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How Intuition and the Imagination Fuel Scientific Discovery and Creativity: A...
"Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery." Last week, we took in some timeless vintage wisdom o...See it on Scoop.it, via taking stock . . .
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7 Habits That Made Steve Jobs A Success
Jobs embodied long-term business success, here's how to master it yourself.See it on Scoop.it, via taking stock . . .
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The Agony of Writing
The author of Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake discusses the ways to keep writing. Aspiring authors and students writers often wrongly believe that successful (read "published" or "famous") find...
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Nora Ephron's Inspiring Commencement Address
Nora Ephron delivered a witty, wise and highly quotable speech at Wellesley College's commencement in 1996. Ephron graduated from Wellesley in 1962, where she studied political science and wrote for...
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Words of Wisdom: 10 Inspirational Graduation Speeches
Education Week shares excerpts from inspiring high school commencement speeches.See it on Scoop.it, via taking stock . . .
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #64: Tiny Beautiful Things - The Rumpus.net
Advice to your 20-something self from Sugar . . . "The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours...
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Putting Compassion To Work At Work
My task was to teach them how to become more compassionate using an accessible program of exercises. First, however, I had to convince them that it was worth their precious time to learn how to stop,...
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A Second Chance to Make Music
Going back to an instrument in later life can lead to some surprising lessons.See it on Scoop.it, via taking stock . . .
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Why Only Yuppies Feel Busy: An Economic Theory
A University of Texas economist argues that those who can afford to do everything are stressed because they can never have the time to do it all.See it on Scoop.it, via taking stock . . .
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I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why.
If you think an apostrophe was one of the 12 disciples of Jesus, you will never work for me. If you think a semicolon is a regular colon with an identity crisis, I will not hire you.See it on...
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BPS Occupational Digest: Self-serving leaders levy an emotional toll on those...
Ever worked for a self-serving leader? Here's an account of how it feels ...See it on Scoop.it, via taking stock . . .
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Words To Live By: 5 Timeless Commencement Addresses
Gifts vs. choices, the benefits of failure, and what calligraphy has to do with Apple's success.See it on Scoop.it, via taking stock . . .
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Maira Kalman on Identity, Happiness, and Existence
"How are we so optimistic, so careful Not to trip and yet Do trip, and then GET up and say O.K." In this wonderful short video, Maira Kal...See it on Scoop.it, via taking stock . . .
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Toni Morrison on love, loss and modernity - Telegraph
Toni Morrison believes that divorce is good for you, that Viagra should be banned, and that reality TV shows are little more than modern-day ‘lynchings’.See it on Scoop.it, via taking stock . . .
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Happy 100th Birthday, Julia Child: Lessons in Publishing and Perseverance...
"Don't for the love of heaven let anybody rush you into anything." On March 8, 1952, Julia Child, who would have celebrated her 100th bir...See it on Scoop.it, via taking stock . . .
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Redefining Success and Celebrating the Unremarkable
Many of us define success as being extraordinary, but where does that leave the average child who enjoys a pickup basketball game but is far from Olympic material?See it on Scoop.it, via taking stock...
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catching poetry's life lines
Love. After Love. by Derek WalcottSee it on Scoop.it, via taking stock . . .
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live your 'wild & precious life'
My daughter will not read my blog. Not yet. Very young and wise, she tells me because we are here for but the briefest sojourn, she will store my random musings as if in a jar that she will open...
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ronald reagan's love medicine
Many relationships in my life I have conducted almost entirely by telephone, including those with the people dearest to me. With too much ocean or freeway stretching between our houses, we...
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on the art of living & Adriane Herman
I'm not a compulsive list-maker by any stretch, but sometimes, if I have a new pad of paper, a new ink cartridge in the fountain pen I use maybe three times a year, and nothing else to do (in...
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» 10 Ways to Overcome Creativity’s No.1 Crusher - World of Psychology
The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt, wrote Sylvia Plath in her journal. And she couldn’t have been more accurate. Self-doubt can persuade us toyvonne watterson's insight:Although not one of...
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boston . . . without warning
Until September 11th, I had taken for granted the sense of security I felt as a woman who had traded in Northern Ireland for America. Foolishly, I quickly let down my guard and almost forgot that...
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when a bully takes it back
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it. ~ Albert Enstein If you have ever been targeted by a...
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Poetry for International Women's Day 2015
Role reversal by Nessa O'Mahony after Eavan Boland There will come a time, mother, when the transformed spring opens up and the charioteer holds out a hand; he might have my father’s face,...
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the lovely uselessness of poetry
For World Poetry Day 2015. The freedom and the lovely uselessness of poetry is its whole point. ~ Leontia Flynn My parents were raised in rural County Derry, Heaney country, where they learned to...
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"let your soul and spirit fly"
Each of us, as we pass through life, leaves traces of the passage. Sometimes the signs are as slight as a bent leaf, a twisted twig, or a seed dispersed. Sometimes, we leave behind the husks of...
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Hope Ripples in Ireland.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is...
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Not Secrets But Mysteries: Seamus Heaney's Clearances by Safia Moore - Honest...
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