![]() ![]() ![]() Offering an urgent analysis of what has gone wrong with Putin, The Russia Conundrum maps the country's rise and fall against Khodorkovsky's own journey, from Soviet youth to international oil executive, powerful insider to political dissident, and now a high-profile voice seeking to reconcile East and West. Now freed, working as a pro-democracy campaigner in enforced exile, Khodorkovsky brings us the insider's battle to save his country's soul. Once an oil tycoon and the richest man in Russia, Khodorkovsky spoke out against the corruption of Putin's regime - and was punished by the Kremlin, stripped of his entire wealth and jailed for over ten years. Mikhail Khodorkovsky has seen behind the mask of Vladimir Putin. But it came close.' Mikhail Khodorkovsky, March 2021 The announcement didn't quite say 'dead or alive'. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my head. 'I'm a fairly calm fellow I don't usually get het up about things. ![]()
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![]() The idea is to reduce the need for willpower and. ![]() When you start playing by your brain's rules-as mini habits show you how to do-lasting change isn't so hard. Mini Habits, the classic guide by Stephen Guise introduces a potentially revolutionary approach to habit formation and life change. You can achieve great things without the guilt, intimidation, and repeated failure associated with such strategies such as "getting motivated," resolutions, or even "just doing it.” To make changes last, you need to stop fighting against your brain. People so often think that they are the reason they can't achieve lasting change but the problem isn't with them-it's with their strategy. The science in Mini Habits exposes the predictably inconsistent results of most popular personal growth strategies, and reveals why mini habits are consistent.A mini habit is a very small positive behavior that you force yourself to do every day a mini habit's "too small to fail" nature makes it weightless, deceptively powerful, and a superior habit-building strategy.Mini Habits will better equip you to change your life than 99% of the people you see walking around on this globe. When something works, that which doesn't work is exposed. When I accidentally started my first mini habit-and the changes I made were actually lasting-I realized the prior strategies I relied on were complete failures. ![]() ![]() ![]() I had experimented with personal development strategies for a decade. ![]() ![]() As a hobby, Pearl wrote poetry as a young woman and in 1980 published a story in Redbook magazine called "The Ride to School." ![]() She credits books and librarians with helping her through a difficult childhood: "It's not too much of an exaggeration-if it's one at all-to say that reading saved my life." She earned her master's in library science at the University of Michigan (1967) and became a children's librarian in her hometown library system before moving on to other libraries. Her decision to become a librarian started at the age of 10 with the inspiration of the children's librarian at her local public library. Nancy Pearl was raised in Detroit, Michigan and, by her own account, spent much time of her childhood at the public library. She is also the author of a novel and a memoir. Pearl was named 2011 Librarian of the Year by Library Journal. She achieved broader fame with Book Lust, her 2003 guide to good reading. Her prolific reading and her knowledge of books and literature first made her locally famous in Seattle, Washington, where she regularly appears on public radio recommending books. Nancy Pearl (born January 12, 1945) is an American librarian, best-selling author, literary critic and the former Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library. Book Lust guidebook, blog, and radio commentary ![]() |