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...more training to say the least!) Myth #2: Smart people automatically know how to talk to each other. Because we think we are such bright bulbs, it makes it even harder to have meaningful conversations. We think we already know the answers, so we don’t bother listening to what everyone else has to say. Furthermore, we are so confident of the brilliance of our own points that we don’t bother to collect our thoughts before pontificating ad nauseum. As a result, even well-trained TFs need to take a few minutes at the beginning...
Ultimately, it's that very flexibility--that multiplicity of possible rewards--that makes dreaming big dreams and pursuing big goals worth all the bother. Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin. The trick, as any good speculator will tell you, is recognizing the riches when they come your...
...refute the statement. “I’d give $1,000 to [U.S.-designated terrorist group] Hezbollah, Finkelstein’s favorite organization, if he can prove that the story is true,” he declared. Finkelstein said that objections to his ideas generally do not bother him.“A cat call here or there, I don’t mind,” he said. But his experience at Harvard was an exception, he said. He said he encountered “an element of rudeness and grossness” not sustained...
...show at CNN, and I was not wearing a ''cozy white warm-up outfit,'' as you said, but my usual on-air uniform: dress shirt, tie, suspenders, respectable dark dress trousers and my favorite baseball jacket, which celebrates Japan's Nippon Ham Fighters team. That didn't seem to bother anyone; President Clinton even asked where he could get a jacket like mine. I own no white warm-up outfits, cozy or otherwise. I always dress nice...
...stupidity at its apogee. The worst offender in this respect is household head Bernard Berkman (Jeff Daniels): he is a novelist whose literary reputation is diminishing in inverse proportion to his sense of entitlement and self-worth. For example, when asked by his teenaged son whether or not to bother reading “The Metamorphosis” he replies: “Kafka was one of my predecessors.”When his wife Joan (Laura Linney) embarks on a literary career, with greater success than he has enjoyed in decades, the latent tensions in their marriage are exposed...