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Insgesamt war es eine gute Leseerfahrung. Noch besser wäre es vermutlich gewesen, die Übungen, die sie vorgeschlagen hat auch durchzuführen. Ist letztendlich vermutlich gut sowohl das Sonnenkind als auch das Schattenkind zu kennen.
Well, the first part of the book is more like 5 stars. I really liked the stories. It was more down to earth in my opinion. The last part was more theoretical or philosophical and it was hard for me to stay focused.
So, all in all 4 stars.
Some powerful quotes from the book:
"When man is living, he is soft and pliable; when he is dead, he becomes rigid. Pliability is life; rigidity is death, whether we are speaking of the body, the mind, or the spirit. Be pliable."
"What you do (teach, play sports, feed starving children, enforce the laws, write books) and who you are (a parent, a spouse, a partner, a mentor, an artist) is not as important as how you express your “what” and your “who” in everything you do."
"It takes work to make your insides match your outsides."
"And so it is …
Well, the first part of the book is more like 5 stars. I really liked the stories. It was more down to earth in my opinion. The last part was more theoretical or philosophical and it was hard for me to stay focused.
So, all in all 4 stars.
Some powerful quotes from the book:
"When man is living, he is soft and pliable; when he is dead, he becomes rigid. Pliability is life; rigidity is death, whether we are speaking of the body, the mind, or the spirit. Be pliable."
"What you do (teach, play sports, feed starving children, enforce the laws, write books) and who you are (a parent, a spouse, a partner, a mentor, an artist) is not as important as how you express your “what” and your “who” in everything you do."
"It takes work to make your insides match your outsides."
"And so it is with life. Life can be joyful and sad. Beautiful and ugly. Exciting and terrifying. And yet, these are the extremes of the whole experience. If we resist one half of the experience, we may never reach the heights of its rewards or the contentment of its balance. But when we strike a balance within the interplay of these extremes, we find peace and harmony. We find ease."
"The “Be Water” quote begins with the prompt, “Empty your mind.” This first request is perhaps the most important one in our process because it sets us up for everything that comes next. My father believed that this act—of leaving behind the burdens of one’s preconceived opinions and conclusions—had in itself a liberating power. In fact, if this step is the only one you actively work on for a while, you will expand your life considerably."
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral, which always is as it is.”
"Oftentimes it happens that I don’t see an experiment through, and then there’s information in that as well. Did I not stick to it because it wasn’t working for me? Or did I stop because it was too hard or because I had some sort of blind spot or blockage that I ran up against? The possibilities for learning and growth are endless if you’re prepared to dig in."
"A teacher, a good teacher that is, functions as a pointer to truth but not a giver of truth."
"What impulses do you need to control, and what controls do you need to loosen?"
"Are you trying only to best someone else or win the prize? Or are you interested in your own process of growth? Competition categorizes everything and everyone into winners and losers rather than collaborators and cocreators. It separates us from self, and it pits us against one another."
"If someone insults me, I can choose to be insulted, or I can choose to hold that person in compassion because they are obviously struggling with something themselves, or I can choose to express myself to them, or I can choose to walk away. I can choose to make that insult mean that the world is a terrible place or I can choose to make it mean that there’s a lot of healing to do in the world and wonder how I can do my part. I am the creator of my experience. I get to choose."
I really liked the book. It sounded in my head like Patrick Stewart.
99% about him was related to StarTrek and know I know a bit about his childhood and his career in general.
Klaus Seibel: Krieg Um Den Mond
Die Idee der Geschichte fand’ ich interessant und ich habe gehofft eine:n weitere:n deutsche:n SiFi Autor:in zu finden. Da bin ich noch nicht so sicher.
Ich habe den stringenten roten Faden vermisst. Am Ende hat der Autor noch das ein
- oder andere eingebaut, was für mich zu happy ending war.
Hard to rate this one. I can make an argument for giving it one star AND five stars.
On one hand the chapters are usually very short, they contain some stories and also some good or even great advice.
On the other hand, there is no red thread or at least I couldn’t see it. A lot of the chapters are pretty repetitive. One decision from one person was describes as courageous or even heroic because there life was at stake. This made me feel both, boggling and excited.
