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A Technique for Producing Ideas by James Webb Young

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  A Technique for Producing Ideas by James Webb Young A Technique for Producing Ideas summary This is my book summary of A Technique for Producing Ideas by James Webb Young. My notes are informal and often contain quotes from the book as well as my own thoughts. This summary also includes key lessons and important passages from the book. The quality of your work (and life) is a result of all the forces that have played upon you throughout life. The goal is to make the most of those forces. In learning anything, first you should learn the principles, then you should learn the method. Particular bits of knowledge are just  “rapidly aging facts.”  What matters are the underlying principles and methods. You can know every fact about an industry and still not be a real expert because you don’t understand the underlying principles and methods. What is most valuable to know is not where to look for a particular idea, but how to train the mind in the method by which all ideas are...

A Short Guide to a Happy Life by Anna Quindlen by Anna Quindlen

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  A Short Guide to a Happy Life by Anna Quindlen by Anna Quindlen A Short Guide to a Happy Life summary This is my book summary of A Short Guide to a Happy Life by Anna Quindlen. My notes are informal and often contain quotes from the book as well as my own thoughts. This summary also includes key lessons and important passages from the book. The only thing you have that nobody else has is control of your life. You job, your day, your heart, your spirit. You are the only one in control of that. “Show up. Listen. Try to laugh.” “You cannot be really good at your work if your work is all you are.” “Get a life, a real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion.” “Turn off your cell phone. Keep still. Be present.” “Get a life in which you are generous.” “All of us want to do well, but if we do not do good too then doing well will never be enough.” “Knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God gives us.”  It is so easy to exist rather than to live… Unless you know a...

The 10X Rule by Grant Cardone

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  The 10X Rule Summary This is my book summary of The 10X Rule by Grant Cardone. My notes are informal and often contain quotes from the book as well as my own thoughts. This summary also includes key lessons and important passages from the book. The biggest mistake most people make in life is not setting goals high enough. The 10X Rule is based on understanding the level of effort and the level of thinking required to succeed. Operating at activity levels far beyond the normal is 10X action and execution. It will take you far. Set targets that are 10X the goals you would ever dream of. Your thoughts and actions are the reason you are where you are right now. In order to go farther than you ever thought possible you must both think and act at levels 10X beyond the norm. Why keep working once you have achieved a certain financial level of success? Because you can be happy while accomplishing things, not while resting and doing nothing. If you loved your wife and kids yesterday, shou...

10% Happier by Dan Harris

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  10% Happier by Dan Harris 10% Happier summary This is my book summary of 10% Happier by Dan Harris. My notes are informal and often contain quotes from the book as well as my own thoughts. This summary also includes key lessons and important passages from the book. “My preconceptions about meditation were misconceptions.” “In my experience, meditation makes you 10% happier.” Some of the traits we think are fixed like a quick temper or moody-ness or compassion are learned skills, not fixed characteristics. Many people assume they must be paranoid and worry if they want to stay at the top of their game. People care a lot about the bio on an author's page. “The best parts of Eckhart Tolle were a form of Buddhism.” Most improvements in life make very little difference and  that's fine . We spend so much time searching for transformational change in one easy step, but can we all just admit that were looking for the easy way out here? Just because you can't change everything at...

Adobe Premiere Tutorial

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 Creating a New Project a) Each video you create in Premiere should start by creating a new project. The project file will contain references to the different media files you use to build your movie and the timeline sequence on which you arrange your video clips, add audio tracks, transitions, titles, etc. b) To create a new project, in the welcome box that appears when you launch Adobe select New Project. c) In the New Project dialog box, you can leave the default settings and just type in a Name for your project and a Location, such as a folder on a portable drive you use to store your video projects. d) Before you click OK, check the Scratch Disk settings. Setting the Scratch Disks e) Click on the Scratch Disks tab at the top of the New Project dialog box. The scratch disk is the location on your computer where Premiere will store media and other files related to your project. By default the Scratch Disk will be set to the same folder that you set as the location for yo...