Excellent. Such a fun video. Well return to those scenes later itch want to start with something that is a little bit more in tune with your own personal personality and that is youve lore of cricket. And i brought something for you. One anecdote he tells in the book, hit refreshes when he is on a Conference Call i want to hand this to you he actually likes to hold a cricket ball. I went to the ends of the earth to find this, tell us about your love of cricket, what it means to you and how it influences your life. Thank you much. This is probably the one thing that people have found out because of the book is i love crick set so i have a lot of cricket balls now, but i really appreciate it. Growing up in india, i would say for south asians, this very english game has become more than a religion. How it happened is just its one of those artifacts of history, and for me, when i look back, i think its true in most team supports. In fact the other day i had the Great Fortune of going and s
Hurt our Brooklyn Borough president talk about for today maybe the only divide that matters, and that is americas really basically only two groups of people. One either group of people who live, work, study and enjoy brooklyn. And the other is everybody else who wished they could. So weve got that going for us, too. On this date in late august, our law school welcomed its new class of students of 371 students, plus about 35 international students. They were all enthralled with americans across the country with an external event. That was the day of the totality, the day of the eclipse, and people across the United States and our students and faculty gazed up from, with their safety glasses i hope, and it was as if nature itself was conspiring to bring us together if only for a few hours. But that sense of unity and wonder while pleading was very welcomed from the tumultuous events that continue to roil this country. As of this writing, floridians, some of them graduates of our law scho
The [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] welcome to the 22nd annual texas book festival. We appreciate you coming out for the authors and just in general great literature. A few housekeeping things, president of houston university. Just a reminder please silence your cell phones or turn them off. After that session here in our authors will be signing books in the book tend and book the booke for sale courtesy of book people. Remember when you buy a book, you support the author, the festival and independent bookstore and it is a Nonprofit Organization and its mission is to support lowincome schools in texas with author visits and donations like the leading rock Stars Program so your purchases go a very long way. And we have a book drive going on to help raise money to rebuild the library is affected by Hurricane Harvey and a donation of 15 at any register to buya a book for a student in the texas book festival and foundation will match with a bo
Exactly what leads me to want to write a book because their pain in the to do. Its finding if i look back on it is finding an interesting person in a situation that will allow me to explore interesting ideas. What almost always happens is i have lots of little projects stumbling along, magazine pieces of things im investigating. Become so interesting that i think wow, such a good story, have an obligation to tell it. Thats when it becomes a book. In terms of if you asked me to go to a class of students and give them a formula to how to write a good story, i went on how to begin. Host when did you decide you wanted to make be an arthur. My career path is something on the bottom of the tv screen that says to not try this at home. Is an art history major what i first wanted to do was be an art historian. I stumbled out of college and linda by accident on wall street. I got that job very accidentally without a great deal of intention. While i was working on my princeton thesis. It was effe
The move is by a pastor out of georgia but who was talking about that weve gotten so complacent in our churches that we, this is how he explains it. We go to the same place and time even though the last few times weve been going, the fish are not there but were going to do the same thing. Maybe we have to go to deeper waters to find the fish because the fish are moving. Its important for me not just as a christian but as a leader to figure out how to i findthe fish. And not expect for the fish to always be atthe same place or to always come to me. And it struck me as such a great read, very tiny book. So powerful and impactful. We have to figure out how to go into the deeper water and not be afraid to go out further. We want to stay on the shore, sometimes you got to go into deep water so thats why that one. Then james helper is my friend. Is probably one of the most intelligent people ive ever met. Hes a great historian and hes a great experience so i wanted to get some understanding