Sublime

Neal Stephenson, who’s penned several of my all-time favorites, including Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon

Kaizen teaches us how to atomize big obstacles; how to break them down into their more manageable component parts so that we might build up the psychological momentum to overcome each hurdle via consistent daily action.

Motivation is often better when it sticks.

First, there are two objectives for behaviour: to be self-reliant and to live in harmony with society. Then, the objectives for the psychology that supports these behaviours are the consciousness that I have the ability and the consciousness that people are my comrades. YOUTH: Just a moment. I’m writing this down … There are the following two objec

PICK THE RIGHT PLAYERS THE TOP CHARACTERISTICS TO LOOK FOR ARE SMARTS AND HEARTS: THE ABILITY TO LEARN FAST, A WILLINGNESS TO WORK HARD, INTEGRITY, GRIT, EMPATHY, AND A TEAM-FIRST ATTITUDE.

Jane McGonigal, renowned game designer and Ph.D. in Performance

Deric Bownds’ Mindblog: http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/ Jonah Lehrer’s Frontal Cortex: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/frontal-cortex/ Re:Cognition: http://thebeautifulbrain.com/category/recognition/

I made a point of reading the referee’s handbook. One of the rules I gleaned from it was that each referee has a designated slot where he is supposed to be on the floor. If the ball, for instance, is in place W, referees X, Y, and Z each have an area on the court assigned to them. When they do that, it creates dead zones, areas on the floor where t