Podcasts about too hard

It’s actually a good thing that some books push you to the edge of your ability to understand. But there’s no doubting the fact that dense, abstract and jargon-filled works can push you so far into the fog of frustration that you cannot blame yourself for giving up. But here’s the truth: You don’t have to walk away frustrated and confused. I’m going to share with you a number of practical strategies that will help you fill in the gaps of your reading process. Because that’s usually the real problem: It’s not your intelligence. Nor is it that the world is filled with books “above your level.” I ultimately don’t believe in “levels” as such. But as someone who taught reading courses at Rutgers and Saarland University, I know from experience that many learners need to pick up a few simple steps that will strengthen how they approach reading difficult books. And in this guide, you’ll learn how to read challenging books and remember what they say. I’m going to go beyond generic advice too. That way, you can readily diagnose: Why certain books feel so hard Use pre-reading tactics that prime your brain to deal with difficulties effectively Apply active reading techniques to lock in understanding faster Leverage accelerated learning tools that are quick to learn Use Artificial Intelligence to help convert tough convent into lasting knowledge without worrying about getting duped by AI hallucinations Whether you’re tacking philosophy, science, dense fiction or anything based primarily in words, the reading system you’ll learn today will help you turn confusion into clarity. By the end, even the most intimidating texts will surrender their treasures to your mind. Ready? Let’s break it all down together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9HLbY4jsFg Why Some Books Feel “Too Hard” (And What That Really Means) You know exactly how it feels and so do I. You sit down with a book that people claim is a classic or super-important. But within a few pages, your brain fogs over and you’re completely lost. More often than not, through glazed eyes, you start to wonder… did this author go out of his or her way to make this difficult? Are they trying to show off with all these literary pyrotechnics? Or is there a deliberate conspiracy to confuse readers like me? Rest assured. These questions are normal and well worth asking. The difficulty you might feel is never arbitrary in my experience. But there’s also no “single origin” explanation for why some books feel easier than others. It’s almost always a combination of factors, from cognitive readiness, lived experience, emotions and your physical condition throughout the day. This means that understanding why individual texts resist your understanding needs to be conducted on a case-by-case basis so you can move towards mastering anything you want to read. Cognitive Load: The Brain’s Processing “Stop Sign” “Cognitive load” probably needs no definition. The words are quite intuitive. You start reading something and it feels like someone is piling heavy bricks directly on top of your brain, squishing everything inside. More specifically, these researchers explain that what’s getting squished is specifically your working memory, which is sometimes called short-term memory. In practical terms, this means that when a book suddenly throws a bunch of unfamiliar terms at you, your working memory has to suddenly deal with abstract concepts, completely new words or non-linear forms of logic. All of this increases your cognitive load, but it’s important to note that there’s no conspiracy. In Just Being Difficult: Academic Writing in the Public Arena, a variety of contributors admit that they often write for other specialists. Although it would be nice to always compose books and articles for general readers, it’s not laziness. They’re following the codes of their discipline, which involves shorthand to save everyone time. Yes, it can also signal group membership and feel like an intellectual wall if you’re new to this style, but it’s simply a “stop sign” for your brain. And wherever there are stop signs, there are also alternative routes. Planning Your Detour “Roadmap” Into Difficult Books Let me share a personal example by way of sharing a powerful technique for making hard books easier to read. A few years ago I decided I was finally going to read Kant. I had the gist of certain aspects of his philosophy, but a few pages in, I encountered so many unfamiliar terms, I knew I had to obey the Cognitive Load Stop Sign and take a step back. To build a roadmap into Kant, I searched Google in a particular way. Rather than a search term like, “Intro to Kant,” I entered this tightened command instead: Filetype:PDF syllabus Kant These days, you can ask an LLM in more open language to simply give you links to the syllabi of the most authoritative professors who teach Kant. I’d still suggest that you cross-reference what you get on Google, however. If you’re hesitant about using either Google or AI, it’s also a great idea to visit a librarian in person to help you. Or, you can read my post about using AI for learning with harming your memory to see if it’s time to update your approach. Narrowing Down Your Options One way or another, the reason to consult the world’s leading professors is that their syllabi will provide you with: Foundational texts Core secondary literature Commentaries from qualified sources Essential historical references Once you’ve looked over a few syllabi, look through the table of contents of a few books on Amazon or Google Books. Then choose: 1-2 foundational texts to read before the challenging target book you want to master 1-2 articles or companion texts to read alongside In this way, you’ve turned difficulty into a path, not an obstacle. Pre-Reading Strategies That Warm Up Your Reading Muscles A lot of the time, the difficulty people feel when reading has nothing to do with the book. It’s just that you’re diving into unfamiliar territory without testing the waters first. Here are some simple ways to make unfamiliar books much easier to get into. Prime Like a Pro To make books easier to read, you can perform what is often called “priming” in the accelerated learning community. It is also sometimes called “pre-reading” and as this research article discusses, its success has been well-demonstrated. The way I typically perform priming is simple. Although some books require a slight change to the pattern, I typically approach each new book by reading: The back cover The index The colophon page The conclusion or afterword The most interesting or relevant chapter The introduction The rest of the book Activate Prior Knowledge Sometimes I will use a skimming and scanning strategy after reading the index to quickly familiarize myself with how an author approaches a topic with which I’m already familiar. This can help raise interest, excitement and tap into the power of context-dependent memory. For example, I recently started reading Doubt: A History by Jennifer Michael Hecht. Since the Renaissance memory master Giordano Bruno comes up multiple times, I was able to draw up a kind of context map of the books themes by quickly going through those passages. Take a Picture Walk Barbara Oakley and Terence Sejnjowski share a fantastic strategy in Learning How to Learn. Before reading, simply go through a book and look at all the illustrations, tables, charts and diagrams. It seems like a small thing. But it gives your brain a “heads up” about upcoming visual information that you may need to process than prose. I used to find visual information like this difficult, but after I started taking picture walks, I’m now excited to read “towards” these elements. If still find them challenging to understand, I apply a tip I learned from Tony Buzan that you might like to try: Rather than struggle to interpret a chart or illustration, reproduce it in your own hand. Here’s an example of how I did this when studying spaced repetition: As a result, I learned the graph and its concepts quickly and have never forgotten it. Build a Pre-Reading Ritual That Fits You There’s no one-sized-fits-all strategy, so you need to experiment with various options. The key is to reduce cognitive load by giving your mind all kinds of ways of understanding what a book contains. If it helps, you can create yourself a checklist that you slip into the challenging books on your list. That way, you’ll have both a bookmark and a protocol as you develop your own pre-reading style. Active Reading Techniques That Boost Comprehension Active reading involves deliberately applying mental activities while reading. These can include writing in the margins of your books, questioning, preparing summaries and even taking well-time breaks between books. Here’s a list of my favorite active reading strategies with ideas on how you can implement them. Using Mnemonics While Reading On the whole, I take notes while reading and then apply a variety of memory techniques after. But to stretch my skills, especially when reading harder books, I start the encoding process earlier. Instead of just taking notes, I’ll start applying mnemonic images. I start early because difficult terms often require a bit more spaced repetition. To do this yourself, the key is to equip yourself with a variety of mnemonic methods, especially: The Memory Palace technique The Pegword Method The Major System The PAO System And in some cases, you may want to develop a symbol system, such as if you’re studying physics or programming. Once you have these mnemonic systems developed, you can apply them in real time. For example, if you come across names and dates, committing them to memory as you read can help you keep track of a book’s historical arc. This approach can be especially helpful when reading difficult books because authors often dump a lot of names and dates. By memorizing them as you go, you reduce the mental load of having to track it all. For even more strategies you can apply while reading, check out my complete Mnemonics Dictionary. Strategic Questioning Whether you take notes or memorize in real-time, asking questions as you go makes a huge difference. Even if you don’t come up with answers, continually interrogating the book will open up your brain. The main kinds of questions are: Evaluative questions (checking that the author uses valid reasoning and address counterarguments) Analytical questions (assessing exactly how the arguments unfold and questioning basic assumptions) Synthetic questions (accessing your previous knowledge and looking for connections with other books and concepts) Intention questions (interrogating the author’s agenda and revealing any manipulative rhetoric) One medieval tool for questioning you can adopt is the memory wheel. Although it’s definitely old-fashioned, you’ll find that it helps you rotate between multiple questions. Even if they are as simple as who, what, where, when, how and why questions, you’ll have a mental mnemonic device that helps ensure you don’t miss any of them. Re-reading Strategies Although these researchers seem to think that re-reading is not an effective strategy, I could not live without it. There are three key kinds of re-reading I recommend. Verbalize Complexity to Tame It The first is to simply go back and read something difficult to understand out loud. You’d be surprised how often it’s not your fault. The author has just worded something in a clunky manner and speaking the phrasing clarifies everything. Verbatim Memorization for Comprehension The second strategy is to memorize the sentence or even an entire passage verbatim. That might seem like a lot of work, but this tutorial on memorizing entire passages will make it easy for you. Even if verbatim memorization takes more work, it allows you to analyze the meaning within your mind. You’re no longer puzzling over it on paper, continuing to stretch your working memory. No, you’ve effectively expanded at least a part of your working memory by bypassing it altogether. You’ve ushered the information into long-term memory. I’m not too shy to admit that I have to do this sometimes to understand everything from the philosophy in Sanskrit phrases to relatively simple passages from Shakespeare. As I shared in my recent discussion of actor Anthony Hopkins’ memory, I couldn’t work out what “them” referred to in a particular Shakespeare play. But after analyzing the passage in memory, it was suddenly quite obvious. Rhythmical Re-reading The third re-reading strategy is something I shared years ago in my post detailing 11 reasons you should re-read at least one book per month. I find this approach incredibly helpful because no matter how good you get at reading and memory methods, even simple books can be vast ecosystems. By revisiting difficult books at regular intervals, you not only get more out of them. You experience them from different perspectives and with the benefit of new contexts you’ve built in your life over time. In other words, treat your reading as an infinite game and never assume that you’ve comprehended everything. There’s always more to be gleaned. Other Benefits of Re-reading You’ll also improve your pattern recognition by re-treading old territory, leading to more rapid recognition of those patterns in new books. Seeing the structures, tropes and other tactics in difficult books opens them up. But without regularly re-reading books, it can be difficult to perceive what these forms are and how authors use them. To give you a simple example of a structure that appears in both fiction and non-fiction, consider in media res, or starting in the middle. When you spot an author using this strategy, it can immediately help you read more patiently. And it places the text in the larger tradition of other authors who use that particular technique. For even more ideas that will keep your mind engaged while tackling tough books, feel free to go through my fuller article on 7 Active Reading Strategies. Category Coloring & Developing Your Own Naming System For Complex Material I don’t know about you, but I do not like opening a book only to find it covered in highlighter marks. I also don’t like highlighting books myself. However, after practicing mind mapping for a few years, I realized that there is a way to combine some of its coloring principles with the general study principles of using Zettelkasten and flashcards. Rather than passively highlighting passages that seem interesting at random, here’s an alternative approach you can take to your next tour through a complicated book. Category Coloring It’s often helpful to read with a goal. For myself, I decided to tackle a hard book called Gödel Escher Bach through the lens of seven categories. I gave each a color: Red = Concept Green = Process Orange = Fact Blue = Historical Context Yellow = Person Purple = School of Thought or Ideology Brown = Specialized Terminology Example Master Card to the Categorial Color Coding Method To emulate this method, create a “key card” or “master card” with your categories on it alongside the chosen color. Use this as a bookmark as you read. Then, before writing down any information from the book, think about the category to which it belongs. Make your card and then apply the relevant color. Obviously, you should come up with your own categories and preferred colors. The point is that you bring the definitions and then apply them consistently as you read and extract notes. This will help bring structure to your mind because you’re creating your own nomenclature or taxonomy of information. You are also using chunking, a specific mnemonic strategy I’ve written about at length in this post on chunking as a memory tool. Once you’re finished a book, you can extract all the concepts and memorize them independently if you like. And if you emulate the strategy seen on the pictured example above, I’ve included the page number on each card. That way, I can place the cards back in the order of the book. Using this approach across multiple books, you will soon spot cross-textual patterns with greater ease. The catch is that you cannot allow this technique to become activity for activity’s sake. You also don’t want to wind up creating a bunch of informational “noise.” Before capturing any individual idea on a card and assigning it to a category, ask yourself: Why is this information helpful, useful or critical to my goal? Will I really use it again? Where does it belong within the categories? If you cannot answers these questions, either move on to the next point. Or reframe the point with some reflective thinking so that you can contextualize it. This warning aside, it’s important not to let perfectionism creep into your life. Knowing what information matters does take some practice. To speed up your skills with identifying critical information, please read my full guide on how to find the main points in books and articles. Although AI can certainly help these days, you’ll still need to do some work on your own. Do Not Let New Vocabulary & Terminology Go Without Memorization One of the biggest mistakes I used to make, even as a fan of memory techniques, slowed me down much more than necessary. I would come across a new term, look it up, and assume I’d remember it. Of course, the next time I came across it, the meaning was still a mystery. But when I got more deliberate, I not only remembered more words, but the knowledge surrounding the unfamiliar terms also stuck with greater specificity. For example, in reading The Wandering Mind by Jamie Kreiner, memorizing the ancient Greek word for will or volition (Prohairesis) pulled many more details about why she was mentioning it. Lo and behold, I started seeing the word in more places and connecting it to other ancient Greek terms. Memorizing those as well started to create a “moat of meaning,” further protecting a wide range of information I’d been battling. Understanding Why Vocabulary Blocks Comprehension The reason why memorizing words as you read is so helpful is that it helps clear out the cognitive load created by pausing frequently to look up words. Even if you don’t stop to learn a new definition, part of your working memory gets consumed by the lack of familiarity. I don’t always stop to learn new definitions while reading, but using the color category index card method you just discovered, it’s easy to organize unfamiliar words while reading. That way they can be tidily memorized later. I have a full tutorial for you on how to memorize vocabulary, but here’s a quick primer. Step One: Use a System for Capturing New Words & Terms Whether you use category coloring, read words into a recording app or email yourself a reminder, the key is to capture as you go. Once your reading session is done, you can now go back to the vocabulary list and start learning it. Step Two: Memorize the Terms I personally prefer the Memory Palace technique. It’s great for memorizing words and definitions. You can use the Pillar Technique with the word at the top and the definition beneath it. Or you can use the corners for the words and the walls for the definitions. Another idea is to photograph the cards you create and important them into a spaced repetition software like Anki. As you’ll discover in my complete guide to Anki, there are several ways you can combine Anki with a variety of memory techniques. Step Three: Use the Terms