![]() ![]() Millions of people visit it every month and hundreds of thousands subscribe to his email newsletter. James Clear has a super-popular website ( ). ![]() This is the meaning of the phrase atomic habits -a regular practice or routine that is not only small and easy to do, but also the source of incredible power a component of the system of compound growth.” At first, these tiny routines seem insignificant, but soon they build on each other and fuel bigger wins that multiply to a degree that far outweighs the cost of their initial investment. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement. ![]() Just as atoms are the building blocks of molecules, atomic habits are the building blocks of remarkable results. They are little habits that are part of a larger system. But atomic habits are not just any old habits, however small. By now, you’ve probably realized than an atomic habit refers to a tiny change, a marginal gain, a 1 percent improvement. It is also one of the deeper meanings behind the word atomic. You fall to the level of your systems.įocusing on the overall system, rather than a single goal, is one of the core themes of this book. You do not rise to the level of your goals. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don’t want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. ![]() “If you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t you. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Kyoshi was a girl who was never viewed with any kind of respect or importance her entire life, aside from three people. She’s just such an amazing character, and her development throughout the book was truly incredible you can really see where her desire for justice was born. Kyoshi is probably my second favorite part of the book. Read it for them, if not for anything else!! Just never look away.Īnd I’m just going to link you to this very convincing tweet I made, as well as more quotes. Maybe that’s the only way we get through this, Kyoshi thought. ✦ With their eyes on each other, it was easy to be brave. ✦ Kyoshi realized that comforting her throughout the night was both an honor and a torture she wouldn’t have traded for anything in the world. ✦ “You don’t think you deserve peace and happiness and good things, but you do!” Rangi yelled. This is a f/f romance (bisexuals won with Kyoshi!), and I truly cannot believe a cis man wrote it because it is absolutely delicious. Genuinely one of my favorite fictional relationships of the year, probably. Avatar Kyoshi if you see this I’m free Thursday night are you free Thursday night so I can take you out on Thursday night if you’re free I’d like to hang out Thursday night please message me back if you’re free Thursday night when I am free ![]() ![]() ![]() To be sure, the Rand market has never been anything but robust in the years since her death in 1982. How, then, can the appetite for Rand's work have grown? ![]() Even the former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan (for more than two decades a member of Rand's inner circle, and the disciple who tried to carry her doctrines into the very heart of the American economic system) has been obliged to admit that he overestimated capitalism's capacity to foster its own best interests. This seems an unlikely development, for Rand's novels and tracts all assert the justice and inner moral grandeur of unregulated capitalism. Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American RightĪmidst the greatest global economic crisis since the Great Depression, sales of Ayn Rand's books have reportedly tripled. Scott McLemee contemplates the apparently timeless appeal of Ayn Rand's paeans to commerce. Global capitalism may wobble, but the ideas of its original Iron Lady still sell books by the millions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Set during the middle of the nineteenth century, when the illegal slave trade was at its height, The Slave Dancer not only tells a vivid and shocking story of adventure and survival but depicts the brutality of slavery with unflinching historical accuracy. But its one final horror, when the Moonlight nears her destination, that will change Jessie forever. Over the course of the long voyage, Jessie grows more and more sickened by the greed of the sailors and the cruelty with which the slaves are treated. Jessies job is to provide music for the slaves to dance to on the ships deck-not for amusement but for exercise, as a way to keep their muscles strong and their bodies profitable. There, the Moonlight picks up ninety-eight black prisoners, and the men, women, and children, chained hand and foot, are methodically crammed into the ships hold. ![]() ![]() When he wakes up, Jessie finds himself aboard a slave ship, bound for Africa. One night, on his way home, a canvas is thrown over his head and hes knocked unconscious. Thirteen-year-old Jessie Bollier earns a few pennies playing his fife on the docks of New Orleans. Book Synopsis In this iconic, wrenching Newbery Medal winning book, a young Louisiana boy faces the horrors of slavery when he is kidnapped and forced to work on a slave ship. About the Book In this powerful, Newbery Medal-winning classic, a 13-year-old boy is kidnapped and brought aboard a slave ship, where he is forced to play music that will entice the slaves to exercise. ![]() ![]() Long ago Jarrett left Adael and the bad memories that ended their mission in Gaza behind. He wasn’t falling for a guy who