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Accomplishment, after all, is a fairly straightforward process. Sign up for an activity, push hard, focus, and move forward. You don’t necessarily have to develop depth, balance, insight or compassion to be accomplished. You don’t even really have to impact other people. Indeed, if you’re really focused on achieving personal goals, or a ton of things to make your resume or application look better, you’re likely to take less time to really give to the people around you.
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In the new book, SPENT: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller reveals the unseen logic behind the chaos of consumerism and suggests new ways we can become more responsible friends and lovers and happier consumers.
George Scialabba is an essayist and critic working at Harvard University who has just published a volume of selected pieces under the title Divided Mind, issued by a small press in Boston called Arrowsmith.
Paul Graham speculates about future of philosophy focused on usefulness.
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fun connections between Obama and The Magnificent Seven
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In mythological terms, Brynner's character, Chris Adams---and you can spend all day unpacking the allegorical luggage loaded into that name---is the hero-king, the noble warrior who appears on the scene to defeat the forces of chaos and bring order and justice, and with luck peace, to the people.
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The most common sidekick for the hero-king is the squire. His job is to serve the hero-king and back him up in a fight. He can be literally a servant or he can be an apprentice. In the first case his role is usually comic. Think of Sancho Panza as the prototype. In the second case, his role can be comic or serious, depending, and his role can change.
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