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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">IF YOU WANT TO BUY HAPPINESS YOU ARE MUCH BETTER OFF BUYING AN EXPERIENCE THAN A THING<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Why should we want to control our
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It feels good to do so—Period.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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happy but one that describes what science has to tell us about how and how well
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Subjectivity, Realism, Presentism, Rationalization, and Corrigibility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The human being is the only animal that thinks about the future<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Daniel Gilbert tells that if you were
asked to name the human brain’s greatest achievement, you might think first of
the impressive artifacts it has produced. But he thinks differently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“In fact, there’s really only one
achievement so remarkable that even the most sophisticated machine cannot
pretend to have accomplished it, and that achievement is conscious experience.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The greatest achievement of the human
brain is its ability to imagine objects and episodes that do not exist in the
realm of the real, and it is this ability that allows us to think about the
future.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What is the conceptual tie that binds anxiety and planning?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Both, of course, are intimately
connected to thinking about the future. We feel anxiety when we anticipate that
something bad will happen, and we plan by imagining how our actions will unfold
over time. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Planning requires that we peer into
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have an experience, we cannot simply set it aside and see the world as we would
have seen it had the experience never happened. He puts an example of Lora and
Reba, that, having been joined at the forehead since birth, claim to be happy.
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Our experiences instantly become
part of the lens through which we view our entire past, present and future, and
like any lens, they shape and distort what we see.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This lens is not a pair of spectacles
that we can set on the nightstand when we find it convenient to do so but like
a pair of contacts that are forever affixed to our eyeballs with superglue.
Once we learn to read, we can never again see letters as mere inky squiggles.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If Lora and Reba were separated for a
few weeks, and if they told us that they were happier now than they used to be,
they might be right. But they might not.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> “Our brains are designed to
decide first whether objects count and to decide later what those objects are.
This means that when you turn your head to the left, there is a fraction of a
second during which your brain does not know that it is seeing a wolverine but
does know that it is seeing something scary.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Daniel Gilbert explains how that can be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Research demonstrates that there is enough information in the very
early, very early stages of this identification process to decide whether an
object is scary, but not enough information to know what the object is.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“The best way to understand this
particular shortcoming of imagination (the faculty that allows us to see the
future) is to understand the shortcomings of memory (the faculty that allows us
to see the past) and perception (the faculty that allows us to see the
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The shortcoming that causes us to
misremember the past and misperceive the present is the very same shortcoming
that causes us to misimagine the future. That shortcoming is caused by a trick
that your brain plays on you every minute of every hour of every day—a trick
that your brain is playing on you right now.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Our brains take millions of
snapshots, records millions of sounds, add smells, tastes, textures, a third
spatial dimension, a temporal sequence, a continuous running commentary—and
they do this all day, every day, year after year, storing these representations
of the world in a memory bank that seems never to overflow.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The elaborate tapestry of our
experience is not stored in memory—at least not in its entirety.<o:p></o:p></span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">. Rather, it is compressed for
storage by first being reduced to a few critical threads, such as a summary
phrase (‘Dinner was disappointing) or a small set of key features (tough steak,
corked wine, snotty waiter). Later, when we want to remember our experience,
our brains quickly reweave the tapestry by fabricating—not by actually
retrieving—the bulk of the information that we experience as memory. This fabrication
happens so quickly and effortlessly that we have the illusion (as a good
magician’s audience always does) that the entire thing was in our heads the
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">TALENT IS OVERRATED<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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few signs of precocious achievement before the individ</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">uals started training.”</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When asked to explain why a few
people are excellent at what they do, most of us have two answers. The first
one is hard work. If you work hard, you’ll be fine. And those get along
perfectly acceptably but never become particularly good at it. Second, the
great good fortune to discover their natural gift (usually early in life).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">But is that true?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">New findings on great performance<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Geoff Colvin shares some
conclusions—given by scientists around the world who have looked into top-level
performance in a wide array of fields, including management, chess, swimming,
surgery, jet piloting, violin playing, sales, novel writing, and many others—that
directly contradict most of what we all think we know about great performance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Some researchers now argue that
specifically targeted innate abilities are simply fiction. That is, you are not
a natural-born clarinet virtuoso or car salesman or bond trader or brain
surgeon—because no one is.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In many realms—chess, music,
