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Eat the World by Marina Diamandis | LeolaCo X Tells Book Review
Some books hit you in ways you don’t expect. Eat the World by Marina Diamandis is one of them. It is messy, it is honest, and it will make you feel seen in ways you didn’t know you needed.
This book isn’t about dieting or food trends. It is about desire, self-control, and the invisible rules women live under. Marina writes with a…
Do we have similar tastes, or will you be questioning how we ever got connected? Let’s find out!
In which I briefly comment on the books I read each month, so a few years from now when I’m trying to remember one of them, I’ll be able to find it here. I’m a media omnivore, too, so this immediately evolved into more than just books; I’m sticking with the book-first theme for now but will probably change it up next year. Do we have similar tastes, or will you be questioning how we ever got…
Books I read, and a brief note on what I thought about each of them. Includes other media, too.
In which I briefly comment on the books I read each month, so a few years from now when I’m trying to remember one of them, I’ll be able to find it here. I’m a media omnivore, too, so this immediately evolved into more than just books; I’m sticking with the book-first theme for now but will probably change it up next year. Do we have similar tastes, or will you be questioning how we ever got…
What is the goal of spirituality, after all, but a quest to find the meaning of life?
“In our endeavor to understand reality, we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. We see the face and the moving hands, even hear its ticking, but have no way of opening the case. If we are ingenious we may form some picture of a mechanism which could be responsible for all the things we observe, but we may never be sure our picture is the only one which could explain our observations.
We will never be able to compare our picture with the real mechanism and we cannot even imagine the possibility of the meaning of such comparison.”
-Albert Einstein-
We can observe, theorize, but we can never know. Therefore, there is no such thing as a complete faith.
Reality, like God, is something we can only approach.
Books I read, and a brief note on what I thought about each of them. Includes other media, too.
In which I briefly comment on the books I read each month, so a few years from now when I’m trying to remember one of them, I’ll be able to find it here. I’m a media omnivore, too, so this immediately evolved into more than just books, but I’m sticking with the book-first theme anyway. Do we have similar tastes, or will you be questioning how we ever got connected? Let’s find out! Continue…
I am really enthusiastic about the mission of my company.
At work, I clearly understand what is expected of me.
In my team, I am surrounded by people who share my values.
I have the chance to use my strengths every day at work.
My teammates have my back.
I know I will be recognized for excellent work.
I have great confidence in my company’s future.
In my work, I am always challenged to grow.
1/3/5/7 are “we predictors”
2/4/6/8 are “me predictors”
“What distinguishes the best team leaders… is their ability to meet these two categories of needs for the people on their teams.”
Lie #2: The best plan wins
Truth: The best intelligence wins
Liberate as much information as you possibly can.
Watch carefully to see which data your people find useful.
Trust your people to make sense of the data.
Plans are overly generalized and quickly obsolete. Coordinate your team in real time, relying on the intelligence of each team member.
This is an argument for weekly 1:1s. “Frequency trumps quality.” If you can’t do weekly 1:1s, you have too many people.
Lie #3: The best companies cascade goals
Truth: The best companies cascade meaning
In the real world, there is work. In the theory world, there are goals.
“Cascade meaning through our expressed values, rituals, and stories… We should let our people know what’s going on in the world, and which hill we’re trying to take, and then we should trust them to figure out how to make a contribution.”
Lie #4: The best people are well-rounded
Truth: The best people are spiky
See also: Lionel Messi’s left foot.
Competencies are impossible to measure.
Excellence is idiosyncratic.
Lie #5: People need feedback
Truth: People need attention
Ignoring a team led to 1:20 ratio of engaged:disengaged
Negative feedback (focus on fixing shortcomings) led to 2:1 ratio of engaged:disengaged (40x improvement to ignoring)
Positive feedback (attention toward what employees do best) led to 60:1 engaged:disengaged (30x improvement to negative feedback)
Feedback is a kind of attention
fMRI scans show that negative feedback triggers fight or flight and impairs learning.
