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| ef093d0 | THINK OF THE WAY a stretch of grass becomes a road. At first, the stretch is bumpy and difficult to drive over. A crew comes along and flattens the surface, making it easier to navigate. Then, someone pours gravel. Then tar. Then a layer of asphalt. A steamroller smooths it; someone paints lines. The final surface is something an automobile can traverse quickly. Gravel stabilizes, tar solidifies, asphalt reinforces, and now we don't need to.. | Shane Snow | ||
| d2b7206 | Being able to pick and read good waves is almost more important than surfing well. | enterpreneurship inspirational | Shane Snow | |
| dcd3c05 | But to sever all your connections, professional as well as personal..." Lib fumbled for words. "Wouldn't it be like a little death?" Byrne nodded. "I believe emigration generally is that. The price of a new life." | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 6ecbb68 | trouble with moonwalkers and billionaires is when they arrive at the top, their momentum often stops. If they don't manage to find something to parlay, they turn into the kid on the jungle gym who just hangs from the ring. Not coincidentally, this is the same reason that only one-third of Americans are happy at their jobs. When there's no forward momentum in our careers, we get depressed, too. | Shane Snow | ||
| 84910f4 | No matter the medium or method, giving is the timeless smartcut for harnessing superconnectors and creating serendipity. | Shane Snow | ||
| 841c32d | Lateral thinking doesn't replace hard work; it eliminates unnecessary cycles. | Shane Snow | ||
| fd3e98c | Creativity comes easier within constraints. | Shane Snow | ||
| 98827c5 | My whole thing was, if I can put in 5 percent of the effort of somebody getting an A, and I can get a C minus, that's amazing," he explains. "It's certainly good enough, right? [Then] I can take the other 95 percent of the time and invest it in something I really care about." | Shane Snow | ||
| 4e6df52 | We're multiplying our capabilities as a civilization and yet we still accept the notion that important societal progress, like combating inequality and crime--or even innovating in government and medicine--must take generations. Despite leaps in what we can do, most of us still follow comfortable, pre-prescribed paths. We work hard, but hardly question whether we're working smart. On | Shane Snow | ||
| e4d8803 | Indeed, equal amounts of research support both assertions: that mentorship works and that it doesn't. Mentoring programs break down in the workplace so often that scholarly research contradicts itself about the value of mentoring at all, and prompts Harvard Business Review articles with titles such as "Why Mentoring Doesn't Work." The mentorship slip is illustrated well by family businesses: 70 percent of them fail when passed to the second.. | Shane Snow | ||
| 21cee05 | It became legend that no one should wander too close to the sorceress's enchanted forest or she would send forth a blizzard, causing them to lose their way and be caught in the land of ice and snow for all time. | nutcracker romance | Amanda V. Shane | |
| c68fdd4 | There's a big difference, in other words, between having a mentor guide our practice and having a mentor guide our journey. OUR TYPICAL PARADIGM FOR mentorship is that of a young, enterprising worker sitting across from an elderly executive at an oak desk, engaging in Q& A about how to succeed at specific challenges. On the other hand, a smartcut-savvy mentee approaches things a bit differently. She develops personal relationships with her .. | Shane Snow | ||
| 7e23d48 | Aristotle was privileged to study at Plato's Academy, but some kid on the other side of the world was probably just as promising as young Aristotle and never got the mentorship. How can building deep relationships with master mentors be a smartcut if it hinges on our being lucky enough to know the master? Hip-hop icon Jay-Z gives us a clue in one of his lyrics, "We were kids without fathers . . . so we found our fathers on wax and on the st.. | Shane Snow | ||
| e270fc4 | By itself, one small win may seem unimportant," writes Dr. Karl Weick in a seminal paper for American Psychologist in 1984. "A series of wins at small but significant tasks, however, reveals a pattern that may attract allies, deter opponents, and lower resistance to subsequent proposals." "Once a small win has been accomplished," Weick continues, "forces are set in motion that favor another small win." | Shane Snow | ||
| 99eb376 | You're going to turn me into a beast, fair one. | Amanda V. Shane | ||
| 9d83f2e | Oh, fairling," he breathed, "you light up the dark." | fractured-fairy-tale nutcracker | Amanda V. Shane | |
| eebe9a7 | I don't know what's real and what isn't half of the time. | fractured-fairy-tale nutcracker | Amanda V. Shane | |