business, medicine—we assume that the outstanding performers must possess
staggering intelligence or gigantic memories. Some do, but many do not. For
example, some people have become international chess masters though they
possess below average IQs.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Deliberate practice is not what most
of us do when we think we are practicing golf or the oboe or any of our other
interests. Deliberate practice is hard. It hurts. But it works.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Talent is overrated<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">The author of </span><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591842948/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1591842948&linkCode=as2&tag=thepythastory-20">Talent is Overrated</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thepythastory-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1591842948" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;">tells that shown five groups of
students, one of which won positions at a top-ranked music school and one of
which gave up even trying to play an instrument, we would all say the first
group is obviously immensely more talented than latter. But the study showed
that—at least as most of us understand ‘talent,’ meaning an ability to achieve
more easily—they were not.</span><br />
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
Mozart of Golf<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“So here is the situation: Tiger is
born into the home of an expert golfer and confessed ‘golf addict’ who loves to
teach and is eager to begin teaching his new son as soon as possible. Earl’s
wife does not work outside the home, and they have no other children; they have
decided that ‘Tiger would be the first priority in our relationship,’ Earl
wrote. Earl gives Tiger his first metal club, a putter, at the age of seven
months. He sets up Tiger’s high chair in the garage, where Earl is hitting
balls into a net, and Tiger watches for hours on end. ‘It was like a movie
being run over and over and over for his view,’ Earl wrote. Earl develops new
techniques for teaching the grip and the putting stroke to a student who cannot
yet talk. Before Tiger is two, they are at the golf course playing and
practicing regularly”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Said that, the author of</span> <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591842948/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1591842948&linkCode=as2&tag=thepythastory-20">Talent is Overrated</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thepythastory-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1591842948" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;">remarks two facts. First, he had been
practicing golf with tremendous intensity, first under his father and after the
age of four under professional teachers, for seventeen years, till Tiger
achieved outstanding performance. Second, neither Tiger nor his father
suggested that Tiger came into this world with a gift for golf. Asked to
explain Tiger’s phenomenal success, father and son always gave the same reason:
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What suggested that Bill Gates would become the king of all computer
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> “It’s clear that Gates’s early
interests led directly to Microsoft. The problem is that nothing in his story
suggest extraordinary abilities. As he is the first to note, legions of kids
were interested in the possibilities of computers in those days. Harvard at
that time was bursting with computer geeks who well understood what a
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So the answer is nothing in particular. On close examination, it was
probably not his software expertise that was most critical to his success. The
more relevant abilities were the ability to launch a business and then the
quite different abilities required to manage a large corporation. And Traf O
Data notwithstanding, one looks in vain for signs of those abilities in world-class
proportions, or at all, in the young Gates.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The true role of intelligence in high achievement<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591842948/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1591842948&linkCode=as2&tag=thepythastory-20">Talent is Overrated</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thepythastory-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1591842948" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;">tells that many of the most
successful people do seem to be highly intelligent. But what the research
suggest very strongly is that the link between intelligence and high
achievement isn’t nearly as powerful as we commonly suppose. Most important,
the research tells us that intelligence as we usually think of it—a high IQ—is
not a prerequisite to extraordinary achievement.</span><br />
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high-performing businesspeople often seem to have tremendous intellects. Warren
Buffet is famous for doing complicated math in his head. He claims not to own a
calculator, and given his reputation for honesty, there’s no reason to doubt
him.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">James Scott Bell presents </span><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001UISGV6/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001UISGV6&linkCode=as2&tag=thepythastory-20">Write Great Fiction - Plot & Structure</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thepythastory-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B001UISGV6" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /></b> <span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">telling us how he has wasted ten
years of prime writing life because of the Big Lie. Because writing can’t be
taught. Until he himself discovered that the big lie was actually a lie.</span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The LOCK system<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">James Scott says that after analysing
hundreds of plots, he has developed a simple set of foundational principles
called the LOCK system.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“L is for Lead. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Imagine for a guy on a New York City
street corner with a Will Work for Food sign. Interesting? Not very.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">But what if the guy was dressed in a
tuxedo, and his sign said Will Tap dance for Food? Hmm, a little more
interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The point here is that a strong plot
starts with an interesting Lead character. In the best plots, that Lead is
compelling, someone we have to watch throughout the course of the novel.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">O is for Objective.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Back to our Will Work for Food guy.
