![]() ![]() In a 2013 poll of general practitioners in the UK, 75% said they saw between one and five patients per day whose visit was primarily driven by loneliness (p. ![]() We see loneliness daily in our offices often without recognizing it. As family physicians we learn how the social domain of life contributes to illness, but are not given tools to recognize loneliness. ![]() It was during his time as a young internal medicine resident that Murthy first noticed loneliness that burdened so many of his patients. Today, with social isolation and recommendations that we remain at home as much as possible, we are experiencing a surge in the loneliness epidemic Murthy brings to light. Murthy provides a comprehensive, well annotated, and insightful study of the epidemic of loneliness that he passionately argues is eroding public health. Ironically, this book was written in 2020 before we knew of the pandemic. Murthy, MD, who makes the case that we are experiencing an epidemic of loneliness. ![]() The author is the 19th United States Surgeon General Vivek H. There could not be a timelier book than Together-The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World. Publication Information: Broadway, NY, HarperCollins, 2020, 326 pp., $20.49, hardcover Book Title: Together-The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World ![]()
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![]() Put yourself where your strengths can produce results. Nine or 12 months later, compare the actual results with your expectations.įirst and foremost, concentrate on your strengths. ![]() Whenever you make a key decision or take a key action, write down what you expect will happen. ![]() We need to know our strengths in order to know where we belong. One cannot build performance on weaknesses, let alone on something one cannot do at all. Most people think they know what they are good at. Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships. One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. Drucker explains timeless concepts in a simple way yet provokes deep thinking about one's future.īiggest lesson: Knowing yourself will not only set you free but will allow you to grow and reach your full potential. It's a short but powerful book on self-awareness and management. ![]() You'll learn about self-education, mindset, and self-management. The book offers penetrating insights into the business that still resonate today. ![]() ![]() ![]() “A remarkable tale about the most magical of all journeys: the quest to fulfill one’s destiny.” (Anthony Robbins, author of Awaken the Giant Within) From the Back Cover “An entrepreneurial tale of universal wisdom we can apply to the business of our own lives.” (Spencer Johnson, M.D., co-author of The One-Minute Manager) Jampolsky, M.D., co-author of Change Our Mind, Change Your Life) “A sweetly exotic tale for young and old alike.” (Publishers Weekly) “As memorable and meaningful as Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince.” (Austin American-Statesman) “A beautiful story with a pointed message for every reader.” (Joseph Girzone, author of Joshua) “ books have had a life-enchanting effect on millions of people.” (London Times) “ Brazilian wizard makes books disappear from stores.” (New York Times) ![]() “A magical little volume.” (San Francisco Chronicle) “A touching, inspiring fable.” (Indianapolis Star) ![]() “An adventure story full of magic and wisdom.” (Rudolfo Anaya, author of Bless Me, Ultima) “A wise and inspiring fable about the pilgrimage that life should be.” (M. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cramer's death from lung cancer Monday got me thinking about those lessons.Ī Russian-novel-sized tale of the American political process, the 1992 book about the 1988 campaign has enduring relevance for its indelible portraits of such contemporary characters as Joe Biden and Bob Dole. ![]() As gallopingly pleasurable a read as it is, it often didn't feel like pleasure reading, so closely did it track my everyday life on the trail.īut the enthralling humanity and breadth of Cramer's tome quickly became a touchstone for me as I covered the campaign, as the book has for so many political writers over the years. Reading it in those circumstances was simultaneously intimidating and inspiring. Having come to political reporting late, I didn't read Richard Ben Cramer's campaign epic What It Takes until last year, when I was deep in the task of covering the 2012 presidential campaign. Why What It Takes, whose author died Monday at age 62, remains a touchstone for political writers 20 years after its publication ![]() ![]() Unlike past accounts suggesting that things could have turned out differently had some of the key players been less foolish, Evans builds, stone by stone, a monument to prove that Hitler's ascent was the only possible outcome even though the Nazi Party never captured an absolute majority of votes. This first part of what will be Evans' three-volume history of Hitler's regime is the most comprehensive and convincing work so far on the fall of Weimar and Hitler's rise to power. