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Targeted primarily towards women, and targeted more toward the non-athletic reader, but still contains plenty of useful insights and meta-insights for anyone wanting to maintain or improve their mobility and physical robustness at any age.  Chief among these insights is the book's fundamental philosophy of managing our health through natural movement and activity, rather than modernity's philosophy of symptom control via healthcare intervention with meds, painkillers, or even surgical interventions. Further, adopting this philosophy will mean developing awareness and mindfulness of your "movement habits" and put you on a road to investing in future physical function now , before you age, in order to maintain those functions. The book is filled with inspiring examples from women who have recovered physical capacities they long thought they had lost by adopting and living this philosophy of working on healthy movement. This book is a fast read, and the last third of the...

Quite a mournful, beautiful book. Draws the reader in slowly, and gradually becomes increasingly compelling. Thematically an interesting rumination on modernity, as well as humility vs arrogance in the face of a (dream)world you don't understand. "I realized that the search for the Knowledge has encouraged us to think of the House as if it were a sort of riddle to be unraveled, a text to be interpreted, and that if ever we discover the Knowledge, then it will be as if the Value has been wrested from the House and all that remains will be mere scenery."

"A failure is a particularly dangerous time for a company, and must be handled with great skill. If people at higher levels come down on an employee and say, 'You goofed up,' it can kill all initiative at a company." "So how do you handle someone who does goof?" I asked. Aycock [a senior officer of Nucor] put his hands flat on his desk and eyed me in a way that suggested he thought I was an idiot. "You give him something new to do!" he said in a flaring voice. "Because they're the only damn people in the company who dare take any risks! I'm talkin' personal risks!" An inspiring book about Nucor, an unusual steel company that managed to thrive at the very time the steel industry in the USA was dying. Burdened by high labor costs, high overhead and sclerotic bureaucracy, most of the major steel companies in the United States died off or washed through bankruptcy in the 1980s and 1990s. Nucor was a stark exception: non-union, fle...