Anna B
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Anna B
Our initial findings suggest that open goals can lead to performance at least as good as (and in some cases better than) SMART goals
Christian Swann • So-Called ‘SMART Goals’ Are a Case of Style Over Substance
Plato having anointed truth as the goal of philosophy, the goal of human life. ‘Assuredly we must be bold to speak what is true, above all when our discourse is upon truth
Crispin Sartwell • Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It
Seven times—four hows and three whats —the sentence invites us to anticipate a logically and artistically satisfying terminus
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
Almost all English translations of Rumi are not Rumi, especially those by Coleman Barks
Most significant to those of us interested in the Heroine’s Journey is that for a hero in a Hero’s Journey, a prevailing concept and perpetuated message is that asking for (or needing) help is BAD. Because a hero who asks for help is perceived as weak by the story
Gail Carriger • The Heroine's Journey
She took the opportunity to rein in what must have seemed syntactic and figural excesses in the work. In a passage about the invalid’s attitude to poetry, the 1930 version state
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
What happens to a society that loses its capacity for awe and wonder at things to come?