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![]() The second relates to how we interact with other people and is the fact that we don’t recognise how we are influencing other people and therefore accidentally misuse our hidden power. If we don’t think we have any influence, we don’t see to make use of it. This failure to recognise a hidden superpower has two human risk implications: The idea behind the book, which is obvious from the title, is that we often have far more ability to influence others than we might think. See More new book called You Have More Influence Than You Think: How We Underestimate Our Power of Persuasion, and Why It Matters. Vanessa Bohns is a social psychologist and professor of organizational behavior at Cornell University. But what if it turned out that those feelings were actually wrong? On this episode, I'm speaking to the author of a new book that explores precisely this. ![]() ![]() Why do we sometimes find ourselves feeling unable to influence other people? If you've ever found yourself thinking you're ineffective, invisible or inarticulate, then you're not alone. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Badger is in a privileged position, and his refusal to share what he has and to protect Skunk and his guests has a deep and timely significance-one rendered with an expertly light touch. ![]() We are not family.” Frog and Toad–like in nuance and tenor, this is no old-fashioned story in which Skunk charms Badger and thaws his frozen heart. Gleeful, onomatopoeic prose by Newbery Honoree Timberlake, meanwhile, keeps readers engaged through laugh-out-loud repetition as she tackles sensitive issues such as elitism, exclusivity, and even science cited for nefarious purposes: “You’re a skunk. Occasional art by Caldecott Medalist Klassen offers Wind in the Willows wistfulness. When Skunk barges into Badger’s quiet brownstone, readers sympathize with the scholarly, solitary Badger, who spends his days doing “Important Rock Work.” Skunk toys idly with Badger’s treasured tools, and he seems bent on staying-but why? A letter from Badger’s Aunt Luna, the building’s owner, answers the question: “What would you think of Skunk moving into the brownstone?” Faced with an unwanted housemate, Badger must learn to live with-and learn from-Skunk’s warm, chaotic presence, especially his willingness to extend hospitality to the neighborhood’s chickens. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now this looks like it could have (pardon the pun) earth-shifting real estate potential! ![]() #future #canada #markets #workingfromhome #valuation #data So, what do you think – what do you envision the future to look like? Has Canada been as impacted as the US and UK markets? And how are those vacant buildings going to be utilized differently to maximize their productive use (Housing? Different layouts?) What should governments do (or not do) to facilitate positive societal change? Even something that we have been exploring as a national board of a non-profit association – is how will our conferences evolve and change? What the article doesn’t cover in great detail is the impact on our major cities’ commercial cores (and the businesses that rely on those workers) the impact on secondary commercial markets (where many of those workers moved away to). Why? An interesting piece by Tim Harford, author of “The Data Detective,” identifies four key reasons why working from home hasn't disappeared from our vocabulary.ġ) Working from home turned out to be better than we had expected.Ģ) We’ve invested heavily in new tech tools.ģ) The social and cultural shift has been dynamic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Works like Zauberberg and Doktor F austus, in particular, belong to this vein. In contrast, his didacticism is refreshing. They are remarkable because Mann wrote at a time when it was so easy not to be these things–his was the age of surrealism, absurdism, symbol and neo-Romanticism, and many of his contemporaries were falling away from reality. ![]() His works, read from the perspective of early 20th-century Europe, are ideological, painful, inescapably overt. Thomas Mann is the most unflinching of writers. The quotations are from the estimable John Woods translations, with occasional edits of my own. Rather longer and more academic than most posts here. Various thoughts on the worldviews, music, and endings of Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus and The Magic Mountain ( Der Zauberberg), inspired by studying for my German Comps. ![]() ![]() ![]() The nanocomposite film produced by prereduction method possesses higher crystallinity (almost the same as that of the pure film) as compared to the in situ method. Raman spectroscopic study reveals that the second method results in better exfoliation of graphene but it has more amorphous content as evident from selected area electron diffraction (SAED) pattern, wide angle X-ray and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). In pre-reduction method, graphite oxide (GO) was exfoliated and dispersed in organic solvents and reduced to graphene before polymer was added, while reduction of graphene oxide was carried out after polymer addition for in situ reduction method. Reduced graphene oxide or graphene was dispersed in ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) using two methods to prepare nanocomposite films. ![]() ![]() ![]() She then began receiving more messages from people telling their own stories-stories of