I picked the book up, because I want to become more courageous. This booked helped me to dive deeper into this topic and answer the question:„What does it mean to be more courageous FOR ME?
I took some 70 notes. Here are my TOP3:
„Courage, he said, was the midpoint between two vices—cowardice being the best known, but recklessness being equally …
Hard to rate this one. I can make an argument for giving it one star AND five stars.
On one hand the chapters are usually very short, they contain some stories and also some good or even great advice.
On the other hand, there is no red thread or at least I couldn’t see it. A lot of the chapters are pretty repetitive. One decision from one person was describes as courageous or even heroic because there life was at stake. This made me feel both, boggling and excited.
I picked the book up, because I want to become more courageous. This booked helped me to dive deeper into this topic and answer the question:„What does it mean to be more courageous FOR ME?
I took some 70 notes. Here are my TOP3:
„Courage, he said, was the midpoint between two vices—cowardice being the best known, but recklessness being equally dangerous.“
Courage in itself is not always better. It’s no one-way street.
„A person isn’t brave, generally. We are brave, specifically. For a few seconds. For a few seconds of embarrassing bravery we can be great. And that is enough.“
It’s not possible to be courageous ALL THE TIME. Sometimes you are not courageous and that’s totally ok.
„Courage is not something you declare, like bankruptcy, it is something you earn, that becomes part of you. Just as a writer becomes one by writing—and a great writer by writing that which is worth reading—“courageous” is a superlative paid for over the course of a life of courageous decisions.“
Increase your courage „account“ just like your bank account. Interest will do it’s wonder. :-)
Die Zeiten sind aus den Fugen geraten: Der Sommer des Friedens und der Fülle, der zehn Jahre währte, neigt sich …
Zen To Done (ZTD) is a system that is at once simple, and powerful, and …
A decent read. I was able to read it in two sessions (1-2 hours in total), so it’s pretty short.
If you are familiar and happy with GTD, this isn’t for you.
If you are unhappy with GTD because there is too much upfront cost, it might be a good idea.
If you are unfamiliar with GTD, well, it might be a bit too short for you.
First edition
Will you read something that blows you away, that you NEVER heard of?
Of cause not but there are few books who do.
This is a composition of, I don’t know, 25 essays or so. Some are very short, some are a bit longer.
It’s been written so you can re-read it, maybe once a year, as a reminder for the things which you lost/forgot during the last year. At least, I see it like this.
e.g.
„All companies have customers. Lucky companies have fans. But the most fortunate companies have audiences.“
„If you build software, every error message is marketing.“
„If customers depend on your service and can’t get to it, it’s not merely an inconvenience. It’s a crisis. An inconvenience is a long line at the grocery store. This ain’t that.“
„Culture is action, not words.“
Messy code is a nuisance. "Tidying" code, to make it more readable, requires breaking it …
All in all a great book with a lot of nuggets in it. There is probably no middle ground. You either give it five starts or none at all.
I like his writing style. I know his voice from many videos and podcasts and it’s helpful for me to have the book read to me inside my head with his voice and his intonation. That might sound a bit weird but you know what I mean if you do the same. :-)
The content is a bit of a mixture between „old“ stuff regarding refactoring and new stuff regarding the economics of software or software changes.
A Clash of Kings is the second novel in A Song of Ice and Fire, an epic fantasy series by …
Great book, the technical terms from the medical field are hard to understand, at least for a non-native Englisch speaker. :-)
All in all great and inspiring stories.
Das Jahr 2077: Mit dem größten Kraftakt der Geschichte werden 900 Auserwählte im Orbit in …
Insgesamt ganz spannend. Es fühlte sich allerdings wie zwei Bücher an. Nach etwa der Hälfte war der Klimax eigentlich erreicht und dann begann sozusagen der zweite Teil.
Decent and entertaining read if you are into Apple. Has some lengths every now and then. I am not sure how much of the stuff in the book is true and verifiable. The author himself said at the end, that Apple is very focused on secrecy.
Jurassic Park is a 1990 science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton. A cautionary tale …
I watched the movie a couple of times, so I was eager to know if the book is better, worse or just different. I would go with different. Some characters behave differently. Grant and Lex are more interesting in the movie, from my point of view.
