The suits, numbers and colors in a deck of cards correspond to the seasons, moon cycles and calendar. Marco Tempest straps on augmented reality goggles and does a card trick like you’ve never seen before, weaving a lyrical tale as he deals. (This version fixes a glitch in the original performance, but is otherwise exactly as seen live by the TEDGlobal audience, including the dazzling augmented reality effects.)
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A documentary on eight of the most ambitious mega-projects currently under development around the world, featuring: Istanbul’s building boom (Turkey); the Mission to put a human on Mars; the effort to develop Lagos (Nigeria); Africa’s unprecedented clean energy opportunity; the project to probe the nearest Earth-like exoplanet; Atlanta’s stadium of the future (Georgia, United States); India’s effort to modernize its highways; and China’s unprecedented One Belt One Road, “New Silk Road” initiative.
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How to meditate by Lawrence LeShan, is not a usual book of mediation and will not tell you that questioning is against meditation and the less you know the better you meditate. It wouldn’t lead you to show life’s depths, auras, your death and the chakra’s. Its a scientific book, which tells you the whys, hows and whats of meditation. The book seeks to teach everyone meditation irrespective of their caste and beliefs.
Why Meditate and The Benefits of Meditation
A psychotherapist himself, he shows you the scientific path. He tells the reader the benefits of meditation and the psychological and physiological benefits of meditation. He has seen results which he says are secondary benefits of meditation and the meditator should not focus on them. The book also shows the reader a way to avoid pitfall while meditating, like dropping heart pulse rates.
The Purpose of the Book
There are hundred of self-proclaimed scholars and teachers who teach people how to meditate if they do not ask questions. This, LeShan says, is not how you learn and is against methods of meditation. It is difficult to find a good teacher, and until you find one, start on your own.
The Ways of Meditation
LeShan gives a briefing and then a detailed insight of 11 different methods of meditation. He separates them as 10 structured types and 1 unstructured meditation. The previous chapters, build up to this differentiation. He shows the close resemblances and yet the different ways of meditation.
Afterword
The first 3/4th book is beneficial to the reader. The latter chapters are the ones you can skip, unless, you want to know the medical benefits of meditation. LeShan has shown the benefits he was talking about so far and then there is a foreword by Edgar N. Jackson saying what should one take from Leshan’s book, which contains nothing about meditation and one can call it useless.
Conclusion
This book isn’t for the ones who believe in auras, deeper meanings of life, supernatural and, astronomical activities. This book is for the ones who seek to find peace in meditation and even for those who think meditation is not going to change anything.
How to Meditate by Lawrence LeShan
book review by Pervaiz “P.K.” Karim
CalcuttaKid.com
Emotional Intelligence by Dr. David Walton is a book that shows the importance of EQ in our lives. The book mainly focuses on describing what is EQ and its necessity in our lives.
What is Emotional Intelligence?
Emotional Intelligence or Emotional Quotient is a measure of ones emotional understanding and stability. The term just like IQ is relative, however, there is no way to measure it.
The Process of Thoughts
Our days productivity depends on the thoughts running in our mind. On the cycle of thoughts that plan our next act. We could be doing great until there is a heated argument with someone, when someone doesnt fulfil their duty and it delays your work. It could also be something as trivial as missing a bus.
In situations like these, it is important to understand the reason why the other did what they did. It is important to hold yourself together and not let the situation affect you.
It’s not the IQ
Though, we are firm believers that IQ is the measures of ones success, but that is not always the case. IQ could get you a nice job, but your success at job, depends on EQ. Dr. Walton shows exactly how, one can emotionally manipulate situations in their favor.
Though most big business owner we look up on seem to have high IQ, but they also have high EQ and we are unaware of it. Most small business, run on strong conversations which comes from high EQ.
The Content
The whole idea of Emotional Intelligence runs deep, and it is hard to capture it entirely. The author instead produced a Read Me First book which gives a brief overlook on the subject. David has shared some few tips and tricks we can use in our daily lives to turn things around for ourselves.
Conclusion
Who should read the book, Everyone! Though the brief content, there is a lot of information one can pick up from the book. The unusual way of presenting a psychological fact in a non-scientific manner is what makes the book stand apart.
Emotional Intelligence by Dr. David Walton
book review by Pervaiz “P.K.” Karim
CalcuttaKid.com
Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories — and maybe, a way forward.
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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. How you introduce yourself is usually the weakest explanation of who you really are.
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