If you happened to catch an episode of the Magnetic Memory Method Podcast back when I first learned Prohairesis I mentioned it often. This simple habit helps establish long-term recall, reflection and establishes the ground for future recognition and use. Expand Understanding Using Video & Audio Media When I was in university, I often had to ride my bike across Toronto to borrow recorded lectures on cassette. Given the overwhelming tsunamis of complex ideas, jargon and theoretical frameworks I was facing, it was worth it. Especially since I was also dealing with the personal problems I shared with you in The Victorious Mind. Make no mistake: I do not believe there is any replacement for reading the core books, no matter how difficult they might be. But there’s no reason not to leverage the same ideas in multiple formats to help boost your comprehension and long-term retention. Multimedia approaches are not just about knowledge acquisition either. There have been many debates in the magical arts community that card magicians should read and not rely on video. But evidence-based studies like this one show that video instruction combined with reading written instructions is very helpful. The Science Behind Multi-Modal Learning I didn’t know when I was in university, or when I was first starting out with memdeck card magic that dual coding theory existed. This model was proposed by Allan Paivio, who noticed that information is processed both verbally and non-verbally. Since then, many teachers have focused heavily on how to encourage students to find the right combination of reading, visual and auditory instructional material. Here are some ideas that will help you untangle the complexity in your reading. How to Integrate Multimedia Without Overload Forgive me if this is a bit repetitive, but to develop flow with multiple media, you need to prime the brain. As someone who has created multiple YouTube videos, I have been stubborn about almost always including introductions. Why? Go Through the Intros Like a Hawk Because without including a broad overview of the topic, many learners will miss too many details. And I see this in the comments because people ask questions that are answered throughout the content and flagged in the introductions. So the first step is to be patient and go through the introductory material. And cultivate an understanding that it’s not really the material that is boring. It’s the contemporary issues with dopamine spiking that make you feel impatient. The good news is that you can possibly reset your dopamine levels so you’re better able to sit through these “priming” materials. One hack I use is to sit far away from my mouse and keep my notebook in hand. If I catch myself getting antsy, I perform a breathing exercise to restore focus. Turn on Subtitles When you’re watching videos, you can help increase your engagement by turning on the subtitles. This is especially useful in jargon-heavy video lessons. You can pause and still see the information on the screen for easier capture when taking notes. When taking notes, I recommend jotting down the timestamp. This is useful for review, but also for attributing citations later if you have to hand in an assignment. Mentally Reconstruct After watching a video or listening to a podcast on the topic you’re mastering, take a moment to review the key points. Try to go through them in the order they were presented. This helps your brain practice mental organization by building a temporal scaffold. If you’ve taken notes and written down the timestamps, you can easily check your accuracy. Track Your Progress For Growth & Performance One reason some people never feel like they’re getting anywhere is that they have failed to establish any points of reference. Personally, this is easy for me to do. I can look back to my history of writing books and articles or producing videos and be reminded of how far I’ve come at a glance. Not only as a writer, but also as a reader. For those who do not regularly produce content, you don’t have to start a blog or YouTube channel. Just keep a journal and create a few categories of what skills you want to track. These might include: Comprehension Retention Amount of books read Vocabulary growth Critical thinking outcomes Confidence in taking on harder books Increased tolerance with frustration when reading challenges arise You can use the same journal to track how much time you’ve spent reading and capturing quick summaries. Personally, I wish I’d started writing summaries sooner. I really only got started during grad school when during a directed reading course, a professor required that I had in a summary for every book and article I read. I never stopped doing this and just a few simple paragraph summaries has done wonders over the years for my understanding and retention. Tips for Overcoming Frustration While Reading Difficult Books Ever since the idea of “desirable difficulty” emerged, people have sought ways to help learners overcome emotional responses like frustration, anxiety and even shame while tackling tough topics. As this study shows, researchers and teachers have found the challenge difficult despite the abundance of evidence showing that being challenged is a good thing. Here are some strategies you can try if you continue to struggle. Embrace Cognitive Discomfort As we’ve discussed, that crushing feeling in your brain exists for a reason. Personally, I don’t think it ever goes away. I still regularly pick up books that spike it. The difference is that I don’t start up a useless mantra like, “I’m not smart enough for this.” Instead, I recommend you reframe the experience and use the growth mindset studied by Carol Dweck, amongst others. You can state something more positive like, “This book is a bit above my level, but I can use tactics and techniques to master it.” I did that very recently with my reading of The Xenotext, parts of which I still don’t fully understand. It was very rewarding. Use Interleaving to Build Confidence I rotate through draining books all the time using a proven technique called interleaving. Lots of people are surprised when I tell them that I rarely read complex and challenging books for longer than fifteen minutes at a time. But I do it because interleaving works. Which kinds of books can you interleave? You have choices. You can either switch in something completely different, or switch to a commentary. For example, while recently reading some heavy mathematical theories about whether or not “nothing” can exist, I switched to a novel. But back in university, I would often stick within the category while at the library. I’d read a core text by a difficult philosopher, then pick up a Cambridge Companion and read an essay related to the topic. You can also interleave using multimedia sources like videos and podcasts. Interleaving also provides time for doing some journaling, either about the topic at hand or some other aspect of your progress goals. Keep the Big Picture in Mind Because frustration is cognitively training, it’s easy to let it drown out your goals. That’s why I often keep a mind map or some other reminder on my desk, like a couple of memento mori. It’s also possible to just remember previous mind maps you’ve made. This is something I’m doing often at the moment as I read all kinds of boring information about managing a bookshop for my Memory Palace bookshop project first introduced in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utcJfeQZC2c It’s so easy to get discouraged by so many rules and processes involved in ordering and selling books, that I regularly think back to creating this mind map with Tony Buzan years ago. In case my simple drawings on this mind map for business development doesn’t immediately leap out at you with its meanings, the images at the one o’clock-three o’clock areas refer to developing a physical Memory Palace packed with books on memory and learning. Developing and keeping a north star in mind will help you transform the process of reading difficult books into a purposeful adventure of personal development. Even if you have to go through countless books that aren’t thrilling, you’ll still be moving forward. Just think of how much Elon Musk has read that probably wasn’t all that entertaining. Yet, it was still essential to becoming a polymath. Practice Seeing Through The Intellectual Games As you read harder and harder books, you’ll eventually come to realize that the “fluency” some people have is often illusory. For example, some writers and speakers display a truly impressive ability to string together complex terminology, abstract references and fashionable ideas of the day in ways that sound profound. Daniel Dennett frequently used a great term for a lot of this verbal jujitsu that sounds profound but is actually trivial. He called such flourishes “deepities.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey-UeaSi1rI This kind of empty linguistic dexterity will be easier for you to spot when you read carefully, paraphrase complex ideas in your own words and practice memorizing vocabulary frequently. When you retain multiple concepts and practice active questioning in a large context of grounded examples and case studies, vague claims will not survive for long in your world. This is why memory training is about so much more than learning. Memorization can equip you to think independently and bring clarity to fields that are often filled with gems, despite the fog created by intellectual pretenders more interested in word-jazz than actual truth. Using AI to Help You Take On Difficult Books As a matter of course, I recommend you use AI tools like ChatGPT after doing as much reading on your own as possible. But there’s no mistaking that intentional use of such tools can help you develop greater understanding. The key is to avoid using AI as an answer machine or what Nick Bostrom calls an “oracle” in his seminal book, Superintelligence. Rather, take a cue from Andrew Mayne, a science communicator and central figure at OpenAI and host of their podcast. His approach centers on testing in ways that lead to clarity of understanding and retention as he uses various mnemonic strategies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlzD_6Olaqw Beyond his suggestions, here are some of my favorite strategies. Ask AI to Help Identify All Possible Categories Connected to a Topic A key reason many people struggle to connect ideas is simply that they haven’t developed a mental ecosystem of categories. I used to work in libraries, so started thinking categorically when I was still a teenager. But these days, I would combine how traditional libraries are structured with a simple prompt like: List all the possible categories my topic fits into or bridges across disciplines, historical frameworks and methodologies. Provide the list without interpretation or explanation so I can reflect. A prompt like this engineers a response that focuses on relationships and lets your brain perform the synthetic thinking. Essentially, you’ll be performing what some scientists call schema activation, leading to better personal development outcomes. Generate Lists of Questions To Model Exceptional Thinkers Because understanding relies on inquiry, it’s important to practice asking the best possible questions. AI chat bots can be uniquely useful in this process provided that you explicitly insist that it helps supply you excellent questions without any answers. You can try a prompt like: Generate a list of questions that the world’s most careful thinkers in this field would ask about this topic. Do not provide any answers. Just the list of questions. Do this after you’ve read the text and go through your notes with fresh eyes. Evaluate the material with questions in hand, ideally by writing out your answers by hand. If you need your answers imported into your computer, apps can now scan your handwriting and give you text file. Another tip: Don’t be satisfied with the first list of questions you get. Ask the AI to dig deeper. You can also ask the AI to map the questions into the categories you previously got help identifying. For a list of questions you can put into your preferred chat bot, feel free to go through my pre-AI era list of philosophical questions. They are already separated by category. Use AI to Provide a Progress Journal Template If you’re new to journaling, it can be difficult to use the technique to help you articulate what you’re reading and why the ideas are valuable. And that’s not to mention working out various metrics to measure your growth over time. Try a prompt like this: Help me design a progress journal for my quest to better understand and remember difficult books. Include sections for me to list my specific goals, vocabulary targets, summaries and various milestones I identify. Make it visual so I can either copy it into my own print notebook or print out multiple copies for use over time. Once you have a template you’re happy to experiment with, keep it visible in your environment so you don’t forget to use it. Find Blind Spots In Your Summaries Many AIs have solid reasoning skills. As a result, you can enter your written summaries and have the AI identify gaps in your knowledge, blind spots and opportunities for further reading. Try a prompt like: Analyze this summary and identify any blind spots, ambiguities in my thinking or incompleteness in my understanding. Suggest supplementary reading to help me fill in any gaps. At the risk of repetition, the point is that you’re not asking for the summaries. You’re asking for assessments that help you diagnose the limits of your understanding. As scientists have shown, metacognition, or thinking about your thinking can help you see errors much faster. By adding an AI into the mix, you’re getting feedback quickly without having to wait for a teacher to read your essay. Of course, AI outputs can be throttled, so I find it useful to also include a phrase like, “do not throttle your answer,” before asking it to dig deeper and find more issues. Used wisely, you will soon see various schools of thought with much greater clarity, anticipate how authors make their moves and monitor your own blind spots as you read and reflect. Another way to think about the power of AI tools is this: They effectively mirror human reasoning at a species wide level. You can use them to help you mirror more reasoning power by regularly accessing and practicing error detection and filling in the gaps in your thinking style. Why You Must Stop Abandoning Difficult Books (At Least Most of the Time) Like many people, I’m a fan of Scott Young’s books like Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything. He’s a disciplined thinker and his writing helps people push past shallow learning in favor of true and lasting depth. However, he often repeats the advice that you should stop reading boring books. In full transparency, I sometimes do this myself. And Young adds a lot of context to make his suggestion. But I limit abandoning books as much as possible because I don’t personally find Young’s argument that enjoyment and productivity go together. On the contrary, most goals that I’ve pursued have required fairly intense periods of delaying gratification. And because things worth accomplishing generally do require sacrifice and a commitment to difficulty, I recommend you avoid the habit of giving up on books just because they’re “boring” or not immediately enjoyable. I’ll bet you’ll enjoy the accomplishment of understanding hard books and conquering their complexity far more in the end. And you’ll benefit more too. Here’s why I think so. The Hidden Cost of Abandoning Books You’ve Started Yes, I agree that life is short and time is fleeting. But if you get into the habit of abandoning books at the first sign of boredom, it can quickly become your default habit due to how procedural memory works. In other words, you’re given your neurons the message that it’s okay to escape from discomfort. That is a very dangerous loop to throw yourself into, especially if you’re working towards becoming autodidactic. What you really need is to develop the ability to stick with complexity, hold ambiguous and contradictory issues in your mind and fight through topic exhaustion. Giving up on books on a routine basis? That’s the opposite of developing expertise and resilience. The AI Risk & Where Meaning is Actually Found We just went through the benefits of AI, so you shouldn’t have issues. But I regularly hear from people and have even been on interviews where people use AI to summarize books I’ve recomended. This is dangerous because the current models flatten nuance due to how they summarize books based on a kind of “averaging” of what its words predictability mean. Although they might give you a reasonable scaffold of a book’s structure, you won’t get the friction created by how authors take you through their thought processes. In other words, you’ll be using AI models that are not themselves modeling the thinking that reading provides when you grind your way through complex books. The Treasure of Meaning is Outside Your Comfort Zone Another reason to train for endurance is that understanding doesn’t necessarily arrive while reading a book or even a few weeks after finishing it. Sometimes the unifying insights land years later. But if you don’t read through books that seem to be filled with scattered ideas, you cannot gain any benefit from them. Their diverse points won’t consolidate in your memory and certainly won’t connect with other ideas later. So I suggest you train your brain to persist as much as possible. By drawing up the support of the techniques we discussed today and a variety of mnemonic support systems, you will develop persistence and mine more gold from everything you read. And being someone who successfully mines for gold and can produce it at will is the mark of the successful reading. Not just someone who consumes information efficiently, but who can repeatedly connect and transform knowledge year after year due to regularly accumulating gems buried in the densest and most difficult books others cannot or will not read. Use Struggle to Stimulate Growth & You Cannot Fail As you’ve seen, challenging books never mean that you’re not smart enough. It’s just a matter of working on your process so that you can tackle new forms of knowledge. And any discomfort you feel is a signal that a great opportunity and personal growth adventure awaits. By learning how to manage cognitive load, fill in the gaps in your background knowledge and persist through frustration, you can quickly become the kind of reader who seeks out complexity instead of flinching every time you see it. Confusion has now become a stage along the path to comprehension. And if you’re serious about mastering increasingly difficult material, understanding and retaining it, then it’s time to upgrade your mental toolbox. Start now by grabbing my Free Memory Improvement Course: Inside, you’ll discover: The Magnetic Memory Method for creating powerful Memory Palaces How to develop your own mnemonic systems for encoding while reading Proven techniques that deepen comprehension, no matter how abstract or complex your reading list is And please, always remember: The harder the book, the greater rewards. And the good news is, you’re now more than ready to claim them all.