What if he tossed down his sign, put a parachute on his back, and started
climbing the Empire State Building?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Interest zooms. Why?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This character has an objective. A
want. A desire.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">C is for Confrontation.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Now our human fly is halfway up the
Empire State Building. We already know he’s interesting because he has an
objective, and with a little imagination, you can think up a reason why this is
crucial to his well-being. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Is there anything we can do to
ratchet up the engrossment level? Yes! New York City cops are trying to stop
him. They have plans to nab him around floor 65. Worse yet, a mad sniper across
Fifth Avenue has him in his sights. Suddenly, things are a lot more interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The reason is confrontation. Opposition
from characters and outside forces brings your story fully to live.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">K is for Knockout.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A great ending can leave the reader
satisfied, even if the rest of the book is somewhat weak (assuming that the
reader decides to stick around until the end). But a weak ending will leave the
reader with a feeling of disappointment, even if the book up to that point is
strong.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So take your Lead through the journey
toward her objective, and send the opposition to the mat.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ways to get hundreds of plot ideas<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">The author of </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001UISGV6/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001UISGV6&linkCode=as2&tag=thepythastory-20"><b>Write Great Fiction - Plot & Structure</b></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thepythastory-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B001UISGV6" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">gives twenty fast, simple, and fun
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“1. The What-If Game.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The What-If game can be played at any
stage of the writing process, but it is especially useful for finding ideas.
Train your mind to think in terms of what-if, and it will perform marvellous
tricks for you.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2. Titles.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Make up a cool title, and then write
a book to go with it.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sound wacky? It isn’t. A title can
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">3. The list.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Early in his career, Ray Bradbury
made a list of nouns that flew out of his subconscious. These became fodder for
his stories. Start your own list.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Hook
readers with your first page<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Jack M. Bickham counseled in </span><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0898798213/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0898798213&linkCode=as2&tag=thepythastory-20">The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thepythastory-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0898798213" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">‘Don’t warm up your engines. Start up your story
from the first sentence.’ He warns of three beginning motifs that can stall
your story of the first page.</span><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“1. Excessive description. If
description is what dominates the opening, there is no action, no character in
motion. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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2. Backward looks. Fiction is
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">3. No threat. Good fiction starts
with someone’s response to threat.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">How do you know what obstacles to throw?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> “The first step is to conceive an
opposition character. I use this term rather than ‘villain’ because the
opposition does not have to be evil. The opposition merely has to have a
compelling reason to stop the Lead.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Three keys will help you come up with good opposition:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001UISGV6/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001UISGV6&linkCode=as2&tag=thepythastory-20"><b>Write Great Fiction - Plot & Structure</b></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thepythastory-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B001UISGV6" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;">tells that most of the time we’re not
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“It is the product of many things
over the years—our emotional makeup, our upbringing, our traumas and
experiences, and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And we will do what we can to protect
this core because, by and large, people resist to change. So we surround that
core with layers that are in harmony with our essential self. Working from the
core outward, these layers include: 1. Beliefs; 2. Values; 3. Dominant
attitudes; and 4. Opinions.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">THE POWER OF INTROVERTS IN A WORLD THAT CAN’T STOP
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“I am a horse for a single harness,
not cut out for tandem or teamwork... for well I know that in order to attain
any definite goal, it is imperative that one person do the thinking and the
commanding.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">—Albert Einstein<o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004J4WNL2/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B004J4WNL2&linkCode=as2&tag=thepythastory-20">Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thepythastory-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B004J4WNL2" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /></b> <span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">presents exciting discoveries
on the dichotomy between introverts and extroverts. Many psychologists have been
arguing over these two antagonistic concepts since Carl Jung stated the central
