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We're all kind of just trying to find and love someone as best we can. It's not that easy though. Different people have different intentions and goals. As we navigate and realize this we tend to either get hurt, or try too hard to protect ourselves.

Very dialogue driven but I dig it. Puts into question the idea of guys and girls not communicating what they want or feel correctly. Sometimes you don't even know so how do you say it to someone else? I feel like a lot of the problems Amelia is facing could've been avoided with both parties of her prior relationship being more transparent. I feel like being as honest as possible throughout a relationship just works.

Learned a thing or two over the weeks

A quick look at what the # symbol does and how Python is made to ignore whatever is typed after it. This is basically how comments are done is Python. This is useful for explaining code to someone who's never seen a particular file before.

A quick look at what the # symbol does and how Python is made to ignore whatever is typed after it. This is basically how comments are done is Python. This is useful for explaining code to someone who's never seen a particular file before.

This was just a quick look at the "print" function and how to open your files in Powershell. It helps to have basic knowledge of Powershell (it's explained in the appendix of the book though.).

Going over some basic stuff so far. Installed Python and made sure it can be run through Powershell. Need to go back and refresh myself on basic Powershell stuff, though. Learned the benefits of editors such as atom and notepad++ over IDE and IDLE editors. They were also very adamant that you stay away from vim and emacs.

Read through half of this book before but I wanna relearn everything. Went through basic commands such as print, input, defining variables and basic operations.

The book goes on to discuss how, not only the portrayal of a 3D space within a TV screen, but the utilization of real space that is occupied by the player had a lot to do with the Nintendo Wii’s popularity when it came out.

Went through some personal stories of different “gamers” and what type they used to be and have become as their lives progressed.

Went through some personal stories of different “gamers” and what type they used to be and have become as their lives progressed.

The book begins with the observation of “non-gamer’s” interactions with the Nintendo Wii, and how they easily become infatuated with it. It goes on to discuss/debate what constitutes as a “casual gamer” and a “hardcore gamer”, and quickly kills off large stereotypes about “typical gamers”

Beginning to look into my goals. Listing out things that I’m good at and that I would like to do with my life.

Dean shares his experiences of how his "power phrases" have helped him through certain situations, and suggests that the reader come up with their own power phrases to use in stressful situations.

Confidence is characterized by courage, commitment and capabilities. It's important to put a lot of work into these three sections to be confident in yourself about something.
Dean prompts you to write a list of things that are "cool" about you, as a way to quickly boost your confidence.
This is followed by an exercise in which you create two versions of yourself; one negative and one positive.

The book begins by explaining some of the basics of meme ideologies, such as the coining of the term, and basic comments on the phenomenon and the scale of its effects. It goes on to explain just what each section of the book will cover and that it is more of a primer for meme studies than an in-depth guide.

Dean begins to dive into the idea of your “inner hero”. Really this is the personification of a persons confidence. He talks about how this confidence is extremely important to get you to actually do great things and expel that villain from your life, because even a slight lack of confidence can hold you back from so many things as opposed to keeping it at 100%

The book has brought us to our next task of throwing out our old or “bad” story in favor of a new one that we write for ourselves. Dean challenges us to read this story to ourselves every night for the next 30-31 days.