We are in my home state of Missouri all week on The Music of America Podcast, beginning with Jefferson County native Lauren Ash. Lauren songs include Stay Away Please, My Safe Place, What If It Worked, Too Hard, When the Song Ends, and Just You and Me

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In this episode, Edwina looks at the common issue of children complaining that they're bored, or that what they're doing is boring! She explores the underlying reasons behind this behaviour, categorised into four types: tasks that are too easy, tasks that are too hard, lack of personal relevance, and passive learning experiences. Through evidence-based research and practical strategies, Edwina provides insights on how to diagnose and effectively respond to each type of boredom. Additionally, she discusses the importance of fostering communication skills in children to articulate their needs and the potential benefits of unstructured, free time. Join Edwina to learn actionable strategies to transform 'I'm bored' into opportunities for meaningful engagement and growth.The show notes and pdf download is on the episode websiteSign up to Get Curious, the inspirational weekly newsletter for curious educators HERE☕️ If you like my work and want to encourage me to keep going you can do so by buying me a coffee! Any contribution will be gratefully received and will certainly give me the kick I need to keep going.☕️

#DateEmOrDumpEm: The One with the Too Hard in the Paint-Hoodie Girl

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31 August 2025 Daily Devotion: "Nothing is Too Hard for God" Jeremiah 32:17 New Living Translation 17 “O Sovereign Lord! You made the heavens and earth by your strong hand and powerful arm. Nothing is too hard for you! Have you ever watched someone do something with ease and grace after you'd tried unsuccessfully to do the same thing-for an hour? Maybe you struggled all day to solve a problem that involved math only to watch, amazed, as your spouse unraveled it in mere seconds. Maybe you wrestled all day to move a bulky chair until your neighbor stopped by, saw what you were doing, then picked it up and set it down without breaking a sweat. The most shocking thing about each instance is that the task wasn't less difficult for the other person, it was effortless. Most of us would quickly agree, "Nothing's too difficult for God!” But think about it: nothing is even difficult. Nothingis too challenging, tiring, or confusing to our God, but neither is it even remotely challenging, tiring, or confusing. God has never struggled for a split second to accomplish anything. Take joy in the truth that that's the God who cares for you!

Gen Z has a breed of "men" called "the performative male." The TLDR is that these soft and effeminate liberal men are trying TOO HARD to attract a liberal woman -- who probably doesn't want them anyway.Watch this podcast episode on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify.CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary podcast that covers Entertainment and Tech from a consumer's point of view. We talk about Gaming, Comics, Anime, TV, Movies, Animation and more. Hosted by Kneon and Geeky Sparkles.D/REZZED News covers Pixels, Pop Culture, and the Paranormal! We're an independent, opinionated entertainment news blog covering Video Games, Tech, Comics, Movies, Anime, High Strangeness, and more. As part of Clownfish TV, we strive to be balanced, based, and apolitical. Get more news, views and reviews on Clownfish TV News - https://news.clownfishtv.com/On YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/ClownfishTVOn Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4Tu83D1NcCmh7K1zHIedvgOn Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clownfish-tv-audio-edition/id1726838629

CamelPhat & Elderbrook - Cola (ARTBAT Remix)The Chemical Brothers - Do It Again (Massano Remix)Vintage Culture - Do YouChris Avantgarde - EnergyLowdown & Latour - StarlightClose Proximity - Be FreAutoflower & Kia- No RushDemi Riquísimo - Love StateMathias Kaden - Freedom (Mathias Kaden Uptempo Rework)Mihai Popoviciu - What I NeedPornbugs, Frink - What You Want (Stefan Braatz Remix)Saints & Sinners - Pushin' Too Hard

As Erik says, "Pushin' Too Hard" by The Seeds is a garage tune that's more buzz than fuzz. 1 bar of music, 2 chords, no bridge, no chorus, and a relentless beat. It's simple, but is it stoopid? Maybe a little ... Two live covers follow by The Sonics (from the 60s) and Pere Ubu (from the 70s), which go a long way to canonize the tune as a punk classic. Plus Pere Ubu includes frog sounds! The next version, by the cringingly-named The Klan, adds buzzsaw guitar and races to the finish line. The final version is a 2021 rendition by Nick Waterhouse which goes in the other direction and is smoothly soulful ... but it's a long way from Sky Saxon stewin' in a car while his girlfriend goes grocery shopping! Is it hard enough for Pastronauts?