building blocks of personality in </span><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691018138/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0691018138&linkCode=as2&tag=thepythastory-20">Psychological Types</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thepythastory-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0691018138" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />.</b><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Susan Cain tells us that one out of
every two or three people you know are introverts, and that some of our greatest
ideas, art, and inventions came from quiet and cerebral people who knew how to
tune in to their inner worlds and the treasures to be found there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The author warns us not to fall into
the trap of defining an introvert as a hermit, and describes how our
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Extroverts are the people who will
add life to your dinner party and laugh generously at your jokes. They tend to
be assertive, dominant, and in great need of company. Extroverts think out loud
and on their feet; they prefer talking to listening, rarely find themselves at
a loss for words; and occasionally blurt out things they never meant to say.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Introverts, in contrast, may have
strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while
wish there were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social
energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than talk,
think before speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in
writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror
of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“America had shifted from what the
influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a Culture of Character to a
Culture of Personality—and opened up a Pandora’s Box of personal anxieties from
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the Culture of Character, the
ideal self was serious, disciplined, and honorable. What counted was not so
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">But when they embraced the Culture of
Personality, Americans started to focus on how others perceived them. They
became captivated by people who were bold and entertaining.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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place once called the ‘Spiritual Capital of Extroversion,’ to search for an
introvert with interesting outcomes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Even at Harvard Business School
there are signs that something might be wrong with a leadership style that
values quick and assertive answers over quiet, slow decision-making.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In one study, groups of college
students were asked to solve math problems together and then to rate one
another’s intelligence and judgment. The students who spoke first and most
often were consistently given the highest ratings, even though their
suggestions were not better than those of the less talkative students.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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virtuous circle of proactivity. Extroverts, on the other hand, can be so intent
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extroverts to express intimate facts about themselves online that their family
and friends would be surprised to read. The same person who would never raise
his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to two thousand, or
two million, without thinking twice. ”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307352153/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307352153&linkCode=as2&tag=thepythastory-20">Quiet</a> </b><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thepythastory-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307352153" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;">tells how from 1956 to 1962, the
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“One of the most interesting
findings, echoed by later studies, was that the more creative people tended to
be socially poised introverts. They were interpersonally skilled but ‘not of an
especially sociable or participative temperament.’ They describe themselves as
independent and individualistic. As teens many had been shy and solitary.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">These findings don’t mean that
introverts are always more creative than extroverts, but they do suggest that
in a group of people who have been extremely creative throughout their
lifetimes, you’re likely to find a lot of introverts.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">But there’s a less obvious yet
surprisingly powerful explanation for introverts’ creative advantage—an
explanation that everyone can learn from: introverts prefer to work
independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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backyard sitting under a tree while everyone else is clinking glasses on the
patio, you’re more likely to have an apple fall on your head. (Newton was one
of the world’s great introverts.)”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">WILLPOWER<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Self-control is more indispensable
than gunpowder.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">—Henry Morton Stanley<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></i></b></div>
<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143122231/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0143122231&linkCode=as2&tag=thepythastory-20">Willpower</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thepythastory-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0143122231" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;">has become one of the most
intensively studied topics in social science. Researchers around the world have
found that improving willpower is the surest way to a better life.</span>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">While self-esteem is fundamental to our personal
welfare, I believe, as researcher Baumeister exposes in</span><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143122231/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0143122231&linkCode=as2&tag=thepythastory-20">Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thepythastory-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0143122231" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;">that major problems, personal and
social, center on failure on self-control: compulsive spending and borrowing,
impulsive violence, underachievement in school, procrastination at work,
alcohol and drug abuse, unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, chronic anxiety,
