Self Help & Misc. Instresting Stuff.

DSM

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#11
Thanks Catch,

Super collection! There is something for everyone.... A great buffet spread for the heart, mind, body and the soul!

Hi DSM ,
Since ,I could not add to my previous post ,I wish to add a few more here.

I particularly Like listening to a few of the following again and again.

Daniel Goleman - Emotional Intelligence Full Audiobook Unabridged-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBs8b11WRi0

Daniel Goleman on Focus: The Secret to High Performance and Fulfilment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTfYv3IEOqM

The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli [Unabridged] [Audible Audio Edition]
Audiobook-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-PEmKemZzw
Eckhart Tolle,Dalai Lama,Desmond Tutu & authors. - " Educating the Heart and Mind-Creativity" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb3_wqX7yNE
Free Audio Books The power of now by ekhart tolle full audiobook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdLwMdcFah8
Dale Carnegie — How To Stop Worrying {audiobook} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpxvqA-o9FY

Social Intelligence by Daniel Goleman--Audiobook Excerpt -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4yxLC8p8qk
Robin Sharma - Extraordinary Leadership https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQrEGX269gU
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma Full Audiobook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4ocyb3XWx4
John Maxwell - Language of Leadership - Audiobook Full https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmKxxcaXQJ8
Anthony Tony Robbins Awaken The Giant Within Audiobook Unabridged https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hYvmZq4Ogg
Unlimited Power Anthony Robbins Audiobook || Tony Robbins’s Audiobook Full Length https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUcyxfaB5Qk
Spencer Johnson - Audiobook- Who Moved My Cheese? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxKtCooMG5A
Think and Grow Rich Audio Book by Napoleon Hill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q9Wpq0QolQ
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Audiobook by Stephen Co https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x2x-snffyY
7 Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra Self Help AudioBooks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l85FOxoWiok
The Difference Between Optimistic and Pessimistic People-Brian Tracy- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LAuXL-Zl8o
Swami Vivekananda on Self Confidence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs8ccX72Buk
Swami Vivekananda on Personality Development https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhFsXe97t7U
How do we break the habit of excessive thinking? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTFDfR47dl4

Happiness Unlimited -1 - Sister Shivani (English) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dNPNtdaMWY
Relationships - Giving over wanting By BK Shivani - Awakening With Brahma Kumaris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYGHyuzNKjM
Going Beyond - Relationship Problems - 31 (English) - BK Shivani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo9dl3sWEoY

Oprah Soulseries Eckhart Tolle Pt 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYjbeu02wYU
Oprah Winfrey´s Soul Series with Eckhart Tolle part 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRcARFxZweU
Oprah Winfrey´s Soul Series with Eckhart Tolle part 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_boukgzFS4
Oprah Winfrey´s Soul Series with Eckhart Tolle 2014 (part 3 ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3wgG_3O2lI
Oprah Soulseries Eckhart Tolle Pt 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYjbeu02wYU
Eckhart Tolle - Trust The PAIN In Your Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCMunBFFY_A
 

DSM

Well-Known Member
#12
When rejection at Facebook and Twitter became a 3 Billion Dollar opportunity.

Brian Acton was the software engineer that no one wanted to hire. Despite a dozen years of experience at Yahoo and Apple Computer, he got turned down by two of the Internet’s brightest stars at the time. First Twitter said no in May. Then Facebook rejected him in August.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgea...-job-facebook-said-no-in-a-3-billion-mistake/

Then Brian Acton posted of his rejection on Twitter.



When Acton couldn’t find work at another big-name company, he took his chances on the start-up route instead. Teaming up with another Yahoo alum, Jan Koum, he helped build WhatsApp, a Mountain View, Calif., start-up that has become the king of cloud-based messaging. WhatsApp is in the headlines this week because Facebook has agreed to buy the company for a stunning $16 billion in stock and cash, along with as much as $3 billion in restricted stock units for the founders. With at least a 20% stake in the company, Acton is headed toward a $3 billion net worth.
 

Catch22

Well-Known Member
#13
Catch22
Thanks for all these links.
You must really be an enlightened person.How do you manage to find all these ?
Thanks Catch,
Super collection! There is something for everyone.... A great buffet spread for the heart, mind, body and the soul!
Thank you ! Very kind of you both..Nope, just an ordinary human .. Getting it all was very easy .. Thanks to you know who..our dear kind and benevolent uncle/aunt Google !
"A great buffet spread for the heart, mind, body and the soul!" re-Thanks again .Glad you find it so.But there is so much more to seek , learn and imbibe.Kind of you to encourage .Take care.