คอลัมน์ “สดแต่เช้า”ปีที่5 (ตอนที่49) อย่าโหมงานหนักจนอ่อนล้า! “อย่าโหมงานจนอ่อนล้าเพื่อจะเป็นคนมั่งมี จงฉลาดพอที่จะหยุดพัก”‭‭ ~สุภาษิต‬ ‭23‬:‭4‬ ‭THSV11‬‬ “Do not wear yourself out getting rich. Be smart enough to stop.”‭‭ ~Proverbs‬ ‭23‬:‭4‬ ‭GW‬‬ พระคัมภีร์สอนเราให้ทำงาน แต่ก็เตือน~ไม่ให้เราทำงานหนักตรากตรำเห็นแก่ทรัพย์ศฤงคารเพราะหวังจะร่ำรวย จนอ่อนล้าหมดแรง~ไม่ให้เราหลงคิดว่าเราฉลาด แต่ให้เราฉลาดจริงๆที่จะยับยั้งเราไว้ไม่ให้ทำเช่นนั้น‭‭ อย่าให้เราทำงานจนหัวฟู แต่ใจเหี่ยว แต่ให้เราทำงานแล้วใจฟู แม้หัวกระเชิง! แล้วงานแบบไหนที่ทำแล้ว เราจะใจฟู? “งาน”(WORK)ที่ทำแล้ว มีความสุขใจหรือ ใจฟู มีลักษณะดังนี้ W-Worth for Doing (มีคุณค่าคู่ควรทำ) เป็นงานที่มีคุณค่า เพราะ 1.เป็นงานที่พระเจ้าทรงบัญชาให้เราทำ ตามพระประสงค์ของพระองค์ 2.เป็นงานที่มีคุณประโยชน์ต่อคนอื่น ตามความต้องการของพวกเขา O-Out of Love (มีความรักเป็นแรงจูงใจ) เป็นงานที่มีความหมาย เพราะ 1.เป็นงานที่มาจากหัวใจ ไม่ใช่จากหัวคิด 2.เป็นงานที่มาจากความตั้งใจถาวร ไม่ใช่มาจากความรู้สึกชั่วคราวพาไป R-Rest & Work Balance (มีความสดุลระหว่างงานกับการพักผ่อน) เป็นงานที่มีความยั่งยืน เพราะ 1.เป็นงานที่อยู่ในวิสัยที่จะเราสามารถทำได้ 2.เป็นงานที่มีระบบการทำงานและการพักอย่างเหมาะสม (รวมทั้งมีระบบในการรับการเติมพลังทั้งฝ่ายกาย จิต และวิญญาณ อย่างต่อเนื่อง) K-Kind to All (มีความเมตตากรุณาต่อทุกคน) เป็นงานที่มีคุณธรรม เพราะ 1.เป็นงานที่คำนึงถึงสวัสดิภาพของทุกคน 2.เป็นงานที่ห่วงใยในสวัสดิภาพของตัวเราเองด้วย ใช่ครับ งานในอุดมคติคืองานที่1.พระเจ้าพอพระทัย2.คนที่รับบริการและคนที่เกี่ยวข้องต่างพอใจ3.เราผู้ให้บริการ และ ทีมงานล้วนพอใจ แต่ไม่ว่าจะเป็นงานที่ดีมากสักเท่าใด เราต้องระวัง ไม่ให้งานที่เราทำนั้น เข้าข่ายอันตรายต่อไปนี้ คือ 1.มากเกินไป หรือ Too Much 2.ยากเกินไป หรือ Too Hard 3.นานเกินไป หรือ Too Long 4.เสี่ยง(อันตราย)เกินไป หรือ Too Risky พี่น้องที่รัก ขอให้เรารู้จักขอบเขตของงานและความจำกัดทั้งของตัวเอง และของคนอื่น ขอให้เราตระหนักว่า พระเจ้าไม่ได้เรียกเรามาให้ทำงานทุกอย่างแบบตัวคนเดียว ขอให้เรารู้ว่าอะไรบ้างที่ควรทำ อะไรบ้างไม่ควรทำ และ อะไรบ้างที่น่าจะพอแล้ว ขอให้เราหลีกเลี่ยงในการเปรียบเทียบกับผู้อื่น หรือ มุ่งทำร้ายผู้อื่นหรือตัวเอง ขอให้เรารู้จักให้กำลังใจตัวเองและผู้อื่นในงานที่เราทำ โดยหัดพูดกับตัวเองว่า ”เราทำดีที่สุดแล้ว” “เราเหนื่อย แต่เราก็ผ่านมาได้” ขอให้เรารักษาสัมพันธภาพของเรากับพระเจ้าและกับคนอื่นๆที่ทำงานด้วยอยู่เสมอ ขอให้เรารู้จักและหมั่นเข้าสนิทกับพระเจ้าและพี่น้องอย่างใกล้ชิดเป็นประจำทุกวัน และรับการเสริมกำลังจากพระเจ้าและจากคนที่ทำงานกับเราโดยที่เราเป็นฝ่ายให้ก่อนและ ขอให้เราไม่โหมงานหนักเกินจนอ่อนล้าเพราะหวังจะเป็นคนร่ำรวย หรือ คนประสบความสำเร็จ(ตามความคิดเห็นของเรา) แต่ ขอให้เรารู้จักมีความสุขและชื่นชมกับสิ่งที่เรามีและงานที่เราทำ ไม่ว่าจะเป็นงานใหญ่หรือเล็ก …จะดีไหมครับ?~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ธงชัย ประดับชนานุรัตน์19พฤษภาคม2025 (ตอน49 ของปีที่5)#YoutubeCJCONNECT#คริสตจักรแห่งความรัก #Churchoflove #ShareTheLoveForward #ChurchOfJoy #คริสตจักรแห่งความสุข #NimitmaiChristianChurch #คริสตจักรนิมิตใหม่ #ฮักกัยประเทศไทย #อัลฟ่า #หนึ่งล้านความดี#Spotifyสดแต่เช้า

"Quitting the Christian Life. It's Too Hard...." This is the title of a YouTube video Roxie Beckles, "That Black Catholic Chick" filmed a year ago. Roxie awakened in the very early morning hours and was having a "dark night of the soul." Roxie's depth of vulnerability about her personal struggle with the demands of an authentic Christian life was untouched before Roxie pushed "publish." The video has over 30K views.  There is no mistaking that Roxie knows suffering. In this Lenten podcast, Roxie revisits where she was at a year ago when she filmed this video. She then takes a deep dive into what she has learned from God ever since. We can't be lukewarm in our Catholic faith--we must make a complete surrender and be "all in." This includes sharing barrenly about our struggles with our faith and wrestling close to Christ. Roxie encourages listeners with this: If you aren't wrestling in some way with your faith, you need to go deeper this Lent. You can find Roxie on YouTube @thatblackcatholicchick or @TheologyOfFitness, as well as at https://www.roxiebeckles.com.  

In the second episode of Misfit Monthly by Investing Unscripted, Jason and Tyler explore the concept of the 'too hard pile' in investing—companies and sectors that are challenging to understand or outside one's expertise. They discuss the value of intellectual curiosity, the importance of knowing one's limits, and strategies to gradually expand one's circle of competence. 02:18 Understanding the 'Too Hard' Pile07:18 Exploring Misfit Stocks19:09 The Sunk Cost Fallacy in Investing25:39 Building Knowledge and Intellectual Curiosity38:50 Final Thoughts and Q&A Callout*****************************************Check out Tyler's Misfit Alpha at https://www.misfitalpha.com/unscripted Follow Tyler on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/misfit-alpha.bsky.social Sign up for the Investing Unscripted newsletter at InvestingUnscripted.com Subscribe to our portfolio on Savvy Trader *****************************************Email: investingunscripted@gmail.comTwitter: @InvestingPodCheck out our YouTube channel for more content: ******************************************To get 15% off any paid plan at finchat.io, visit https://finchat.io/unscripted******************************************Listen to the Chit Chat Stocks Podcast for discussions on stocks, financial markets, super investors, and more. Follow the show on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube******************************************Investing Unscripted is brought to you by Public.com* Visit https://public.com/investingunscripted *All investing involves the risk of loss, including loss of principal. Brokerage services for US-listed, registered securities, options and bonds in a self-directed account are offered by Public Investing, Inc., member FINRA & SIPC. Public Investing offers a High-Yield Cash Account where funds from this account are automatically deposited into partner banks where they earn interest and are eligible for FDIC insurance; Public Investing is not a bank. Cryptocurrency trading services are offered by Bakkt Crypto Solutions, LLC (NMLS ID 1890144), which is licensed to engage in virtual currency business activity by the NYSDFS. Cryptocurrency is highly speculative, involves a high degree of risk, and has the potential for loss of the entire amount of an investment. Cryptocurrency holdings are not protected by the FDIC or SIPC. A Bond Account is a self-directed brokerage account with Public Investing, member FINRA/SIPC. Deposits into this account are used to purchase 10 investment-grade and high-yield bonds. The 6%+ yield is the average, annualized yield to worst (YTW) across all ten bonds in the Bond Account, before fees, as of 12/13/2024. A bond's yield is a function of its market price, which can fluctuate; therefore, a bond's YTW is not “locked in” until the bond is purchased, and your yield at time of purchase may be different from the yield shown here. The “locked in” YTW is not guaranteed; you may receive less than the YTW of the bonds in the Bond Account if you sell any of the bonds before maturity or if the issuer defaults on the bond. Public Investing charges a markup on each bond trade. See our Fee Schedule (https://public.com/disclosures/fee-schedule). Bond Accounts are not recommendations of individual bonds or default allocations. The bonds in the Bond Account have not been selected based on your needs or risk profile. See Bond Account Disclosures to learn more.Alpha is an AI research tool powered by GPT-4.  Alpha is experimental and may generate inaccurate responses.  Output from Alpha should not be construed as investment research or recommendations, and should not serve as the basis for any investment decision. Public makes no warranties about its accuracy, completeness, quality, or timeliness of any Alpha out. Please independently evaluate and verify any such output for your own use case.*Terms and Conditions apply.

At just 16, Lily Arthur's life was shattered—incarcerated in a Magdalene laundry, shackled during childbirth, and forced to give up her baby. In this gripping episode, she reveals the horrifying truth behind Australia's forced adoption era and her decades-long battle for justice. Now in her seventies, Lily is still fighting, taking her case to the United Nations to expose one of the country's darkest secrets. Her story is raw, heartbreaking, and a testament to resilience.

Kyle Maggart of Brothers Music in Shawnee joined me for Episode No. 155, and I enjoyed the heck out of our conversation.His joint can be found at 12206 Johnson Drive, and they can be reached at 913-766-3869, or followed on Instagram as @brothersmusickc.We talked about growing up, getting into music at a young age, starting a business, and collecting a ton of vinyl.Naturally, we talked about a few of Kyle's favorites, which were these:Blue Train (1958), John ColtraneThe Band's Music from The Big Pink (1968)There's No Place Like America Today (1975), Curtis MayfieldToots & the Maytals' Funky Kingston (1976)Graceland (1986), Paul SimonUGK's Too Hard to Swallow (1992)I'd be remiss if I didn't give shouts out to the late, great Patrick "Potshake Dubwise" DuBois, and his fantastic KDUR FM radio show, Roots, Ragga, Radio, out of Durango, CO's Fort Lewis College (Go, Skyhawks!). Patrick was as kind as they come, and I'll always be grateful to him for both that and for showing me a few corners of the college/community-radio ropes.I'd also be remiss if I didn't give Kyle props for saying that Southern American Gospel might be the next frontier. One of the cooler collection of words spoken to date on the podcast.Please consider paying Brothers Music a visit if you're in the area, and give them an Instagram follow. Thank you to Kyle, and to everyone who tunes in.Cheers.copyright disclaimer: I do not own the rights to the audio samples contained within this episode. I poached them from an Andrew Gabbard tune called, "Cloud of Smoke," off of his 2023 release, Cedar City Sweetheart, c/o Karma Chief Records, a division of Colemine Records.

Send us some Fan Mail? Yes please!We have another brave soul returning once again for some political shenanigans here at the whiskey watering hole! Nick from "Too Hard for the Radio" podcast is bringing some more of his patented one-armed madness, and we couldn't be more grateful for his Scuttbutt addition. Hermes even hopped over onto Nick's show not so long ago, so be sure to go give that a listen. Many of the same vibes and topics, guaranteed to ruffle those feathers. Connect with Nick: His podcast, YouTube, & Twitter. .Subscribe, rate us 5, come join in all the other fun we offer, but most of all we hope you enjoy! If you liked this, and want to hear more, give us a follow and let us know! Or maybe you just want to tell us how awful we are? Comments help the algorithm, and we love to see ‘em! And as always, don't kill the messenger. ~Beloved Sponsors~Exotic Fridge Join our DISCORD server!! Whiskey Fund (help support our podcast habit!): PayPalOur Patreon & YouTube Connect with Hermes: Instagram & Twitter Connect with Morpheus: Instagram & Twitter Support the show

Sermon Outline: "Nothing is Too Hard for the Lord" Genesis 17-18 1. God's Promise to Abraham and Sarah Genesis 17:17-19 Abraham laughed at God's promise of having a son at his old age. Thomas Watson's Commentary: Abraham's laughter reflects human weakness in understanding God's promises, yet reveals God's power to overcome human limitations. God reaffirms the covenant, emphasizing His sovereignty. Key Verse: “Is anything too hard for the Lord?” (Genesis 18:14) 2. Human Tendency to Bargain with God Genesis 17:18 Abraham attempts to bargain with God over Ishmael, reflecting human fragility. Psalm 50:21: "You thought I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you." We must rest in God's mercy, recognizing no bargains are needed—Christ has secured salvation on the cross. 3. God's Reaffirmation of His Covenant Genesis 18:1-8 The Lord appears in the form of three men (a veiled reference to the Trinity). Abraham gives his best to God, preparing a meal. Application: Offer God our best, not our leftovers. 4. Sarah's Doubt and God's Response Genesis 18:9-12 Sarah laughs at the idea of bearing a child, questioning God's ability. Genesis 18:14: "Is anything too hard for the Lord?" Cross References: Matthew 19:26: "With God, all things are possible." Romans 4:21: "Fully persuaded that God had power to do what He had promised." Application: We must trust in God's promises even when they seem impossible. 5. The Call to Be Salt and Light Genesis 18:13-14 The Lord rebukes Sarah's doubt, reminding her (and us) that nothing is beyond His power. Application: We are called to trust God's plan and be His witnesses, advancing His kingdom no matter where we are. 6. Confession and Repentance Genesis 18:15 Sarah denies her laughter, but God knows the truth. Application: We cannot hide anything from God. Repentance is essential, and we must surrender our doubts to Him. Reflection Questions: Where in your life are you tempted to doubt God's promises, like Sarah? How does Genesis 18:14 challenge that doubt? Have there been times when you tried to "bargain" with God, as Abraham did? How does the cross remind us that no deal needs to be struck? In what ways can you offer your best to God, just as Abraham did with his meal? What are some areas where you might be giving Him your leftovers? How can you practically be "salt and light" in your community, trusting that God will work through you to bring His kingdom?

