Diane Keaton passed away. Always one of my favorites. Loved her in Baby Boom, Father of the Bride, Something’s Got to Give, and others. Not to mention classics like The Godfather and Annie Hall. Amazing that she had the lead in a 1964 college play that Steve Martin was a stagehand for.
Just finished Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection, by Charles Duhigg. (read (read Oct 3-15). Numerous examples of how to go beyond active listening to demonstrate that you’re hearing what the other person is saying: providing feedback using your own words, building relationships to determine what the other person wants from a negotiation. The book uses examples from the CIA and the producers of The Big Bang Theory, among others. Determining and matching the other person’s energy and tone, making sure to be talking about the same topics as opposed to what I am interested in instead. Books like this count toward meeting the goals listed on my annual review.
Article: Books to get you out of a reading slump: Not sure if these are all chick lit or what.
The Scent Kepper by Erica Bauermeister. “Transports you”.
The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
Activate Your Future Self, by Mimi Bouchard. “Inspiring”.
The Perfectionists Guide to Losing Control, by Katherine Morgan Schafler
None of This is True, by Lisa Jewell
The Eights by Joanna Miller, set in 1920’s Oxford.
The Marriage Portrait, by Maggie O’Farrell
Maine, by J Courtney Sullivan: “summer nostalgia”.
The Vacationers, by Emma Straub
The Guest, by Emma Cline. “Pulls you in”.
Lapvona, by Ottessa Moshfegh.
The Light Pirate, by Lily Brooks-Dalton. “Slows you down”.
Station Eleven, by Emily St John Mandel
Other People’s Houses, by Clare Mackintosh. “Hooks you in”. I needed a book to read, and this one was available. Listening to it now. Not sure that it receives my recommendation. Added a couple of the other books to my hold list.
Something I can never get straight: who is left wing and who is right wing? Are the Democrats the ones who are “Right Wing”, or is it the Republicans? I can never keep that straight. ANSWER: the Democrats are left, and the Republicans right.
Denison: media bias has been a problem for quite some time, and the companies that deliver news often find greater profits in pandering to a particular audience than by trying to be objective.
So much discouragement on social media. People go out of their way to say bad things to people they don’t know, saying things they’d never have the courage to say to their faces. People don’t care if the things they say are true or not. Lang taught me to fact check before I post.
This past weekend a dude was commenting that on the day Deion Sanders “suited up” for both the Falcons and Braves, that Deion hit a grand slam. I shouldn’t have, but I replied that Deion didn’t even play in the Braves game that night (he only “suited up”), but that Deion never hit a grand slam in his entire career. The guy who’d made the grand slam comment didn’t care – his message had already deceived countless people.
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