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Must try harder... Author:  Walter Mischel When it comes to will power – and everything else for that matter – the Internet has transformed the world.  Instantly accessible shopping, gambling, porn, games – whatever you want – require just a few clicks of a button without even obliging one to put on pants.  It’s amazing that anybody gets anything done.  And don’t forget about donuts.  How do we manage to control ourselves when so many temptations are always at our fingertips?  How can we get better at controlling our baser urges?  In The Marshmallow Test, internationally renowned psychologist Walter Mischel [...]

Something Completely Different... Author:  John Cleese He’s the tall one – with a head that seems like it was meant to wear a bowler – who gained his greatest notoriety as the unfortunate Mr. Praline, the inadvertent purchaser of a dead parrot.  Possibly the most recognizable of the cast members of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, John Cleese has had an often joyfully ridiculous comic career spanning five decades.  Displaying plenty of wit and silliness, he tells his early story in So, Anyway, a chronicle of the evolution of a Python. Starting with his rather unremarkable childhood in the seaside resort [...]

Breaking Boffo... Author:  Bob Odenkirk Bob Odenkirk has been around for a long time, initially as a writer for Saturday Night Live in the late 1980s, where he created the unforgettable character of Matt Foley, then as one of the co-stars on HBO’s Emmy-nominated Mr. Show with Bob and David.  But it wasn’t until 2009 in season 2 of AMC’s Breaking Bad that he finally hit it big in the role of lawyer Saul Goodman, providing comic relief for the acclaimed crime drama.  In anticipation of his next series, a Breaking Bad prequel called Better Call Saul, he’s released A [...]