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Jordan Tucker
Join Professor Rob Kozinets and Melanie Cherry for a conversation and lunch with Dr. Marcus Collins, author of For the Culture: The Power Behind What We Buy, What We Do, and Who We Want to Be. The discussion will explore how culture influences human behavior and how to harness it to inspire people to take action.
Currently a marketing professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Collins will share lessons in brand strategy and consumer behavior from his over 20 year career in advertising.
With The Hunger Games: Catching Fire opening in theaters on Friday, Nov. 22, TIME book critic Lev Grossman recently sat down for a long and wide-ranging conversation with Hunger Games creator-writer Suzanne Collins and Catching Fire director Francis Lawrence.
John J. Collins is the Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School and a leading scholar on the Dead Sea Scrolls and apocalypticism. In this video conversation, Professor Collins explores the meaning of biblical values and the popular course he teaches on the subject.
Jim Collins (jimcollins.com) is a student and teacher of what makes great companies tick, and a Socratic advisor to leaders in the business and social sectors. He has authored or coauthored eight books that have together sold 10+ million copies worldwide, including Good to Great, Good to Great and the Social Sectors, Built to Last, How the Mighty Fall, Great by Choice, and his newest work, Turning the Flywheel.
Driven by a relentless curiosity, Jim began his research and teaching career on the faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992. In 1995, he founded a management laboratory in Boulder, Colorado.
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My favorite here is a spreadsheet concept and I appreciate how Tim was fully present to ask all the right questions on the nitty-gritty details. In my second year of freelancing, I can tell that nothing boosts efficiency like tracking my stats. Started my 1000-hour count this morning
Good To Great is an iconic book. I love when a guest starts out an interview asking Tim questions. Shows the anticipation and thoughtfulness Jim had heading into the interview and just how genuine he was in wanting to engage with Tim. Two heavyweights having an awesome discussion here.
I have been listening to the TF podcast for the past 3 years now. There have been a lot of good episodes (Joshua Waiskin, Matt Mullenweg). But nothing has moved something inside of me more than this episode.
The thing that hit home the most was the 1000 hour creative flow in every 365 day period. Such a simple, yet powerful concept. Owing to that, I have dedicated the next few weeks/months of my nights-and-weekends time to build an app for this purpose. The app will be free. Maybe, I will put up a Patreon
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Both President and Mrs. Kennedy appreciated poetry, wit and word play, which perhaps explains why JFK invited Robert Frost to be the first poet to read at a Presidential inaugural. After Mr. Frost's death in 1963, the President spoke at the dedication of the Frost Library at Amherst College. I thought it might be appropriate to listen to an excerpt of that speech now:
For Robert Frost was one of the granite figures of our time in America. He was supremely two things: an artist and an American. A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.
In America our heroes have customarily run to men of large accomplishments. But today this college and country honor a man whose contribution was not to our size but to our spirit; not to our political beliefs but to our insight; not to our selfesteem but to our self-comprehension.
Our national strength matters, but the spirit which informs and controls our strength matters just as much. This was the special significance of Robert Frost. He brought an unsparing instinct for reality to bear on the platitudes and pieties of society. His sense of the human tragedy fortified him against self-deception and easy consolation.
"I have been," he wrote, "one acquainted with the night." And because he knew the midnight as well as the high noon, because he understood the ordeal as well as the triumph of the human spirit, he gave his age strength with which to overcome despair.
Later in the speech, President Kennedy states, "It's hardly an accident that Robert Frost coupled poetry and power, for he saw poetry as the means of saving power from itself. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truth which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment."
Few have done more to advance the art of poetry in our time than Billy Collins. As one critic has observed, Mr. Collins demystifies poetry for American readers without trivializing it. "I appointed myself the poet who feels free to take pot shots at the whole enterprise," he once remarked. "The literary world is so full of pretension and there's such enormous gap between how seriously poets take themselves and how widely they're ignored by everybody else." [laughter]
Described as the most popular poet in America and a writer who puts the fun back into profundity, Mr. Collins is the author of ten collections of poetry, a distinguished professor of English at the City University of New York, and a former poet laureate of the United States, and later of New York State.
Our moderator tonight is Daniel Menaker, an accomplished writer himself and former editor at the New Yorker. The authors whose work he has edited makes one's head spin, including of course Billy Collins.
Two of Mr. Menaker's books have been named as New York Times notable titles. His short fiction has earned two O'Henry Awards, and his novel, The Treatment, was made into an independent film, which, he notes in the biography on his website, played in New York for three days and was also shown on Virgin Atlantic east-bound to London for a day or two. [laughter]
"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture," President Kennedy concludes in his speech at Amherst College, "society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him." Billy Collins's vision derives according to one critic, from a loopy, occasionally surreal imagination married to an ordinary life observed in a few ordinary words. But if his poems capture the nuances of everyday living, they also lead the reader into zones of inspired wonder. In Mr. Collins's own words, he hopes his poems begin in Kansas and end in Oz. Or in this New England setting, perhaps we should say poems that begin in a quiet country house in Vermont and end in a blazing, mouse-ignited inferno. [laughter]
The way we're going to do this is that Billy's going to read for 15, 20 minutes some poems that he's chosen, and then we're going to get together and I'll ask him some questions, and we'll go back and forth a little bit. And then at the end, there'll be time for questions from the audience, of which I hope there will be quite a few.
BILLY COLLINS: Thank you so much. I'll just echo Dan's words. I mean, it's a clich to say it's great to be here, it's nice to be here and all that, but it's truly an honor to be here. And neither Dan nor I have been here before, and we're rather bowled over by how impressive it is.
And I want to thank Dan. One of the pleasures of being invited here is that one gets to pick one's own interviewer. So you can pick a friendly interviewer, like Dan -- so far, anyway. [laughter] So it was very generous of him to come up from New York and to join me tonight. And I want to thank Amy Macdonald and Tom for his introduction, and everyone who has welcomed us. I mean, amazingly moving to see this confluence of Kennedy and Frost on that little video -- a reminder that poetry sometimes does occupy an important place in the cultural life of America.
Kennedy, like many of us, I think of him as my President. I was in college when he was President. And technically speaking, I had lunch with Robert Frost, but only technically. He came to my college, Holy Cross College, and I happened to be on the staff of the literary magazine. So the six of us were invited to join Frost, with all our pretentiousness, and have lunch there. It was not said to us, but it was implied, that we should not really open our mouths only to show how ignorant we were. So we just ate very quietly and Frost was engaged in conversation with a couple of Jesuits and other professors, but we were in the same room, and we ate the same soup anyway. [laughter]
Since I'm not a novelist, I can give you a quick sampling of my poetry. Then, it might make more sense when Dan and I start talking about it, unless we lose our way. Dan wanted me to read new poems, mostly, so I'll do that. Usually if I give a fuller reading, I usually start with new poems and then kind of chronologically move slowly backward. In that way, the audience can enjoy a pattern of improvement as the evening goes along. [laughter]
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