The problem with Achievement
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There is a lot of good advice in this book, and a very good goal system. But what I've learned form failing to apply its principles is that the most important thing is your commitment, integrity, and determination. It is stated in the book, that we are emotional beings, we can only command reason if we can command our emotion. Why do anything is  very important question, but that is just the first step. It is your commitment, integrity, and determination that will get you all the way. If you want to improve your life be ready for hard work.
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Difficulty level harder than described
To many we can't solve
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First, I do admit I enjoy this game. It's a time consuming and addictive word game.  The down side, is that you will be incredibly upset when you come down to the very last word, and the game quits and says 'no other words available', when in fact, you have a perfectly simple word there that you have worked down to --- only to lose your 500 bonus points for something as simple as the word 'bad.'  I've also cleared the board other times with perfectly normal words that it would not accept. Ironically, on the next game, of course I made the word and it was going to allow 18 points for that game -- tho it would not accept it previously on a winning game!  Fortunately, I have cleared the board and gotten one winning game according to them. But so far, it has not accepted 'bad', 'cad', 'dab', snuggle, sulfate etc when I've worked them down to the last word -  but in other games, it will accept and give you points.  So that's a frustrating little bug.  Still, it's a fun game.
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I feel like the game is quite broken with its current rule set.  Winning the game seems nearly impossible.  You're only able to get rid of status cards by spending one of you two completed personal missions for the game.  You only get two of those, but you get horrible conditions all the time.  Plus, it makes no thematic sense at all.  I returned it.
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Malcolm Gladwell's latest book, Outliers, is a fantastic attempt to reverse engineer the world's most successful people.  He dispels the popular notion that successful people are simply more gifted than the rest of us.  Instead he attributes their success to a combination of luck, hard work and time.  Ultimately, he concludes that mastery of most things happens at around 10,000 hours of focused practice. Being the first to reach 10,000 hours of practice is an enormous advantage and often comes down to luck.

For example, most professional hockey players were born between January and March.  This gives them a significant advantage since the most talented hockey players are selected for exclusive club teams when they are around 10 years old.  At this time, hockey players born early in the year are around 10% older than those born at the end of the year.  Therefore, they are bigger and more coordinated.  Once they've been selected for the special club teams they receive better coaching and face tougher competition.  Most importantly they practice significantly more hours every week - putting them on the fast track to mastery.

The same principle applies to software entrepreneurs born around 1955.  These were among the first people to have the opportunity to use time sharing terminals - which made it possible to quickly rack up 10,000 hours of programming time.  Because of several lucky coincidences, Bill Gates may have been the only 13-year old in the world with nearly unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968.  This gave him a substantial head start in getting to 10,000 hours.  Similar stories explain other wealthy software entrepreneurs born around 1955 including Steve Jobs, Paul Allen, Steve Ballmer, Eric Schmidt, Bill Joy, Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, and Andy Bechtolsheim.

Gladwell doesn't claim that successful people lack special talent; he simply concludes that being gifted alone is not enough for success.  Mastery requires time, effort and lucky circumstances.

On my blog,[....], I relate the book back to my own attempts to master the go to market process.  Here is a link to the entire review: [....]
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To scale the peak of SUCCESS, one has to climb up step by step. If one tries to reach the pinnacle by omitting a few steps, then one cannot stay there for long. Instead, one tumbles down and is forced to count those missed steps on the way down. Your book tells us how to reach the pinnacle without omitting any steps. I read the whole book. Gr8! and outstanding in SUCCESS literature till date!
Dr. Sanjay Upadhye
Consultant Humorist
upaadhye@gmail.com
India
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The author's thesis is that politics has messed up the American educational system beyond high school.
The author offers a multi-tiered solution based on financial incentives in her last chapter.  The solution from a financial angle is "brilliant" but obvious to anyone who manages their hard earned money - channel govt financial
aid to schools which have a proven track record of educating their students.  Unfortunately the federal govt gets a free ride on taxpayer money and therefore hasn't shown much incentive to think deeply and set common sense parameters for its distribution.

Part of the author's solution is to make federal student aid even more generous once signs of success become evident. But increasing federal aid may itself be part of the problem.  In a market economy where supply and demand meet, supplying more money will only increase the voracious appetites of the higher educational system to increase tuition, increase salaries, continue a building construction frenzy, and generate bureaucratic bloat. The generosity of the federal govt needs to be balanced by a stringent check on annual tuition increases.

The author has only looked at one side of the issue. I suspect the failure of students to complete their education degrees beyond high school is partly financial but primarily lack of educational readiness. In general, students entering into their freshmen year of college today are woefully unprepared for the academic experience and so the schools have to dumb down classes and provide remedial course work (in effect extending high school into even more years!), even in the so called trade schools. Inability to read a college textbook, to write a college level paper, and to think critically, can make the college experience a steep uphill climb. The failure of ones own American Dream in the educational sphere is not money, it is a lack of basic skills in the three R's, "reading, 'riting, 'rthmetic".
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The pieces are of good quality and for the most part, they achieve the hands-on learning experience hoped for. In one regard, however, they grossly miss the mark and a lengthy classroom discussion is necessary to help young students understand the idea of a variable (I am open to the idea that it is a good thing these are so flawed because of the discussion they motivate).

