Book Review: Poke the Box by Seth Godin
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Just as sounds string together to form words, words string together to form ideas.
If you learn a new word that contains an idea you never heard before, will you think thoughts that you’ve never pondered before?
There are words in other, non-English languages that contain complex ideas and are not easily translated into American English. My curiosity, and desire to know what words I was missing, drew me to, They Have a Word for It by Howard Rheingold.
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I joined a Toastmasters club in April 12′. Toastmasters is an organized forum for people to practice public speaking through the delivery of impromptu and prepared speeches.
Since I dove into Toastmasters at the beginning of this spring, I had been on the lookout for extra advice on growing my speaking ability, and “The Exceptional Presenter“ By Timothy J. Koegel provided me with just that.
Below are two quotes from the book that were especially impacting to me. I’ve bolded the sections that I highlighted when reading my hard copy.
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After much encouragement from my friend LaTish Styles and finishing reading the great book Platform by Michael Hyatt I have set-up a personal blog! I would encourage you to check out both of their sites:
and the book Platform , which was a very interesting read and a practical how-to manual on building a personal brand.
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To start with I am going to being posting at the frequency of at least once a week. My primary topic will be digging into a interesting quotation from a book I am reading. For the past months I have been posting quots. on facebook and twitter, off and on, from different books. Just posting quots. by themselves however is not very helpful. A few other people might, ‘Like’, the quot. but nothing else really comes from it.
I want to take these thought provoking quots. and talk about why they challenged me to take action and how they changed my thinking. Sometimes they will probably be interesting facts, and the implications of the new understanding.
Overall, I think it will allow for a cohesive “book review” theme, while allowing us to delve into a variety of topics.
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