It must be vastly satisfying to finally have
your book idea work.
There are several factors you'll need to consider when evaluating whether
your book idea works.
Not exact matches
Entrepreneurs with great
book ideas would ask me sincere questions about how they could make the
book writing process quicker and effective, and I would pretentiously lecture them about hard
work.
What most people forget, however, is that Newton
worked on his
ideas about gravity for nearly twenty years until, in 1687, he published his groundbreaking
book, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.
In Antifragile, his first
book since The Black Swan, Taleb builds and expands on the core
ideas from that
work.
(Dalio went in depth into those very
ideas in his recent
book, «Principles: Life and
Work».)
After college, Bezos
worked for several years in finance, including at hedge fund D. E. Shaw, where he had the
idea to sell
books over the Internet, according to the Wired feature.
That's according to a tidbit of wisdom in the business
book Dinosaur Brains: Dealing With All Those Impossible People at
Work unearthed by Farnam Street, a consistently interesting blog dedicated to hunting down just these sorts of fascinating
ideas in out - of - the - way places.
And to create anything worthwhile — whether that's an
idea, a
book, or a product — requires long, focused hours of nose - to - the - grindstone
work.
He argues, most famously in «Thinking, Fast and Slow», a 2011
book popularising his
work, that the mind (human, that is, not gorilla) incorporates two systems: an intuitive «system one», which makes many decisions automatically, and a calculating but lazy «system two», which rationalises system one's
ideas and sometimes overrules them.
Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green: Winning Strategies to Improve Your Profits and Your Planet is a
book that may redefine a lot of peoples
ideas about how business
works.
In Dorie Clark's new
book, Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough
Idea and Build a Following Around It, she urges readers to begin
working on their reputation in and out of the workplace to ensure they are a necessary commodity throughout their career.
Many people who use their knowledge for consulting business
ideas work from the comfort of their homes and diversify later on, if they so choose, by selling
books, attending speaking events, holding online courses, and even doing podcasts.
He just wrote a
book advocating for the
idea of giving every
working person in the U.S. $ 500 a month.
I read when I want, set my own
work hours, and feel very little compulsion to produce anything but tangible results, which are usually the outcome of having harvested good
ideas from
books.
Micro business was a concept introduced by another life changing
book in my life, I have written about it previously here This is my next area of exploration, I have tried a few
ideas like automating stock reports and selling value investing themed stock reports from this site It has
worked well till now.
Some
ideas I'm currently tossing around include:
working harder to employ the same writing style in posts that I employ in my
books (more story, less ranting!)
The metaphor of moving a mountain as it relates to doing the
work of peace - making and justice - seeking since my first visit to Haiti crops up often in my life and
work — in fact, I ended up dedicating an entire chapter of my
book to this beautiful
idea).
According to a 1994 essay in the New York Review of
Books by John Maynard Smith, the dean of British neo-Darwinists, «the evolutionary biologists with whom I have discussed his [Gould's]
work tend to see him as a man whose
ideas are so confused as to be hardly worth bothering with, but as one who should not be publicly criticized because he is at least on our side against the creationists.
Some people pay hundreds of dollars to go buy
books or go to seminars that teach on some of these things, and it is always a gamble whether these secular
ideas will
work or not.
Face it, you have no
idea if there are any gods, or if satan inspired your
book (a god would not have gotten so much wrong) You act just like those ridiculous crewationist sites caliming science but clearly do not understand how science
works... you do not know how logic
works.
Maybe the Holy Spirit is at
work around the world to bring multiple authors and pastors and theologians to similar
ideas about similar things all at once, and so when I read something in someone else's
book that sounds a lot like something I have written, but they don't give me credit, it is not that they «borrowed» from me, but because both of us were listening to what the Spirit has been whispering to minds all over the world.
In particular Whitehead's own
works Process and Reality, Science and the Modern World, Adventures of
Ideas, Religion in the Making and Modes of Thought constitute the dominant background of the line of thought developed in this
book.
As with the two - volume
work, although I agree with nearly everything Greg writes in the
book, I once again found myself disagreeing with the central
idea... that God withdraws from Jesus on the cross, and therefore, in the violent portions of the OT, God is withdrawing Himself from the people and nations who experience / suffer violence.
So when Joshua wrote the
book of Joshua, he accurately recorded his thoughts and
ideas about how God was
working in his life and in the people of Israel, to bring them into the «Promised Land» of Canaan.
