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It’s a few days before Harlan Coben’s latest book, Win, is due to be released and the other authors on the New York Times bestseller list can probably sense they are all about to move down one notch. Coben’s last six books have debuted at number one. He is a publishing phenomenon who has sold 60 million books and been translated in 41 languages.
It's an embarrassing fact: Most writers repeat themselves. David Foster Wallace once observed that the novelist John Updike had "for decades been constructing protagonists who are basically all the same guy." Gertrude Stein tried in her way to make a virtue of repetition. Yet there remains one welcome exception—the repetition of the moralist. "The real job of every moral teacher," C.S. Lewis said, "is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see."
Limiting beliefs and negative self-talk can keep us from a purposeful, happy life. Abundance thinking and positive narratives can set us free. It’s our choice.
From the blog of Dov Linzer at The Times of Israel
The biggest threat to America’s public lands is a sense of entitlement