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In the third week, demand exploded (CHARLES DUHIGG)

One day in the early 1900s, a prominent American executive named Claude C. Hopkins was approached by an old friend with a new business idea....

22 November, 2021

Nothing is lost unless you decide to quit. (ΜΟ GAWDAT)

Consider the story of Tim and Tom. When it was time to wake up, Tim hit the snooze button twice, then realized he’d be...

21 November, 2021

The trick of the mirror helps communication (ROBERT GREENE)

Dr. Milton H. Erickson, a pioneer in strategic psychotherapy, would often educate his patients powerfully but indirectly by creating a kind of mirror effect. Constructing...

20 November, 2021

THE ODYSSEY excerpt 3

For we have no steersmen here among Phaeacia’s crews or steering-oars that guide your common craft. Our ships know in a flash their mates’...

19 November, 2021

THE SATRAPY (C.P. CAVAFY)

Too bad that, cut out as you are for grand and noble acts, this unfair fate of yours never offers encouragement, always denies you success; that cheap...

18 November, 2021

The hardest person to get along with in the whole world is, in fact, yourself. (LOU MARINOFF)

Before we speak of getting along with others, first we must get along with ourselves. It seems to me that all outer conflicts...

17 November, 2021

From a high intellect, to the one that approaches the infant, the gradients are endless (ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER)

From such an intellect down to that which approaches imbecility the gradations are innumerable. Now according to these gradations, the mental horizon of...

16 November, 2021

Man, philosophical animal (MORTIMER J. ADLER)

If we did not, in the first place, recognize and understand the clear-cut distinction between a stone and a mouse, we would never find...

15 November, 2021

APOLLO 13: The art of making decisions in times of crisis (PAWEL MOTYL)

On April 14, 1970, fifty-five hours and fifty-four minutes into the mission, at 03:08 universal time, a damaged electrical cable caused an explosion in...

14 November, 2021

Life as a romance (DON MIGUEL RUIZ)

W HAT IS THE BEST WAY TO WRITE YOUR LIFE story? There is only one way, and that way is with love. Love...

13 November, 2021