At the moment, as with most moments, I'm reading three books.
In the Science/Math category I'm reading, ever so slowly, George Boole's 'An Investigation of the Laws of Thought'. I suspect I will be reading it for some time.
In the Literature category I'm reading, every night before I go to bed, Boccaccio's 'Decameron'. I have also learned, from Tumblr, that this is something filthy in Italian.
In the Social Sciences/Philosophy category I'm reading, on strong recommendation, Lee Cockerell's 'Creating Magic'. This book is a guide to leadership from a former Disney executive.
And it's really good. So far I agree with everything in it, which is certainly rare. I think I sought it out, certainly atypical to my usual reading selections, for two reasons. One, as recently as last week I was getting very frustrated with poor leadership and advice manuals, and hoped this might change that. Second, as has been seen in the past on here, I am a big fan of Disney, and rather intrigued by how well they run their ship.
The book spends a lot of time acknowledging and praising people who were helpful guides, supportive mentors, or imparters of wisdom. So I thought I'd do the same, and take a post to celebrate people who were important in my life for helping me out.
While compiling such a notion, I broadened the list to be those people who inspired me in general, either through personal contact, or through their words/actions/art and so forth.
These are not my favorite people. For example, I really love the art of Keith Harring. I appreciate it. But it has not 'inspired' me. I can visualize myself as essentially the same person I am now without having encountered his legacy. That can't be said for the people on this list.
Finally, I have exculpated my close friends and family, since they are obvious. Of course my wonderful family, and fabulous friends have inspired me! To think otherwise would just be silly.
Without further ado:
In the Science/Math category I'm reading, ever so slowly, George Boole's 'An Investigation of the Laws of Thought'. I suspect I will be reading it for some time.
In the Literature category I'm reading, every night before I go to bed, Boccaccio's 'Decameron'. I have also learned, from Tumblr, that this is something filthy in Italian.
In the Social Sciences/Philosophy category I'm reading, on strong recommendation, Lee Cockerell's 'Creating Magic'. This book is a guide to leadership from a former Disney executive.
And it's really good. So far I agree with everything in it, which is certainly rare. I think I sought it out, certainly atypical to my usual reading selections, for two reasons. One, as recently as last week I was getting very frustrated with poor leadership and advice manuals, and hoped this might change that. Second, as has been seen in the past on here, I am a big fan of Disney, and rather intrigued by how well they run their ship.
The book spends a lot of time acknowledging and praising people who were helpful guides, supportive mentors, or imparters of wisdom. So I thought I'd do the same, and take a post to celebrate people who were important in my life for helping me out.
While compiling such a notion, I broadened the list to be those people who inspired me in general, either through personal contact, or through their words/actions/art and so forth.
These are not my favorite people. For example, I really love the art of Keith Harring. I appreciate it. But it has not 'inspired' me. I can visualize myself as essentially the same person I am now without having encountered his legacy. That can't be said for the people on this list.
Finally, I have exculpated my close friends and family, since they are obvious. Of course my wonderful family, and fabulous friends have inspired me! To think otherwise would just be silly.
Without further ado:
Teachers
Elementary/Middle
Janet
Murphy
Robert
Kerman
Al Green
Anne
Roberts
High
Katharine
Ross
Dave
Meyer
Mark
Clark
Jim
Gaw
College/Grad
Norman
Derby
Ron
Cohen
Mansour
Farhang
Mac
Maharaj
Paul
Voice
Vanessa
La Rae
Eugene
Rudzewicz
Rick
Caswell
Dave
Berieau
Sue
Maguire
Deep
Thinkers/Inspiring Figures
Carl
Sagan
James
Burke
Randy
Pausch
Kirby
Ferguson
Jared
Diamond
James
Randi
Christopher
Hitchens
Ken
Robinson
Charlie
Brooker
Comedians
George
Carlin
Louis
CK
Bill
Hicks
Eddie
Izzard
Artists/Creators
Frank
Lloyd Wright
Walt Disney/Mary
Blair
Hayao
Miyazaki
Jim
Henson
MC
Escher
Salvador
Dali
Federico
Fellini
Pete
Seeger
The
Beatles
Stanley
Kubrick
Bill
Watterson
Bill
Amend
Gary
Larson
Winsor
McCay
Don
Hertzfeldt
Odyssey
Productions
Terry
Gilliam
Monty
Python
Rod Serling
Writers
Aristophanes
Sophocles
Aristotle
Lucretius
David
Hume
Soren
Kierkegaard
Martin
Heidegger
Jean-Paul
Sartre
Albert
Camus
Ludwig
Wittgenstein
Lewis
Carroll
Cervantes
James
Joyce
Jorge
Luis Borges
Franz
Kafka
William
Wordsworth
Virginia
Woolf
William
Shakespeare
Daniel
Quinn
La
Rochefoucauld
Rachel
Carson
Fyodor
Dostoevsky
Plato/Socrates
Stanley
Milgram
Erving
Goffman
Carl
Jung
Cass
Sunstein
Historical
Figures
Franklin
D. Roosevelt
Lyndon
Johnson
John
F Kennedy
Nelson
Mandela
Mohandas
Gandhi
Mikhail
Gorbachev
Sun
Yat Sen
Abraham
Lincoln
John
Adams
Thomas
Jefferson
Woodrow
Wilson
Siddhartha
Gautama
Eleanor
Roosevelt
Andrei
Sakharov
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