The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XVI

 -Because of the way the remarkable ones saw the world, they were called kooks, misfits, weirdos.

-The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it. 

-Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul. Alice Walker. 

-The majority of people on the planet today really are trapped in superficiality. 

-Producing with precision rather than being unprofessional and careless. 

-The average artist focuses more on the cash than on the craft. 

-Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. Rumi. 

-The dark side of genius: the very quality that makes you special in one area is the same one that makes you a misfit in another. 

-Philip of Macedonia in a message to Sparta: "You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army into you land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people and raze your city. 

Sparta's reply: "If"

-With better daily awareness you can make better daily choices, and with better daily choices you'll start seeing better daily results. 

-It's your decisions that make your results. 

-There's ton of competition at ordinary, but there's almost none at extraordinary. 

-How often do you meet someone at a store or in a restaurant who is fully present, astoundingly polite, unusually knowledgeable, full of enthusiasm, incredibly hardworking, intensely imaginative, noticeably inventive, and gasp worthily great at what they do? 

-Consistency is the DNA of mastery. 

-Today is a glorious day and I'll live it at excellence, with boundless enthusiasm, and limitless integrity, true to my visions and with a heart full of love.  

Aaron Smith - Dancin (KRONO Remix) - Lyrics

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XV

 -Punctuality is the trait of royalty. 

-You can take the country out of the boy, but you can't take the country out of the boy. 

-If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing. 

-My antidote to average. 

-Cyber zombies. I see them everyday. It's like they are not real human beings anymore. More like robots, glued to their screens. Not present. And half alive to life. 

-Honesty has been one of my core convictions. 

-The more powerful a person truly is, the less they need to promote it.

-Spent money I didn't have, buying things I didn't need to impress people I didn't like. 

-The men who are great live with that which is substantial. They do not stay with that which is superficial. 

-The 95% of performers don't invest painstaking attention into the tiniest of details and fail to refine the smallest of finishes like the great masters do. 

-The best, in any endeavor, appreciate the fact that your good name is branded onto every piece of work that you release. 

-Commit to being a highly unusual human being instead of one of those timid souls who behave like everyone else, living a sloppy life instead of a magnificent one, a derivative life instead of an original one. 

-Less is more. 

-When you deconstruct how the superstars, virtuosos and geniuses achieved what they did, you'll realize that it was their heightened awareness of the opportunities for daily greatness that inspired them to make the better daily choices that yielded better daily results. 

-Power of self-education.   

The New World Order by Ralph Epperson

The eyes of darkness by Dean Koontz

 

Dotan ~ Home (with lyrics)

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XIV

 -Real power never comes from anything external. 

-A lot of people with a lot of money aren't very wealthy. 

-Genuine power doesn't arise from who you are outside and what you possess externally. 

-The world is lost right now. 

-Real riches come from being able to lead your days on your own terms versus blindly following the sheep.

-Sheeple is what too many people now are. 

-All the great teachers of history owned very few things. 

-The futility of spending their days chasing objects that count for nothing at the end. 

-To lead is to serve.

-The more one learn, the more one can achieve. 

-Health is the crown on the well person's head that only the ill person can see. 

-Rest and recovery is a necessity. 

-Inspiration gets fed by isolation. 

-Anyone can be a critic. Takes guts to be an encourager. 

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XIII

 -One hour for yourself before dawn.

-Excuses breed no genius.

-All change with consistent practice. 

-When you feel like surrendering, continue. 

-He's been true to his word in a world where too many people say thing they never do and make promises they fail to keep. 

-Most people stay the say their entire lives. Too frightened to leave the way they operated yesterday. 

-Nature notices your effortful actions and then goes ahead and replies to you faithful commitment with a series of unanticipated wins. 

-The flow of life rewards positive action and punishes hesitation. 

-A bad day for the ego is a great day for the soul. 

-The humblest is the greatest. 

-There is a big difference between real power and fake power. 

-Our culture tells us to pursue titles and trinkets, applause and acclaim, money and mansions. All that's fine, it truly is, so long as you don't get brainwashed into defining your worth as a human being by these things. Enjoy them, just don't get attached to them. Have them, just don't base your identity around them. Appreciate them, just don't need them. These are only forms of fake power our civilization programs us to believe we must pursue to be successful. 

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XII

 -Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. Bukowski.

-Your mindset is an enormously potent for private greatness, prodigious productivity and creative victory, along with your Heartset, Healthset, and Soulset. 

-Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. 

-Raise the joy of others and you´ll get even more joy.

-All that matters on your last day on earth is the potential you´ve leveraged, the heroism you´ve demonstrated and the human lives you've graced. 

-Neither a bull nor a noble-spirited man comes to be what he is all at once; he must undertake hard winter training.

-Voluntary discomfort keeps me strong, disciplined and focused on the central few priorities my life's built around. 

-Appearances can be misleading and clothing doesn't convey one's character. Looks really do not reveal the quality of a person. 

-Wise from fully lived days.

-Over scheduled, machine dominated and sometimes soulless lives so many among us are experiencing.  

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes XI

 -Those who feel more than most people, sometimes believe they have been cursed. In fact, the have been granted a gift: one that allows them to sense what others miss, experience the delights that most neglect and notice the majesty in ordinary moments. Yes, such people get hurt more easily, yet they are also the ones who create great symphonies, architect dazzling buildings and find cures for the sick. 