We are not powerless and fearful, not us: and so I pray and I
work; I make coffee in the morning and hot meals to gather around the table at suppertime; I worship and sing out words of promise and praise; I raise children and read good
books; I pray for my enemies and write letters and send money and show up to fold clothes and drop off meals with an extra bag of groceries; I advocate with the marginalized and amplify the oppressed and antagonize the Empire with a grin on my face; I will honour those who get after the
work of the Kingdom and celebrate; I learn how to listen to those with whom I disagree; I abandon the
idea that we can baptize sinful practices in the name of sacred purposes; I will stand in the middle of the field near my house with my face turned up to the rain and consider it a minor baptism.
Although his
work penetrated more deeply into the issue of transcendence over against immanence, Altizer was joined in his quest by other scholars and particularly by the American Jewish educator Richard L. Rubenstein, who maintained that «after Auschwitz,» the title of his
book on this subject, 27 it was no longer possible to entertain the
idea of a Judeo - Christian God presiding over the affairs of humankind.
In
working to sustain the tradition of the «great
books,» for instance, we may find that we are so busy protecting an
idea that we ourselves have no time for reading.
Sacred Word, Broken Word was a refreshing summary and more readable popular - level
book about the same topic and
ideas as found in that previous
work.
Look, there are GREAT
ideas in here about how marketing really can and should
work so that it benefits and helps people rather than annoys and angers them, but so many of the examples and applications are obsolete, it almost makes the
book obsolete....
Christian authors might be a little put - off by his use of profanity and his
idea of God and angels, and praying to the Muses, but the premise behind the
book is sound: There are forces at
work to keep us from being and doing what God has made us for, and until we fight off those forces and get to doing what we were created for, we will be miserable.
Though I am
working on a
book about this, see my post on The Teaching Method of Jesus as in introduction to the
idea.
In his first
book, entitled The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation, Hartshorne announces his agreement with the Whiteheadian
idea that the materials of all nature are events composed of aesthetic feeling,» claiming the additional support of modern physics for the contention; and he has never wavered in this conviction.17 Moreover, he also expounds in this
work the further Whiteheadian notion, which he tirelessly repeats in his later
works, that what the Constituent experiences or feelings of the universe experience are other experiences.
This is the line taken by what in North America today is frequently described as «process thought»; its greatest exponent was the late Professor Alfred North Whitehead in his
works Process and Reality (his
book has been re-arranged, and provided with excellent explanatory notes by D. W. Sherburne, under the title of Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality), Science and the Modern World, Modes of Thought, Adventures of
Ideas, Religion in the Making, and Symbolism, all of them written after Whitehead had joined the faculty of Harvard University in the United States in the 1920's.
I have considered myself a universalist for a little over a year, and your
book masterfully articulated many of the
ideas I had been
working through in that time.
First, Whitehead developed his
ideas as he wrote his
books; he developed his
ideas even during the writing of his major
work, Process and Reality, exhibiting his view that reality is a creative advance into novelty.
I get half - way through, and then a new
book idea comes along which I just have to
work on right now!
Cult: great devotion to a person,
idea, object, movement, or
work (as a film or
book); especially: such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad.
Definition of CULT 1: formal religious veneration: worship 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents 3: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also: its body of adherents 4: a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator 5a: great devotion to a person,
idea, object, movement, or
work (as a film or
book); especially: such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b: the object of such devotion c: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion
The payoff from this
book will come to you if you use the
ideas it has stimulated to improve your own
work.
When you copy - paste a section out of any
book or reference
work into your sermon or Bible study notes, it automatically includes notes about the source of those
ideas.
When I first attempted to
work on this, I wasn't really sure about the
idea of an egg-less recipe without substituting it with chia or flax meal but while reading the
book, The New Enlightened Eating by Caroline Dupont, I found her egg-less Banana Bread recipe.
As an on - the - go
working mom herself, Michelle understood early on that it is possible to cook like a chef while eating like a nutritionist, which is where the
idea materialized for her first
book, Clean Eating for Busy Families (Fair Winds Press).
With both nations having already
booked their places at the World Cup in Russia next summer, this ultimately should be seen as a serious test to try out tactics and different personnel to get the best
idea possible of what will
work in eight months time.
Sometimes, the reading
idea will only
work as a temporary fix, and right after the
book is done, he's back to crying for what he wants and can't have.
Many developmental professionals - early intervention therapists, daycare providers, nannies, etc. - purchase the
book to get new
ideas of activities to share with the families they
work with.
The
book The Invisible Gorilla uses research on how the mind
works to challenge our
ideas about attention, perception and reasoning.
She is
working on plans to open a children's soft play and activity center in her local town, as well as coming up with
ideas for children's picture
books with her daughter.
I purchased the whole set of Potty Patty potty training stuff (
book also) and thought this was a great
idea, but the doll didn't
work like I thought it would.
Still, as the
book's subtitle says, Gilbert eventually finds a way to make the
idea of marriage
work for her, which is what all of us tend to do anyway.