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The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
John Gottman [John Gottman]
Not all icebreakers are created equal. People often tell me they love icebreakers only to say that their favorite one is something dramatic like: “What’s your biggest fear?” or “What was the worst date you ever went on?”
Those are terrible icebreakers. They require a deep level of vulnerability and openness. Most people aren’t ready for that at the start of a casual 2-hour cocktail party.
The 2-Hour Cocktail Party
Nick Gray
Biologists often talk about the “ecology” of an organism: the tallest oak in the forest is the tallest not just because it grew from the hardiest acorn; it is the tallest also because no other trees blocked its sunlight, the soil around it was deep and rich, no rabbit chewed through its bark as a sapling, and no lumberjack cut it down before it matured. We all know that successful people come from hardy seeds. But do we know enough about the sunlight that warmed them, the soil in which they put down the roots, and the rabbits and lumberjacks they were lucky enough to avoid? This is not a book about tall trees. It’s a book about forests—and hockey is a good place to start because the explanation for who gets to the top of the hockey world is a lot more interesting and complicated than it looks. In fact, it’s downright peculiar.
þÿOutliers: The Story of Success
þÿMalcolm] Malcolm Gladwell [Gladwell & chenjin5.com
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