On lighter note to end this sat'day-

Stockbroker: What is a million years like to you?
God: Like one second.
Stockbroker: What is a million dollars like to you?
God: Like one penny.
Stockbroker: Can I have a penny?
God: Just a second …
 
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DSM

Well-Known Member
#14
7 short books that are worth more than an MBA - GEOFFREY JAMES, INC.

http://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/7-short-books-worth-more-than-an-mba.html#ixzz3a8bleLf0

(Just came across this list, and though have to say that I read only one book - Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki, I agree with the author, as this book is in my top 10 books that I have read of all times. The importance of this book in my view is not so much about having a business, as it is about investing, creating a passive stream of income and growing your wealth. It is well written and explained in a simple and easy language, so a definitely a must read.)


Over the past few decades, the value of an MBA has declined — probably because the academic world can't keep up with the rapid pace of change in the business world. Relatively few entrepreneurs have MBAs, but I'll bet that almost all of the successful ones have read and truly treasure these seven short, easy-to-read classics:

1. "As a Man Thinketh," by James Allen
What It Teaches: Most people labor under the misconception that their life is the result of fate, luck, or circumstances. This book explains that your life is what you make of it, and the only way you'll be successful in life is if you're first successful in your mind. This is the foundation of a successful career in business. (It's also one of the top-10 motivational books of all time.)Best Quote: "A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And as he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself."


2. "Rich Dad Poor Dad," by Robert T. Kiyosaki
What It Teaches: In addition to the basics of personal finance (without which success is pointless), this book explains why building and owning businesses is the most reliable way to gain wealth. It destroys the absurd notion that a salaried job represents financial security and shows you how to think like an entrepreneur. Best Quote: "Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited, and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts."


3. "Who Moved My Cheese?," by Spencer Johnson
What It Teaches: Countless books have been written about disruptive innovation and how every individual and company must adapt to an ever-increasing pace of change. No book, however, has explained the situation (and what to do about it) so succinctly and vividly.Best Quote: "What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists."


4. "The Elements of Style," by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
What It Teaches: Now that emailing, texting, and social networking are the core of business communication, the ability to write clearly has never been more essential. After reading this book, you'll be a better writer than you were before and better than your less-informed colleagues. Best Quote: "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell."


5. "The One Minute Manager," by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
What It Teaches: If there's a better and more simple definition of what it means to be a good manager, I've yet to find it. This book contains more business wisdom (and ways to put it to use) than a dozen libraries full of academic case studies. Every boss or would-be boss should read this book. Best Quote: "If you can't tell me what you'd like to be happening, you don't have a problem yet. You're just complaining. A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening."


6. "How to Lie With Statistics," by Darrell Huff
What It Teaches: A defining characteristic of every business today is the desire to measure. Metrics, however, are worse than useless unless they're interpreted appropriately and fairly. This book puts you wise to all the tricks people use to manipulate the truth so that it leaves a false impression. It's definitely one of the 10 most eye-opening books that every entrepreneur should read. Best Quote: "The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical methods and statistical terms are necessary in reporting the mass data of social and economic trends, business conditions, 'opinion' polls, the census. But without writers who use the words with honesty and understanding and readers who know what they mean, the result can only be semantic nonsense."


7. "The Greatest Salesman in the World," by Og Mandino
What It Teaches: If you can't sell your ideas, your product, or your services, you will never be successful in business. You could read dozens of books about selling, but they all come down to the simple truths in this book, which is definitely one of the top-10 sales books of all time. Warning: This book won't just make you more successful in business. It will make you more successful at life, as well. Best Quote: "I will live this day as if it is my last. This day is all I have and these hours are now my eternity. I greet this sunrise with cries of joy as a prisoner who is reprieved from death. I lift mine arms with thanks for this priceless gift of a new day. So too, I will beat upon my heart with gratitude as I consider all who greeted yesterday's sunrise who are no longer with the living today. I am indeed a fortunate man and today's hours are but a bonus, undeserved. Why have I been allowed to live this extra day when others, far better than I, have departed? Is it that they have accomplished their purpose while mine is yet to be achieved? Is this another opportunity for me to become the man I know I can be?"
 

DSM

Well-Known Member
#15
How to Mess up your life :

Source : Quora

(Reading this list, makes me to smile. I am guilty of quite a few....)


* Don't learn from your mistakes. Continue to make the same mistakes, over and over.

* Surround yourself with the wrong crowd. You become a product of your environment. Eventually, you will no longer know who you used to be.

* Chase your dreams but refuse to acquire the skills and techniques you require to achieve them. You will just fail over and over and look like a complete moron while doing it.

* Use people. After you're done with them, they will expose you and tarnish your reputation, just like you used them for their abilities.

* Refuse to listen and open up to others. When you close yourself off to the world, you end up living a life of mediocrity.