explosive anger.</span>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Willpower look much more than a metaphor<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Researcher Baumeister has arrived to
the conclusion that willpower is like a muscle that could be fatigued through
use and warns us:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“If you’d like some advance warning
of trouble, look not of a single symptom but rather for a change in the overall
intensity of your feelings. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If you find especially bothered by
frustrating events, or saddened by unpleasant thoughts, or even happier about
some good news—then maybe it’s because your brain’s circuits aren’t controlling
emotions as well as usual.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sure enough, Baumeister does not try
to make you repress your feelings but be aware of what those feelings can mean,
because ego depletion results in slower brain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Ego depletion thus creates a double
whammy: Your willpower is diminished and your cravings feel stronger than ever.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Focus your energy on the task at hand<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">The author of</span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143122231/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0143122231&linkCode=as2&tag=thepythastory-20"><b>Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength</b></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thepythastory-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0143122231" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;">sorts out four different types of
willpower and suggests to stick to one challenge since you have only one supply
of willpower.</span>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“We can divide the uses of willpower
into four broad categories: control of thoughts, control of emotions, impulse
control, and performance control.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Emotional control is uniquely
difficult because you generally can’t alter your mood by an act of will. You
can change what you think about or how you behave, but you can’t force yourself
to be happy. To ward off sadness and anger, people use indirect strategies,
like trying to distract themselves with other thoughts, or working out at the
gym, or meditating. They lose themselves in TV shows and treat themselves to
chocolate binges and shopping sprees. Or they get drunk. We can’t control the
impulses, which is what most people associate with willpower, but how we react.
Performance control is focusing your energy on the task at hand.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Where
does the power in willpower come from?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">One of the reasons that cause to succumb to
frustration and anger, even though having self-control of a saint, is the lack
of glucose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Glucose depletion can turn the most
charming companion into a monster. The old advice about eating a good breakfast
applies all day long, particularly on days when you’re physically or mentally
stressed. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If you have a test, an important
meeting, or a vital project, don’t take it on without glucose. Don’t get into
an argument with your boss four hours after lunch. Don’t trash out serious
problems with your partner just before dinner.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The first step in self-control is having a clear goal<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> “The result of conflicting goals
is unhappiness instead of action, as the psychologists Robert Emmons and Laura
King demonstrated in a series of studies.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">By asking people about their goals and then monitoring them, the researchers
identified three main consequences of conflicting goals:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">First, you worry a lot. The more competing demands you face, the more
time you spend contemplating these demands. You’re beset by rumination.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Second, you get less done. It might seem that people who think more
about their goals would also take more steps to reach them, but instead they
replace action with rumination.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Third, your health suffers, physically as well as mentally.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The problem of the decision fatigue affects everything from the careers
of CEOs to the prison sentences of felons appearing before weary judges<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“The link between willpower and
decision making works both ways: Decision making depletes your willpower, and
once your willpower is depleted, you’re less able to make decisions. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If your work requires you to make
hard decisions all day long, at some point you’re going to be depleted and
start looking for ways to conserve energy. You’ll look for excuses to avoid or
postpone decisions. You’ll look for the easiest and safest option, which often
is to stick with the status quo: Leave the prisoner in prison.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Can willpower be strengthened?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If the depletions of willpower leave you with less self-control, can willpower be strengthened?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Emotion regulation does not rely on
willpower. People cannot simply will themselves to be in love, or to feel
intense joy, or to stop feeling guilty.
Emotional control typically relies on various subtle tricks, such as
changing how one thinks about the problem at hand, or distracting oneself.
Hence, practicing emotional control does not strengthen your willpower.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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strengthen your willpower, the author of</span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143122231/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0143122231&linkCode=as2&tag=thepythastory-20"><b>Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength</b></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thepythastory-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0143122231" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;">explains how other exercises do help.</span>
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different hand for routine tasks. Many habits are linked to your dominant hand.
