Again, this is average thinking-they assume that by putting in a “reasonable” amount of effort they’ll succeed. Second, people fail to reach their goals because they underestimate what it will take to reach them and don’t apply enough effort. They don’t want to be unrealistic or risk failure, so they set seemingly attainable goals, yet still fall short. First, they don’t set high enough goals due to “average” thinking. Only the 10X Rule-setting extreme goals and taking extreme action to meet them-guarantees success and, unlike the above criteria, it’s available to everyone.Ģ) People don’t approach success the right way. People mistakenly think success requires having money, connections, talent, the right education, being in the right business, or being in the right place at the right time. In The 10X Rule, entrepreneur and motivational speaker Grant Cardone argues that people don’t succeed because:ġ) They misunderstand what it takes to be successful. Nearly everyone seeks the “holy grail” of success, but most people fall short. 1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of The 10X Rule
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“Asian American graphic novelists have developed brilliant ways to expose and critique the microaggressions and everyday reality of growing up Asian American, as well as the broader historical and systemic forces that determine their specific racialization.” “Graphic novels are part of a larger contemporary media landscape where we see debates over minority representation and self-authorization play out,” she wrote in an email. Tara Fickle, an associate professor at the University of Oregon who teaches Asian American literature and comics, said the growth of graphic memoirs can be partly attributed to the “coming of age” of certain Asian American subgroups that haven’t “historically received as much attention in mainstream narratives,” including the children of refugees, mixed-race Asian Americans and transracial adoptees. “I’d rather be the unemotional face telling you the enormous difficulty of trying to get through my life, and you get to hold it for once.” “I don’t want to be the person who’s holding onto all these emotions and asking you to care anymore,” she said. He told Stevens that he had an affair with director Mike Nichols. He claimed his reason for being closeted was that he didn't want to be known as "the gay photographer," but it's evident that he was deeply troubled by his sexuality. Married twice to women and the father of a son, he was also attracted to men and admitted to close associate Stevens that he was gay. He wanted to be seen as a peer of Diane Arbus. He was so adept at making his subjects look superb that critics often felt he was dishonest. He earned record sums working for Vogue, but yearned to be taken seriously as an artist. Richard Avedon (1923-2004) was the foremost fashion photographer of the second half of the 20th century. The blockbuster biography of the season is "Avedon: Something Personal" by Norma Stevens and Steven M.L. Unsure what to get readers on your holiday gift lists? Following are suggestions that may help you find the right tome. Through, for instance, Heraclitus' enigmatic sayings, the poetry of Parmenides and Empedocles, and Zeno's paradoxes, the Western world was introduced to metaphysics, rationalist theology, ethics, and logic, by thinkers who often seem to be mystics or shamans as much as philosophers or scientists in the modern mould. But their enterprise was by no means limited to this proto-scientific task. Summary: "Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuition that the world should be comprehensible. Doc is based off of Steinbeck’s close, real life friend Ed Ricketts, a notable marine biologist during his life and whose work is still widely respected today. The most notable character, and the one to most closely resemble the real life individual they were based off of is Doc, the “kind, bohemian hero” of Cannery Row (Levy 2). To create the characters in Cannery Row Steinbeck also drew heavy inspiration from individuals that he encountered in Ocean View Avenue. After the stellar success of Cannery Row, “Ocean View Avenue was renamed Cannery Row in 1953” and has grown into a successful commercial district, due largely to the fame that Cannery Row brought to the area (Blake 8). While Cannery Row is classified as a work of fiction, it is loosely based off of Ocean View Avenue, a street of canneries located near Steinbeck’s childhood home in Monterey, California. First published in 1945 by Viking Press Inc., Cannery Row is one of John Steinbeck’s most beloved works. There's a doddery butler, a cheery maid and a cook who makes sure there's always plenty of food on hand when the young people fancy a bunbreak (they find they can't help using boarding school expressions at home, especially when two other girls from their dorm come to visit). So far, so normal: it's April 1935 and the two thirteen-year-old girls have lots of fun wandering around the shabby old house with its rambling corridors, decrepit