Sermon Outline: "Nothing is Too Hard for the Lord" Genesis 17-18 1. God's Promise to Abraham and Sarah Genesis 17:17-19 Abraham laughed at God's promise of having a son at his old age. Thomas Watson's Commentary: Abraham's laughter reflects human weakness in understanding God's promises, yet reveals God's power to overcome human limitations. God reaffirms the covenant, emphasizing His sovereignty. Key Verse: “Is anything too hard for the Lord?” (Genesis 18:14) 2. Human Tendency to Bargain with God Genesis 17:18 Abraham attempts to bargain with God over Ishmael, reflecting human fragility. Psalm 50:21: "You thought I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you." We must rest in God's mercy, recognizing no bargains are needed—Christ has secured salvation on the cross. 3. God's Reaffirmation of His Covenant Genesis 18:1-8 The Lord appears in the form of three men (a veiled reference to the Trinity). Abraham gives his best to God, preparing a meal. Application: Offer God our best, not our leftovers. 4. Sarah's Doubt and God's Response Genesis 18:9-12 Sarah laughs at the idea of bearing a child, questioning God's ability. Genesis 18:14: "Is anything too hard for the Lord?" Cross References: Matthew 19:26: "With God, all things are possible." Romans 4:21: "Fully persuaded that God had power to do what He had promised." Application: We must trust in God's promises even when they seem impossible. 5. The Call to Be Salt and Light Genesis 18:13-14 The Lord rebukes Sarah's doubt, reminding her (and us) that nothing is beyond His power. Application: We are called to trust God's plan and be His witnesses, advancing His kingdom no matter where we are. 6. Confession and Repentance Genesis 18:15 Sarah denies her laughter, but God knows the truth. Application: We cannot hide anything from God. Repentance is essential, and we must surrender our doubts to Him. Reflection Questions: Where in your life are you tempted to doubt God's promises, like Sarah? How does Genesis 18:14 challenge that doubt? Have there been times when you tried to "bargain" with God, as Abraham did? How does the cross remind us that no deal needs to be struck? In what ways can you offer your best to God, just as Abraham did with his meal? What are some areas where you might be giving Him your leftovers? How can you practically be "salt and light" in your community, trusting that God will work through you to bring His kingdom?

Nick Chirls, GP at Asylum Ventures,  and Beezer Clarkson, LP at Sapphire Partners, unpack their recent conversation with Jai Das, President + Partner at Sapphire Ventures and Mike Maples, Co-Founder + Partner at Floodgate,  to answer their burning question: What changes in the way seed and growth investors think, and what stays the same? They discuss the crushing importance of team no matter the stage; the parallels in LP land (at the end of the day, you're just backing people); the difference between small iterations on a business model vs a radical remaking of a company; and the imperfect information you get at Seed vs the luxury of canvasing an entire landscape at growth via customer calls and key metrics.   Learn more about Sapphire Partners: https://sapphireventures.com/sapphire-partners/ Learn more about OpenLP: https://openlp.sapphireventures.com/ Learn more about Asylum Ventures: asylum.vc Learn more about Floodgate: https://www.floodgate.com/ Subscribe to the OpenLP newsletter for a monthly roundup of the latest venture insights, including the newest Origins episodes, delivered straight to your inbox. CHAPTERS: 0:00-Intro & Takeaways 1:20-Is This the Team That's Going to IPO? 4:02-Early Stage Pivots 7:44-How Hard a Pivot is Too Hard? 12:23-LP Strategy for Picking Managers 13:09-The Importance of Timing 15:59-You Need to Call the Customers 18:05-Outro

Knowing Who You Are helps you step up and be who God has called you to be.

Parsha "Nitzavim," (Devarim or Deuteronomy 29:10 through 30:20) is, according to Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship, not only perhaps THE most succinct, two-word summary of the Torah, but the parsha that is also most central to understanding what is arguably THE Biggest Lie since at least Genesis chapter 3. And the Erev Shabbat reading lays the groundwork for that claim: https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SSM-9-27-24-Nitzavim-teaching-podcast-xxxx.mp3 But that is again just the beginning. WARNING: This is yet another reading in the continuing series of what you will certainly NOT hear in sun-god-day school. But this time the "WHY" is the heart of the problem! The Sabbath day midrash is about that Big Lie, and the fact that the refutation is right there in Deuteronomy chapter 30: "The Law has been done away with...nailed to the cross...it's OLD Testament...and, besides, NOBODY but Jesus could POSSIBLY keep 'the Law.' It's TOO HARD for you!" When, in fact, He says it is NOT too hard for you. Practically sarcastically, even, as if He knew - because He did! - how it would happen. And it's time to tie in some other aspects of that Big Lie as well, including a bit of the "most twisted Book in Scripture" - Galatians - and how that same lie manifests as Kefa/Peter warned. Once you see it - it is impossible to UN-see. But as things come to a head - it is more important than ever that we be able to answer, "in season and out," from His Word, exactly WHY we need to "come out of" EVERYTHING that is based on the Lie that got us exiled in the first place. Because those lies are deadly in a time of judgment for letting them fester. Nitzavim: "Debunking THE Biggest LIE Since Genesis 3 " https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/WT-CooH-9-28-24-Nitzavim-Debunking-the-Biggest-LIE-in-History-podcast-xxxx.mp3 The combined two-part teaching is here:

We are exploring the profound message of "buying into the promise" through the story of Jeremiah in Jeremiah 32. Jeremiah, despite being in a dire situation—imprisoned in a dungeon and surrounded by the siege of Jerusalem—received a word from God to buy a seemingly worthless piece of land. This act of faith, buying land that appeared to have no future, symbolized his trust in God's promise that one day, houses, fields, and vineyards would again flourish there. Jeremiah's obedience, even in the lowest circumstances, teaches us that faith often requires us to invest in God's promises when it seems most illogical. Jeremiah's uncle, Hanamel, whose name means "the grace of God," brought the offer, signifying that grace is always on the way, even in our darkest moments. Grace empowers us to do what we cannot do on our own. It shows up with action and hope, urging us to take steps of faith even when we are still bound by our circumstances. The message encourages us to buy into God's promises, not just when things are good, but especially when they are tough. We are reminded that our present suffering is not the end. God calls us to build, plant, and increase even in our waiting periods. We are to impact our current situation positively, believing that the same place of our weeping will become a place of rejoicing. The true test of faith is whether we can hold on to God's promises and act on them, even when the outcome is not visible. Finally, the sermon emphasizes that Jesus is coming back, and we must live every day with the belief that our God is in control. We are called to buy into this truth and live out our faith actively, impacting the world around us while we wait for His return. ### Key Takeaways 1. **Faith in Dire Circumstances**: Jeremiah's act of buying land while imprisoned teaches us that faith often requires us to invest in God's promises when it seems most illogical. True faith is demonstrated not when the outcome is clear, but when we trust God in the midst of our darkest moments. [05:10] 2. **Grace in Our Lowest Points**: The arrival of Jeremiah's uncle, Hanamel, whose name means "the grace of God," signifies that grace is always on the way, even in our darkest moments. Grace empowers us to do what we cannot do on our own and shows up with action and hope, urging us to take steps of faith even when we are still bound by our circumstances. [08:00] 3. **Active Waiting**: While waiting for God's promises to manifest, we are called to build, plant, and increase. We should not become complacent but should positively impact our current situation, believing that the same place of our weeping will become a place of rejoicing. [20:25] 4. **Endurance Through Suffering**: The question is not how long our suffering will last, but how long we will last through our suffering. We must hold on to God's promises and not sell out, even when the pain of our past makes it hard to buy into the future. [16:00] 5. **Living with Eternal Perspective**: We must live every day with the belief that Jesus is coming back and that our God is in control. This eternal perspective should drive us to buy into God's promises and live out our faith actively, impacting the world around us while we wait for His return. [29:10] ### YouTube Chapters [0:00] - Welcome [01:01] - Jeremiah's Purchase [01:48] - Nothing is Too Hard for God [02:31] - Jeremiah's Imprisonment [04:01] - The Siege of Jerusalem [04:34] - The Real Estate Deal [05:10] - Faith in Low Circumstances [06:54] - Buying In While Bound [07:30] - Grace is On the Way [09:02] - Grace Brings Action [10:02] - Grace Brings Hope [11:05] - Buy the Truth [12:41] - Buying Into the Promise [14:18] - From Weeping to Rejoicing [16:00] - Endurance Through Suffering [18:27] - Paul's Thorn and God's Grace [19:43] - Active Waiting [21:15] - Impacting Our Current Situation [23:34] - Building in Bondage [25:02] - Keep Building and Believing [27:12] - Jeremiah's Act of Faith [28:27] - Jesus is Coming [30:28] - Invitation to Salvation [32:34] - Prayer of Salvation [33:47] - Take Ownership of the Promise

With new tracks from bands and artists including Front Line Assembly, Chelsea Wolfe, Sacred Skin, Night Nail, Nox Novacula, Rosegarden Funeral Party, Re:Nan, Noromakina, Fix8:Sëd8, Sevit, Cliff & Ivy, Gary Robert and Community, Victor Sierra, and pMad—plus True Moon, Occults, Ritual Howls, Holygram, Kill Shelter, Chiasm, Astari Nite, and others (with Ned's Atomic Dustbin thrown in for good measure!)—this week's Dark Nation Radio truly is the sound of the underground! I hope you'll give it a spin and support all these great acts! As always, if you like what you hear, I invite you to follow me on your preferred platform and to join the Dark Nation Radio family on the Facebook group. Reposts are particularly appreciated. Thank you for your support! DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio Playlist 8 September 2024 Chelsea Wolfe, “Tunnel Lights (††† remix)” Night Nail, “Narcoleptic Dream Catcher (Antipole remix)” Fix8:Sëd8, “Post-Mortem Apocalypse (club)” Mortal Realm, “Stab in the Dark” Noromakina, “Insomnia” Lost Tapes, “Fall” Sevit, “Drained to White” Sacred Skin, “Too Hard to Find” Victor Sierra, “The Voodoo Soul” Re:Nan ft. Fancy Energy, “After Sunday” Spectres, “Start Again” Ned's Atomic Dustbin, “Grey Cell Green” Kill Shelter ft. The Shyness of Strangers, “Get Down” Holygram, “Distant Light” Nox Novacula, “Cursed” Rosegarden Funeral Party, “Doorway Ghost” True Moon, “Voodoo” Ritual Howls, “My Trash Mind” Front Line Assembly ft. Fotocrime, “(Re)Creator” Beauty in Chaos ft. Cynthia Isabella, “Hollow” Astari Nite, “Resolution of Happiness” Chiasm, “Dead Trees (Blackcarburning remix)” 40 Octaves Below, “Teratophilia (Antigen Shift remix)” Medejin, “Who Knows” The Dark Star Calling, “Before the End (Nature of Wires remix)” Occults, “Shadow” Cliff & Ivy, “Die Tonight” Gary Robert and Community, “Shout Drums Dance” pMad, “Fire (BomBard remix)” DJ CYPHER'S DARK NATION RADIO—24 years strong! **Live Sundays @ 9 PM Eastern US on Spirit of Resistance Radio sorradio.org **Recorded @ http://www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive **Downloadable @ http://www.hearthis.at/cypheractive **Questions and material for airplay consideration to darknationradio[at] gmail[dot]com **Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/groups/darknationradio