Tell the person what you experienced when they had a moment of excellence. What you saw, and then:
How it made you feel, or
What it made you think, or
What it caused you to realize, or
How and where you will now rely on them
Lie #6: People can reliably rate other people
Truth: People can reliably rate their own experience
“Running out of 4s,” forcing the curve
In order to add precision to Potential and Performance, orgs create lists of competencies…
But it doesn’t work. Adding performance review training doesn’t help. 54% of variation in people’s scores can be explained by the personality of the rater (Idiosyncratic Rater Effect).
Recommendation: ask questions that produce data that are Reliable, Variable, and Valid. Good questions generate a bell curve of responses. Bias is inevitable so we’re best off framing questions around the rater’s personal experience of working with someone.
Four example questions: (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ )
Do you always go to this team member when you need extraordinary results?
Do you choose to work with this team member as much as possible?
Would you promote this person today if you could?
Do you think this person has a performance problem that you need to address immediately?
Lie #7: People have potential
Truth: People have momentum
Truly people-maximizing exercise:
What’s your actual dream job, irrespective of company, industry, or line of work?
Find that job on LinkedIn. Look at the skills/experiences/qualifications listed. Figure out the gap. Make those skills/experiences/etc part of your current job.
Lie #8: Work-life balance matters most
Truth: Love-in-work is what matters most
List which parts of your work fall into “loved it” vs “loathed it”
Follow the red threads, weave them into your work. The “loved it” bits are your strengths.
Lie #9: Leadership is a thing
Truth: We follow spikes
The leaders we love don’t actually exhibit a list of leadership qualities.
You can’t practice the qualities (inspirational, visionary, strategic, good at execution, good at decision-making, innovation, executive presence, etc.) and thereby grow your leadership.
No two leaders create followers in the same way. We follow a leader because they are deep in something.
Critical race theory writing and lecturing is characterized by frequent use of the first person, storytelling, narrative, allegory, interdisciplinary treatment of law, and the unapologetic use of creativity. The work is often disruptive because its commitment to anti-racism goes well beyond civil rights, integration, affirmative action, and other liberal measures. This is not to say that critical race theory adherents automatically or uniformly “trash” liberal ideology and method (as many adherents of critical legal studies do). Rather, they are highly suspicious of the liberal agenda, distrust its method, and want to retain what they see as a valuable strain of egalitarianism which may exist despite, and not because of, liberalism.
C-SPAN Booknotes: Thomas Sowell (1990)
Brian Lamb: What’s the state of prejudice in the United States today compared to earlier years in your life?
Thomas Sowell: It depends on the base here, like most comparisons. If you take 30 years ago, certainly greater in the academic world. In the book that I wrote about colleges, I urged minority parents not to think that because they had a good experience on a particular college campus 30 years ago, that their children will have that good an experience today, because the racial tension is enormous on many campuses. The colleges themselves try to say that they’re victims of the racism of the larger society, and in point of fact, the racism on the campuses is greater than that in the larger society, in many campuses. And what I worry about is that they’re going to graduate into the general society, blacks and whites alike, who hate each other’s guts, and who can be the leaders of new racial strife for the future.
Lamb: What’s causing that on college campuses?
Sowell: One of the factors is the preferential policies. But it’s more the just that, because that in itself sets in motion a series of events, which add to the original resentment over the preferential policies. That is, you put yourself in the position of a black kid who comes out of the ghetto school, and he’s gone through for 12 years with nothing but A’s and B’s, without a great deal of effort, and now he finds himself for the first time in his life in a predominantly white environment, and he finds that when he works twice as hard as he’s ever worked, all he gets back for his work is a D, and that there is also a minority establishment – this is true not only of blacks but of minorities in general – an establishment which tells him, “Yes, this is the racism on this campus – the white power structure is trying to keep you down.” And it has to have a certain plausibility to it. It would have a certain plausibility to me had I come along in that era.
