<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">ATLANTA ? Where are the books? Lakers Coach Phil Jackson typically hands out a book of individual significance to each player during a lengthy December trip, but he postponed it until the current eight-game trip. Then he revealed Tuesday it wouldn't happen until a four-game excursion next month that takes the Lakers through Phoenix, Minnesota, Milwaukee and Philadelphia. "I had all the books in a bag, a Barnes and Noble bag, but I decided I didn't want to bring them," said Jackson, who didn't feel entirely comfortable with his selections. "I have like five books in there that I feel OK about them, but ? there's a book that I was looking for that wasn't available." Last season, Jackson gave "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" to Kobe Bryant and Sun-Tzu's "The Art of War" to Lamar Odom. His annual book-buying binge even came up in a testy locker-room rant Jackson unleashed on his players after their 95-84 loss last week to Indiana, Jackson said. "I told them, 'You guys wouldn't read the ? things anyway,' when I went off on a little outburst on them the other day. 'All you guys can do is play video games and watch porn movies.' "</div> Source Classic Phil
Lol, this is some really good sh*t. Great job with sharing it Shape. Video games and Porn Movies. ;D;D Coach of the Year fo' sho ! ;D
I actually looked up the books that Phil gave to Kobe, and it sounds extremely interesting. The book he gave to Lamar also sounds worth reading(I've heard/read a lot about it). I'm sure he doesn't give it to them for leisure reading either. Just take a look at the one he gave Kobe. <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking is a 2005 book by Malcolm Gladwell in which he explores the power of the trained mind to make split second decisions, the ability to think without thinking, or in other words using instinct. The author describes this phenomenon as "thin slicing": our ability to gauge what is really important from a very narrow period of experience. In other words, spontaneous decisions are often as good as - or even better than - carefully planned and considered ones. Gladwell draws on examples from science, advertising, sales, medicine, and popular music to reinforce his ideas. Gladwell explains how an expert's ability to "thin slice" can be corrupted by their likes, dislikes, prejudices and stereotypes, and how they can be overloaded by too much information. That is why police might be suspicious of a dark man out at night, as in the case of Amadou Diallo, when other signs would indicate that he poses no threat. Gladwell also tells us about our instinctive ability to mind read, how we can get to know what emotions a person is feeling just by looking at his face. He informs us that with experience, we can become masters at the game of thin slicing, but the book is not a course in mind-reading or even quick decision-making.</div>
<div class="quote_poster">Trench Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Porn and video games. Hey, I have both. Lots of it too. Whats wrong with that? LOL</div> some things are best left unsaid...lol