This week's Dark Nation Radio broadcast is ready for your ears. Lots of variety in this one (somehow, I packed in almost 30 songs) and some fantastic new tracks, including ones from Sacred Skin, PIG, Beasto Blanco, Covered in Snow, Pink Panther Project, LEATHERS, Seaside Tryst, Sjöblom, Frenchy & the Punk, Sun Atoms, The Search, Closed Mouth, Bone Haus, and Sequential Zero. I hope you'll give it a spin! As always, if you like what you hear, I urge you to support the bands by going to their bandcamp pages. I invite you to follow me on your preferred platform and to join the Dark Nation Radio family on the Facebook group. Reposts are particularly appreciated. Thank you for your support! DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio Playlist 25 August 2024 Covered in Snow, “Cemetery Club” Sjöblom, “Dead For Years” LEATHERS, “Mary” Headdreamer, “Meeting With Myself” Ashes Fallen, “Damn Me (Ninth Circle mix)” , “Dirty Mercy” Flesh Field, “Reset (Panic Lift mix)” Izzy Reign, “Broken by Design” Unwoman, “The Ones Who Walk Away” The Search, “Pick Me Up” Heimberg, “Isolation” Frenchy & the Punk, “Skip Boom” Closed Mouth, “All the Time” Magic Wands, “Hide” Pillhs Castle, “Always” The Cold Field, “Remember When She'd Die For You” Cult Strange, “Hex / Pox / Vex” Sacred Skin, “Too Hard to Find” Sun Atoms, “Take This Love” Bone Haus, “To the Knife” Sequential Zero, “It's Not About You” Black Nail Cabaret, “Teach Me How to Techno” Seaside Tryst, “Teresa” Silas & Saski, “Milky Window” Beasto Blanco, “Nobody Move” Robots in Love, “Unbreakable (Magnetique remix)” Eden Synthentic Corporation, “8000 Square Feet” Depeche Mode, “Strange Love” Pink Panther Project, “Intoxicating Embrace” DJ CYPHER'S DARK NATION RADIO—24 years strong! **Live Sundays @ 9 PM Eastern US on Spirit of Resistance Radio sorradio.org **Recorded @ http://www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive **Downloadable @ http://www.hearthis.at/cypheractive **Questions and material for airplay consideration to darknationradio[at] gmail[dot]com **Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/groups/darknationradio

Hopwolves, you know what time it is... The bois talk shop with new friend of the show Aadam Soorma of TRACE BREWING. We discuss how he became the head of marketing at the brewery, favorite Pittsburgh bands, what it's like to serve coffee and beer all day, fists to the thermostat, revisiting St. Anger, and so much for E106! This week's Beer Breakdowns are MODELITA ESPECIAL (4.4%) from Grupo Modelo (Aadam's pick), CINNAMON DOLCE NITRO STOUT (6%) from Firestone Walker Brewing Company (Todd's pick) and ARIZONA HARD LEMON TEA (5%) from Hornell Brewing Co., Inc. (Arie's Pick). Turn it up to 11, crack open that beer, it's about to get BREWTAL! Episode Breakdown: Intro | 0:00 Beer Breakdowns | 1:14 The Fall of Hard Coffee | 7:29 New Hard Ginger Beer in Town | 8:45 How Aadam Got Into the Industry | 13:10 What is Trace? | 15:48 One Stop Shop for Coffee and Beer | 17:28 The Collab is Coming From Inside the Coffee Shop | 19:58 The Best Pallete on the Team | 21:18 The Evolution of Joe's Roasting Experience | 23:00 Sounding Hoity Toity | 24:46 Regulars for all Times of the Day | 26:55 Coming Up With the Events | 31:50 Deciding to Make Most Events Free | 35:03 That One Event That's Too Hard to Pull Off | 37:50 Favorite Pittsburgh Bands | 39:15 Love of Intimate Shows | 41:24 Moshing TOO Hard | 42:27 Aadam's Flavor of Metal | 44:03 Revisitng St. Anger | 46:33 Favorite Metallica Album | 50:30 Gen Z Hoppin On the Nu-Metal Train | 55:27 Dream Collab Band | 56:56 Getting Backstage to Slipknot | 1:02:09 Outro | 1:04:13 Artwork by megabeast Kevin Burfield Intro track by absolute legend ZaKrahe  Brewtal was edited by Arie Lombardozzi of Death Dealer Productions with additional production from Todd Bailey.

Chronic pain can feel like a raging bear inside you. It's loud, scary, and all-consuming. But what if there was a way to calm the bear and find some peace? In this conversation, Jason Therrien and Destiny Winters explore the concept of pain as a complex experience, influenced by physical, emotional, and psychological factors.  Jason is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, Certified Therapeutic Pain Specialist and Certified Health and Well-being Coach, and Destiny Winters is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Rehabilitation Counselor. They discuss a different approach to chronic pain management – moving away from the traditional "find-and-fix" mentality and instead, highlight the importance of understanding your pain, rather than just getting rid of it without real awareness first. __________________________________________________ CONNECT: ***If you like any of The Chronic Illness Therapist episodes, please leave a review! Reviews tell the app, “hey, people like this! Show it in the algorithm to more people!” :) __________________________________________________ GUEST Amy Toth  -Facebook group The Chronic Pain Recovery Community: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/1262218914338160⁠ -Free Guide: 3 Ways to Ease What Hurts Even if It's Too Hard to Get Out of Bed”  ⁠https://pages.amytoth.com/guide-1⁠ __________________________________________________ DESTINY email: ⁠⁠⁠destiny@destinywinters.com⁠⁠⁠   IG: @the.chronicillnesstherapist.com  website: ⁠⁠⁠thechronicillnesstherapist.com⁠⁠⁠ __________________________________________________ FOR NON-THERAPISTS: FREE DOWNLOADS: - Monthly workshops. Next three: How to reach out without feeling like a burden; ADHD + Chronic Pain, Treating Lyme disease ⁠https://www.thechronicillnesstherapist.com/workshops⁠ - FREE PDF “Mastering Pacing: How Slowing Down Helps you Speed up” ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://spring-lion-815.myflodesk.com/eswknvrdsc⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - FREE PDF “6 Ways To Help Your Partner Understand Your Chronic Illness” - download at this link ⁠⁠⁠https://view.flodesk.com/pages/628c0317081c14b7b35ee9de⁠⁠⁠ __________________________________________________  FOR THERAPISTS -The New Clinician Expo: $30 with code FBG84AN ⁠https://therapist2therapist.squarespace.com/shop/p/new-clinician-expo-saszy⁠ -Join our new community for free for monthly business and clinical consultation groups and other resources: ⁠https://destinywinters1.podia.com/chronic-illness-therapists-entrepreneurs⁠ __________________________________________________ Disclaimer: Everything we talk about here is just meant to be general education and information. It's not intended as personal mental health or medical advice. If you have any questions related to your unique circumstances, please contact a licensed therapist or medical professional in your state of residence. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/citherapist/message

Amy Toth is a physical therapist turned chronic pain specialist with over 20 years of experience. She helps individuals recover from chronic pain by regulating and reprogramming their nervous system. In this conversation, Amy discusses the challenges of treating chronic pain, the role of the nervous system in pain perception, and the importance of building trust in your body's signals. She emphasizes the need to understand that pain does not always indicate tissue damage and that the brain can become overprotective. Amy also highlights the importance of mindfulness and self-awareness in managing chronic pain. The conversation explores the concept of persistent pain and its treatment. Amy and Destiny discuss the importance of listening to one's body and the growing interest in interoception. They also get into the use of imagery and visualization in pain reprocessing and retraining the brain. This conversation emphasizes the need for compassion, understanding, and personalized approaches in treating persistent pain. __________________________________________________ CONNECT: ***If you like any of The Chronic Illness Therapist episodes, please leave a review! Reviews tell the app, “hey, people like this! Show it in the algorithm to more people!” :) GUEST Amy Toth  -Facebook group The Chronic Pain Recovery Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1262218914338160 -Free Guide: 3 Ways to Ease What Hurts Even if It's Too Hard to Get Out of Bed”  https://pages.amytoth.com/guide-1 __________________________________________________ DESTINY email: ⁠⁠⁠destiny@destinywinters.com⁠⁠⁠   IG: @the.chronicillnesstherapist.com  website: ⁠⁠⁠thechronicillnesstherapist.com⁠⁠⁠ __________________________________________________ FOR NON-THERAPISTS: FREE DOWNLOADS: - Monthly workshops. Next three: How to reach out without feeling like a burden; ADHD + Chronic Pain, Treating Lyme disease https://www.thechronicillnesstherapist.com/workshops - FREE PDF “Mastering Pacing: How Slowing Down Helps you Speed up” ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://spring-lion-815.myflodesk.com/eswknvrdsc⁠⁠⁠⁠ - FREE PDF “6 Ways To Help Your Partner Understand Your Chronic Illness” - download at this link ⁠⁠⁠https://view.flodesk.com/pages/628c0317081c14b7b35ee9de⁠⁠⁠ __________________________________________________  FOR THERAPISTS -The New Clinician Expo: $30 with code FBG84AN https://therapist2therapist.squarespace.com/shop/p/new-clinician-expo-saszy -Join our new community for free for monthly business and clinical consultation groups and other resources: https://destinywinters1.podia.com/chronic-illness-therapists-entrepreneurs __________________________________________________ Disclaimer: Everything we talk about here is just meant to be general education and information. It's not intended as personal mental health or medical advice. If you have any questions related to your unique circumstances, please contact a licensed therapist or medical professional in your state of residence. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/citherapist/message

Is it a myth that you can't run anymore if you're in menopause? What about after menopause? Tune in as our coaches bust some myths about menopause and running!Timestamps of big takeaways[00:22] Myths about Menopause and Running- Coaches Valerie and Caroline introduce the topic of myths about menopause and running.[01:07] Myth 1: Exercise, Especially Running, is Too Hard for Menopausal Women- Coach Valerie explains why the idea that running is too hard for menopausal women is false.- She emphasizes that women should continue running and being active during menopause to maintain bone and joint health.[03:57] Myth 2: Running Worsens Osteoporosis in Menopausal Women- Coach Valerie discusses osteoporosis and how running can help maintain bone density.- She stresses that running is a natural movement and that pain during running is often due to inefficient movement, not the act of running itself.[06:25] Importance of Movement and Proper Technique- Coaches Valerie and Caroline discuss the importance of movement and working on minimizing impact to prevent worsening osteoporosis.- Coach Valerie emphasizes the benefits of running when done with proper technique and strength training.[09:31] Myth 3: Menopausal Women Won't See Fitness Gains Due to Hormonal Changes- Coach Caroline asks if menopausal women can still see fitness gains despite hormonal changes.- Coach Valerie states that women can manage their fitness and weight during menopause by adjusting their diet and exercise routines.- She provides examples of older women achieving impressive marathon times, proving that fitness gains are possible at any age.[13:16] Maintaining Fitness as You Age- Coach Valerie discusses the importance of balancing strength training, endurance work, mobility, and recovery to maintain fitness as you age.- Coach Caroline wraps up the episode by encouraging listeners to seek help with their movement, regardless of their age, by visiting our website.Rate, Review & Subscribe ReminderDon't forget to like and subscribe to our show. You can also rate and review our show on Apple Podcasts! We're on Spotify as well!Links to check out-- https://www.runrx.fit/-- FREE 30 day reboot on YouTube by RunRX https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDPcF8ZrDdILC8bYyn2zR-4xvqKRzp2re-- Follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/runrxfit/ and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/runrx/ -- Have questions? Email us at support@runrx.fit-- Subscribe to Our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@RunRX

The Savage Dragon [vol 1] #2 (1992)Carrying on with the saga of The Savage Dragon, we pick up the Dragon in the Chicago sewers looking for an obese spider man (as opposed to Spider-Man or Spider-Ham). Dragon's been running ragged fighting crime and almost gets some companionship from his Daisy Dukes wearing neighbor gal. Unfortunately, Hellrazor and his cronies have taken over the mall, sat on ALL the chairs in the Brookstone and finished off the entirety of the bourbon chicken in the food court, leaving the Windy City paralyzed with fear. But as we've seen, Savage Dragon goes hard….but does he go TOO HARD?!?Also, we have an extended discussion about WrestleMania XL this past weekend. Jump ahead to 00:14:09 for the comic book talkPromo from DECONSTRUCTING COMICS (https://deconstructingcomics.com/)Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter (X) @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield and email the show at worstcollectionever@gmail.comAlso, get hip to all of our episodes on YouTube in its own playlist! https://bit.ly/WorstCollectionEverYTPlease rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!