Now, I was fortunate enough in one sense that, having grown up in the south and then transferred to New York, I was shifted between different levels of education, and so I was a top student in my class in North Carolina, and then I was immediately the bottom student in my class in Harlem, and I was way behind whoever was next to the bottom, because the educational differences were just that great. A very painful period of adjustment, but there was no racial issue involved, since all the other kids ahead of me were all black. And so I got through that, and then for a second time in my life, I had gone out on my own when I was 17, and I didn’t return to college full-time until I was about 25. For the second time in my life, I went into an environment that was very difficult compared to what I’d been used to, and once again I was way behind and I was in danger of flunking out of school the first semester.
Lamb: Where were you then?
Sowell: Harvard. Really, it really is incredible – for the first time in your life, in ten years, you’re a full-time student, and you’re a full-time student at Harvard, without a high school diploma. So there were little difficulties.
Lamb: And studying what?
Sowell: Oh, at that stage I was studying just general things, but I majored in economics, and all my degrees are in economics. Again I had an enormous adjustment to make, but there was no one there to tell me, “All these white professors have it in for you and that’s why you’re doing badly.” Because first of all, I had done badly in Harlem, and I’d overcome, and I was doing badly there and I overcame it, but …
Lamb: What happened – take that Harvard experience through. How long did you stay at Harvard?
Sowell: Oh, I graduated.
Lamb: Graduated from Harvard.
Sowell: From Harvard.
Lamb: I’m sorry, I thought you said earlier you went to Howard.
Sowell: I went there for a year and a half, and then I transferred to Harvard.
Lamb: Oh, okay.
Sowell: You see, but I was going to Howard in the evening while working full-time during the day so when I went to Harvard I was a full-time student for the first time in ten years, and so that was a…
Lamb: And what years did you go to Harvard?
Sowell: I graduated in class of ‘58 – so that you can understand how the student would find this plausible. I talked to a black man recently, a lawyer, who said when he was in law school, he was told when he first got there, that Professor X never gives black students more than a C, you know, and he got a B+, but there was great consternation because one of the myths had fallen. But, it’s truly criminal what goes on in terms of using and manipulating the students to serve all kinds of external purposes.
Lamb: Can you give us an idea of the kind of external purposes you’re talking about?
Sowell: Oh, political purposes. I just a couple of days ago was told by someone from Wellesley that there’s a divestment campaign at Wellesley, demonstrations, the whole thing, and that those black girls who did not want to participate in that were threatened with violence – and that’s not unique.
At Stanford the Hispanic students, some Hispanic students, have complained that the Hispanic establishment has threatened them if they don’t want to go along with what’s being said and done, and they claim that only 15% of the Hispanic students at Stanford have ever attended a single event spons.ored by the Hispanic establishment, which speaks boldly in their name. Ah, and so you have this kind of thing going on at these schools across the country.
Again, notice, that once, once you let in the students who cannot make, meet the academic standards, you’re going to end up having to let in professors who can’t meet the academic standards. You’re going to have to create courses that don’t meet the academic standards.
Lamb: Correct me on the, on the names and everything. Derrick Bell?
Sowell: Yes.
Lamb: Harvard Law School, black man.
Sowell: Yes.
Lamb: Threatened the law school if they didn’t hire a black woman, he’s going, he’s leaving?
Sowell: Well, if I understand it correctly, he’s taking unpaid leave until such time as they hire a woman of color, as he says.
Well, he’s also said that by black, he does not mean skin color, he means those who are really black, not those who think white and look black. And so what he is really saying is he wants ideological conformity in the people that are hired to fill this position. That’s not uncommon either.
I know a black woman, for example, who had a Ph.D. – she’s had a book published, she has another contract on another book, she’s taught at a couple of very nice places, she has a devil of a time getting a job – not a job in a prestigious institution, a job teaching at a college. And the reason is that she gets shot down, blackballed, whatever, by people who don’t like her ideology.
