Book Title: How to have a Beautiful Mind
Author: Edward de Bono
Year written/published: 2004
Book Source: Google Books, Library
My Comments: A truly beautiful mind is one with different perpectives, view points, the one who can take alternatives and opinions that are much different from my own. I have always liked De Bono’s books… and this is definitely one [...]

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It has long been a tenet of business theory that the best decisiosn are amde after careful review and consideration. Only then can a practical decision be made. Now that model is being questioned by some business thinkers in the light of the theories of Malcolm Gladwell, who states that human beings make better decisions [...]

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why more is less…

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Book Title: The God Delusion
Author: Richard Dawkins
Year written/published: 2006
Book Source: Google Books, Library, Chapter 1
Summary: Atheism and why there’s no God
Contents page:

A deeply religious non-believer
Arguments for God’s existence
Why there almost certainly is no God
The roots of religion
The roots of morality: Why we are good?
The ‘good’ book and the changing moralist zeitgeist
What’s wrong with religion? Why [...]

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Arthur C. Clarke formulated the following three laws:

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Any [...]

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‘God Delusion’ by Richard Dawkins… some extracts by the author himself…

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Book Title: The book of secrets - Unlocking the hidden dimensions of your life
Author: Deepak Chopra
Year written/published: 2004
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: a philosophical look at life and everything and the universe - talks about the mysteries of life.
My Comments: I have really read this kinda of philosophical book… it has a very different perpective. [...]

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Book Title: How to be Idle
Author: Tom Hodgkinson
Year written/published: 2004
Book Source: Google Books, Library
My Comments: Loved it… lazy chilling out reading realised that i’m indeed an idler at heart …
Contents page:

8am: Waking up is Hard to do
9am: Toil and Trouble
10am:Sleeping in
11am: Skiving for Pleasure and Profit
Noon: The hangover
1pm: The death of Lunch
2pm: On [...]

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we all have a connection through a collective conscience… believe it??
Once some scientists dropped sweet potatoes for some monkeys in an island. Those sweet potatoes were dirty and so finally one day, a young monkey found a way to wash it in the water and then eat it. Soon enough the whole island’s monkeys started [...]

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Book Title: Identity and Violence - The Illusion of Destiny
Author: Amartya Sen
About the Author: 1998 Economics Nobel Laureate
Year written/published: 2006
Book Source: Library, Amazon
My Comments: Great insight!
Contents page:

 The Violence of Illusion
Making Sense of Identity
Civilisational Confinement
Religious Affiliations and Muslim History
West and Anti-West
Culture and Captivity
Globalisation and Voice
Multiculturism and Freedom
Freedom to Think

Some extracts:
How similar are we all…

Oscar Wilde made [...]

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Book Title: 6 Thinking Hats
Author: Edward de Bono
Year written/published: 1985
Book Source: Amazon, Library
Summary: 6 thinking hats - White, Red, Black, Yellow, Green, Blue defines the 6 ways humans think.
My Comments: Interesting outlook! So say in a discussion, we can always steer the thinking towards a particular direction - instead of saying you  need to think [...]

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Book Title: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Origins of Christianity
Author: Carsten Peter Thiede
Year written/published: 2000
Book Source: Amazon. Library
Summary:A book that deals with the finding and revelation of the Dead Sea Scrolls - archaeological writings found amidst the Shores of the Dead Sea and written around 100A.D. Findings are startling and there were also [...]

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Book Title:The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
Author: Bernard Lewis
Year written/published: 2003
Book Source: Amazon
Summary: A history from the beginning of Islam during 600A.D till the present day.  And of course an analysis of several historical situations.
My Comments:This is my first book on Islam and i got to know a lot about it’s rich [...]

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this is funny… Murphy’s Laws…

If anything can go wrong, it will.
If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which something can [...]

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Sleight of Mouthis a technique of patterns for re-framing any negative statements. And i think it’s a powerful list of 14 patterns for persuasion or influencing people…

Intent
Consequences
Another Outcome
Counter example
Apply to self
Reality strategy
Model of the World
Meta frame
Change Frame Size
Hierarchy of Criteria
Chunk Down
Chunk Up
Metaphor/Analogy
Redefine

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Pareto Principle or the 80/20 rule says that only 20% of the causes has 80% of the effects. And i thought Scott has a nice list of things to do using this 80/20 list… some includes..

reading list
feed list
food
email

check it out

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The full speech for United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women Plenary Session in 1995, Beijing.
Some excerpts…

I believe that, on the eve of a new millennium, it is time to break our silence. It is time for us to say here in Bejing, and the world to hear, that it is no longer acceptable to [...]

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this 8 fold path is laid out by Lord Buddha and it is one of the fundamentals of Buddhism. A powerful messege about the view of our life..

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Want to know the secret of getting exactly what you always want?? 
Do you believe in the law of attraction? If you truly focus, believe and visualise about the things you really want, you actually eventually get them! Wow! how wonderful!
Why can’t i have a car?
Why can’t i stay in a high rise flat?
Why can’t i [...]

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Yin Yang is a powerful concept. We must always look at the both ends of the spectrum… and the concept of yin yang…

Yin and Yang do not exclude each other
Yin and Yang are interdependent
Yin and Yang can be further subdivided into Yin and Yang
Yin and Yang consume and support each other
Yin and Yang can transform [...]

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