| 241b45b | Great King Vasilli," one of the fairy women said, "we know that you come from the Northern Kingdom. We've seen you and your men journey through here before to the lands outside. This night we found a wayward traveler." | fractured-fairy-tale | Amanda V. Shane | |
| 49ecddc | Playing, it turns out, makes us less afraid of cognitive friction. | Shane Snow | ||
| e5908a4 | All of the women she saw were young, maybe her own age and they were white as the snow on the ground. They wore frosted head wreaths, some of fir pins and others of branches with berries, some even looked to be made entirely of silvery icicles that shined and glinted like diamonds. To a one, their skin was milky white and shimmered as though they'd all been sifted with fairy dust. | Amanda V. Shane | ||
| ea1c5c0 | The important ingredient, the thing that gets teams into The Zone, is not peace and harmony and sameness--it's engaging the tension between their perspectives, heuristics, ideas, and differences. | Shane Snow | ||
| 0114e8b | Michelle Phan grew up in California with her Vietnamese parents. The classic American immigrant story of the impoverished but hardworking parents who toil to create a better life for the next generation was marred, in Phan's case, by her father's gambling addiction. The Phan clan moved from city to city, state to state, downsizing and recapitalizing and dodging creditors and downsizing some more. Eventually, Phan found herself sleeping on a.. | Shane Snow | ||
| bfcc3c5 | 20% Time" is not Google indigenous. It was borrowed from a company formerly known as Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, aka 3M, which allowed its employees to spend 15 percent of their work hours experimenting with new ideas, no questions asked. 3M's "15% Time" brought us, among other things, Post-it Notes. Behind this concept (which is meticulously outlined in an excellent book by Ryan Tate called The 20% Doctrine) is the idea of constant.. | Shane Snow | ||
| bd55c69 | Good stories surprise us. They make us think and feel. They stick in our minds and help us remember ideas and concepts in a way that a PowerPoint crammed with bar graphs never can. | Shane Snow | ||
| cadb48e | We're multiplying our capabilities as a civilization and yet we still accept the notion that important societal progress, like combating inequality and crime--or even innovating in government and medicine--must take generations. | Shane Snow | ||
| 34f2803 | True success is not defined by how much money do I make, how well do I speak, how well do I deal with the subjects I deal with," he says. "But how great of a father I am." | Shane Snow | ||
| 0eb4b10 | New ideas emerge when you question the assumptions upon which a problem is based (in this case: it's that you can only help one person). | Shane Snow | ||
| 12ff8b4 | The most popular post on Eli Pariser's blog on the day after he launched it was about Gandhi. Twelve people shared it. The post told the story of the talisman the revered Indian leader once gave to his grandson Arun, which listed the seven "blunders" he believed led to violence: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Religion without sacrifice. Poli.. | Shane Snow | ||
| 2f26bf4 | Research from Brunel University shows that chess students who trained with coaches increased on average 168 points in their national ratings versus those who didn't. Though long hours of deliberate practice are unavoidable in the cognitively complex arena of chess, the presence of a coach for mentorship gives players a clear advantage. Chess prodigy Joshua Waitzkin (the subject of the film Searching for Bobby Fischer) for example, accelerat.. | Shane Snow | ||
| ea18b83 | The key to intellectual humility is increasing the cognitive diversity inside our own heads. | Shane Snow | ||
| b2ba061 | Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| fbec73a | The images swirled through her. She needed to bake. Cake. A layered chocolate cake. With vanilla buttercream frosting. The images were as clear as four-color photos from a coffee table book on baking. She could taste the vanilla, butter, and cream whipped into a sugar frosting as if she had spooned it into her mouth. The chocolate smelled so real that a chill of awareness ran along her skin, pooling in her fingertips. She itched to bake. | portia-cuthcart tastes | Linda Francis Lee | |
| e227a6d | She decided to make salmon baked in a touch of olive oil, topped with pine nuts, and served over spinach flash-fried in the salmon-and-olive-oil drippings. She added brown rice that she had slow-boiled with the herb hawthorn. Just as she finished, Cordelia arrived with a woman she had found standing in the sidewalk out front. "My husband has high blood pressure," she explained, negotiating the stairs down into Portia's apartment with care... | hangover health-foods high-blood-pressure-cures insomnia-cure portia-cuthcart remedies stress-reliever | Linda Francis Lee | |
