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Jack London’s White Fang is an impactful examination of the harsh realities of nature and the damage humans can cause, but also of the will to survive that is common between humans and wild animals alike. The story follows White Fang, a feisty wolf pup that becomes a vicious wolf due to his interactions with harsh human masters. He is shuffled between masters throughout his life and taught to be destructive but is eventually shown love and compassion by a human and learns gentleness as an adult wolf.

In one of the most well-known works of satire, Jonathan Swift puts forth a “modest proposal”. Swift begins by outlining the suffering that the starving beggars in Ireland experience daily. He paints a grim picture of the plight these people face to help the listener relate to the situation before turning the tables and suggesting that to alleviate the economic troubles of the poor, their children could be sold as food to the upper class. The shock from this sudden change is expounded by Swift’s continued explanation of the proposal.

In The Prince, it is asserted that a good ruler is one who works for the benefit of the state at all times, even when this requires acting immorally or unethically. Basically, the ends justify the means, even if the means are killing innocent people, blackmailing, and being deceitful. This idea was contentious then and now - many people believe that rulers should act with kindness and lawfulness above all, rather than bending ethics to achieve the ends they want.

NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic-Programming and this is used to model successful people, managers and leaders. And if you model successful people correctly, you’ll get the same results as they have, for example: a higher productivity and income.

People around you consider you a very nice person. Your colleagues know they can ask you for help, because they know you will get it done in time. But for important decisions your colleagues go to someone else. They skip asking for your take on the situation. Sometimes in meetings you wait for the right moment to give your opinion, after a while you grab you chance but almost nobody pays attention. You realize that your behavior is not going to bring you far. You want to do something about it. You have come to the right place.

Did you know that a lot of the videos, pieces of training and books from today's famous productivity and self-help gurus like Tony Robbins and Tim Ferris are based on the practical advice of the ancient stoics? Both gurus credit their current success on embracing stoic principles in their life and business. It's safe to say that Stoicism survived the test of time.

After an unencumbered 12-year career as an international jewel thief, Gregg Hadyn let his guard down—for love—and was caught. Expecting to spend the next 15 years in a federal penitentiary, Gregg is stunned when his nemesis, covert intelligence Director Denny Garret, makes him an offer too good to refuse: serve his sentence outside of prison in exchange for stealing for the US government.