100 Great Businesses and the Minds Behind Them by Emily Ross and Angus Holland

This is one of those magazine type books, that is in fact composed of interesting factoids and stories summarized from a sprinkling of magazine articles.

The book is somewhat inspirational, a tour of mini-biographies, and food for cocktail party talk.

The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz

This is a personal development book that stresses the importance of attitude and the necessity to eliminate limiting beliefs.

The phrase "limiting beliefs" more or less means that you will only achieve as much as you think you can, as you will only go as far as your greatest goals.

Other advice in the book entails keeping a busy and varied schedule, eliminating negative people from your life, and trying to achieve more than you thought possible.

Despite the good advice nature of the book, I did find myself getting bored with it, and oddly, dwelling on negative thoughts. So while the concepts were nice, I guess it didn't work so much in terms of turning my mentality around, or inspiring me...

Animal Collective - My Girls

Oh Animal Collective, why are you so awesome?



Lyrics from their site:

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Isn't much that I feel I need
a solid soul and the blood I bleed
With a little girl, and by my spouse
I only want a proper house

There isn't much that I feel I need:
a solid soul and the blood I bleed.
But with a little girl, and by my spouse
I only want a proper house

I don't care for fancy things
Or to take part in a pressured race.
But to provide for them when they ask
I will, with heart, on my father's grave

On my father's grave
I don't mean
To seem like I care about material things,
Like our social status,

I just want
Four walls and adobe slabs
For my girls