The Element, purchased
After watching Ken Robinson's TED talk, I hopped over to Amazon and 1-click bought his recent book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything.
I'll post updates when it arrives and I start reading it.
As an aside, Amazon Prime, in which you pay a flat fee for unlimited 2-day shipping, completely removes any previous consideration I might have had for actually leaving my apartment and walking down to the nearby Borders to buy books. Or leaving to go anywhere to several categories of items, for that matter. Two days is short enough that it satisfies my need for instant gratification, and the cost of shipping, being free once you decide to sink the yearly fee of $79 or something to that tune, certainly beats the cost of gas, sometimes parking, and the risk and hassle and time cost of driving around town. Take all that and throw in that my girlfriend's amazon account can share the privilege and I'm a big fan of Amazon Prime. On top of that, I recently enabled 1-click purchasing so now I find myself buying things with even less reasoned consideration than I would normally give.
November 10th, 2009 - 09:55
Agreed. Prime is an amazingly fantastic impulse buy mechanism. It works.