NICK VUJCIC — the most famous motivational speaker, director of the non-profit organization Life Without Limbs, created to help people with disabilities. He was born without arms and legs, but he is completely independent and lives a full, busy life: he has completed two higher educations, writes on his computer at a speed of 43 words per minute on his own, surfs, plays golf, enjoys fishing, swimming and even diving from a springboard into the water. Nick travels around the world a lot, inspiring millions of people, talking about how to overcome obstacles and achieve their dreams. He lives in Southern California with his wife Kanae and son Kyoshi.
Nick Vujicic has experienced firsthand what it's like to be persecuted and insulted: without arms and legs, he has been ridiculed and bullied more than once. But he has always been able to deal with his opponents.
After reading the book, you will learn how to:
turn harassment into a great opportunity (yeah, yeah, honestly!) ;
create a security zone within yourself;
monitor your emotions and control your own reactions to them;
develop a strategy to protect yourself from bullying;
become a nightmare for your stalker;
help others who are suffering from persecution
be the master of your own life.
Nick Vujicic's protection system
Abusers can't harm me or change my self-image, because it's only me who forms it. I know who I am and what I'm doing.
I don't let anyone ruin my mood. I'm responsible for my own happiness.
My values are unwavering. I have a life plan based on them.
I draw my strength from within, and no stalker can shake my confidence.
I know my family and friends will support me. And I'm always ready to support them.
I'm aware of my emotions, especially my anger and fear. I control my reactions to them and maintain a positive attitude in my thoughts and actions.
My spiritual life is wide and deep. I know I'm built for a high purpose. God loves me just the way I am. Where I am weak, my Creator is strong.
I find positive aspects to every difficult situation — even persecution.
I try to help others at every opportunity, especially those who are bullied of any kind.
Nick Vujicic's lecture “Overcoming Despair” (or “Turning Walls into Doors”)
Marina Melnikova's review of the “Samokat” book “The Book of All Things” by Guus Kuyer (2018)
It's a very very cool book; I can't even call it a children's book. Not so long ago, I realized that the division into children's and non-children's books is somehow wrong. Good books, films, and plays range from a certain age to a hundred years, or longer, whoever gets lucky. I've seen such people more and more often lately: Miss Charity, The Jellyfish Report, Alice in Wonderland translated by Yevgeny Klyuev, Waffle Heart, and even The Fox and the Bunny. So, of course, I had seen such books before, but I didn't understand it, I thought they stayed when I was a child, books that I had once read a hundred times...
Nikolai Gogol's novel “The Overcoat” for the first and probably the last time in Russian literature depicts the image of a persecutor/mobber who repented of abusing his colleague at the workplace.
One idiotic photo. One inappropriate comment on social media after an extra glass of wine. And now my whole life is going downhill. Just one sin, and a wave of popular rage is destroying everything in its path. This is the dark side of social media. Forbes Life publishes an excerpt from “So You Were Publicly Humiliated” by acclaimed writer and documentary filmmaker John Ronson, which will be released by Bombora in January.
Being an outcast at school is very hard. Moreover, it is at school age that you most want to be part of something big, a member of a big group, a team... to feel that “together you are strong!”. But not everyone can be part of this team.
Marina Solomonova, owner of the Dickens and Marianna (Books and Postcards) shop room (St. Petersburg), talks about new children's books about Stalinist repression on the Rara Avis website.
The scientist draws very interesting analogies between the behavior of different
vertebrate species and Homo sapiens behavior, which is why the book was
published in the “Library of Foreign Psychology” series. Claiming that
aggressiveness is an innate, instinctively determined property
all higher animals, and proving this with plenty of convincing examples,
the author comes to the conclusion: “There are good reasons to consider intraspecific
aggression is the most serious danger facing humanity in
modern conditions of cultural, historical and technical development.”
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