The trouble is that the 'x' tile which is meant to be thought of as a variable and allowed to take any length is actually exactly five units long when compared to unit tiles. If you don't address this with your class every time you use these tiles (and even when you do), you'll find students who are being introduced to variables for the very first time constantly assuming that x = 5.
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This is an interesting comparison of several systems of education (not-exactly-spoilers: Finland wins) and an examination of why the US system is failing. Take away message: read to your kids, read yourself, talk to your kids about the world, foster critical thinking...and skip the school sports.
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Hi good afternoon. Currently I have problems with the game, showing a 150-1031 mistake, a defect with the other games I have no problems. For this case, which I will return the money or I can post another game. In the picture, you can see the evidence.
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Game play here is great, Many of the other reviews give examples and I agree with them that it is a lot of fun. I also agree with the reviewers who said this is 9/10 game...that is, I agreed with them right up to the point that I experienced a game breaking glitch where you can't save your progress anymore. Checking the developers web site they say basically that they take the issue very seriously and they'll fix it....more than 2 MONTHS AGO and it is still not fixed. What you are left with is a game where you're going to lose progress and that is totally unfit for sale. I'm tired of developers who don't properly test games and foist defective products off on the public. Just google the issue and read the complaints.
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the game itself is fun and addictive. however, server issues booting you out of the game mid-mission is unacceptable. also I don't like games that force you to be social. in fact that's why I play games. to escape other people. in order to complete the game you must go on "strikes" with others and if anyone has a network error, it's over. happened to me three times when we had almost completed the mission. anyway, fun and all, but frustrating because of the social aspect and errors
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Alright, I bought the game, beat it, and some of the songs are long, there are really easy achievements, and one of my big problems was you can buy all these costumes and guitars for joe perry and he will only wear them when you are doing the warm up songs and they are not even his songs. come on activision think a little before you create a game. the game was worth 3 stars.
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Probably every leader, innovator, and entrepreneur wishes that success could be achieved by just rubbing the genies lamp.  But it just doesnt work that way.  There is a labor associated with success and more often than not that journey towards success will be filled with more losses than with wins.  Pastor Larry Osborne, in his newest book, Innovations Dirty Little Secret attempts to expose the very real pitfalls that all-too-often befall innovators.

Our society places a high premium on success, or at least what it deems to be success.  And over the last decade there have been some important contributions to the genre that are designed to caution those that appear successful and encourage those that appear to be failures.  Like so much of life, there is a massive gray area that exists between the two camps of success and failure and very rarely, if ever, does an individual or business fall squarely into one camp or the other.

Pastor Osborne takes some lessons from his experiences as a pastor in Southern California to help illuminate the path that awaits those that desire to lead and innovate.  Warning: It is not a smooth path.  My two favorite chapters were on Sabotaging Innovation and Why Vision Matters.  In the section on Sabotaging Innovation, Pastor Osborne warns of some of the very real dangers that are common to those that have experienced success...like letting success go to your head, being too worried about public opinion and the one-size-fits-all curse.  His wisdom is practical and his warnings are spot on.  In Why Vision Matters, he juxtaposes mission with vision and why they are different, but both still very valuable.  His criticism that all leaders have vision, but that too many of them are vague and undefined is accurate and symptomatic of organizations that are headed down the wrong path.

I have a couple of minor concerns about this book.  First, I am not sure how innovative it is.  In the sense that Gladwell, Taleb, and a whole host of other authors in the past 10 to 20 years seem to cover much of this book.  Which is fine if the reader has never been exposed to the works of authors covering a similar vein.  But if the reader is well read in the area of leadership and innovation/failure, than much of this content may come off as old-hat.  Second, I am not sure I finished the work with a handful of solid takeaways.  I can tell you what it was about, but I leave without helpful anecdotes.  Which may be the authors intent, I am not sure.

I recommend this book for pastors, leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs.  The book is an easy read filled with wisdom and proven methods.

By way of disclosure, a copy of this book was provided to me by the publisher in return for an honest evaluation, which I have provided.
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This book tells you you need to solve a problem people are willing to pay for then sell 1,000,000 people, more or less. While I agree this will make you a millionaire, the biggest problem is in the details. Solving a problem that will people will play for implies a new innovative product or service. That is very hard to find, I never could, and I tried very hard. Still I am a multi millionaire because I skipped the find a new problem to solve step and started a tried and true company with an established business model.

I must say once you find the problem to solve that people will pay for or start your own tried and true business, Richelle's book does deliver on referrals and finding sales prospects. I do recommend the book.

Michael L. F. Slavin
Author of 4 time award winning One Million in the Bank: How To Make $1,000,000 With Your Own Business, Even If You Have No Money or Experience
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This could be a really good game if they eliminated the issues of glitches which can halt your game progress and possibly have to start over.  This is a common issue people have and if the game weren't $2.50, I wouldn't be happy.  I lost about 3 hours of play and even now, who knows if I'll run into the same issue that other users have had.  The game has been great besides these so rotating a few different saved games would be helpful.
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If you want to develop extraordinary achievement skills this book is for you.  It is filled with good advice that will raise your game to a new level; the 3 C's formula will put you in the driver's seat on the road to success.  This book is a "must read" and a permanent addition to my library, buy it, read it and you will achieve the unimaginable.  Dr. Edward F. Knab