Can’t believe it’s already Q2 2013..time flies.
Got squeezed enough…time to soak up!
- The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg
Started by introducing the famous H.M. case and the rat T-maze experiment. Shame that I didn’t take 9.00 intro to psycho at last because of of schedule conflict every semester. - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Book – Susan Cain
A great title!! Nope I haven’t even flipped it yet (on iPad). - Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead – Sheryl Sandberg
Yes “sample” only, read through the intro and Chapter 1. I almost bought it right away when I saw its review everywhere, “book of the month” and, of course, it’s written by Sheryl Sandberg! With all due respect, I like it but not as attractive as I thought.
Too generalized but narrow in scope: The motivation of the book is that, because of social and internal barrier, women tend to “hold back”, “”stay back”, that we are “not aggressive enough to acquire power”. We all therefore should revolutionarily “lean in”. Don’t think all women in the world aim to “acquire power” in workplace to reach the C-Suite like her. And I disagree the stereotype made in the book that men=outspoken, powerful, ambitious while women generally represent the opposite. For this reason this book didn’t click on me.
Too polarized: The whole book first segmented the world into men and women, ok fine, then it’s simply a feminist manifesto. Everything is in “she”, “her”, “”herself”, not sure how a guy will feel when reading it. Anyway, appropriate, kind of expecting this haha.
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