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Ken Robson’s recent book “The Element”

View Comments 29 June 2010

Great book, BUT… Here’s what I think: http://hero-myth.com/joseph-riggio/how-finding-your-passion-changes-everything

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Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world

View Comments 29 June 2010

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Finally got Clay Shirky’s new book Cognitive Surplus

View Comments 26 June 2010

Couldn’t buy it in audiobook format from Audible as it’s geographically rights restricted and I’m in the UK, and the UK Audible doesn’t have it. Couldn’t buy it from Amazon.com for the Kindle as that’s also geographical rights restricted. And you can’t get Kindle books anywhere else. So I bought it from an Amazon UK [...]

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Journey to Ixtlan now in audiobook format

View Comments 12 June 2010

For those of you who like Castaneda they’ve just released Journey to Ixtlan as an audio book on Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_RECO_003886&BV_SessionID=@@@@0602547745.1276379443@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccgadekjfdjkllcefecekjdffidfhn.0

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Poetry: writing what is unwritable, speaking what is unspeakable

View Comments 12 May 2010

I’ve been enjoying David Whyte’s latest audio: What to remember when waking. I’ve read David’s stuff before. David’s a poet who speaks to a business audience. Why would they want to listen to a poet? This is partly answered by one of his previous books: The Heart Aroused, Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul. [...]

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I also read Donald Millers A Million Miles in a Thousand Years recently

View Comments 23 April 2010

He’s eloquent in the storytelling. I read the book because I liked the premise, that Donald gets to edit his life as if he were a character in a movie. An excellent idea but it misses the mark, at least according to me and my experience of Dr. Joseph Riggio’s MythoSelf process… So I should [...]

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Big Think Interview With Robert McKee

View Comments 23 April 2010

Screenwriting guru Robert McKee, he has a great book, and apparently THE seminar to go to for writers, screenwriters and actors, AND of course those interested in telling an extraordinary story.

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So I moved on to read Brandon Sanderson’s other books…

View Comments 22 April 2010

I so liked Brandon Sanderson’s start on completing Robert Jordan’s epic Wheel of Time saga I’ve just read his books Elantris and then this Mistborn trilogy (which if you wanted to read something with a female hero in would be perfect in the fantasy genre). And fascinating points on God, gods, religion, mythology and the [...]

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Reading “The Gathering Storm” by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

View Comments 16 March 2010

This is book twelve, actually written by Brandon Sanderson based on notes from the recently deceased Robert Jordan. What’s called “epic fantasy” when hero’s were real hero’s A nice indulgence you might think… Yes. But there’s also an intentional (of course) point. Do you intentionally choose what you watch on tv, films you see at [...]

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Reading Rework by Jason Fried

View Comments 09 March 2010

Reworking work. There’s something about this book. Not sure I can say what just yet. But I get the feeling I’m going to need to read it a few times. Which is one of the secrets of success, being ok with stuff that you don’t get. But at the same time not giving up and [...]

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