wanted someone else. When Adael yanked his hand out of his the moment Jarrett Evans showed up, Race didn’t hang around. ![]() Deeply attracted to Adael, Parker stayed with Dayan in the hospital hoping there might be a future between them. Race Parker, former Green Beret, once carried Adael away from a vicious mercenary. When Adael suddenly wakes up believing he’s been poisoned, it becomes a race against the clock to help find the person who’s done this to him and learn why in time to save his life. Showing up in the middle of their cases time after time hasn’t endeared him to the pair but both men grudgingly have to admit, he’s usually provided valuable assistance. ![]() Mossad Operative, Adael Dayan, has long been a pain in the ass to ATF special agents, Thayne Wolfe and Jarrett Evans. ![]() ![]() Moody begins working in Baton Rouge and New Orleans over the summers as a teenager.Īfter a fight with Raymond, Moody leaves home at age 17. Moody also witnesses the death of an entire family when Klansmen set the house on fire. Burke, her employer, makes comments about keeping black people in their place. After Emmett Till’s murder, Moody becomes very aware of the differences when Mrs. Moody often wonders what makes white people different from black people, but Mama does not want to talk about it. ![]() Mama then meets her second husband, Raymond, who builds a house on land owned by his family. Moody starts working at age 9 to help her family while also going to school. After her parents separate, Moody’s mother becomes a single parent and rears Moody and her siblings by herself for several years. Born in rural Mississippi, Moody and her family live as sharecroppers on a white-owned plantation. ![]() ![]() Theo Wyre’s beloved 18-year-old daughter Laura was murdered by a knife-wielding lunatic in 1994, and he too hires Jackson to crack this unsolved murder. ![]() ![]() Three-year-old Olivia Land disappeared from a tent in her family’s backyard in 1970 34 years later, her sisters Amelia and Julia discover Olivia’s stuffed toy in their recently deceased father’s study and want Jackson to find out what he had to do with the disappearance. They seem totally unrelated at first to private detective Jackson Brodie, hired by separate individuals in Cambridge, England, to investigate long-dormant cases. After two self-indulgent detours, Atkinson proves that her Whitbread Award–winning debut, Behind the Scenes at the Museum (1996), was no fluke with a novel about three interconnected mysteries. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the promise of both gold and a grand new boat that could make history crushed his resolve-coupled with the terrible force of York’s mesmerizing gaze. It was too full of secrets that spelled danger. And they are to be none of Marsh’s concern-no matter how bizarre, arbitrary, or capricious his actions may prove. York has his own reasons for wanting to traverse the powerful Mississippi. Nor does he care that he won’t earn back his investment in a decade. For York doesn’t care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marsh’s dilapidated fleet. But when he meets the hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York, he is certain. ![]() When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy aristocrat, he suspects something’s amiss. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Seldon is frustrated with his progress in learning history and takes an excursion to "Upperside", where he narrowly avoids a prowling "jet-down" and dying of exposure. Demerzel takes Seldon to the Streeling University and introduces him to a young historian, Dora Venabili, whom he convinces to accompany Seldon and protect him. The Emperor wants him to turn this into a practical tool to shore up his reign, and he begins a "flight", which takes him to four distinct sectors of this planetary "human beehive", directed by a journalist, Chetter Hummin, who warns that Cleon's chief of staff, Eto Demerzel, is a dangerous schemer. The Galactic Empire has been in decline for years when mathematician Hari Seldon arrives from Helicon to read a theoretical paper about "psychohistory" before the Decennial Mathematics Convention on Trantor, the galactic capital. (Galactic era), during the rocky reign of the Emperor Cleon I. Prelude to Foundation is set in the year 12,020 G.E. ![]() Prelude to Foundation tells the story of mathematician Hari Seldon, fleeing around the enclosed planet Trantor, evading the Emperor who wants to control his psychohistory, and coming to understand that his invention can indeed have a practical application in predicting the fate of mankind. ![]() ![]() ![]() Songs can’t really guide you on a life’s journey, can they? “The ancients knew that wisdom had to be sung or chanted. ![]() Yet people are skeptical when I say that songs offer a pathway to a higher level of existence-or what we call the good life. Music itself provides its own justification-more powerful than any text-and each one of us has felt its power. But that hardly changes the fact that it is an absurdity. To pursue musicology means that you live out this absurdity as a vocational necessity. It’s actually even worse than that, because a cloud has more substance than a song. Parmenides, the great Greek philosopher and mentor to Socrates, wrote his works entirely in the form of hymns-that was typical of the Orphic tradition he inheritedĪ music writer -what a sad oxymoron!-is really a metaphysician. ![]() |