That’s happening not only racially, it’s also happening where race is not an issue. In a law school, I learned recently, there’s a woman who was being considered for a tenured position, and all the men voted for her and all the woman voted against her, because she does not follow radical feminism.
And so you’re getting these ideological tests, so that at the very time that there’s all this mouthing of the word diversity, there is this extremely narrow ideological conformity that is being enforced wherever people have the power to enforce it.
Lamb: What did you think of Derrick Bell’s whole plan?
Sowell: Well, his chances of success will depend on whether or not he has overestimated his importance to the Harvard Law School. I think it would be a tragedy if they caved in, and I was very pleased to see that they seemed to show some backbone, which is quite rare among academics.
Lamb: Now, what do you think of the press treatment of him?
Sowell: It’s been quite gentle.
Lamb: I mean, is he a hero?
Sowell: To me?
Lamb: No. Basically, I mean, from the press coverage, you’ve seen, is he a hero to the …?
Sowell: Well, he’s looked at as an idealist who is self-sacrificing and so on. I suppose one could, if one wanted to look at it that way, have seen Hitler that way in his early days. It’s just a question of where that kind of idealism leads. He has launched a despicable attack on a young black professor at the law school who doesn’t go along with this. A young man named Randall Kennedy, who has written a very thoughtful, intelligent article last June in the Harvard Law Review, questioning some of the assumptions that people are making, people like Derrick Bell and doing it in a very gentlemanly as well as very logical way, empirical way, and that’s not what they want. They want the conclusion to be that – they want him to march in lock step and he won’t do it, and they’re doing their best to make life impossible for him.
Lamb: What do you think Harvard will do?
Sowell: I’ve heard that Kennedy – and I don’t know this – I’ve heard that he has tenure, so I think that he may be all right.
Lamb: But, I mean, what do you think they’ll do with …
Sowell: Derrick Bell?
Lamb: Yes.
Sowell: I hope that they will resist it, and since it’s gotten so much publicity, I’m not sure they could stand to cave in to it. I was very pleased to see that Alan Dershowitz of Harvard had criticized this and that he picked up the fact that what Bell is really asking for is not only that people be hired by race, but that they be hired to fit Derek Bell’s ideology.
Lamb: What would happen if this was going on at Stanford Law School?
Sowell: They’d have caved in long ago.
Lamb: Stanford Law School would have?
Sowell: Yes. I think so. It’s a judgment call, but that’s my judgment.
Lamb: Why would they do it so quickly?
Sowell: Just looking at their track record. They have perfected the technique of preemptive surrender.
“Unlike traditional civil rights discourse, which stresses incrementalism and step-by-step progress, critical race theory questions the very foundations of the liberal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism, and neutral principles of constitutional law.”
“As mentioned earlier, critical race scholars are discontented with liberalism as a framework for addressing America’s racial problems. Many liberals believe in color blindness and neutral principles of constitutional law. They believe in equality, especially equal treatment for all persons, regardless of their different histories or current situations.”
– “Critical Race Theory: An Introduction” by Delgado and Stefancic.
I saw this book hanging around when I visited my parents’ house. It’s so famous, but I’ve never read it. I cracked it open somewhere in the middle and found that I couldn’t stop reading. Carnegie’s style just sucks you in. And then there’s historical tidbits everywhere, plus the book itself is basically a historical artifact, so you feel like you’re reading a management book that belongs in a museum.
The afterword in my version talks about how before this book (1936), there basically weren’t any books on people management. So Carnegie kinda blew everyone’s minds with this stuff.
1. Major Themes
Don’t criticize or argue or say they’re wrong.
Praise a lot. Be really friendly.
Figure out what people are interested in, leverage that. Let them do the talking. Ask questions.
Smile/say their name/be a good listener.
These seem obvious but also counterintuitive because today’s corporate culture is much more into FEEDBACK (e.g. Radical Candor). Carnegie’s not that into Feedback. He’s much more into judo moves that somehow “inception” other people toward desired behavior.
