My chocolate of choice:
Books read recently by J. Zimmerman
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My chocolate of choice:
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Reader's Bill of Rights [after Daniel Pennac in Better than Life
from November 2003 Utne Magazine] includes the rights to:
 Skip pages
Not read
Not finish
Not defend your tastes
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I feel no shame at being found owning
a share when the bottom of the market comes. ... I would say that it is from
time to time the duty of the serious investor to accept the depreciation of
his holdings with equanimity and without reproaching himself... The fact of
holding shares which have fallen in a general decline of the market proves
nothing and should not be subject to reproach.
p. 18 of William Bernstein's The Intelligent Asset Allocator. |
{ July : shichi-gatsu (see also books on learning Japanese) 2016 }
(7.21.2016)
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The question is, are you going to grow or are you going to just stay as you are out of fear
and waste your precious human life by stus quo-ing instead of being willing to break the sound
barrier? Break the glass ceiling, or whatever it is in your own life?
Are you willing to go forward?
[... if you have too much terror] be really gentle with yourself, to not push it, and to just move toward it slowly for the next five years, the next ten years. Just keep making baby steps, moving toward the fear, and part of that will be just working with fear, through meditation, for example. Be gentle, go slow. But keep your eye on that goal. |
The title is, of course, a reference to Samuel Beckett's:
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
She also brings in James Joyce's use of mistake rather than failure, when he writes in Ulysses that "mistakes can be 'the portals of discovery.' In other words, mistakes can be the portals of ". Along those lines, from p. 63:
| If there is a lot of 'I am bad, I am terrible,' somehow just notice that and maybe soften up a bit. Instead say, 'What am I feeling here? Maybe what is happening here is not that I am a failure — I am just hurting. I am just hurting. |
Books read by Pema Chödrön include:
Books read by Pema Chödrön include:
See also Harold Bloom's Hamlet: Poem Unlimited — useful in interpreting (if sometimes extravagantly) what Hamlet means to Bloom, but the Cumberbatch interpretation is even more meaningful.
174 pages of cheerful and enthusiastic history and praise of beer. Good to read in a hammock with a brew in hand.
Helpful, particularly because of the copious information from Zweig, but not quite as practical and applicable as Bernstein's brilliant The Intelligent Asset Allocator: How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk .
| The Intelligent Asset Allocator: How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk by William J. Bernstein, a best book in 2003 and still very practical and reasonable. What a difference from yesterday's attempt at Schweizer. |
Schweizer's language does not appear (as Good reads would have it) to "merely present... the troubling facts he's uncovered".
Wikipedia includes: "Ed Pilkington, writing for The Guardian, wrote ... that Schweizer does not prove corruption on the part of the Clintons" as well as information about 'corrections' to an on-line version of the book when fact-checking showed Schweizer to be less reliable than he claimed.
Grant D. Savage's tanka series "On the North Wind" is a special favorite in this issue (p. 47).
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