prickly feeling when your limb “falls asleep” 2. Balter – dancing clumsily 3. Petrichor – the way it smells after it rains 4. Grawlix – a series of symbols commonly used in comics or cartoons to represent curse words 5. Callipygian – having a shapely butt 6. Nibling – the gender-neutral … Read more
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures Not the most captivating books form Malcolm. Hell I think my audiobook was not even complete and I didn’t care… so most of the summary is taken from elsewhere. Update: As I typed down the table of contents I realised it’s not a bad book. I just can’t … Read more
How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way Notes:– Nothing made sense until only when real numbers with real problems were used.– When he was having sex with a girl and thought she was having an incredible orgasm, it turned out to be an asthma attack.– Bollocks actually means priest … Read more
The audio summary below will give you an idea. Big up Nish for the request. Your Erroneous Zones | Wayne Dyer | Book Summary | Bestbookbits.com Your “erroneous zones” refers to the mistaken behavior, thoughts and attitudes which we all hold, display or demonstrate at one time or another. The intention of the book is … Read more
– The Four Villains of Decision Making.1: Narrow Framing2: Confirmation Bias3: Short Term Emotion4: Over confidence – Four ways to make better decisions, WRAP it. The four strategies described in Decisive can be easily recalled using the mnemonic device, “WRAP”.Widen your options when framing the problemReality check your assumptions to avoid confirmation biasAttain distance from … Read more
I was going to bitch about how the book keeps going in circles and mostly about animals until past half way. Then it gets into some decent juice about human psychology, gender differences and soooo much more. – This concept, that all progress is relative, has come to be known in biology by the name … Read more
