The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating by David M. Buss 

“While love is common, true love is rare, and I believe that few people are fortunate enough to experience it. The roads of regular love are well travelled and their markers are well understood by many – the mesmerizing attraction, the idealization obsession, the sexual afterglow, the profound self-sacrifice, and the desire to combine DNA. But true love takes its own course through uncharted territory. It knows no fences, eludes modern measurement, and seems scientifically woolly. But I know true love exists. I just can’t prove it.” David Buss

This is a really cool read! I went into it with kind of the wrong expectations but didn’t find myself disappointed. It is a book about the evolution of desire but not ‘desire’ in the general sense but rather the desire of the sexes and for matting and mateship (companionship). (more…)

The Joe Rogan Experience

“That’s my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.” Joe Rogan

I believe Joe Rogan is a pioneer of podcasting. A friend introduced me to Rogan’s podcast, suggesting I check out his style and format. He also thought I would enjoy and find his conversations interesting and perhaps even a little educational. That’s how my Joe Rogan experience began.

It’s not a podcast that I listen to all the time. The primary reason for that is because it is bloody long. In the real sense of conversational podcasting, Joe has nailed it. Episodes range from two hours up. I would guess the average length is three-hours. (more…)

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Delegate to Freedom: Achieve True Time Effectiveness & Productivity with Virtual Assistants by Leigh Martinuzzi

“Effective time management is the art of extracting true purpose from all moments in life.”

Time is a valuable resource, but a finite one. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, business owner, consultant or creative type, you understand the challenge it is to manage your time. But you don’t have to go it alone. Delegate to Freedom will guide you towards becoming more effective with your time through the world online outsourcing. Delegate those time sinks through superior management of Virtual Assistants, and focus more of your own time on the big ideas. (more…)

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Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek by Alan Watts

“To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words, you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.” Alan Watts

This book is a book on philosophy and Zen Buddhism. I came across Alan Watts thought some inspiration videos I found of his about life. The thoughts were not only inspirational but intriguing. I had to learn more, and so I found this book, that I listened to as an audio book, which is a series of lectures from Alan Watts. It is a book of awareness and awakening. (more…)

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Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by By Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant

“Life is never perfect. We all live some form of Option B. Option A is not available, so let’s just kick the shit out of Option B.” Sheryl Sandberg

What to do when there is no option A? You make the most of option B. As Sheryl states in the opening chapter, “life is not perfect, we all live some form of option B. This book will help you kick the shit out of it.” (more…)

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Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat

“More than any other time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. —Woody Allen”

We all think about the future, but perhaps we are too often narrow in our vision. The future excites me, and I think the reason why is because of a significant amount of uncertainty that exists. (more…)

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Entrepreneurs on Fire Podcast with John Lee Dumas (JLD)

If you are a podcaster, entrepreneur, business owner or just like to hear about others success with the desire to inspire your own, you’ll get some value from the “value bombs” JLD is dropping in his podcast, EOFire.

What attracted me to this podcast was John’s passion and story. Head over to his website to get his take – Entrepreneurs on Fire, however, for what it’s worth, here’s mine.

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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett

“Uncertainty means that things can be other than they appear. This realization brings hope in difficult times and can prompt gratitude in good times.”

This is an amazing book to read. It was quite over my head at points but Lisa has done a fantastic job and explaining the theories as to how emotions are made. The main elements of this book which I think is absolutely amazing to ponder is that number one – the brain is constantly predicting our future, and number two – we are the agents of the reality we live and the destiny we create. (more…)

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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrowby Yuval Noah Harari

“This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future but to free yourself from the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course, this is not total freedom – we cannot avoid being shaped by the past. But some freedom is better than none.”  

This is Yuval’s sequel to his New York Times bestseller, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. In this book, he brilliantly assembled Human kinds brief history in an attempt to highlight how the current socio-cultural climate of modern day life came to be. (more…)

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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Two Core Abilities for Thriving in the New Economy 1. The ability to quickly master hard things. 2. The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed.” Cal Newport

Anything that can assist us improving our skill in effectiveness is of value. Even though I consider myself a bit of an effectiveness guru there is always plenty of opportunities to learn more and I welcome it. In whatever paths we pursue, being effective will result in greater success and a happier pursuit in life.

This book not only gave me new thoughts, ideas, practices, and perspectives on how I can sharpen my effectiveness but gave me a friendly jab. A reminder as to where I’ve let things slip and inspiration to further improve my game. (more…)

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