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, around 600 BC there was a transformative shift in thinking. Essentially, myth gives order and understanding. Furthermore, the deities could be influenced by prayer and ritual (if you have read Homer, you can easily see multiple human characteristics attributed to the gods). Some gods and goddesses were good and benevolent and others were not. For instance, a mythic explanation of a tsunami might be that the god Poseidon was angry, whereas now we give a rational and physical explanation of such. ![]() think Mesopotamians, Egyptians, and the early Greeks) was that all events were the result of some spirit’s action. The basic way to understand the world at this time (i.e. With respect to myth, everything in nature is thought to have powers and to be alive: water, air, sun, and the like. Rational inquiry in Greece begins by giving physical and natural explanations of things and using law, predictions, and scientific thinking instead of myth. Myth gives anthropomorphic explanations of the world and refers to gods, magic, and the like. It arises as an alternative way to understand the world in comparison to myth. In the western world, rational thinking begins in Ancient Greece. This chapter provides a brief overview of how philosophy developed in the west by looking at some key elements of Plato’s Apology. Western philosophy begins in Ancient Greece, with a range of thinkers pushing the status quo to delve into topics that affect us as human beings. ![]() ![]() By the way, I just love poems in which the body of the poem is a continuation of the title. The title alone bears the weight of a story, a really rich story, which the entire poem continues from. ![]() Just take a look at that title! There is everything that draws your attention in it. It is titled “ To the Girl Who Works at Starbucks, Down the Street from My House on Del Mar Heights Road, I Swear to God I’m Not a Stalker” Maybe it’s the way it ends or how corny it is, but I love it. Oh the first! I feel tingles every time I read this one. So, I would be taking them one after the other. ![]() There are five main poems I have selected for reviews that I personally love so much. This beautiful collection of fifty eight poems is filled with astounding poetry styles and relatable messages, with shocking twists, amazing wittiness and a sound use of poetic elements. I must state that Helium is one of my best poetry books. Earlier this month, I had taken a review on selected poems in Helium and now I have decided to share some of them and do reviews on new selections. ![]() ![]() While Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, and Ben Vereen sometimes made it into high budget films, most black actors, writers and directors had access only to low-budget Blaxploitation films such as Cotton Comes to Harlem, Shaft, Superfly, and Blacula (the film Sounder, although low budget, was a stylistic exception). In the early 1970s, the most “progressive” thing one might say about the US film industry is that it was an era of heightened tokenism. ![]() ![]() While they share some familiar cultural tropes, both are reflective of the eras in which they were created. Billie Holiday, TST, March 2021) and 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of Lady Sings the Blues (I’ll abbreviate as LSTB). Last year brought us The United States Versus Billie Holiday (I’ll abbreviate as USVBH) (“ The History Behind The United States vs. No surprise, then, that she has inspired twice as many feature films as any other jazz musician and that the history is shaky in both. Knowledgeable jazz people who want accurate history are advised to watch documentaries–feature films are for myth-making and one of the clearest personifications of jazz mythology is Billie Holiday. While there’s a special place in cinematic hell reserved for characters portrayed as trumpet players (“ The Trumpeter’s Cinematic Curse,” TST, August 2019), the perennial theme of feature films about jazz musicians is the dance between art and tragedy- Young Man With a Horn, Bolden, Round Midnight, Bird, Miles Ahead, Born To be Blue… ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to the book's subtle art lesson (imagine the skies of Vincent van Gogh, for example), readers have the opportunity to compare and contrast all the paintings done in Sophie's class. "The sky isn't orange! Trees aren't blue! Your picture is wrong!" they tell her. Sophie loves it, but her picture is different from the paintings done by the other students. Then she questions herself and the value of the choices she's made.Īt issue is Sophie's colorful, expressive painting of her favorite tree. Sophie's face gets hot, and tears begin to flow. ![]() In this story, Bang's popular character Sophie is hurt when the other children laugh at her and tell her she's wrong. In a sequel to her bestselling "When Sophie Gets Angry.," Caldecott Honor Illustrator Molly Bang asks: What hurts your feelings, and what do you do about it?Įveryone's feelings get hurt, and it's especially painful in childhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, he goes to the client and tells him what he should do. Then a client at the agency, Barney McCarthy, comes to them with a problem to sell one of his properties, and Danny keeps quiet about what he should do. Danny falls in love with Ria, and Ria is crazy about him, and when they decide to get married, the savings they have is not enough to buy the house of his dreams. Danny is very attractive and ambitious, and when he meets Ria, his first ambition is to be able to buy the house where he is living with three other mates. ![]() Some months later she meets a new hire, Danny Lynch, and they fall in love with him. ![]() Ria eventually goes to work at an estate agency where she meets Rosemary, attractive and blonde, who becomes her best friend. Soon Hilary and Martin get engaged and married. Hilary is hired at a school where she meets Martin Moran, who is dull and stingy. The two sisters study in secretarial college and they both get different jobs. So Ria and Hilary think of marriage as their ultimate aim. Nora Johnson has always instilled the idea of marriage into her daughters. This is the story of Ria Johnson, who has grown up in Dublin with her widowed mother and older sister, Hilary. ![]() |