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Atypical

Series Decription:

Atypical is an American comedy-drama streaming television series created by Robia Rashid for Netflix. It focuses on the life of 18-year-old Sam Gardner (Keir Gilchrist), who is on the autism spectrum. The first season was released on August 11, 2017, consisting of eight episodes. The 10-episode second season was released on September 7, 2018. In October 2018, the series was renewed for a third season of ten episodes, which was released on November 1, 2019. In February 2020, the series was renewed for a fourth and final season, which premiered on July 9, 2021.

The first season received mostly positive reviews. However, it was highly criticized by some sources for its lack of autistic actors, and perceived inaccuracies in its depiction of autism. The second season featured autistic actors and writers, allowing them to have an opportunity to work and represent their community, and received mostly positive reviews. The third season continued this positive development and received overwhelmingly positive reviews.

Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, Ambiguity, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Blame, Change, Competitive Thinking, Complex Realities, Cultures, Disasters and Tragedies, Emotions, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Gossips, Happiness, HEALTH, Hidden Motives, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Leadership, Learning, Learning from Failures, LGBTQ Issues, Logic, Logical Ethics, Lying, Medical Experts, Mental Health, Negative Thinking, Opinions, Other People Exist, Over-all Health, Physical Health, Power, Pride & Shame, Quantity vs Quality, Race and Racism, Regrets, Relationships, Revenge, Social Skills, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, Therapy, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

Featuring:

Robia Rashid

Genre: Fiction

Website: Link

Release Date: 2017-08-11

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Celeste Ng

Biography:

Celeste Ng is the author of two novels, Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere.

Her first novel, Everything I Never Told You (2014), was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2014, Amazon’s #1 Best Book of 2014, and named a best book of the year by over a dozen publications. Everything I Never Told You was also the winner of the Massachusetts Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and the ALA’s Alex Award. It has been translated into over thirty languages and is being adapted for the screen.

Celeste’s second novel, Little Fires Everywhere (2017) was a #1 New York Times bestseller, a #1 Indie Next bestseller, and Amazon’s Best Fiction Book of 2017. It was named a best book of the year by over 25 publications, the winner of the Ohioana Award and the Goodreads Readers Choice Award 2017 in Fiction, and has spent over a year on the New York Times bestseller list. Little Fires Everywhere has been published abroad in more than 30 languages and has been adapted as a limited series on Hulu, starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington.

Main expertice: All-or-Nothing Thinking, Ambiguity, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Blame, Change, Competitive Thinking, Complex Realities, Cultures, Emotions, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Gossips, Happiness, HEALTH, Hidden Motives, Ideologies, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Leadership, Learning, Learning from Failures, LGBTQ Issues, Logical Ethics, Lying, Mental Health, Negative Thinking, Opinions, Other People Exist, Over-all Health, Physical Health, Politics, Power, Pride & Shame, Quantity vs Quality, Race and Racism, Regrets, Relationships, Religious Thinking, Revenge, Social Skills, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, Therapy, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

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Little Fires Everywhere

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Little Fires Everywhere

Series Decription:

Little Fires Everywhere is an American drama streaming television miniseries, based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Celeste Ng. It premiered on Hulu on March 18, 2020 and consists of eight episodes. The series stars Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, both of whom were also executive producers, alongside Liz Tigelaar, Lauren Neustadter, and Pilar Savone. Set in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio during the late 1990s, it features Witherspoon and Washington as mothers from different socioeconomic backgrounds.

Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, Ambiguity, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Blame, Change, Competitive Thinking, Complex Realities, Cultures, Disasters and Tragedies, Emotions, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Gossips, Happiness, HEALTH, Hidden Motives, Ideologies, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Leadership, Learning, Learning from Failures, LGBTQ Issues, Logical Ethics, Lying, Negative Thinking, Opinions, Other People Exist, Over-all Health, Politics, Power, Pride & Shame, Quantity vs Quality, Race and Racism, Regrets, Relationships, Religious Thinking, Revenge, Social Skills, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, The News Media, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

Featuring:

Celeste Ng

Genre: Fiction

Website: Link

Release Date: 2020-03-18

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Steven Universe

Series Decription:

Steven Universe is an American animated television series created by Rebecca Sugar for Cartoon Network. It is Cartoon Network’s first animated series to be created solely by a woman. The show tells the coming-of-age story of a young boy, Steven Universe (Zach Callison), who lives with the Crystal Gems—magical, humanoid aliens named Garnet (Estelle), Amethyst (Michaela Dietz), and Pearl (Deedee Magno Hall)—in the fictional town of Beach City. Steven, who is half-Gem, has adventures with his friends and helps the Gems protect the world from their own kind. Its pilot was first shown in May 2013, and the series ran for five seasons, from November 2013 to January 2019. The TV film Steven Universe: The Movie was released in September 2019, and an epilogue limited series, Steven Universe Future, ran from December 2019 to March 2020.

The themes of the series include love, family, and the importance of healthy interpersonal relationships. Sugar based the lead character on her younger brother Steven, who was an artist for the series. She developed Steven Universe while she was a writer and storyboard artist on Adventure Time, which she left when Cartoon Network commissioned her series for full production. The series is storyboard-driven; the show’s storyboard artists were responsible for writing the dialogue and creating the action in addition to drawing the storyboards. Books, comics and video games based on the series have been released.

Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, Ambiguity, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Blame, Change, Competitive Thinking, Complex Realities, Cultures, Disasters and Tragedies, Emotions, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Gossips, Happiness, HEALTH, Hidden Motives, Ideologies, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Leadership, Learning, Learning from Failures, LGBTQ Issues, Logical Ethics, Lying, Negative Thinking, Opinions, Other People Exist, Planning, Politics, Power, Pride & Shame, Quantity vs Quality, Race and Racism, Regrets, Relationships, Revenge, Social Skills, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

Featuring:

Rebecca Sugar

Genre: Fiction

Website: Link

Release Date: 2013-07-27

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Ricky Gervais

Biography:

Ricky Dene Gervais is an English stand-up comedian, actor, director, producer and writer. He is best known for co-creating, co-writing and acting in the British television mockumentary sitcom The Office (2001–2003). He has won seven BAFTA Awards, five British Comedy Awards, two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and the Rose d’Or twice (2006 and 2019), as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. In 2007, he was placed at No. 11 on Channel 4’s 100 Greatest Stand-Ups, and he was placed at No. 3 in their 2010 list. In 2010, he was named in the Time 100 list of the world’s most influential people.

Gervais initially worked in the music industry. He attempted a career as a pop star in the 1980s as the singer of the new-wave act Seona Dancing, as well as working as the manager of the then-unknown band Suede before turning to comedy. Gervais appeared on The 11 O’Clock Show on Channel 4 between 1998 and 2000, garnering a reputation as a blunt and often controversial social critic. In 2000, he was given a Channel 4 spoof talk show, Meet Ricky Gervais. He achieved greater mainstream fame the following year with his BBC television mock documentary series The Office. It was followed by Extras in 2005. He co-wrote and co-directed both programmes with Stephen Merchant. In addition to writing and directing the shows, he played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras. He starred in 2016 comedy film David Brent: Life on the Road, which he also wrote and directed.

Main expertice: All-or-Nothing Thinking, Ambiguity, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Blame, Change, Competitive Thinking, Complex Realities, Cultures, Disasters and Tragedies, Empathy, Environmental Science, Evolution, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Gossips, Hidden Motives, Ideologies, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Leadership, Learning, Learning from Failures, LGBTQ Issues, Logic, Logical Ethics, Lying, Negative Thinking, Opinions, Other People Exist, Planning, Politics, Power, Pride & Shame, Quantity vs Quality, Race and Racism, Regrets, Relationships, Religious Thinking, Revenge, Science, Social Skills, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, Technology, The News Media, The Scientific Method, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

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The Office (U.K.)

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The Office (U.K.)

Series Decription:

The Office is a British television mockumentary sitcom first broadcast in the UK on BBC Two on 9 July 2001. Created, written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, and produced by Ash Atalla, the programme follows the day-to-day lives of office employees in the Slough branch of the fictional Wernham Hogg paper company. Gervais also stars in the series, playing the central character David Brent.