tragedy and loss. Do you have more?” and “I know you didn’t write this for me, but this is what it means for my story.” ![]() In just a few short months, it was repinned more than 100,000 times, even without any tags. Soon after, she started getting direct messages from people saying things like, “I really like this poem. The poem instantly went viral on Pinterest. Turns out, these feelings are a universal struggle. She wrote a poem expressing her feelings of dealing with failure and not feeling like she was enough. At that time, Nichols, in her mid-20s, was going through a rough patch career-wise. Today, with more than 1 million followers on Instagram, and a new poetry book called “All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living”, Nichols is becoming a household name, but in 2016, she was just getting her start. How did this creative rise to stardom in the digital world? On social media, of course. You might call her a modern-age blend of Mozart, Dickinson and Picasso. Writer, artist and musician, Morgan Harper Nichols is a woman of many talents. ![]() ![]() ![]() Occult twin to Alice in Wonderland, The Hearing Trumpet is a classic of fantastic literature that has been translated and celebrated throughout the world. It is also the scene of a mysterious murder. Complete Stories, a collection of Carrington’s published and unpublished short storiesmany newly translated from their original French and Spanishis a terrific introduction to her bizarre, dreamlike worlds. But this is an institution where the buildings are shaped like birthday cakes and igloos, where the Winking Abbess and the Queen Bee reign, and where the gateway to the underworld is open. The Hearing Trumpet is the story of 92 year old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that what her family is saying is that she is to be committed to an institution. Exact Change launched a program of reprinting her fiction with what is perhaps her best loved book. ![]() ![]() Print Word PDF This section contains 1,500 words (approx. ![]() Leonora Carrington kept a pet eagle, planted a tree in the center of her house and was once. Leonora Carrington This Study Guide consists of approximately 44 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington. Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British born Surrealist painter who now makes her home in Mexico City, is also a writer of extraordinary imagination and charm. Carrington, who died in 2011 at age 94, was born in England but lived much of her life in Mexico. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They’re thinking, “Wow, that was pretty spectacular! We've been looking for something interesting to happen all day and that was certainly it.” So they walk back inside for milk and cookies and that is the end. We leave it to the viewer to realize that this is not home. Toward the end the text just says, “They landed in some soft dirt.” A lot of the objects look the same, but there are small differences and we don't say it in the text. Would you say this story is left open-ended? Mac always has an ending in mind, but we were trying to figure out how to make it clear and direct and also as dreamy as we wanted. In this book, it was especially tricky because we had dug the hole and we couldn't get out! So we're at the bottom of the page and now what? Of course it wasn’t written as haphazardly as that. You're just following what it is that got you excited about it in the first place. There are things that feel right for the premise and things that feel like you might be taking it in the wrong direction. That was a big part of writing and illustrating it. ![]() What drives a large part of the story is how is it going to end, how is it going to solve itself. It's an interesting point in the story structure. Yes, a lot of the stories I come up with do involve a search, until I reach a point where I wonder how am I going to solve this. That so perfectly describes Sam & Dave Dig a Hole. You've said that you keep coming back to the idea of a search for something, where you end up hitting rock-bottom. ![]() ![]() ![]() This whole book frustrated me to no end….but sometimes I liked it. They fought, they had sex, fought, sex, lather, rinse, repeat. See how annoying that sentence was? That’s how annoying Gideon and Eva’s relationship was in this book. On, off, on, off, on, off, on, off, on off, on, off, on, off. Seriously! The back and forth about killed me. I think there will be a lot of healing from this point on. ![]() Reflected in You is an intense and emotionally read. She didn’t let him get away with much, even when it broke her heart. But I was proud of her for sticking to her guns while Gideon played Jekyll and Hyde. Because any book that can make me feel such strong emotion is pretty awesome in my world.Įva is crazy jealous of anything with a vagina within 10 feet of her man, and pretty much wilts when she isn’t together with Gideon. I didn’t like this hot and cold Gideon as much. His behavior is explained at the end, but we have to wait the whole book to understand why he’s acting the way he is. Gideon is melodramatic and completely closes himself off to Eva. Like no commination. It’s funny because Gideon and Eva annoyed the crap out of me in this book, but in the end I didn’t care, I still like them. The on and off was a bit much, but I really enjoyed the story. This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years old due to its use of sexual content, substance use, and/or violence. ![]() |