Reading – Blather

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Girls are like apples (or why I am single)

March 7, 2011 2 Comments

I liked this 🙂 I wish I could find the source…

“Girls are like apples…the best ones are at the top of the trees. The boys don’t want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples that are on the ground that aren’t as good, but easy. So the apples at the top think there is something wrong with them, when, in reality, they are amazing. They just have to wait for the right boy to come along, the one who’s brave enough to climb all

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Z&TAOMM

March 2, 2011 No Comments

I grabbed a copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance today – a book I haven’t read for maybe 20 years, and that I was too young and inexperienced to understand the first time around.

I’m a page in, and it completely nails what I love about being on the back of a bike (and maybe one day on the front):

You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car you’re always in a compartment, and because you’re used to it you don’t realize that through that

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Personal development for smart people

March 1, 2011 No Comments

I’m currently reading Personal development for smart people.

I don’t usually have a lot of time for personal development books (which is sort of funny given that I just started a blog about it) – a lot feel like new-age waffle. But I really like this book as it is sensible and practical.

The writing is easy to read without being simplified. He doesn’t pretend that it is easy to be a better person or that there are any quick answers. But he explains clearly and gives loads of practical activities. It’s approachable and sensible.

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