Leonland - Leon Barnard
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July 31, 2008
July goal completed
I just finished Emotional Intelligence, 330 pages. That means that I've successfully accomplished my July goal of reading 500 pages. I'm glad that I read Emotional Intelligence, but I feel that it was a bit too laborious in driving home the point that being in touch with and in control of our emotional state benefits everything we do. Once the book has established what emotional intelligence is (which also takes longer that necessary to explain), it goes into lengthy case studies of the benefits to marriage, heath, child-rearing, and teaching that I think are much more detailed than they need to be.
July 23, 2008
300 pages down
I'm about 100 pages into Emotional Intelligence. It's not all that engaging, it reads a bit like an academic research paper, and the scope seems a little too broad perhaps, but it's very sensical and is a good guide for introspection and self-improvement.
I'll meet my goal if I can finish it in the next 8 days. Wish me luck!
July 16, 2008
Started a new book
I've slowed down a little since finishing The Tipping Point. I just started Emotional Intelligence, which I've been wanting to read for a while. It's denser and seems a bit dryer than The Tipping Point, so I'm going to have to be more diligent about my reading to get to my goal, but I think it'll be a good book to have read.
July 12, 2008
200 pages down
I just finished The Tipping Point today. I started this month on page 80 and it's 280 pages long, so I'm 40% of the way towards my goal of 500 pages for the month. The book was pretty good. By this point, I've heard so much about it that I felt like I'd already read many parts of it. But I still got something out of it. The message about making big changes through small (but not arbitrary) efforts is inspiring and I'll try to remember it.
July 05, 2008
It's been a while
I decided to try to spend more time offline last month, which is why I've been absent for so long. This month I'd also like to take myself offline a lot as well. My goal for this month will be to read 500 pages from one or more books. Being online is too conducive to multi-tasking, which I'm trying to get away from, so reading is a nice alternative activity.
Unrelatedly, I just posted pictures from Bratislava and Vienna and our recent fantastic trip to Croatia.
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