Instead of directing or arguing, you ask questions about the person to draw out the deepest kernel of who they really are and then, voila, inception, they realize what they should’ve done all along about their big problem and you never had to fight them on it. You “let the other person feel that the idea was his or hers.” Hmm…
In contrast, later in the book, Carnegie advocates for starting with praise before critical feedback (which is super unpopular nowadays), and also says to “Call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly.” But everyone today’s beggin’ for direct feedback! Makes me wonder. Do they really want direct feedback? Who’s right here?
2. Stuff I Dog-Eared
On page 164 Carnegie talks about admitting that you’re wrong – but in such an emphatic way that the other person ends up defending you. “…[W]hen I began to condemn myself, the only way he could nourish his self-esteem was to take the magnanimous attitude of showing mercy.” I’m into it.
Page 185: I didn’t realize that the Socratic method is not simply “ask a lot of questions,” but – “ask questions that the other person will answer with ‘yes’.” Socrates “asked questions with which his opponent would have to agree. He kept on winning one admission after another until he had an armful of yeses. He kept on asking questions until finally, almost without realizing it, his opponents found themselves embracing a conclusion they would have bitterly denied a few minutes previously.” JUDO MOVE
Page 216: There’s this crazy story where customers aren’t paying bills on their car mechanic servicing. “I made it clear that, until I had heard the customer’s story, I had no opinion to offer… I told him… that he knew more about his car than anyone else in the world; that he was the authority on the subject… I let him talk…” and so on, until they let the customer decide what to do with the bill. The end result – they paid their bills and became ever-more loyal customers. JUDO MOVE but also, seriously? This works?? (This chapter ends with: “Appeal to the nobler motives.” Basically, assume the other person is “sincere, honest, truthful,” etc…).
3. Summary
I think what’s most powerful about Carnegie’s advice is what’s hardest to practice. It’s resisting your own ego. You can’t do all of the above without first quashing the desire to appear smart/helpful/wise/right. Try being a competitive wrong-admitter and still hang onto your pride! It can’t be done. So, the way of HTWF&IP is, like many classics, simple but not easy!
Bonus: A Couple Pages That I Scanned for Later
I ended up adapting these “Questions for Myself” into my work journal, to help me think about what I did well/not well each week.
I love thinking about this trait – whether or not someone likes people. It’s something I look for in interviews but I never thought to put it this way.
One of the last chapters in is called “Notes Day” and it’s all about how Pixar worked to revive a culture of candid critique when they grew to like 1200 employees (contrasting with their original ~40 or so). They basically hosted a company-wide one-day “conference” where people got in groups to discuss organizational issues/ideas, and made sure that those discussions had action items + owners + stuff.
I love that they frame this exercise in terms of a very clear goal. In their case:
“Reduce time needed to make a film to 18,500 person-weeks. What innovations will help these productions meet their budget goals? What are specific things we can do differently?”
I’d love to see AC problem solve with targets like this.
2. “Success Hides Problems”
This is a principle that Pixar learned that I think AC is still learning. If our organic growth has been so good for so long, what is the incentive for accountability or excellence?
3. This Awesome Story from the Making of The Incredibles
There seems to be a trend these days of covers featuring skulls of various kinds paired with flowers. I’m not sure if the flowers are meant to soften the starkness of the skull, but generally the creepy skull itself is enough to warn me off. That is unless said cover also contains a blurb from Leigh Bardugo. And is compared to Cassandra Clare. Then I’ll give it a second look.
