tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1206892 2011-06-01T17:00:04-05:00 TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451a69c69e201538ee09d1c970b 2011-06-01T17:00:04-05:00 2011-06-01T17:00:04-05:00

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/gTPW/~4/rZri51kwams" height="1" width="1"/>

Tom Worth http://worthreading.typepad.com/worth_reading/2011/06/seeing-clearly.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451a69c69e20133f4ae5a8a970b 2010-09-28T17:45:45-05:00 2010-09-28T17:45:45-05:00

Ask for more than you really need. Offer less than you’re really willing to give up. Meet somewhere in the middle. This timeless negotiating strategy works because it’s what everyone expects. When one side unilaterally deviates from this norm, as...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/gTPW/~4/zyM39bO2nIs" height="1" width="1"/>

Tom Worth http://worthreading.typepad.com/worth_reading/2010/09/almost-peace-in-the-middle-east.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451a69c69e20133f4ad0a95970b 2010-09-28T14:05:14-05:00 2010-09-28T14:05:14-05:00

Quora.com and goodreads.com have been popping up more frequently in online meanderings over the past couple of weeks. Quora is basically a question and answer site, but not in the sense of querying Google or Wolfram Alpha. It's not a...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/gTPW/~4/ciEHzNwR18s" height="1" width="1"/>

Tom Worth http://worthreading.typepad.com/worth_reading/2010/09/two-new-to-me-sites-to-assist-your-quest-for-self-knowledge.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451a69c69e20134864b1629970c 2010-08-18T15:39:16-05:00 2010-08-18T15:39:16-05:00

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there. - Otomo No Yakamochi Mother Teresa actually conversed with Jesus, according to her. Not surprising, considering her universally acclaimed saint-like...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/gTPW/~4/b1LJ82Moyyk" height="1" width="1"/>

Tom Worth http://worthreading.typepad.com/worth_reading/2010/08/reaching-for-hands-that-are-not-there.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451a69c69e20133f2e45f7a970b 2010-08-06T13:23:31-05:00 2010-08-06T13:23:31-05:00

How long is "long enough?" If you were born to do something that you only got to actually "do" for 3 years of your life, would it be worth it? How about if you were offered the chance to do...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/gTPW/~4/8cVCg3BZ0_U" height="1" width="1"/>

Tom Worth http://worthreading.typepad.com/worth_reading/2010/08/getting-started-with-what-matters.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451a69c69e201287701487d970c 2010-01-22T13:17:25-06:00 2010-01-22T13:17:25-06:00

Writing is entirely too dependent on the reader. You can be the most talented, inspiring, grammatically perfect writer the world has ever produced, but the ability of your written words to convey what you intend to convey is completely subject...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/gTPW/~4/7wbm5B3hF0g" height="1" width="1"/>

Tom Worth http://worthreading.typepad.com/worth_reading/2010/01/the-problem-with-writing.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451a69c69e20120a7f3db7c970b 2010-01-20T14:35:10-06:00 2010-01-20T14:35:10-06:00

A respected professional acquaintance also happens to be an atheist. Not of the agnostic persuasion, but of the "religious beliefs are ridiculous superstition" sort. We see eye to eye on most topics besides this one, and each of us realizes...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/gTPW/~4/klo-p0ZkFxA" height="1" width="1"/>

Tom Worth http://worthreading.typepad.com/worth_reading/2010/01/we-hold-these-truths-to-be-selfevidentbut-why.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451a69c69e2012876ebd789970c 2010-01-18T14:02:09-06:00 2010-01-18T14:02:09-06:00

1. Did you help someone that really needed it, or get such help from someone else, in a way that each of you will always remember? 2. Did you read a book in 2009? How many: 1 or 2, 5...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/gTPW/~4/B4OQmkq2Y6E" height="1" width="1"/>

Tom Worth http://worthreading.typepad.com/worth_reading/2010/01/did-you-live-or-die-in-2009.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451a69c69e2012876da52d9970c 2010-01-15T11:02:42-06:00 2010-01-15T11:02:42-06:00

"Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and not concerned about the city government that damns the soul, the economic conditions that corrupt the soul, the slum conditions, the social evils that cripple the soul,...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/gTPW/~4/kRa5QTYwtMc" height="1" width="1"/>

Tom Worth http://worthreading.typepad.com/worth_reading/2010/01/have-your-faith-and-rip-it-too.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451a69c69e2012876d997de970c 2010-01-15T07:52:04-06:00 2010-01-15T07:52:04-06:00

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Tom Worth http://worthreading.typepad.com/worth_reading/2010/01/happy-birthday-dr-king.html