Making yourself switch to your left hand is thus an exercise in self-control.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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change your speech habits, which are also deeply ingrained and therefore
require effort to modify. Break the adolescent habit of peppering your
discourse with ‘like’ and ‘you know’ constantly.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">THE BOOK ON THE TABOO AGAINST KNOWING WHO YOU ARE.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“For chivalry is the debonair spirit
of the knight who ‘plays with his life’ in the knowledge that even mortal
combat is a game.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
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and speaker, best known as interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy
for a Western audience. In </span>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">He argues that the whole universe
consists of a cosmic self-playing hide and seek (Lila), hiding from itself
(Maya) by becoming all the living and non-living things in the universe,
forgetting what it really is; the upshot being that we are all IT in disguise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If one ever wonders at a moment in
life which book would slip to their children, Watts eloquently advocates for a
book of experience and feeling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“The book that I would like to slip
to my children would itself be slippery. It would slip them into a new domain,
not of ideas alone, but of experience and feeling. It would be a temporary
medicine, not a diet; a point of departure, not a perpetual point of reference.
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">They would read it and be done with
it, for it were well and clearly written they would not have to go back to it
again and again for hidden meanings or for clarification of obscure doctrines.
We do not need a new religion or a new bible. We need a new experience—a new
feeling of what it is to be ‘I’.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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and the author of </span><b>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“There was never a time when the
world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no
place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it
goes round, and so the world, repeats itself again and again. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">But just as the hour-hand of the
watch goes up to twelve and down to six, so, too, there is day and night,
waking and sleeping, living and dying, summer and winter. You can’t have any
one of these without the other, because you wouldn’t be able to know what black
is unless you had seen it side-by-side with white, or white unless side-by-side
with black. (…)”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What
our consciousness ignores.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“If you put your hand on an
attractive girl’s knee and just leave it there, she may cease to notice it. But
if you keep patting her knee, she will know you are very much there and
interested. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">But she notices and, you hope, values
the on more than the off. Nevertheless, the very things that we believe to
exist are always on/offs. Ons alone and offs alone do not exist.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It is a general principle that
consciousness ignores intervals, so you wonder what governs what we choose to
notice, and Alan Watts talks about two elements that work simultaneously.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“The first is whatever seems
advantageous or disadvantageous for our survival, our social status, and the
security of our egos. The second is the pattern and the logic of all the
notation symbols which we have learned from others, from our society and our culture.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Imagination cannot grasp simple
nothingness and must therefore fill the void with fantasies, as in experiments
with sensory deprivation where subjects are suspended weightlessly in sound-and
light-proof rooms.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Humans are genuine fakes. The hallucination of separateness prevents one
from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> “We cannot chop off a person’s
head or remove his heart without killing him. But we can kill him just as
effectively by separating him from his proper environment. This implies that
the only true atom is the universe—that total system of interdependent
‘thing-events’ which can be separated from each other only in name. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For the human individual is not build as a car is built. He does not
come into being by assembling parts, by screwing a head on to a neck, by wiring
a brain to a set of lungs, or by welding veins to a heart. Head, neck, heart,
lungs, brain, veins, muscles, and glands are separate names but not separate
events, and these events grow into being simultaneously and interdependently. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In precisely the same way, the individual is separate from his universal
environment only in name. When this is not recognized, you have been fooled by
your name.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So what? Who am I?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“But peace can be made only by those
who are peaceful, and love can be shown only by those who love. No work of love
will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid
plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Once you have seen this you can
return to the world of practical affairs with a new spirit. You have seen that
the universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there
is no separate ‘you’ to get something out of it, as if life were a bank to be
robbed. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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comes and goes, manifests and withdraws itself eternally in and as every
conscious being. For ‘you’ is the universe looking at himself from billions of
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wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more
than people, even if only one’s own person. Every intelligent individual wants
to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the
fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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apparently, the most complex of all organisms, and while one has the advantage
of knowing one’s own organism so intimately—from the inside—there is also the
disadvantage of being so close to it that one can never quite get at it.