The Luminaries by Susan Dennard is a contemporary YA fantasy, set in the town of Hemlock Falls, a town adjacent to a forest containing a slumbering spirit so powerful that as the sun goes down each day, the murderous nightmares of the spirit come to life. The Luminaries are a secret order of hunters bound to slay the nightmares and keep the world safe. But four years ago, when her father’s betrayal of the Luminaries was discovered, Winnie Wednesday and her family were cast out from their clan and forced to live on the outskirts of their former lives. Now 16-year-old Winnie wants nothing more than to restore their standing in the Luminary world by proving herself worthy to be a Wednesday hunter. The forest contains secrets that even the experienced Luminary hunters are baffled by, and Winnie has to call on the friend that deserted her when she became an outcast if she has any hope of surviving her hunter trial and discovering what new horror haunts the woods.
I’m always a fan of interesting world building and secret societies that exist to save the world. Likewise, I find it hard to resist the plucky outsider determined to beat the odds. Or broody mysterious boys with the requisite grey eyes who have more going on than it first appears. Dennard conjures up an atmospheric blend of a town saturated with misty rain and unspoken dangers. She also speaks to the costs of blind loyalty, to a family, to a clan, to a cause. Winnie’s desperation to return to the days when her place in the Luminary world was unquestioned is tempered by the abrupt shift from mocked outcast to prodigal daughter. As her hunter trials proceed, she begins to wonder who and what she can trust, and whether the cause she is so loyal to is, in turn, loyal to her. The Luminaries is heavy on the corpses and nightmarish creatures stalking the forest so those of you looking for a moody read to match the rain and gloomier days will be well satisfied. Perfect for fans of Holly Black and Cassandra Clare!
The kind of book that stays with you for days. Weeks.
Celeste Ng’s powerful new novel, Our Missing Hearts, is set in a not-too-distant future America where patriotism has been codified to quell a national Crisis and economic collapse. “Normalcy” has been restored by putting the blame on China, the othering of people of Asian origin and, in certain cases, removing children from “dissident” parents. Twelve-year-old Bird lives a quiet life with his father. His mother disappeared three years ago, and all Bird knows about her absence is that he can never speak of her. The story begins the day he receives a letter he is sure is from his mother, starting him on a journey to find her and learn the truth of her past. With an underground network of librarians on his side, Bird follows the clues his mother has left, both on paper and in his memory, to a reunion he never could have imagined.
I love how Celeste Ng imbues her characters with the use of art as their protest, a testimony to the wrongs being perpetrated. Storytelling, poetry, and ephemeral art installations all give voice to the injustices being suffered, the children being removed from their families, and the resulting grief. That Ng made her narrative a thing of beauty even while breaking my heart only emphasizes her power as a novelist. I sank into her etymological passages, the word geek in me delighting in her delicate dissection of origin and meaning. Balancing melancholy, outrage, and hope, Our Missing Hearts will certainly be on my best of 2022 list.
Island Books still has signed copies available. This would be an excellent book club selection!
Welcome back to BEHIND THE SCENES! And yes, I almost forgot. 😂
Today is about my notes. I’ll admit that I didn’t want to originally keep them. When I began editing “Casting Shadows”, though, I found myself using sticky notes. Fast forward to today and I’m meticulous!
Book Notes: Al-Halal wa Al-Haraam fi al-Islam - Shaikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
“Sh Qaradwi starts the book by mentioning that he was asked by the al-azhar to write this book due to the fact that muslims from the west wrote letters stating the utter and sheer ignorance of muslims in the west (1960) and that the muslims there had confused what is halal and what is haraam.
He hoped that he would make things clear through writing this book.
Shaikh mentions the challenging nature of writing a book such as this as nothing of this sort had been attempted or written before - a book the simply deals with what is halal and what is haram - otherwise the haram and halal are all scattered within the normal ayat and ahadith and fiqhi books.
The Shaikh makes a point of two groups that he hopes not to be from and that other (mostly) “scholars” or generally the people are tend to be from as long as the west is considered - It is probably helpful to remember the book was written in 1960 and things have changed now (2022) - One group has taken the west and thier values as thier Lord and as long as the islamic halal and haraam conforms with what the west allows, they accept it, otherwise they will not only reject it but also apologise for the fact that islam says otherwise. The second group, are the group of people that will not budge from their opinions even a hair worth. They will take things from “nass” at face values without thinking critically wether thats is what is meant by the evidences within Quran and Sunnah. May Allah protect us from being among those two groups.”
