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How to Build a Pillow Fort: (and Other Valuable Life Lessons)
Pillow fort building is arduous and complex and requires a full day and all hands on board. Phase one. Crew runs around the house collecting necessary material. Assemble all pillows and blankets that can be found. Make a gigantic pile. Jump on pile to test resilience and consistency of the various elements available. (This will soon become valuable intelligence.) Phase two. Step back. Assess and discuss. Get milk and cookies (for the master planner), find paper and crayons and develop elaborate architectural sketches. Phase three. Agree on the general purpose of the fort. Attack? Defense? A place to hide inside undetected by pesky parents? (The last one usually wins.) Take a lunch break. Find the rest of the instructions within.
- GenresNonfiction
349 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 2, 2018
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About the author
Dushka Zapata
28 books275 followersAfter working for more than 20 years in the communications industry, Dushka noticed a theme.
People find it very difficult to articulate who they are and what they do.
This holds true for both companies and for individuals.
For companies, this is an impediment to the development of an identity, a reputation, a brand.
It makes it hard for customers to see how companies are different from their competitors.
For individuals, in a new world order of personal brands, it makes it hard to develop one that feels real.
This is the focus of Dushka's work: she helps companies and people put into simple terms who they are, what they do, and where to go next.
Her work comes to life through message development, presentation training, media training and personal brand development.
It comes to life through executive coaching, workshops and public speaking.
It comes to life through what she writes.
Dushka has written nine books:
How to be ferociously happy and other essays
Amateur: an inexpert, inexperienced, un-authoritative, enamored view of life
A spectacular catastrophe and other things I recommend
Your seat cushion is a flotation device and other buoyant short stories
Someone destroyed my rocket ship and other havoc I've witnessed at the office
How to build a pillow fort and other valuable life lessons
You belong everywhere and other things you'll have to see for yourself
Love yourself and other insurgent acts that recast everything
Feelings are fickle and other things I wish someone had told me.
Dushka writes every day on question and answer site Quora and has also published an e-manual that outlines step by step how to write a book.
People find it very difficult to articulate who they are and what they do.
This holds true for both companies and for individuals.
For companies, this is an impediment to the development of an identity, a reputation, a brand.
It makes it hard for customers to see how companies are different from their competitors.
For individuals, in a new world order of personal brands, it makes it hard to develop one that feels real.
This is the focus of Dushka's work: she helps companies and people put into simple terms who they are, what they do, and where to go next.
Her work comes to life through message development, presentation training, media training and personal brand development.
It comes to life through executive coaching, workshops and public speaking.
It comes to life through what she writes.
Dushka has written nine books:
How to be ferociously happy and other essays
Amateur: an inexpert, inexperienced, un-authoritative, enamored view of life
A spectacular catastrophe and other things I recommend
Your seat cushion is a flotation device and other buoyant short stories
Someone destroyed my rocket ship and other havoc I've witnessed at the office
How to build a pillow fort and other valuable life lessons
You belong everywhere and other things you'll have to see for yourself
Love yourself and other insurgent acts that recast everything
Feelings are fickle and other things I wish someone had told me.
Dushka writes every day on question and answer site Quora and has also published an e-manual that outlines step by step how to write a book.
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November 26, 2020
I recently completed her '**how to build a pillow fort**?’
I must say I have been fan of how she explains a simple life happening into astonishing life lessons.
More than anything I am fan of her vocabulary. Neither too complex nor too usual. She keeps balance well so that readers understand it.
About book:
Whenever my mom make me do bed and fold blankets, I would argue with her why should we do this when anyways we gonna need this in evening? And she will get pissed off and give me such a furious look saying you are impossible.
And I actually found this sentence inside her book ' why fold bed when we gonna need it in evening'
And she wonderfully describes good examples in 'what's the point? ‘
>Just because something is pointless does not justify not embarking upon it.
>Between the start and inevitable end lies my very experience.
I have noted down several of her good concluding lines which I would like to share here,
* Learn to accept compliments. One of great ironies of life is that criticism has VIP entry into our soul and compliments are not allowed untill they show ID & INSPECTION. Let them in, say thank you!
* I don't want to put above everything else, being someone's first priority. I want someone well defined who fully exist without me. Otherwise what is it that I am loving?
* How long a cookie be dunked? Well, it all depends on a cookie. Both people and cookies are better understood when regarded individually. Hence avoid generalization.
* Life is hard, that is all the more reason to become aware of the times we are the ones who make it so.
* You can take every fragrant rose. You can have every chocolate Box. To me love is shown through being seen. There is nothing like being understood.
* Arguments does not necessarily relate to the reasons or truth. In most of the cases it means, my voice is heard and my opinion matters.
* Motivation is fickle. So habits and discipline saves us when we lake it.
* When body say it's tired, don't seek coffee. Understand that it needs sleep. Listen to what your body is trying to convey.
I would recommend this book to anyone who like reading simple and yet worth understanding life lessons.
***It will definitely change the perspective of how you perceive things around you, about how you understand yourself and other and how self love is so beautiful and necessary.***
I am reading her other books and I would love to share review on them also later.
I must say I have been fan of how she explains a simple life happening into astonishing life lessons.
More than anything I am fan of her vocabulary. Neither too complex nor too usual. She keeps balance well so that readers understand it.
About book:
Whenever my mom make me do bed and fold blankets, I would argue with her why should we do this when anyways we gonna need this in evening? And she will get pissed off and give me such a furious look saying you are impossible.
And I actually found this sentence inside her book ' why fold bed when we gonna need it in evening'
And she wonderfully describes good examples in 'what's the point? ‘
>Just because something is pointless does not justify not embarking upon it.
>Between the start and inevitable end lies my very experience.
I have noted down several of her good concluding lines which I would like to share here,
* Learn to accept compliments. One of great ironies of life is that criticism has VIP entry into our soul and compliments are not allowed untill they show ID & INSPECTION. Let them in, say thank you!
* I don't want to put above everything else, being someone's first priority. I want someone well defined who fully exist without me. Otherwise what is it that I am loving?
* How long a cookie be dunked? Well, it all depends on a cookie. Both people and cookies are better understood when regarded individually. Hence avoid generalization.
* Life is hard, that is all the more reason to become aware of the times we are the ones who make it so.
* You can take every fragrant rose. You can have every chocolate Box. To me love is shown through being seen. There is nothing like being understood.
* Arguments does not necessarily relate to the reasons or truth. In most of the cases it means, my voice is heard and my opinion matters.
* Motivation is fickle. So habits and discipline saves us when we lake it.
* When body say it's tired, don't seek coffee. Understand that it needs sleep. Listen to what your body is trying to convey.
I would recommend this book to anyone who like reading simple and yet worth understanding life lessons.
***It will definitely change the perspective of how you perceive things around you, about how you understand yourself and other and how self love is so beautiful and necessary.***
I am reading her other books and I would love to share review on them also later.
October 25, 2023
Practical Experiences and wisdom
The author shares her perspective of life, it's challenges and her own thought process of dealing with it.
She shared her own mistakes or fallacies and tries to share the right attitude towards life.
The author shares her perspective of life, it's challenges and her own thought process of dealing with it.
She shared her own mistakes or fallacies and tries to share the right attitude towards life.
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