| ed5ed63 | I couldn't deal with the kind of need for a man that had ruled my mother's life - the kind of need that made it impossible to breath when self-worth was wrapped up in "I love yous." | Linda Francis Lee | ||
| 21cff2f | The German chocolate cake was easy. So was the vanilla buttercream. But the strawberry shortcake gave me fits. Turns out, the final fix came when I baked a fresh strawberry in the middle of a vanilla sour-cream batter instead of strawberry batter with chunks of strawberries. | flavors portia-cuthcart strawberries | Linda Francis Lee | |
| 094e7eb | Many Scots welcome people who actively choose to live in Scotland, who made a conscious decision to come north. Others resent those known as incomers, white settlers, interlopers and a row of other denigrating terms. In his novel Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh put these paradoxical thoughts in the mind of his hero, Renton: It's nae good blaming it oan the English for colonising us. Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are coloni.. | Alistair Moffat | ||
| 79797d4 | Over me green branches hang A blackbird leads the loud song; Above my penlined booklet I hear a fluting bird-throng. The cuckoo pipes a clear call Its dun cloak hid in deep dell; Praise to God for this goodness That in woodland I write well. | Alistair Moffat | ||
| 41dbb9c | Once the apartment was ready, Portia had begun to plan out what foods they would showcase in this little glimpse into a Glass Kitchen world. Her sisters couldn't help her with this part. Portia had let go, and dishes had come to her, all of which she wrote down and prepared to make. Then, at eight that morning, she got to work. Olivia and Cordelia served as sous-chefs; they started by making a decadent beef bourguignon. Olivia and Cordelia .. | foods glass-kitchen ingredients portia-cuthcart scents sisters | Linda Francis Lee | |
| 749c3e2 | She spread her arms wide to encompass the old pine table they had painted robin's egg blue, lightly sanding it in places so the white primer showed through. She had pulled out Aunt Evie's moss green platters and bowls, filling enough of them with everything from cheesy quiches to creamy chocolate pies, butterscotch cupcakes to the beef bourguignon to cover every inch of counter space. The place smelled heavenly. | foods kitchen-design portia-cuthcart | Linda Francis Lee | |
| e76826e | Images of food rushed through her head, surprising her. Fried chicken. Sweet jalapeno mustard. Mashed potatoes. Biscuits. And a pie. Big and sweet, strawberries with whipped cream- so Texan, so opposite this fierce New Yorker. | gabriel-kane portia-and-gabriel portia-cuthcart | Linda Francis Lee | |
| 1113e90 | Not an hour after Olivia was found, Portia and her mother were in the family's ancient pickup truck, bumping along the dirt roads of backwater Texas until they came to her grandmother's cafe, a place that had been handed down through generations of Gram's ancestors. The Glass Kitchen. Portia loved how its whitewashed clapboard walls and green tin roof, giant yawning windows, and lattice entwined with purple wisteria made her think of doll h.. | grandma smells | Linda Francis Lee | |
| 8e9e396 | Without a single one of those promised lessons from her grandmother, Portia began to see and taste food without having it in front of her, the images coming to her like instincts, automatic and without thought. She found that she knew things without having to be taught. Rich dark chocolate would calm a person who was hiding their anxiety. Hot red chili mixed with eggs first thing in the morning relieved symptoms of someone about to succumb .. | gift healing-properties portia-cuthcart | Linda Francis Lee | |
| 6d5403a | Portia gasped awake with the taste of apples in her mouth- crisp green apples smothered in brown sugar and spice. She needed to bake. Lying tangled in the sheets, she tried to calm her racing heart. She tried to write off this urge, too. It was nothing more than a knee-jerk reaction to moving to the Big Apple. But no matter how forcefully she told herself she had stuffed the knowledge back down, she realized that she hadn't. Not really. Whe.. | ingredients knowing portia-cuthcart sweets urges | Linda Francis Lee | |
| 493196e | Next thing she knew, Portia hurried into the Fairway Market on Broadway. The grocery store was unlike anything she had seen in Texas. Bins of fruit and vegetables lined the sidewalk, forming narrow entrances into the market. Inside, the aisles were crowded, no inch of space wasted. In the fresh vegetables and fruit section she was surrounded by piles of romaine and red-leaf lettuce, velvety thick green kale that gave away to fuzzy kiwi and .. | grocery-shopping ingredients portia-cuthcart | Linda Francis Lee |