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Another Month - Another Record!
Again, International Readership recorded another spectacular month, by not only surpassing the key 100,000 milestone, but also it achieved a record increase of 133% to 115,079. Back in July results were just over 13,000, and they now stand at 115,079 - which is an amazing 752.43% increase in just five short months.
As ole Frankie once said - the best is yet to come - as we build strategic alliances, increase and expand social media platforms and develop and invest in new ideas and creative opportunities.
Another Month - Another Record!
Again, International Readership recorded another spectacular month, by not only surpassing the key 100,000 milestone, but also it achieved a record increase of 133% to 115,079. Back in July results were just over 13,000, and they now stand at 115,079 - which is an amazing 752.43% increase in just five short months.
As ole Frankie once said - the best is yet to come - as we build strategic alliances, increase and expand social media platforms and develop and invest in new ideas and creative opportunities.
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Again, listed below are the Top FIVE Readers' Choice Posts for the month of November 2018
These top readers' monthly choice posts are specifically selected based on readers interactions and comments plus the guidance and scope of our "Creative Mission."
Our Creative Mission
“No #Art Comes From the #Conscious Mind.” Steve Martin
Steve Martin on crafting a joke, the importance of the moment, and letting the story guide you.
By Catherine Clinch.
There is something wonderful about the notion of being able to trace the entire essence of who you are to a single influence. For Steve Martin, the moment of his creation happened when he took a teenager’s job in the Magic Shop at Disneyland and met a man who made animals out of balloons.
“Wally Bogue was an entertainer at Disneyland that I used to watch. He was a very funny, likable guy, and I thought that’s what I want to be—a funny, likable guy. Well, I got funny…” and funny led him on a circuitous route to writing, and writing enabled him to create stories imbued with such charm and wit that he is known to be one of the most likable men in the entertainment industry. Read More.
By Catherine Clinch.
There is something wonderful about the notion of being able to trace the entire essence of who you are to a single influence. For Steve Martin, the moment of his creation happened when he took a teenager’s job in the Magic Shop at Disneyland and met a man who made animals out of balloons.
“Wally Bogue was an entertainer at Disneyland that I used to watch. He was a very funny, likable guy, and I thought that’s what I want to be—a funny, likable guy. Well, I got funny…” and funny led him on a circuitous route to writing, and writing enabled him to create stories imbued with such charm and wit that he is known to be one of the most likable men in the entertainment industry. Read More.
Remember, That Old #Adage "Health Is #Wealth"
"Salutem est divitiae"
Health is Wealth
Everyone is familiar with the famous adage "health is wealth", but few actually understand its complexities as a perception. Health is about the state of a person's body, that it is free from injury, illness and pain. If you dig deeper into the topic, you will discover that it's mainly about physical and mental fitness. Both these concepts are strongly correlated, hence should be comprehended meticulously if one wants to live a healthy life. Read More.
"Salutem est divitiae"
Health is Wealth
Everyone is familiar with the famous adage "health is wealth", but few actually understand its complexities as a perception. Health is about the state of a person's body, that it is free from injury, illness and pain. If you dig deeper into the topic, you will discover that it's mainly about physical and mental fitness. Both these concepts are strongly correlated, hence should be comprehended meticulously if one wants to live a healthy life. Read More.
A question I’m often asked is, “Does all critical thinking lead to deeper understanding?”
Like so many questions in education, the answer is probably, “it depends.” At its heart, critical thinking is about taking content apart to examine the parts in relation to the whole—and how each of those parts work separately and together. This is called building schema. For example, if you want your students to collect and use data during a science investigation, they must first understand all of the components that comprise an investigation—how and what to measure, the proper way to record the data and control variables, and how to organize and interpret the data collected. Read More.
Classical #Rhetoric 101: The Three Means of #Persuasion
Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character of the speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, or apparent proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.
Below we cover the basics of the three means of persuasion and offer a few suggestions on how to implement them into your rhetorical arsenal. And because this aspect of rhetoric is so meaty, I’ve also included suggestions for further reading for those who wish to learn more about each element (I’ll provide a reading list for exploring the subject of rhetoric as a whole in the last post of the series).
Ready to get started? Let’s go! Read More.
A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: #Seneca on the Antidote to #Anxiety
BY MARIA POPOVA
There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
“The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is,”Kurt Vonnegut observed in discussing Hamlet during his influential lecture on the shapes of stories. “The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity, and it’s really impossible to tell whether anything that happens in it is good or bad,” Alan Watts wrote a generation earlier in his sobering case for learning not to think in terms of gain or loss. And yet most of us spend swaths of our days worrying about the prospect of events we judge to be negative, potential losses driven by what we perceive to be “bad news.” In the 1930s, one pastor itemized anxiety into five categories of worries, four of which imaginary and the fifth, “worries that have a real foundation,” occupying “possibly 8% of the total.” Read More.
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