![]() ![]() One day at the London Reform Club, Phileas Fogg, Flanagan, Fallentin, and Sullivan are talking about a recent bank robbery. Having dismissed his former valet, for bringing him shaving water at 29☌ instead of 30☌, Fogg hires a Frenchman by the name of Jean Passepartout as a replacement. Overall, Phileas Fogg always lives a life in clockwork precision and is a passionate whist player. He’s a rich bachelor, around 40 years of age, but nobody knows the sources of his fortune. The English gentlemen Phileas Fogg lives at No. XX: In Which Fix Comes Face to Face with Phileas Fogg Jules Verne, In Eighty Days Around the World (1873), Ch. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.” ![]() “It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. It is one of Jules Verne‘s most acclaimed stories, where Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days only on a £20,000 wager set by his friends at the London Reform Club. ![]() On January 30, 1873, Jules Verne‘s famous novel ‘ Around the World in 80 Days‘ ( Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) was published by Pierre-Jules Hetzel in Paris, France. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() None of us are perfect, and we all have our blindspots that can get in the way of building the relationships we really and truly want, deep down. You’ll also learn to consider other people’s points of view and past experiences before rushing to judgment and potentially undermining your relationships.īeing a human is hard. With this guide, you’ll learn key skills to help you debias-to stop, pause, and objectively observe situations before jumping to conclusions about others’ motives. Grounded in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), The Blindspots Between Us reveals the most common “hidden” cognitive biases that blind us to the truth, and which lead to the misunderstandings that damage our relationships. These errors are called cognitive bias, and they happen when our brain attempts to simplify information by making assumptions. And yet, time and time again, we all seem to make the same thinking errors that threaten or sabotage these relationships. We all want positive, productive, and genuine relationships-whether it’s with our family, friends, peers, coworkers, or romantic partners. When what you think you know gets in the way-this eye-opening guide offers a clear path to forging stronger, healthier, and more meaningful relationships. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not, I hasten to add, why was the world ending? ![]() I found that Thai was the only language which wanted to pass my lips in any coherent form, and the only word which I seemed capable of forming was, why? The world is ending and we cannot prevent it. ![]() "The message has come down from child to adult, child to adult, passed back down the generations from a thousand years forward in time. ![]() I tried to speak, but the words tumbled together on my tongue, and I said nothing. As you're conveniently dying, I ask you to relay it to the Clubs of your origin, as it has been passed down to me." If time can be said to be important here. While scratching she said, "I need to send a message back through time. She scratched at the back of her left leg, where her white knee-length socks had begun to itch from the rain outside. Her German was Berlin high, but she could have addressed me in any language of the world and still passed for respectable. She examined the heart monitor plugged into my chest, observed where I'd disconnected the alarm, felt for my pulse, and said, "I nearly missed you, Dr August." She perched on the side of my bed, her feet dangling off it, and peered into my eyes. I wore a hospital gown designed for sterile humility she, bright-blue school uniform and a felt cap. She had straight blonde hair worn in a long pigtail down her back, I had bright white hair, or at least the remnants of the same. I was dying my usual death, slipping away in a warm morphine haze, which she interrupted like an ice cube down my spine. The second cataclysm began in my eleventh life, in 1996. ![]() ![]() ![]() I really think this understanding is necessary because it is a topic that I think many of us have accepted nearly-blindly and are applying fast-and-loose to a lot of things. It's one I wanted to learn about, myself, because people keep asking me what counts as neurodivergent, and I've been mostly answering based on what I've heard. It appears that recently there's been an uptick in interest in this, and much of the response is the question, why is this so vague? Let’s converse.Īwhile ago, I made a short video to give a very basic understanding of neurodiversity to people, most specifically helping people understand what people even meant when people said "neurodivergent" or "neurotypical," etc. This is an honest, questioning conversation regarding an evolving term and movement that has little clarity. Note: This is not meant to gatekeep, make people feel bad or left out, or anything along those lines. ![]() Because YouTube thinks I’m stealing my OWN CONTENT, I have to note that you’ll find that my YouTube channel,, also contains the above video and content because I CREATED IT. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Brooklyn brujas book series![]() " Magical and empowering, Labyrinth Lost is an incredible heroine's journey filled with mythos come to life but at its heart, honors the importance of love and family."―Cindy Pon, author of Serpentine and Silver Phoenix Labyrinth Lost is pure magic." ―Melissa Grey, author of The Girl at Midnight Every page is filled with magic."―Danielle Paige, New York Times best-selling author of Dorothy Must Die Her whole family vanishes into thin air, leaving her alone with Nova, a brujo boy she's not sure she can trust, but who may be Alex's only chance at saving her family. ![]() ![]() The only way to get her family back is to travel to a land in between, as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland.Īlex is a bruja, the most powerful witch in a generation.and she hates magic.Īt her Deathday celebration, Alex performs a spell to rid herself of her power. ![]() |