Nothing so eludes conscious inspection as consciousness itself. This is why the
root of consciousness has been called, paradoxically, the unconscious.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">HOW MANY PEOPLE YOU KNOW WITHIN A FIFTEEN-MINUTE WALK
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lived in a country that was fabulously wealthy and no one paid taxes? What if
you lived in a country where failure is an option? What if you lived in a
country so democratic that you voted seven times a year? What if you lived in a
country where excessive thinking is discouraged? Would you be happy then?</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Happiness
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at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename w:st="on">Iowa</st1:placename></st1:place> have identified
the regions of the brain associated with good and bad moods. They do this by
hooking up research subjects (college students in need of quick cash) to MRI
machines and then showing them a series of pictures. When they show people
pleasant pictures—bucolic landscapes, dolphins prefrontal lobe are
playing—parts of the activated. When they show unpleasant images—a bird covered
in oil, a dead soldier with parts of his face missing—the more primitive parts
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feelings, in other words, register in the regions of the brain that have
evolved most recently. It raises an intriguing question: Are we, in
evolutionary if not personal terms, slouching toward happiness?”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">VEENHOVEN:
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">VEENHOVEN:
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people are happier than others. I can still crunch the numbers.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“One
study found that, of all the factors that affect the crime rate for a given
area, the one that made the biggest difference was not the number of police
patrols or anything like that but, rather, how many people you know within a
fifteen-minute walk of your house.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> “Extroverts are happier than introverts;
optimists are happier than pessimists; married people are happier than singles,
though people with children are no happier than childless couples; Republicans
are happier than Democrats; people who attend religious services are happier
than those who do not; people with college degrees are happier than those
without, though people with advanced degrees are less happy than those with
just a BA; people with an active sex life are happier than those without; women
and men are equally happy, though women have a wider emotional range; having an
affair will make you happy but will not compensate for the massive loss of
happiness that you will incur when your spouse finds out and leaves you; people
are least happy when they’re commuting to work; busy people are happier than
those with too little to do; wealthy people are happier than poor ones, but
only slightly. So what should we do with these findings? Get married but don’t
have kids? Start going to church regularly? Drop out of that PhD program? Not
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happiest places, he explains, don’t necessarily fit our preconceived notions.
Some of the happiest countries in the world—<st1:country-region w:st="on">Iceland</st1:country-region>
and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Denmark</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
for instance—are homogeneous, shattering the American belief that there is
strength, and happiness, in diversity. One finding, which Veenhoven just
uncovered, has made him very unpopular with his fellow sociologists. He found
that income distribution does not predict happiness. Countries with wide gaps
between the rich and poor are no less happy than countries where the wealth is
distributed more equally.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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researcher, a Swiss economist named Bruno Frey, examined the relationship
between democracy and happiness across <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Switzerland</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s twenty-six cantons.
