{"id":8816,"date":"2017-10-01T08:21:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T12:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8816"},"modified":"2017-09-30T14:58:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T18:58:20","slug":"resolution-progress-2017-third-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2017\/10\/01\/resolution-progress-2017-third-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolution Progress 2017: Third Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2017\/01\/01\/resolutions-2017\/\">Original<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0;\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2017\/03\/31\/resolution-progress-2017-first-quarter\/\">First Quarter<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2017\/07\/01\/resolution-progress-2017-first-half\/\">Half<\/a> ; <strong>Third-Quarter<\/strong> ; Final)<\/p>\n<p>For the third quarter, I should have progressed about 75%. So, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s see where I am.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Read 52 books.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0Third quarter goal: 39 books. I\u00c2\u00a0have actually finished 43.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hit 20,000 pages.<\/strong> Third quarter goal: 15,000 pages. I have actually finished 12,515. So waaaay behind.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Read politically.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0Total 10. Third quarter goal: 7.5 books. A half book ahead.\n<ul>\n<li><em><a title=\"A Nation of Immigrants\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/1433010.A_Nation_of_Immigrants\">A Nation of Immigrants<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>DONE1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"Pedagogy of the Oppressed \" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/858881.Pedagogy_of_the_Oppressed\">Pedagogy of the Oppressed<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>DONE2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"The Origins of Totalitarianism\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/11854948-the-origins-of-totalitarianism\">The Origins of Totalitarianism<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>DONE3<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><a class=\"gr-book__titleLink gr-hyperlink gr-hyperlink--naked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/13579707-future-perfect\" data-reactid=\".ietfpqvj0g.0.1.$=1$13579707.1.1.0\" data-tracking-dfp=\"true\" data-tracking-pmet=\"{\">Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>DONE4<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/18668154-blue-collar-conservatives\">Blue Collar Conservatives: Recommitting to an America That Works<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<b>DONE5<\/b><\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/11324722-the-righteous-mind\">The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0D<b>ONE6<\/b><\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/29954134-democracy-for-realists\">Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0D<b>ONE7<\/b><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/34083908-on-tyranny\">On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>DONE8<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"The FairTax Book: Saying Goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRS\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/348623.The_FairTax_Book\">The FairTax Book: Saying Goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRS<\/a><\/em> TODO9<\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"Government Bullies: How Everyday Americans Are Being Arrested, Abused, and Terrorized By the Feds\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/14583508-government-bullies\">Government Bullies: How Everyday Americans Are Being Arrested, Abused, and Terrorized By the Feds<\/a><\/em> TODO10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Read on decision making and influence.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0Total 10. Third quarter goal: 7.5 books. About 1.25 behind.\n<ul>\n<li><em><a title=\"Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/6349490-super-crunchers\">Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>DONE1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/13579707-future-perfect\">Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<b>DONE2<\/b><\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"Flow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/19669336-flow\">Flow<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<b>DONE3<\/b><\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/20445148-fail-fast-fail-often\">Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<b>DONE4<\/b><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/8536015-fooled-by-randomness\">Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<b>DONE5<\/b><\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/28139847-the-meditations-of-marcus-aurelius\">The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>DONE6<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><a class=\"gr-book__titleLink gr-hyperlink gr-hyperlink--naked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/21415875-the-organized-mind\" data-reactid=\".223zfv2qyo0.0.1.$=1$21415875.1.1.0\" data-tracking-dfp=\"true\" data-tracking-pmet=\"{&quot;click_type&quot;:&quot;book_title&quot;}\">The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>IN PROGRESS7<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/242472.The_Black_Swan\">The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable<\/a><\/em> TODO8<\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/4351499-iconoclast\">Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently<\/a><\/em> TODO9<\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/681941.The_Moral_Animal\">The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology<\/a><\/em> TODO10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>African American and mixed study.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0Total 10. Third quarter goal: 7.5 books. Over a half a book ahead.\n<ul>\n<li><em><a title=\"Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/27161178-hidden-figures\">Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>DONE1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"Between the World and Me\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/25489625-between-the-world-and-me\">Between the World and Me<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>DONE2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/21408358-the-devil-in-america\">The Devil in America<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<b>DONE3<\/b><\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"Kindred\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/60931.Kindred\">Kindred<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<b>DONE4<\/b><\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/29209.The_Color_of_Water\">The Color of Water: A Black Man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tribute to His White Mother<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<b>DONE5<\/b><\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"Africa: A History\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/32323800-africa\">Africa: A History<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<b>DONE6<\/b><\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"Notes of a Native Son\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/19281008-notes-of-a-native-son\">Notes of a Native Son<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>DONE7<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/367742.Negrophobia_and_Reasonable_Racism\">Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America<\/a><\/em> <strong>DONE8<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/289114.Manchild_in_the_Promised_Land\"><em>Manchild in the Promised Land<\/em><\/a> <strong>IN PROGRESS9<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"One Drop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/7001831-one-drop\">One Drop<\/a><\/em> TODO10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Read the book and (re-)watch the movie or TV series.