Is there a so-called "bad habit" in your life that you're trying to quit?How's that going?Have you considered that maybe it has something to teach you before it leaves your life?My biggest and longest addictions took years to break, but over that time I learned so much about myself.So hopefully, using what I learned, you can get past those unhealthy habits much quicker and still get the benefits of living an authentic life.Today's episode is a little longer but I think you'll find it jam-packed with value. Above all, I will give you 3 steps toward understanding and developing past your toxic, unhealthy habits. I also want to share with you the story of the 5-year process of quitting my addiction to pornography. I used these exact steps so you can trust that they work.If it's time to grow up and get over these things that are holding you back, let's take that determination and put it to work. It may not happen overnight, but by starting the process you will immediately get stronger and more aware. Why wait any longer? Let's go!0:00 - Intro and what to expect2:34 - The first challenge you will encounter in this process7:03 - Where do we start if it feels TOO HARD?9:07 - Step #1 - Improving the limiting belief language we use to talk to our self11:03 - The 5-year journey to quitting pornography addiction and Step #216:30 - Step #3 - Patience and pursuing your "Why"21:53 - Recapping the 3 steps: How can you finally develop past your vices?-----Want to improve your mental health?https://www.youtube.com/@BuildaBetterLifeGet in touch with Patrick today!https://www.facebook.com/patrick.strevenshttps://www.instagram.com/selfcontrolpodcast/Listen on SpotifyListen on Apple Podcasts

Episode 891-Comic Birthdays, Marvels "Retro Pick" Spider-Woman's Poor Kid, Ordering is Too Hard, Weapon 8, Zero Issues, Sneak Peek at Next Week w/Kyle & Drew-LAST MERMAID #1 IMAGE COMICS (W) Derek Kirk KimBRISTLEMOUTH COVE HORROR #1 (OF 4) (MR) SQ MAG PTY LTD  W Hayden FryerMAUI MIGHTY COMICS #1 GEMSTONE PUBLISHING (W) Roger McKenzie, Various (A) Various (CA) Sandy Carruthers (A/CA) Steven ButlerThank you so much for listening and spreading the word about our little comic book podcast.   Patreon https://www.patreon.com/comicsfunprofit  Merch https://comicsfunprofit.threadless.comYour Support Keeps Our Show Going On Our Way to a Thousand EpisodesDonate Here https://bit.ly/36s7YeLAll the C4FaP links you could ever need  https://beacons.ai/comicsfunprofit Listen To the Episode Here: https://comcsforfunandprofit.podomatic.com/ 

Episode 446... New bangers galore! A new ripper from us, the BGP, and a new project debut by Loopy Scoop Tapes (Indiana) Jeff called "RONi"!! Killer work as usual! Go support LST over at Bandcamp! More from our friends STFU (Reseda) and New York's No Fucker.  Went back to some BGP regulars as well! Enjoy!Listen to Episode 446: (scroll for set list)On ARCHIVE.On Apple or Google Podcasts, hit "play."On blogspot, play it below:Listen to The Brothers Grim Punkcast:ARCHIVE.Org - hear/download past episodesPUNK ROCK DEMONSTRATION - Wednesdays 7 p.m. PSTRIPPER RADIO - Fridays & Saturdays 7 p.m. PSTApple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsYouTube PodcastsContact Brothers Grim Punk:brothersgrimpunk@gmail.com - In a punk band? Send us your music! Want us to make you a punk song? Email us some lyrics!@Punkbot138 on Instagram@BrosGrimPunk on XMore Punk Music:Bandcamp - Follow us and download our albums: Brothers Grim Punk, Fight Music, and more!YouTube - tons of punk playlists, from Anarchy to Zombies!Punki...In the Doghouse (Again) 0:57  Brothers Grim Punk  Unreleased NY NY just_another_junky 1:12  NO FUCKER Tombs 7in. Your Sports Fanaticism is Just Some Neo-Tribal Bullshit 0:30  Shut the Fuck Up    Quit Romanticizing Being a Fuck UpIN WAR 2:11 RONi  DEMO - Loopy Scoop Tapes Same Blame (bkgrd) 3:24 PEDIGREE Run Away  Scotland XNUCLEARXFUTUREX 0:46 CHARLIE TANGOS DEADWOOD Croatia Fuck Authority 1:10 Sick Crap Wasted Kids The Beating Drum 2:10 SPRÄCKTA - Endless Vacation Positive 'Tude 0:29 United Positive Squadron Cool Bands 3 Greece Τσιφτετέλι (Chiftetelli) 1:36 Nothing to Harvest Records Britney Fears - s/t You Talk About Loving 90s Music But You Werent Alive Then You Stupid Fuck 0:27 Water Bottle Bong 3 Way Split from Gorenoise Sucks Iowa Small Dick (Big Balls) 0:13 Water Bottle Bong 3 Way SplitInfinite Fissures of Shadow (bkgrd) 3:26  DEGRAVED Split Iron Lung Recs San Jose Wasted Nights 1:12 DESELECT DESELECT Rabid Dogs 0:43 Scarecrow No Genocide: A Benefit for Mutual Aid in Gaza Hills Are Dead Recs TRØMA - Our Kids Will Spit On Us 0:34 CrustDoom/GrindViolence Split NEFASTO / TRØMA - Split 2024 Ergophobia - Frustration 1:08 Nothing to Harvest Records CMOΓ/Ergophobia - Paranöid Visions Numbers Are Numbers 1:15 Puta Malaria Puta Malaria / SkullxPiercer / To Hell With Religion / Regurgitasi - 4-Way Buying A House Ain't Too Hard. Just Get A Full Time Job And Stop Wasting Your Money On Pot And The Newest iPhone Every Year. 0:50 To Hell With Religion Mincing Shit Noise Split w/Puta Malaria, Skullpiercer, Regurgitasi Blinded By The System 0:34 Regurgitasi Mincing Shit Noise WA Fetal Resignation 1:45 Capillary Reified ScreamAbysmal Tundra (bkgrd) 4:19  CYSTIC Split Iron Lung Recs War 1:47 General Speech Deef - Real Control Columbia Søga 1:32 KABRÄ RawPunk RawBrutal Assalto I Borgerliga tendenser (Bourgeois Tendencies) 1:19 𝕾ø𝖓𝖉𝖗𝖆 Nato är terror / Borgerliga tendenser Smoke & Ash 1:00 BRAIN CANDY - Demo 2023 絵にならない人 (unpicturable person) 1:23 Cow Catcher Records HORSE&DEER - Stranding Scalpel Life 2:04 Dust Collector  2023 Demo Montreal Mental Decay 2:04 Dystopiate Cyber D-Beat Raw Punk Blasted Heath (bkgrd) 3:37 Erik Nervous & The Beta Blockers The USPS Tape Winnipeg Your World is Fucking Doomed 1:09 SKELETON Grim Butchery split 7" AFTER THE FLASH 1:10  FARCE Funeral Earth Split w/ Vida Muerta Sistema Mortal tapes Kylmä ei ole kaveri (cold is not a guy) 1:22 Terveet Kädet Kaikki kaikkia vastaan (All Against All) Never Surrender (Blitz) 1:35 S.H.I.T. Demo 2023 Locked in a Cage 0:44 The Slime Living on Borrowed Slime Detroit OUT OF TiME 1:44 PLATiNUM CRACK! CORRUPTWe Kill All Punk Rock Heroes (bkgrd) 3:59 General Speech Deef - Real Control Butt Trumpet: Glad I'm Not You 1:59 Butt Trumpet Cheap Ass Music Vol.1

It's time to say no more.No More "I'll Do It Tomorrow."No More "I Can't."No More "It's Too Hard."No More "I'm Too Tired."No More "I'm Not Good Enough."NO MORE EXCUSES!Speakers:Marcus “Elevation” TaylorYouTube: http://bit.ly/38FUFoSInstagram: http://bit.ly/3aLfu3PFacebook: http://bit.ly/2TB9uoiTwitter: https://twitter.com/unlockelevationWebsite: https://unlockelevation.com/Playlist: https://evolveorexpire.com/Try Marcus's free 10 day challenge: https://unlockelevation.com/Discover a new you!Freddy FriYouTube: http://bit.ly/FreddyFriInstagram: https://bit.ly/37FxFcPDr. Jessica HoustonYouTube: https://bit.ly/2PXZqTVInstagram: https://bit.ly/31Y6Uf5Twitter: https://bit.ly/2Y7JDqdLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jessica-houston-4515ba38/Website: https://expectingvictory.com/Dr. Jordan PetersonEd MylettMusic:WhitesandReally Slow MotionAudiojungleSecession Studios►SUBSCRIBE for New Motivational Videos every Week!http://bit.ly/StudyMotivation▶DOWNLOAD our Free Top 7 Study Tips!https://bit.ly/m2sfreestudytips▶JOIN our Newsletter for Exclusive Updates, Discounts, and Student Deals:https://bit.ly/motivation2studynewsletter▶READ our Weekly Blog -https://bit.ly/motivation2studyblog▶SHOP Motivational Canvases and Apparel!https://bit.ly/motiversityshop▶BECOME A MEMBER of our loyal community!https://bit.ly/m2smembers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join the boys as they give a warm welcome to The One Armed Madman, Nick Meyer! His podcast "Too Hard For The Radio" is all about the tough topics, damned be to any censorship! We think Nick is going to fit right in here...Connect with Nick: His podcast, YouTube, & Twitter. .Subscribe, rate us 5, come join in all the other fun we offer, but most of all we hope you enjoy! If you liked this, and want to hear more, give us a follow and let us know! Or maybe you just want to tell us how awful we are? Comments help the algorithm, and we love to see ‘em! And as always, don't kill the messenger. ~Beloved Sponsors~Exotic Fridge Join our DISCORD server!! Whiskey Fund (help support our podcast habit!): PayPalOur Patreon & YouTube Connect with Hermes: Instagram & Twitter Connect with Morpheus: Instagram & Twitter Support the show

What must you tell your child today if they faced a challenge and didn't give up?  I'm sharing a short script or tip that will help you to speak life to your child as you give them a Speak Life Badge. Let me know how this script helps to encourage, motivate, and break any lies your child is believing when they face challenges.  Get your Speak Life Badges sticker award books and the I Am Loved Journal for kids today at https://speaklifebadges.com/. And join my weekly email newsletter at https://speaklifebadges.com/ for more scripts, encouragement, and parenting tips.   LISTEN TO MORE Want More Tips and Support when Your Child Says It's Too Hard?

