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...take on a favorite American holiday. Along with the myth of the self-made man, Samuels examines the personal responsibility of those who believed Hogue’s lies. Essential to Hogue’s success—along with his gift to run incredibly fast for incredibly long distances??was his ability to play on the desires of everyone around him; he “made himself into a screen on which people could project their hopes and dreams.” To what extent does Hogue deserve the blame and to what extent the willingness...
...parents, the 2000 Chinese bestseller “Harvard Girl: Yiting Liu” carves out the child rearing techniques Liu’s parents used to shape the success of their daughter. The book describes Liu clutching ice in her hands until they turned purple and swimming long distances??tests orchestrated by her parents to improve her stamina. Liu’s parents also banned their daughter from dating to reduce distractions from her academic work...
...increasingly able to keep in touch without face-to-face contact, or indeed without working particularly hard at relationship-building at all. While before we may have had fewer deeper friendships—those select few enabled by sheer force of will to last over great distances??now we have many weaker ones: people we talk to once in a blue moon when our schedules align (who hasn’t gone through their buddy list at 3 a.m. while putting off a paper?) but otherwise go months without contacting...
Kaplan promoted his self-published book through conducting free scholarship seminars at local bookstores in Oregon. He started traveling greater distances??to Seattle and San Francisco—and then went on a seven-week, 25-city national speaking tour...
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