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0Total: 5. Third quarter goal: 3.75 books.\u00c2\u00a0<em><strong>DONE!<\/strong><\/em>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a title=\"Out Of Sight\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/288962.Out_Of_Sight\">Out Of Sight<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>DONE1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><a class=\"gr-book__titleLink gr-hyperlink gr-hyperlink--naked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/349347.American_Gods\" data-reactid=\".ietfpqvj0g.0.1.$=1$349347.1.1.0\" data-tracking-dfp=\"true\" data-tracking-pmet=\"{\">American Gods (American Gods #1)<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>DONE2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/37100.Devil_in_a_Blue_Dress\">Devil in a Blue Dress\u00c2\u00a0<span class=\"darkGreyText\">(Easy Rawlins, #1)<\/span><\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>DONE3<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/22521575-in-the-heart-of-the-sea\">In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>DONE4<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/43615.The_Gunslinger\">The Gunslinger\u00c2\u00a0<span class=\"darkGreyText\">(The Dark Tower,<\/span><\/a><\/em><span class=\"darkGreyText\"><em><a title=\"The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/43615.The_Gunslinger\"> #1)<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><strong>DONE5<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"darkGreyText\"><em><a title=\"Neverwhere\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/6479879-neverwhere\">Neverwhere<\/a><\/em> <strong>DONE6<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Finish the book series.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0Total: 10. Third quarter goal: 7.5 books.\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/series\/76161-miss-peregrine-s-peculiar-children\">Miss Peregrine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Peculiar Children<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0#2-3.\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Hollow City (Miss Peregrine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Peculiar Children, #2)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/23164983-hollow-city\"><em>Hollow City\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><span class=\"darkGreyText\"><em>(Miss Peregrine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Peculiar Children, #2)<\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0TODO<\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #3)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/24120519-library-of-souls\">Library of Souls\u00c2\u00a0<span class=\"darkGreyText\">(Miss Peregrine&#8217;s Peculiar Children, #3)<\/span><\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0TODO<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/series\/56399-the-expanse\"><em>The Expanse<\/em><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0#6.5 &amp; #7\n<ul>\n<li><em><a title=\"Strange Dogs (The Expanse, #6.5)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/34909315-strange-dogs\">Strange Dogs\u00c2\u00a0<span class=\"darkGreyText\">(The Expanse, #6.5)<\/span><\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>DONE1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><a class=\"bookTitle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/28335696-persepolis-rising\">Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0(released in Dec)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/series\/41494-tarzan\">Tarzan<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>#4-9.\n<ul>\n<li><em><a class=\"bookTitle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/589898.The_Son_of_Tarzan\">The Son of Tarzan (Tarzan, #4)<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>DONE1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><a class=\"bookTitle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/474111.Tarzan_and_the_Jewels_of_Opar\">Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (Tarzan, #5)<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>DONE2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><a class=\"bookTitle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/338593.Jungle_Tales_of_Tarzan_Tarzan_6_\">Jungle Tales of Tarzan (Tarzan, #6)<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>DONE3<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><a class=\"bookTitle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/338580.Tarzan_the_Untamed\">Tarzan the Untamed (Tarzan, #7)<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>IN PROGRESS4<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a class=\"bookTitle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/40422.Tarzan_the_Terrible\">Tarzan the Terrible (Tarzan, #8)<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0TODO<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a class=\"bookTitle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/828196.Tarzan_and_the_Golden_Lion\">Tarzan and the Golden Lion (Tarzan, #9)<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>TODO<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Summing the goals, I have read 32 of 46 when I should have 34.5 read.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exercise.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0My trainer was made the general manager of the gym and as a result had to give up his clients. The new trainer was working on breaking me of the bad habits in favor of how he wants me to lift. As a result, the goals were irrecoverably not achievable. Will re-assess for 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Original\u00c2\u00a0;\u00c2\u00a0First Quarter\u00c2\u00a0; Half ; Third-Quarter ; Final) For the third quarter, I should have progressed about 75%. So, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s see where I am. Read 52 books.\u00c2\u00a0Third quarter goal: 39 books. I\u00c2\u00a0have actually finished 43. Hit 20,000 pages. Third quarter goal: 15,000 pages. I have actually finished 12,515. So waaaay behind. Read politically.\u00c2\u00a0Total 10. Third quarter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[986],"tags":[94,2195,1816],"class_list":["post-8816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-43things-personal","tag-books","tag-resolution-progress","tag-resolutions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-2ic","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}