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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley

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I was going to bitch about how the book keeps going in circles and mostly about animals until past half way. Then it gets into some decent juice about human psychology, gender differences and soooo much more. – This concept, that all progress is relative, has come to be known in biology by the name of the Red Queen, after a chess piece that Alice meets in Through the Looking-Glass, who perpetually runs without getting very far because the landscape…

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Born Standing Up (Audiobook) by Steve Martin

Born Standing Up (Audiobook) by Steve Martin

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I got this because Dane Cook mentioned the book in his talk with Google. The audiobook is read by Steve himself and it’s like a memoir about how and why he go in and got out of stand up comedy. The thing is, when Steve reads the book he sounds so boring. It’s like he didn’t have the energy to do it, nothing like how you see him in the movies. So while it was the hardest audiobook to focus…

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Comedy Writing Secrets 2nd Edition by Melvin Helitzer

Comedy Writing Secrets 2nd Edition by Melvin Helitzer

Comedy Writing Secrets 2nd Edition by Melvin Helitzer: The best-selling book on how to think funny, write funny, act funny, and get paid for it. The book is divided into three sections. The first part covers the foundations of humor writing, including the theories and principles of humor and why we laugh. The second section describes various humor-writing techniques, such as plays on words, reverses, pairings, triples, and exaggeration. The final section explains how to write humor for popular markets…

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Primal Leadership: Learn to Lead with Emotional Intelligence Audiobook By Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee

Primal Leadership: Learn to Lead with Emotional Intelligence Audiobook By Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee

Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional IntelligenceRight of the bat they get into Emotional Intelligence (EI) as the most important factor in the best leaders. Also humour plays a major part in people to rise to the top. The leaders with good EI are called resonant leaders and those that suck… dissonant. Sometimes the team can feel dissonance when the leader is upbeat when the team has unresolved issues etc. Now there is a big different between what the…

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Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships by Eric Berne

Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships by Eric Berne

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Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships by Eric Berne Slides below I didn’t have much faith in psychiatrists… until now. It’s amazing how studying people and interactions can reveal so much and categorise the type of interactions and the like. So lets break it down. First the writer differentiates between procedures, rituals, passtimes and games. Games is the only one in which people use the interaction to get something out of. As in ulterior motives, consciously or unconsciously….

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ART Excel Malvern 19th – 25th August 2010

ART Excel Malvern 19th – 25th August 2010

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Pictures are on Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=262919&id=500304440 Thursday 19/08/2010 – Pack, busses to link with Viv. Get some junk in our tummies. Watch Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Busses to Ameet’s listening to Vive la Fete remixes album. It’s just too good man! Ameet has guests so listen to a dentist convo. Read a pre-published version of a book. Friday 20/08/2010 – Drive to Letchworth. Such a beautiful area man, Ameet was at work so Khushbu and I check out the area. I check…

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