Enchantment is a powerful tool that transforms situations and relationships. Guy Kawasaki argues that the goal of business and personal interactions is to bring about a voluntary, enduring, and delightful change in other people. This book explains all the tactics you need to prepare and launch an enchantment campaign; to get the most from both push and pull technologies; and to enchant your customers, your employees, and even your boss.
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield is a book that explores the struggle of producing meaningful work and how to overcome the internal resistance that holds us back from success. The author provides techniques to defeat our own psychological self-sabotage and emphasizes the importance of self-discovery in unlocking our creativity. This book is a must-read for anyone who feels they're fighting an uphill battle in unleashing their creative potential.
The book challenges the misconception that great ideas inevitably lead to success and provides practical advice on how to turn vision into reality. It emphasizes the importance of modifying organizational habits, engaging a broader community, and developing leadership capability. The book aims to bring down pie-in-the-sky notions of the creative process and highlights the importance of improvisation and intuition in the creative process. However, it also emphasizes that 'having the idea' is just a small part of the process, perhaps only 1 percent of the journey.
Brush Up Your Poetry! by Michael Macrone is a book that traces hundreds of sayings, mottoes, and maxims to their roots in some of the greatest poetry. The book includes classic verses and well-known phrases from poets such as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Whitman, Yeats, Eliot, and Frost. The book places all the memorable lines in context, enabling readers to enjoy the poetry, and all the poets are described in concise sketches showing their hearts, minds, and meaning. The book reminds us that poetry is not only alive and well, but also a language we actually speak every day.
Forest Elves presents their cover of Corridors of Time from Chrono Trigger, featuring an ethnic sound and a nod to Final Fantasy X. The track includes vocals by Merry and Jordi, who share a love for Mitsuda's compositions. Check out their social media pages for more music.
A full-scale ghost alert was sparked when eerie organ music was heard being played inside a locked-up church in Ilfracombe, Devon. Cops were called to St Philip and St James Church when locals heard tunes coming from the chapel - even though it was closed and there were no lights on inside. The vicar confirmed there was no auto function on the organ. However, they all agreed somebody or something had to be playing the organ. It turned out that the church organist was having a late-night practice session and wasn't able to turn the lights on.
Learn about poet and children's book writer Eleanor Farjeon, who was born into an artistic family and was tremendously influenced by the creative energy around her. Farjeon's most famous work, Martin Pippin in the Apple-Orchard, was intended for adult readers but eventually became known as a children's book, and she achieved fame as a writer for children. She was prolific, penning works for both adults and children.
H.R. Ellis Davidson was an English antiquarian and academic who wrote extensively on Germanic and Celtic paganism. Her book, Gods and Myths of Northern Europe, is considered a reputable source on Germanic mythology. Davidson's contributions to the study of Norse mythology have been widely recognized. This article provides a brief overview of her life and work.
The Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe sheds light on the complex nature of investigating pre-Christian faiths and emphasizes the need to separate speculation from sound evidence. This book is useful for students of archaeology, early religion, and folklore, as well as for general readers interested in northern European pagan belief. Written by Hilda Ellis Davidson, a specialist in the field of early northern religion.
The book 'Norse Mythology - Legends of Gods and Heroes' by Peter Andreas Munch covers various topics related to Norse mythology, including myths of the gods, creation of the world, giants, Æsir, men and women, dwarfs, Vanir, elves, and more. The book also covers the forces of nature, familiar spirits, and attendant spirits. The book is based on the Norwegian original written by Peter Andreas Munch, who was a founder of the Norwegian school of history and had varied interests in history, archaeology, geography, ethnography, linguistics, and jurisprudence.