PS: I am making notes on the entire book - If you want me to keep sharing here, let me know!
“You’ve never broken a bone, so you could feel sympathy for what I was going through, but you couldn’t feel empathy for me. I think that would be possible only if you’d experience it yourself”
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“The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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. Genre: Romance, Historical Fiction
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. It’s about an old bisexual hollywood star who finally shared her true self after all the lies she created for fame, ambition, and protection of her career and lover.
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.This novel gives enough respect, empathy and fair representation of homosexual and bisexual romance. It liberates my old-fashioned understanding of marriage, from being bound only by cultured, scripted rituals and societal expectations to a strong, profound bond that can be lived by different faces of relationships.
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Among all the marriages, i think, Evelyn only had 2 truest ones. An informal marriage with her girl lover that’s bound by love, passion and intimacy, which was complicated in all angles, and one that’s bound by strong friendship and respect, which i think, the kind of relationship that can endure longterm to a lifetime partnership…
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.The ending was truly satisfying, it left me staring blank for a while, then went back to the profundity of the old woman’s pain she endured to survive.
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. It didn’t bring me the tears i expected until the part where all of her family are dying out before her eyes - the tragedy of old age.
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. The character of Evelyn Hugo was i think well formed and well researched, that i kept thinking about some other old stars. I knew she was loosely based from Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner, and Rita Hayworth, but I’m also seeing a lot of Joan Crawford - from the determination to prove herself to the resilience of continuing and reviving back a falling career. I also remember a story (idk if it’s true) about the affair of Billie Holiday and Tallulah Bankhead - they tried not to mention each other on their own autobiographies to avoid destroying their careers-that was on the ‘50s.
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The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
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. Anne documented her life on a diary while being on ‘lockdown’ at a secret annex during WWII. She described vividly all her observations, her relationships with the other 7 people she lived with, and her innermost thoughts and feelings toward all the changes that happened in 2 yrs before they were betrayed and captured.
. I liked her humorous way of writing. She found comfort on the thought that she was able to confide everything with her friend Kitty, her diary. You’ll know that she’s intelligent, instinctive and self-aware by how she sees and understands her environment. She was a young girl when she started this diary, she was a matured young woman when she was forced to end it. I think, In just 2 years, she had outgrown her family in terms of political opinions, and emotional development. She discussed about her thoughts on marriage, women’s role in society, her dream of becoming a journalist, and her emotional growth. I also adore her positive attitude in the middle of bombings and gun shooting.
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. As i was reading, i remembered my youth. Anne’s writing was able to speak of me, that 'emotional lockdown’ was too relatable.
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.btw, Anne Frank was such a gemini😁 born June 12th. She was intellectual, bubbly, funny, always curious, emotionally complex, with 2 masks (mask1- the funny, sunny, superficial side; mask2- the serious, sensitive side with a huge dislike on any form of stupidity), not mentioning her ability to write stories and good imagination.
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- Sleep matters. If u sleep well instead of working late at night, or stay up on ur phone, the capitalists win
- When you’re feeling on ur lows, check urself. Have u been overworked, not sleeping enough, not been giving urself time to rest and be you?
- too many bad nights and tiring days can lead you to nasty mental places
- “Illness has a lot to teach wellness… (Keep hold of that experience and awareness.) To turn recovery into prevention. To live how I live when I am ill without being ill.”
- “the change can happen simply by being aware”
- “when it comes to our minds, awareness is very often the solution itself.”
- “When i fall into a frantic or despairing state of mind, full of unwelcome thoughts that cant slow down, it is often the result of series, a sequence of things. When I do too much, think too much, absorb too much, eat too badly, sleep too little, work too hard, get too frazzled by life, there it is. A repetitive strain injury of the mind