* Look down upon others. When you feel that you are superior to others, people will walk out of your life or plot ways to take you down.

* Hold grudges. When you hold grudges, you become inept to forgiving others. Without forgiveness, you will always carry a burden of hate.

* Regret. Regret destroys everything about who you are. It limits your future. It fills you with depression and hopelessness.

* Become a victim. When a tragedy occurs in your life, you have to understand that it was just one particular situation. It isn't something that will consistently happen. Unless... You are unable to learn the lesson that was meant to be learned from the scenario.

* Hide under the covers to your bed for days on end. Life keeps moving, but you don't. Eventually, rent will be due and you won't have any money left to run away from your problems any longer.

* Some others :

* Make someone else the centre of your happiness.

* Get a facebook account.Start getting more likes and making more virtual friends (you have no chance of meeting ever) your life's mission.

* Install watsapp on your smartphone. Keep looking for notifications whole day. If you do not get a reply from someone, keep checking the "last seen online" status.

* Nurture your ego and let it become bigger than you, and your life.

* Start something, and don’t finish it. Do this again and again.

* Fall in love with someone who doesn't bother about you.

* Always strive to live up to others expectations!

* Don't take responsibility for anything.

* Be a mindless person and do not think of the consequences of your actions.

* Strive to live each day like the past. Try not to learn, be open to or do anything different.

* Never learn how to effectively and/or fully communicate with other people.

* Be very emotional about everything, pick fights/arguments often.

* Live your life as to how you would like to without thinking of the (long term and short term) consequences it has on other beings.

* Fritter away time. Never learn time management skills.

* Have a pessimistic or sadistic view on things or just life in general.

* React instead of responding.

* Don’t bother about diet or exercise.

* Spend time on the net, watching TV etc. Start doing simple/daily things in your life lazily or without purpose, and it will trickle into all things that you do.

* Think that having done anything or a combination of things listed above means that it's too late to change anything.
 

Dax Devil

Well-Known Member
#16
How to Mess up your life :

Source : Quora


* Get a facebook account.Start getting more likes and making more virtual friends (you have no chance of meeting ever) your life's mission.

* Install watsapp on your smartphone. Keep looking for notifications whole day. If you do not get a reply from someone, keep checking the "last seen online" status.


:lol:

I always knew that these time killing 'addictions' would list up in DON'Ts sooner or later. Don't have facebook, twitter or watsapp. I got fed up with my apple i4 in 2 months and gave it to my younger brother, and went back to my old faithful sony ericsson k17. :)

And BTW, I liked that joke of clocks in heaven. Feels good to end sunday surfing on a lighter note. Thanks. Have a profitable week, friend. Take care.
 

amitrandive

Well-Known Member
#17
7 short books that are worth more than an MBA - GEOFFREY JAMES, INC.

http://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/7-short-books-worth-more-than-an-mba.html#ixzz3a8bleLf0

(Just came across this list, and though have to say that I read only one book - Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki, I agree with the author, as this book is in my top 10 books that I have read of all times. The importance of this book in my view is not so much about having a business, as it is about investing, creating a passive stream of income and growing your wealth. It is well written and explained in a simple and easy language, so a definitely a must read.)


Over the past few decades, the value of an MBA has declined — probably because the academic world can't keep up with the rapid pace of change in the business world. Relatively few entrepreneurs have MBAs, but I'll bet that almost all of the successful ones have read and truly treasure these seven short, easy-to-read classics:

1. "As a Man Thinketh," by James Allen
What It Teaches: Most people labor under the misconception that their life is the result of fate, luck, or circumstances. This book explains that your life is what you make of it, and the only way you'll be successful in life is if you're first successful in your mind. This is the foundation of a successful career in business. (It's also one of the top-10 motivational books of all time.)Best Quote: "A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And as he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself."


2. "Rich Dad Poor Dad," by Robert T. Kiyosaki
What It Teaches: In addition to the basics of personal finance (without which success is pointless), this book explains why building and owning businesses is the most reliable way to gain wealth. It destroys the absurd notion that a salaried job represents financial security and shows you how to think like an entrepreneur. Best Quote: "Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited, and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts."


3. "Who Moved My Cheese?," by Spencer Johnson
What It Teaches: Countless books have been written about disruptive innovation and how every individual and company must adapt to an ever-increasing pace of change. No book, however, has explained the situation (and what to do about it) so succinctly and vividly.Best Quote: "What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists."


4. "The Elements of Style," by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
What It Teaches: Now that emailing, texting, and social networking are the core of business communication, the ability to write clearly has never been more essential. After reading this book, you'll be a better writer than you were before and better than your less-informed colleagues. Best Quote: "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell."


