Hi Everyone,
This blog is fourfold. I am not trying to complicate the simple. This is what I mean.
Books have been a large part of my and my daughter’s life. While we were walking through the library one day, I spotted, Think like A Freak, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. Having read their first book, Freakonomics, that I also discovered at another library, I knew it was going to be amazing and it was! (Sadly, I have yet to read their second book, SuperFreakonomics.) Think Like A Freak was better than I anticipated. And I think everyone should read at least one of the above mentioned books, if not all! For anyone who is interested I would love to get the box set. They will be on sale at Christmas. 🙂 Okay so that was the first fold.
A few weeks later, my daughter and I are discussing my parenting techniques. Despite my always thinking I was strict, she (now) very much liked that I gave her rules, boundaries. When I told her that I was both her mother and her father, and that I had to be strict, she said that a lot of her friends fathers “cave” when it came to discipling their daughters. I had to agree. A lot of men “give in” to females of all ages provided a female’s voice has even a hint of helplessness and enough perceived, if not real, “water works”. She also said, that I allowed her a lot of creative freedom that not one of her friends had. Being a member of the creative class, I was flattered. As she was telling me the above, I was frantically looking through, Think Like A Freak, because I wanted to share one of the author’s thoughts but I couldn’t find the page . We agreed that I was a “different” parent. After reading countless memoirs, and other non-fiction books per year I had to be! And really how many parents scour a book for a page to hand their child to read? I have been doing that for 15 years! I was thinking like a freak without (fully) knowing it.
A few days later, my daughter stopped by on a whim, with bakery cookies! While eating cookies! I handed her the page from, Think Like A Freak, that I couldn’t find from her last visit. It was about parenting. She smiled not only because I have done that for years and it was (I am hoping) a nice memory but what she was reading related to our former conversation. For anyone who is curious, please read chapter 3, if you are not going to read the whole book, which I highly recommend. Okay so that was the second fold.
Chapter 8 is called, How to Persuade People Who Don’t Want To Be Persuaded. I didn’t expect to get a writing lesson, but I did. 🙂 This fold is primarily for anyone who was at the workshop on Thursday or who wants to be a better writer. If you are not going to read the whole book, please read chapter 8. I will be referencing this chapter in the future.
Okay so I found the last fold on a T-shirt. It said either, “Think It Is Still Legal,” or, “Thinking Is Still Legal.” I honestly can’t remember because it was a busy sidewalk. But it doesn’t matter. Someone was bold enough to state that they don’t think enough people think any more and someone, who I can only guess is equally as bold, thought the same thing and wore the T-shirt. If you want to Think Like A Freak, you are going to have to think!
Thank you for reading, A. Rebel’s Rant! ;D
P.S.
My word count for the above is 622. ;D
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