-Only people who are capable of loving strongly can suffer great sorrow. Tolstoy.

-You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens. 

-It is only when you get away from the noise and nuisance and be in quiet and tranquility that you remember who you are truly meant to be. 

-Just say yes to life.

-A magic will show up for you the more you start exploiting the terrific opportunities that appear along your path, seemingly by accident. 

-You can't win a game you don't play. 

-Life has got your back, even when it doesn't look like it does. But you need to do your part and go all in when windows of opportunity appear. 

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes X

 -In a world that seeks to keep you down, build yourself up. In an epoch that wishes you would stay in the dark, step into your light. At a time that mesmerizes you to forget your gifts, reclaim your genius. 

-Display respect and compassion. 

-I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is not brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible handing it on to future generations. 

-Commitment, discipline, patience, and work. Values few believe in these days, where so many have an entitlement mentality, expecting a rich, productive and fulfilling life to just show up one day like a sparrow at the beginning of spring. 

-A society of adults behaving like spoiled little children is how I sometimes see our world right now. 

-Nothing works for those who don't do the work. 

-You will learn to rise early, regularly, so you'll get more done by noon than most people get done in a week and so you'll optimize your health, happiness and peacefulness. 

-There is a reason so many of the great achievers of the world get up before the sun: it's the most special part of the day. 

-Empires arrive in many forms, economic is just one of them. You can also create empires of artistry, productivity, humanity, philanthropy, personal freedom, and even spirituality. 

-Sensitivity born of latent pain. 

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes IX

 -All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end. 

-Each one of you carries a quiet genius and a triumphant hero within your hearts. 

-You will be faced with the chance of showing leadership, wherever you are and in all that you do. 

-Leadership is an arena everyone gets to play in. Because leadership is a lot less about having a formal title, a large office and money in the bank. And a lot more about committing to mastery over all you do and in who you are. It's about resisting the tyranny of the ordinary, refusing to allow negativity to hijack your sense of awe and preventing any form of slavery to mediocrity from infesting your life. 

-Never work only for the income. 

-They way you begin your day really does determine the extent of focus, energy, excitement and excellence you bring to it. 

-You have such power within you and it reveals itself most with the first rays of daybreak. 

  

MUSIC. Schiller. Midsommar

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes VIII

 -Too many dumb people around these days. Taking stupid fashion pictures of themselves with pouty lips in clothes they. can't afford. Hanging with people they don't even like. 

-I'd rather live a thoughtful life. A risky life. A real life. An artist's life. Drives me crazy how superficial people have become. 

-Everything will be ok in the end. And if it is not ok, it's not the end. 

-The soreness of growth is so much less expensive than the devastating costs of regret. 

-We crave social approval. We want our peers to respect us. We hope our neighbors will like us. We buy all sort of things we really don't need and obsess about making money we really don't enjoy.

-We falsely believe that material from outside will fill what's empty within ourselves. Yet, it never will. 

-We realize we are going to die. What's truly important comes into much sharper focus. We become more contemplative. We start to wonder if we have been true to our talents, loyal to our values, and successful on the terms that feel right to us. And we think about those we most love will say about us when we are gone.  

The 5 am club by Robin Sharma. Quotes VII

 -Addicted to my technology. It's draining my concentration. 

-All the noise in my life is taking my energy. 

-Pressure is a privilege. 

-With every challenge comes the gorgeous opportunity to rise into your next level as a leader, performer, and human being. 

-To find your best self you must lose your weak self. 

-The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live. 

-Most people can't stand themselves. So, they can never be alone. And silent. They need to constantly be with other people to escape their feelings of self-hatred over all their wasted potential, missing the wonders and wisdom that solitude and quiet bring. 

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Communicative approach in teaching an L2. Criticisms

 Many schools are adopting a communicative approach at the time to teach an L2. Here, we are going to detail several criticisms (Swan, 1985; Bax, 2003) regarding this extended doctrine:

1. Assumes no L1 transfer. L2 learners already possess communicative skills that might be useful. These L1 communicative skills are ignored and they could be used to enhance the L2 learning process. 

2. No consideration of new knowledge or usefulness. This approach does not take into consideration the learners' background knowledge nor the usefulness of the practice implemented. 

3. Contextual factors affecting learners are avoided. Social, environmental, personal, academic, and motivational factors affecting L2 learners are considered. 

4. Academic explanation avoided. Since essential aspects of any language are reduced to a minimum or are not taught (grammar, phonetics, spelling, etc.), L2 learners cannot comprehend the functioning of the L2 language, which fosters the creation of multiple learning gaps. 

5. Egocentrism, the method is all you need. The means or method justifies the end. However, there is not any universal truth in education, no magical formula that can guarantee that with its implementation learners can become fluent in the L2.   

6. Reactive learners. Learners are dependent on the teacher and external factors. They cannot build their own knowledge since the grammatical, semantic, and phonetic rules are reduced to a minimum, which prevents them from understanding the processes and functioning of the L2 language. Therefore, L2 learners under this approach cannot become independent learners. Their knowledge is always outside-in, instead of inside-out. 

Therefore, an L2 teaching based upon this approach, creates confusion and inefficiency. The use of this approach alone, also fosters the development of learning gaps since learners are not provided with all the necessary tools to learn. Also, this approach builds dependent learners, not able to build their own L2 knowledge since they don't know the grammatical, phonetic, and semantic rules.