SummaReview – Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

January 18, 2013 by

The main characters in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men are Lennie Small and George Milton who are polar opposites of each other. George is small while Lennie is huge. And George is the dreamer while Lennie listens to and mimics him. George is very protective of Lennie who appears to be simpleminded. Lennie is extremely strong and doesn’t realize how strong he is, and that ends up to be his downfall. Both are migrant American workers. They have found work on a ranch, but for some reason George wants to wait before they go to work. While they are waiting, George shares his vision of the life he wants for the two, and he also coaches … [Read more...]

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The Invisible Mentor Week in Review

October 8, 2011 by

This is what we talked about on The Invisible Mentor Blog this week: The First 30 Days by Ariane de Bonvoisin, Mythologist Joseph Campbell and Interview with Leadership Coach and Career Consultant David Gray. Mondays at the Salon To master a topic of interest requires reading to further knowledge, and if you are interested in the topic for your personal interest, you would be reading for information. But to learn as much as possible about a subject, whether it be for information or to further your knowledge, Adler and Van Doren recommend that you read syntopically, which is reading several books at the same time about a specific topic, … [Read more...]

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The Invisible Mentor Week in Review

August 13, 2011 by

This is what we talked about on The Invisible Mentor Blog this week: Review of The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks, Charles Lindbergh, First Person to Fly Solo from New York to Paris and Interview with Mike DeSousa. Mondays at the Salon “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,” is a quote that’s attributed to both Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin. It means you have to do things differently to get different results. Do Something You’ve Never Done Before Booked on Tuesdays This week we reviewed The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks which shows us how to start performing at our peak. In … [Read more...]

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Booked for Mentoring: Review -The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks

August 9, 2011 by

The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level by Gay Hendricks is the best personal development book I’ve read in a long time. The book gave me a new way to look at my capabilities. There are four main zones that anyone of us operates in: Incompetence, Competence, Excellence and Genius. But we should strive to operate in our Zone of Genius all the time. Four Main Zones Zone of Incompetence: You are bogged down doing tasks that you are not good at, that others can do much better. The solution is to avoid doing them altogether. Zone of Competence: You are competent at doing the activities but others can do … [Read more...]

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Mondays at the Salon: Are You Winning the Mind War?

March 21, 2011 by

In an effort to streamline the blog posts, I've created a name for each day. Though Thursdays and Fridays have a different name, they will still be interview days, Part One and Part Two. Mondays at the Salon Booked on Tuesdays Wisdom Wednesdays Perspective Thursdays Workshop Fridays Are You Winning the Mind War? Sixty thousand thoughts are bouncing around in your mind every day, so says several sources on the internet. Of those 60,000 thoughts, how many of them are constructive thoughts and how many are destructive ones? Whatever we are consumed with, whatever we constantly think about, has an uncanny way of materializing … [Read more...]

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