The show centres on themes of social clumsiness, the trivialities of human behaviour, self-importance and conceit, frustration, desperation and fame. The success of The Office led to a number of localised adaptations (based upon its basic story and themes) being produced for the television markets of other nations, resulting in an international Office franchise, including the successful and Emmy-winning American remake starring Steve Carell as David Brent’s counterpart, Michael Scott.

Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, Ambiguity, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Blame, Change, Competitive Thinking, Complex Realities, Cultures, Disasters and Tragedies, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Gossips, Hidden Motives, Ideologies, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Leadership, Learning from Failures, LGBTQ Issues, Logical Ethics, Lying, Negative Thinking, Opinions, Other People Exist, Politics, Power, Pride & Shame, Quantity vs Quality, Race and Racism, Regrets, Relationships, Religious Thinking, Revenge, Social Skills, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, The News Media, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

Featuring:

Ricky Gervais

Genre: Fiction

Website: Link

Release Date: 2001-07-09

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Latter-Day Lesbian

Latter-Day Lesbian with Shelly Johnson

Podcast Decription:

Shelly is a divorced mother of 7 dealing with leaving the Mormon church and coming to terms with her sexuality. Mary is a recovering evangelical Christian, and also a “career lesbian” (as Shelly puts it).

Together we’re processing all the religious B.S. and navigating a romantic relationship, through a podcast that’s raw, honest and funny.

Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Change, Complex Realities, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Gossips, Happiness, HEALTH, Hidden Motives, Ideologies, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Learning from Failures, LGBTQ Issues, Logical Ethics, Lying, Negative Thinking, Opinions, Other People Exist, Pride & Shame, Regrets, Relationships, Religious Thinking, Revenge, Social Skills, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

Host:

Shelly Johnson

Website: Link

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Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

Book Decription:

A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that! But for all the rosy sentiments surrounding friendship, most people don’t talk much about what it really takes to stay close for the long haul.

Now two friends, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, tell the story of their equally messy and life-affirming Big Friendship in this honest and hilarious book that chronicles their first decade in one another’s lives. As the hosts of the hit podcast Call Your Girlfriend, they’ve become known for frank and intimate conversations. In this book, they bring that energy to their own friendship—its joys and its pitfalls.

An inspiring and entertaining testament to the power of society’s most underappreciated relationship, Big Friendship will invite you to think about how your own bonds are formed, challenged, and preserved. It is a call to value your friendships in all of their complexity. Actively choose them. And, sometimes, fight for them.

Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, Ambiguity, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Blame, Change, Competitive Thinking, Complex Realities, Emotions, Empathy, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Friendships, Gender Roles, Gossips, Happiness, HEALTH, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logical Ethics, Mental Health, Negative Thinking, Opinions, Other People Exist, Pride & Shame, Regrets, Relationships, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

Author: Aminatou Sow

Author: Ann Friedman

Website: Link

Publisher: Simon Schuster

Publishing Date: 2020-07-14

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The Underground Railroad: Authentic Narratives and First-Hand Accounts

Book Decription:

As a conductor for the Underground Railroad—the covert resistance network created to aid and protect slaves seeking freedom—William Still helped as many as eight hundred people escape enslavement. He also meticulously collected the letters, biographical sketches, arrival memos, and ransom notes of the escapees. The Underground Railroad Records is an archive of primary documents that trace the narrative arc of the greatest, most successful campaign of civil disobedience in American history.

This edition highlights the remarkable creativity, resilience, and determination demonstrated by those trying to subvert bondage. It is a timeless testament to the power we all have to challenge systems that oppress us.

Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Friendships, Gender Roles, Gossips, Hidden Motives, Ideologies, Information/Facts, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Leadership, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logical Ethics, Lying, Negative Thinking, Opinions, Other People Exist, Politics, Power, Pride & Shame, Quantity vs Quality, Race and Racism, Regrets, Relationships, Religious Thinking, Revenge, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, The News Media, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

Author: William Still

Website: Link

Publisher: HardPress

Publishing Date: 2015-10-28

Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

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