Saturday is review day on The Daily Promise. Every Saturday, we review the promises of the week so we can allow them to go deep into our hearts and lives. Here are the promises we covered this week. Psalm 92:12-14 - You Will be Fruitful in Your Old Age Jeremiah 32:27 – Nothing is Too Hard of Me Isaiah 44:3 - Jesus Gives Water to Our Thirsty Souls Psalm 90:2 – Make Each Day Count

Brain Damage (1988) Category: That's Not Healthy 2/3 The Dirty Dudes are frothing at the mouth to get back to something familiar after last week's "serious" film analysis with a real director. But perhaps they flew too close to the sun on the wings of intelligence. They chat about Ken Burns, hooves, ChatGPT and just go all around Too Hard.  -Crash & Burn JOIN THE DISCORD  https://discord.com/invite/3zP2SXKtfq Theme by Dkrefft https://open.spotify.com/artist/1yxWXpxlqLE4tjoivvU6XL

So cold, so very cold... A snow bomb went off in the UK and we just want to wrap up warm, snort some Sherry and rub ourselves raw along with nine songs from Gaffa Tape Sandy, The Master Plan, Tim McCoy, The Wot Nots, Nox, Lust For Life Band, The Apparitions, The Castaways and The Porkers.Voice of Jeff, Comedy Suburbs, Tony has your Facebook comments, panic, Sunnyside estate, last week, cold..., Steph's in Germany, bad movies, The Continental, Picard, no TV, Psycho Santa, Tapas, From the Vaults, Tony's International Gig Guide, this week, Christmas, Apocalypse Babys, Chinese BYOB, Cherry Red "Pushin' Too Hard", Izzatwat, Karen and a reminder of the ways you can listen.Song 1: Gaffa Tape Sandy - SplitSong 2: The Master Plan – Feels So Good To FeelSong 3: Tim McCoy – First Of JuneSong 4: The Wot Nots - SunnysideSong 5: Nox – Dentro Il CovoSong 6: Lust For Life Band – Neighbourhood ThreatSong 7: The Apparitions – She's So Satisfyin'Song 8: The Castaways – Liar, LiarSong 9: The Porkers – Calm Down Karen

Whether looking to get to your first $100K....OR scaling from 6 to 7 figures....too many smart, accomplished service-based business owners are working TOO HARD! Doing more than you have to do (frankly, doing too much 'doing') Before taking action on ANYTHING today, ask yourself the 2 powerful questions posed in this episode. NOTE: As you do, do NOT overthink.  Do NOT belabor your answer. By the way: you DO have a strategic DETAILED marketing & sales plan, don't you? If not, let's connect (DM me on social at @judyweberco). I'd love to connect & support your faith-fueled biz journey: https://www.judyweber.co/workwithme

Darren Conroy is the founder of Aesthreadics custom weight belts. IG:  @aesthreadics  YouTube:  @aesthreadics  https://aesthreadics.com/ TIME STAMPS: 00:19 BACKSTORY behind Aesthreadics Custom Weight Belts & Skullbellz weight belts by Aesthreadics! 02:56 A WEIGHT BELT is a BODYBUILDER'S “JERSEY!” 06:06 How Darren found a NEED in the fitness marketplace and CAPITALIZED on it! 09:33 Serving CODY RHODES & the WWE. 12:02 Serving CRAIG CAPURSO and the IFBB. 12:55 STEVE COOK & DARREN CONROY: Men's Physique Rivals!!! 18:58 Competing as a NATURAL athlete against “THE BIG BOYS!” (enhanced) 22:50 How to use a WEIGHT BELT as a WAIST TRAINER with TOPICAL FAT BURNERS such as VASO-BURN. 29:01 “BEEF STEW'S” custom belt. 36:16 Lessons learned from RICH PIANA (5% Nutrition) as a FITNESS ENTREPRENEUR. 49:32 How to REVERSE DIET into a bodybuilding competition; don't be afraid to diet “TOO HARD” and introduce REFEEDS if needed. 56:55 How to identify the right COMPETITION COACH. 01:09:13 How Darren grew his Aesthreadics IG account to 40,000+ ORGANIC FOLLOWERS! (Quality work speaks for itself; don't over-sell) 01:17:34 How to identify when to “BUILD YOUR WINGS ON THE WAY DOWN” vs. realizing when to go “slow and steady!” Anything is better than wondering “what if?” SUPERSETYOURLIFE.COM is a HEALTH-FIRST movement dedicated to empowering your aesthetic journey, specializing in KETO-CARNIVORE nutrition and BODYBUILDING coaching plans. 30-minute consultation with Coach Colt: https://calendly.com/ssyl/1-on-1-consultation-30-min SUPERSET Coaching membership inquiries: https://calendly.com/ssyl/meet-greet Also check out our NEW PODCAST called Carnivore Coaches Corner with Jonathan Griffiths and Mark Ennis! Custom Skullbellz™ by Aesthreadics® Weight Belts: https://supersetyourlife.com/products/skullbellz%E2%84%A2-weight-belts

I definitely thought I fangirled TOO HARD with Sadeqa Johnson--author of 'The House of Eve' but maybe I didn't.....? The jury is still out but in the meantime, happy listening to a new episode of ijustreadthisbook--the podcast. have you bought your ijustreadthisbook—the podcast crewneck or comfort color long sleeve?!

Sweet 16: It's a Jim and Them Celebration! A sweet 16 for the boys, so get your drinks ready and put on your party hats! RIP Starcruiser: Jim and Mike, while celebrating the Jim and Them anniversary have to take some time to mourn the loss of the Galactic Starcruiser. FUN TIMES: We get some special call ins from Kristin and Jake! Also discuss the Indiana Jones 5 buzz and the proper short length preference. LET'S JUST TALK!, BOOGIE NIGHTS!, SOUNDBOARD!, TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES!, SWEET 16!, CELEBRATION!, NMAN!, ABYSS!, SUSPENSION!, TWITCH!, UNHINGED!, JEFF BEZOS!, YOUTUBE!, KICK!, RUMBLE!, BACKUP PLAN!, 10PAIRSOFJORDANS!, ETARD-RAY!, PIG LATIN!, OPEN AND HONEST DISCUSSION!, ZOINKO BUCKS!, ANDRES!, PLAYLIST!, YOUTUBE SUBSCRIBE!, SUPER CHATS!, PISSING!, POMMABEAR!, NICK SAITO!, DOUBLE ANNIVERSARY!, 1985!, SR71!, THE THE!, EMPIRE RECORDS!, THIS IS THE DAY!, GAMES WE PLAY!, NICHE!, GALACTIC STARCRUISER!, SANDRO!, SAMMIE!, OMEGA MART!, AREA 15!, MARVIN GAYE!, HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE!, BEEF!, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3!, MASTERPIECE!, TAYLOR SWIFT!, SUPER BOWL!, DISNEY!, GOLDEN KNIGHTS!, DALLAS!, NHL!, WII U!, DEEPANSH!, GOOD MODE!, BAD MODE!, KRISTIN!, WE LIKE LIKES!, CUPHEAD!, TOO HARD!, DEFUNCTLAND!, COPE!, SEETHE!, COPIUM!, DIET COPE!, JAKE!, CERTAIN PERSON!, CERTAIN ANIMAL!, DON CHEADLE!, RON PERLMAN!, TROVO!, COVID!, BUZZFEED!, WRESTLING!, 9/11 BOYZ!, JOE PAPI!, MILLENCOLIN!, LONDON BOYS!, JAKOB BURROWS!, COALES!, GO!, MOVIE!, SOUNDTRACK!, NEW DOUBT!, MANGOLD!, CANNES!, INDIANA JONES 5!, TOP GUN MAVERICK!, STITCHES!, BRICK IN YO FACE!, PIZZA!, MIXER!, THURSDAY!, 12:03!, ELMER FRANK!, NUT HUGGERS!, ADAM PRATT!, SHORT LENGTH!, SWIMMING!, ABOVE THE KNEE!, JEROMY TAYLOR!, INSTAGRAM!, DICK PRINT!, POOL SHOT!, NMAN!, KERMIT!, RAINBOW CONNECTION!, VACATION VLOG!, VIN DIESEL!, RMR!, RASCAL!, IT'S SO HARD TO SAY GOODBYE!, DERRICK!, JAMZ!, LIKES!, WHORE OURSELVES OUT!  You can find the videos from this episode at our Discord RIGHT HERE!

Folks folks folks!!!!! Y'all are DEFINITELY in for a TREAT!!! Let me put it like this…. VCC Teens mixed with the twisty Co-host…. ALONG with Bishop Marc L. House…. PREPARE for a GREAT TIME!!!! Sit back, relax, and try not to laugh TOO Hard!!! We love you all!!!! HAVE A WONDERFUL FRIDAY!!!!!

In this episode Mike Stax talks to Neil Norman and Alec Palao about their feature length documentary The Seeds: Pushin' Too Hard. Neil's father Gene Norman signed the Seeds to his GNP-Crescendo record label in 1965, and Neil spent countless hours watching them record, rehearse, and play live concerts so he has a unique personal perspective on the band and their music. Watch The Seeds: Pushin' Too Hard on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/theseeds Pushintoohard.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Mike Stax talks to Neil Norman and Alec Palao about their feature length documentary The Seeds: Pushin' Too Hard. Neil's father Gene Norman signed the Seeds to his GNP-Crescendo record label in 1965, and Neil spent countless hours watching them record, rehearse, and play live concerts so he has a unique personal perspective on the band and their music. Watch The Seeds: Pushin' Too Hard on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/theseeds Pushintoohard.com Please join our Patreon at patreon.com/uglythingspod and enjoy special bonus content plus much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many ideas for speech therapy activities found on SLPs blogs look great until... you realize that they are TOO HARD for toddlers with developmental differences. In this 1.5 hour course, learn four kinds of games to use for your youngest clients during speech therapy at home and in clinical and preschool settings. We'll review why we should include structured games during sessions with toddlers, which games work best for various target populations, which skills are targeted with each kind of game, and how to introduce the game for maximum success. For speech-language pathologists, other early interventionists, and parents of toddlers and preschoolers with speech-language delays Link to $5 CEU credit: https://teachmetotalk.com/ceu_course/asha-ceu-course-448-speech-therapy-games-for-toddlers-and-preschoolers-with-language-delays/#enroll

This Burton Pro Rider is one of the best snowboarder's in the world and just happens to also be a mom. This week we talk women's snowboarding, handball, finding snowboarding, getting sponsored, injuries, filming in the streets, being a mother and a pro snowboarder at the same time, bringing her new born on snowboarding film trips, trusting the process, her new movie “Hot Cocoa” and so much more! While most young woman think that having a baby will certainly mean they will no longer have a pro snowboard career, Maria got pregnant and rode as long as she could and then when she had her little boy she would bring him on trips with her and she went on with her career, she even seemed to step up her riding putting out her best video parts. Join us on this episode of the Bomb Hole as we talk to Maria and hear her story first hand, a story that show's other women you don't have to chose baby or career as you can do it all!!! Special ThanksTen Barrel Pub BeerThe Patreon Members, We would not do this without you!!- https://www.patreon.com/thebombhole Bub's Naturals- https://www.bubsnaturals.com Granite Towers- https://www.granitetowersequitygroup.com Slowtide- https://slowtide.co 686- https://www.686.com Woodward Park City- https://www.woodwardparkcity.com/culture/sports/snowboard InstagramMaria Thomsen's instagram @mariathomsen https://www.instagram.com/mariathomsen/?hl=en @Grendiesel : https://www.instagram.com/grendiesel/@E_stone : https://www.instagram.com/e_stone/ Budz Print Shop- www.e-stonephoto.com https://307o96449135872.3dcartstores.comHit Subscribe! Leave a comment, We love your feedback! If you like the show please leave us a review! It all helps us out a ton!!For all things Bomb Hole, go to : https://thebombhole.com/BOMB HOLE STORE: https://thebombhole.com/collections/allWatch the episode on YouTube- https://youtu.be/hKQRPOvAJhIJoin The Bomb Squad on our Patreon page! Props to all of our Patreon members for the support. We could not make these episodes happen without your help! Patreon members get the chance to ask guests questions and find out who we will be interviewing before anyone else. They also receive Bomb Hole merch and a custom Bomb Squad sticker!!! Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/thebombholeShow Notes-Hand Ball | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UovdZ7XB-j0 Too Hard | https://www.snowboarder.com/videos/maria-thomsen-full-part-2016/ The Uninvited | https://www.snowboarder.com/videos/uninvited-maria-thomsen-full-part/ 25 Days One World | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWUWXqJV57s One World | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frln61fCrGk&t=18s X Games Real Snow Maria | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGLhbmK_Qwc King Snow | https://snowboardmag.com/videos/maria-thomsen-king-snow-movie-full-part Burton | https://www.burton.com/us/en/home Red Bull Heavy Metal | https://www.redbull.com/us-en/events/red-bull-heavy-metal Stuck In Newfoundland | https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/burton-boarders-meet-snowmageddon-1.5889956 Thanks For Listening!