{"id":167,"date":"2018-01-01T12:55:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T12:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/iigl-wp\/?page_id=167"},"modified":"2018-01-01T12:55:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T12:55:04","slug":"introductory-books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/global-leadership.com\/index.php\/introductory-books\/","title":{"rendered":"INTRODUCTORY BOOKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Jonathan Livingston Seagull<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>by Richard Bach<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Most gulls don&#8217;t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight&#8211;how to <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-168\" src=\"http:\/\/global-leadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Jonathan-Livingston-IIGL-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/global-leadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Jonathan-Livingston-IIGL-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/global-leadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Jonathan-Livingston-IIGL-207x270.jpg 207w, https:\/\/global-leadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Jonathan-Livingston-IIGL.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/>get from shore to food and back again,&#8221; writes author Richard Bach in this allegory about a unique bird named Jonathan Livingston Seagull. &#8220;For most <\/span>gulls<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.&#8221; Flight is indeed the metaphor that makes the story soar. Ultimately this is a fable about the importance of seeking a higher purpose in life, even if your flock, tribe, or neighborhood finds your ambition threatening. By not compromising his higher vision, Jonathan gets the ultimate payoff: transcendence. Ultimately, he learns the meaning of love and kindness.<\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8211;&gt; Amazon.com<\/span><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>As A Man Thinketh<br \/>\nby James Allen<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">James Allen said that a person&#8217;s mind is like a garden, which may be <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-169\" src=\"http:\/\/global-leadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/As-A-Man-Thinket-IIGL2-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/global-leadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/As-A-Man-Thinket-IIGL2-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/global-leadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/As-A-Man-Thinket-IIGL2-190x270.jpg 190w, https:\/\/global-leadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/As-A-Man-Thinket-IIGL2.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/>intelligently cultivated, or allowed to run wild. Either way, the garden will bring forth. You will be awed by the relevance of the author&#8217;s thoughts and observations on the power of the mind, and mankind&#8217;s ability to control life&#8217;s outcomes by controlling what goes into it.<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n&#8211;&gt; Amazon.com<\/span><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach &nbsp; &#8220;Most gulls don&#8217;t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight&#8211;how to get from shore to food and back again,&#8221; writes author Richard Bach in this allegory about a unique bird <a href=\"https:\/\/global-leadership.com\/index.php\/introductory-books\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-167","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-leadership.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-leadership.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-leadership.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-leadership.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-leadership.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/global-leadership.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/global-leadership.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-leadership.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}