Far too often in my younger life, I would eagerly share something I’d just discovered — maybe it was a new book, an innovative idea, or even just a different way to approach something I was already doing — only to encounter eye rolls from older family members. I was talking about "self-help" and they didn't want anything to do with it. Even my immediate family members reacted as though learning was a fixed target that they’d already reached: They’d completed the required curriculum for … Read more about Learning, Creating, and My Lifelong Revolt Against “Self-Help”
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The Cookbook
In M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water, one of the main characters learns that his book, which he titles The Cookbook, is destined to inspire a future “great leader.” A future-seeing sea nymph tells him, “A boy in the Midwest of this land will grow up in a home where your book will be on the shelf and spoken of often. He will grow up with these ideas in his head. He will grow into a great orator. He will speak and his words will be heard throughout this land and throughout the world. This … Read more about The Cookbook