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Here is the list of books I want to read  Presence . Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges In the mean time before I read this book,here are the titbits given by a reviewer   Dr Ali Binazir . -- The cortisol-testosterone dual hormone hypothesis: you're most effective when you have high testosterone and low cortisol -- We usually think that confidence leads to decisions and thoughts drive behavior. But a surprising amount of the time, it's the other way around: decisions create confidence and behavior creates thoughts. -- 80% of all fibers from the vagus nerve go from the body to the brain, not the other way around. Body changes mind! -- The more people use the word "I", the less powerful and sure of themselves they are likely to be. -- "Ultimately, participants’ speaking rate had an inverse relationship with how powerful they felt. That is, the more slowly they read the sentences, the more powerful, confident, and effective th...

Ethan Hawke - I'm Nuthin' lyrics I got a pothead mama, got a cokehead dad. I'm an ultramodern version of the American man. I don't feel good, but don't feel bad. Cause me you see, I'm nuthin Ain't no republicrat, no demmican, they ain't nuthin in between. I'm sick of people talking about American dreams -that's all gone. Ain't nothin there for me cause me you see I'm nuthin. I ain't left, I ain't right. People say I'm wrong before I was born. It was all gone. Don't even make sense that I wrote this song. Cause me you see I'm nuthin, I'm nuthin... Don't want no big TV or no flashy garage, never would cut it in no corponate job. People see me coming - they say look at that slob cause me you see I'm nuthin, I'm nuthin.......

    In this blog, I thought I will write down some inspirational comments from the books that I am reading recently. The intention is that if I read the same after some time, I would be able to recollect the joy in reading such books once again. Currently, I am reading "Illusions- The adventures of a reluctant Messiah" by Richard Bach. It was more or less in the same style as that of "Jonathan Living Stone seagull" by the same author. Here are the few quotes/dialogue sequences that I liked so far. 1) This is a sentence from the conversation wherin Don(the Messiah) explains Richard that he has a problem, that every body wants him to do miracles for themselves. Richard replies to it by saying, "If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem." 2)In another conversation, Richard tells he is confused that, even in best of his times he do not know why he was here. To which, Don takes him to a movie show, and asks...