He found that the cantons with the greatest number of referendums, the most
democracy, were also the happiest. Even foreigners living in those cantons were
happier, though they couldn’t vote.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">WRITING IS <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">A
WAY</st1:address></st1:street> OF ORGANIZING EXPERIENCE AND LIFE ITSELF<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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personality.</span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Crucial
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Early
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Is
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Or
it is a kind of flat reporting of events and cruel fate for the reader to make
of what he wishes?”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As
for life’s little difficulties, they are myriad.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Once
when I had everything settled about a new apartment in Manhattan—advance rent
paid, the lease signed, the movers ready—I was informed that I could not have it
because it was a professional apartment. Writers are not professionals, because
‘their clients do not come to them.’ I thought of writing to the Department of
Housing or whoever made this law, ‘You have no idea how many characters ring my
doorbell and come to me every day and I absolutely need them for my existence,’
but I never wrote this, only reflected that prostitutes could probably qualify,
but writers couldn’t.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Surprising
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is a cheap and trick merely to surprise and shock the reader, especially at the
expense of logic. And a lack of invention on the writer’s part cannot be
covered up by sensational action and clever prose. It is also a kind of
laziness to write the obvious, which does not entertain really. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
ideal is an unexpected turn of the events, reasonably consistent with the
characters of the protagonists. Stretch the reader’s credulity, his sense of
logic, to the utmost—it is quite elastic—but don’t break it. In this way, you
will write something new, surprising and entertaining both to yourself and the
reader.”</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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think the majority of writers, living a Robinson Crusoe existence with no hope
of seeing another human being as long as they lived, would still write poems,
short stories and books with whatever material there was at hand. Writing is a
way of organizing experience and life itself, and the need of this is still
present through an audience may not be. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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I think most painters and writers like to think of their work being seen and
read by lots of people, and emotionally this sense of contact is of great importance
to their morale.”</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the moment, our society’s notion of success is largely composed of two parts:
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to me.’ I warn you to write such a novel. That something happened to you is of
no importance to anyone, not even to you (and you are now hearing it from the
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“To
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<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0868408670/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0868408670&linkCode=as2&tag=thepythastory-20">The Little Red Writing Book</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thepythastory-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0868408670" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;">is about what you have to do to hear
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“What
the morning tells me is that a sentence is just like a walk—like this one in
particular. A good sentence is a gravel path through a forest. It’s a track,
not a road; it’s a trail, not a footpath. You want it to feel finished, but not
mass-produced. You don’t want it to be anonymous. You want it to have a bit of
personality, preferably its own, which will resemble yours. You want it to have
topography, to rise and fall. And you want it to take a sensible, and
reasonably straight, path to wherever it’s meant to be going.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Ellie
grew up with Polish and English. On the second morning of a business writing
workshop she raised her hand and said this: ‘I came to this course thinking I
would learn how to use words like “facilitate” and “maximisation.” What I have
learned is to have the courage to avoid words like that.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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the break she said to me, ‘Bach is what you’re talking about here, not?’ All
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meaning so clearly.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bach’s
music, for me, is brilliant but not showy; spare but not slight. Its simplicity
is deceptive but not false, for the music is complex but never opaque. It is
mathematics and art in equal measure. Bach is a perfect metaphor, thanks Ellie,
for writing well.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Collect
verbs. Husband them. Breed them. Fledge them lovingly. Keep the best and make
them ready and, when the time comes, set them to work. You’re going to need at
least one per sentence, so start your collection today. Don’t let the thesaurus
suggest them. Go out and find your own. Then they’ll sound like yours.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“’Be
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search for what it is one meant to say, or it is an attempt to avoid saying it
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Make
believe you have a favorite letter. Write the letter on a piece of paper and
then randomly list words that begin with that letter. Read the words aloud.
Consult the AHD, and write down other interesting words that begin with your
letter. Now write a hundred-word profile of your favorite letter.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“With
no disrespect to Abraham Lincoln or Grover Cleveland or Dwight Eisenhower,
‘Barack Obama’ is, by acclamation, the most unusual name among the forty-four
men elected to the American presidency. And while his name, including his
middle name, Hussein, may have been an obstacle to his election, the musical
rhythm of ‘Obama’ inpired writers and commentators to coin a new lexicon to
describe his historical achievement.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Obamaphoria, Obamanation, Obanarama, Obamanos, Obamatopia, Obamalujah,
Obamatrons, Obamascope, Obamanator, Obamalicious, Obamaloha, Oh-bama, Bamelot,
Obamerika, Barackstar.” </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">[I
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“The
longer the elements in a series, the more likely you will need the serial
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“The
colon can be used to introduce a statement or a quotation, to signal the
beginning of a long list, and to highlight a word or a phrase at the end of a
sentence: like this.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Do
not use the dash because you have not mastered other forms of punctuation, such
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In
general, limit the number of reader interrumptions caused by the roadblock of
parentheses. Strive, instead, for a steady advance.”</span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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