tree-house and nearly-secret staircases. In this, the second volume, Daisy has invited Hazel to spend the Easter holidays with her family. But Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells, heroines of this delightful detective series, are just ordinary schoolgirls who enjoy solving puzzles and mysteries and who somehow end up right at the centre of the occasional deadly drama. Others are gifted – or burdened – with extraordinary skills, and a few are so intellectual they can barely relate to the people around them. Some detectives have a dark and sorrowful past. Of course, in the best tradition of English country mansions, it's not long before the two girls are called upon to solve a murder. Summary: Hazel Wong is staying with her best friend (and President of the Wells and Wong Detective Society) at Fallingford. Finding themselves with the dubious honor of taking on Valentine Duval as their first major funeral, it becomes clear that his passing was intentional. Before long, another death breathes new life into the Duval investigation: Raimond's son, Valentine, is also found dead. Raimond Duval, a victim of one of the many fires that have erupted recently in Philadelphia, is officially declared dead after the accident, but Hetty and Benjy's investigation points to a powerful Fire Company known to let homes in the Black community burn to the ground. Nothing bothers Hetty and Benjy Rhodes more than a case where the answers, motives, and the murder itself feel a bit too neat. Nicole Glover delivers the second book in her exciting Murder & Magic series of historical fantasy novels featuring Hetty Rhodes and her husband, Benjy, magic practitioners and detectives living in post-Civil War Philadelphia. As far as I'm concerned, quantum physics could have been written by a hack."īut the best part is the end, where it gets even more meta. For example, "Does quantum physics count? Because I don't understand that crap at all. The characters try to figure out when their lives branched off from actual reality by looking for crazy nonsense. This conceit lets the authors poke fun at crazy parts of the real world. And the TV show they're living isn't even well written. But the story is meta: the characters in the book eventually figure out that their lives are sometimes taken over by what they call "the Narrative" and the laws of physics stop working, they take actions that they would not normally take, and people die. It starts as a spin-off of Star Trek, and there are fun easter eggs that reference elements of that show. Poison shenanigansssss! Jovan and Kalina, who tell this story in alternating first person views, were both characters that I rooted for, and very very interesting to me. So the hunt is on to find out who poisoned the chancellor and why, and what it has to do with this army besieging the city. They call the nobles of the city spirit killers and refuse to negotiate or back down. Suddenly, the Chancellor and Jovan and Kalina’s uncle are both poisoned by an unidentifiable substance, and not long after they succumb to it, an army masses outside the city and puts it under siege. So Kalina was trained in other arts that helped her keep the Chancellor’s family safe. Kalina, Jovan’s older sister, started training for this, but ultimately, her body has a malady that made it so she was too weak to handle the poisons involved. This means that he’s a master of poisons, and he tastes everything that Tain eats first, just like Jovan’s uncle does for the Chancellor. Because while Jovan and Tain, the Chancellor’s Heir are best friends, their relationship is rather more than that. Wooow what a great listen this one was! This is the story of Jovan and Kalina, who are siblings and nobles who have quite close ties to the Chancellor and his heir. I try to replicate the suggestions made by teachers in Alaska who are of different cultures I point out the problems in the illustrations and talk about the problem of white people telling Indigenous stories. I feel angry at the publishers who tried to market it as an Indigenous book when published I am angry at myself for believing them (until the internet emerged and I did an MLIS and could research things.) I no longer believe the publisher's early implied claims, needless to say. Reviews I've read by Indigenous teachers say they read the book with their students and point out the problems in the illustrations (multiple Indigenous cultures are represented in one character and imagery is inconsistently applied.)Īs a settler myself, I have strong misgivings about this book. It was fact-checked by University of Montréal. The publisher clearly knew the identities of the two creators was problematic. The illustrator is not only not Indigenous but taught at a residential school (she calls it a boarding school, as white settlers complicit in cultural genocide do.) The narrative is gorgeous and playful I've read it to children in library storytimes and to my own children. I bought this book after first encountering it at the library, where I worked when I was an undergrad student. |