5. "The One Minute Manager," by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
What It Teaches: If there's a better and more simple definition of what it means to be a good manager, I've yet to find it. This book contains more business wisdom (and ways to put it to use) than a dozen libraries full of academic case studies. Every boss or would-be boss should read this book. Best Quote: "If you can't tell me what you'd like to be happening, you don't have a problem yet. You're just complaining. A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening."


6. "How to Lie With Statistics," by Darrell Huff
What It Teaches: A defining characteristic of every business today is the desire to measure. Metrics, however, are worse than useless unless they're interpreted appropriately and fairly. This book puts you wise to all the tricks people use to manipulate the truth so that it leaves a false impression. It's definitely one of the 10 most eye-opening books that every entrepreneur should read. Best Quote: "The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical methods and statistical terms are necessary in reporting the mass data of social and economic trends, business conditions, 'opinion' polls, the census. But without writers who use the words with honesty and understanding and readers who know what they mean, the result can only be semantic nonsense."


7. "The Greatest Salesman in the World," by Og Mandino
What It Teaches: If you can't sell your ideas, your product, or your services, you will never be successful in business. You could read dozens of books about selling, but they all come down to the simple truths in this book, which is definitely one of the top-10 sales books of all time. Warning: This book won't just make you more successful in business. It will make you more successful at life, as well. Best Quote: "I will live this day as if it is my last. This day is all I have and these hours are now my eternity. I greet this sunrise with cries of joy as a prisoner who is reprieved from death. I lift mine arms with thanks for this priceless gift of a new day. So too, I will beat upon my heart with gratitude as I consider all who greeted yesterday's sunrise who are no longer with the living today. I am indeed a fortunate man and today's hours are but a bonus, undeserved. Why have I been allowed to live this extra day when others, far better than I, have departed? Is it that they have accomplished their purpose while mine is yet to be achieved? Is this another opportunity for me to become the man I know I can be?"
Thanks DSM
Amazing list of books
:clap:
 

amitrandive

Well-Known Member
#18
How to Mess up your life :

Source : Quora

(Reading this list, makes me to smile. I am guilty of quite a few....)


* Don't learn from your mistakes. Continue to make the same mistakes, over and over.

* Surround yourself with the wrong crowd. You become a product of your environment. Eventually, you will no longer know who you used to be.

* Chase your dreams but refuse to acquire the skills and techniques you require to achieve them. You will just fail over and over and look like a complete moron while doing it.

* Use people. After you're done with them, they will expose you and tarnish your reputation, just like you used them for their abilities.

* Refuse to listen and open up to others. When you close yourself off to the world, you end up living a life of mediocrity.

* Look down upon others. When you feel that you are superior to others, people will walk out of your life or plot ways to take you down.

* Hold grudges. When you hold grudges, you become inept to forgiving others. Without forgiveness, you will always carry a burden of hate.

* Regret. Regret destroys everything about who you are. It limits your future. It fills you with depression and hopelessness.

* Become a victim. When a tragedy occurs in your life, you have to understand that it was just one particular situation. It isn't something that will consistently happen. Unless... You are unable to learn the lesson that was meant to be learned from the scenario.

* Hide under the covers to your bed for days on end. Life keeps moving, but you don't. Eventually, rent will be due and you won't have any money left to run away from your problems any longer.

* Some others :

* Make someone else the centre of your happiness.

* Get a facebook account.Start getting more likes and making more virtual friends (you have no chance of meeting ever) your life's mission.

* Install watsapp on your smartphone. Keep looking for notifications whole day. If you do not get a reply from someone, keep checking the "last seen online" status.

* Nurture your ego and let it become bigger than you, and your life.

* Start something, and don’t finish it. Do this again and again.

* Fall in love with someone who doesn't bother about you.

* Always strive to live up to others expectations!

* Don't take responsibility for anything.

* Be a mindless person and do not think of the consequences of your actions.

* Strive to live each day like the past. Try not to learn, be open to or do anything different.

* Never learn how to effectively and/or fully communicate with other people.

* Be very emotional about everything, pick fights/arguments often.

* Live your life as to how you would like to without thinking of the (long term and short term) consequences it has on other beings.

* Fritter away time. Never learn time management skills.

* Have a pessimistic or sadistic view on things or just life in general.

* React instead of responding.

* Don’t bother about diet or exercise.

* Spend time on the net, watching TV etc. Start doing simple/daily things in your life lazily or without purpose, and it will trickle into all things that you do.

* Think that having done anything or a combination of things listed above means that it's too late to change anything.
Fantastic stuff
:clap::clap::clap:
 

amitrandive

Well-Known Member
#19
One day, during an evening class for adults, the psychology Teacher entered the class and told his students, “Let’s all play a game!” “What Game?” asked the students. The Teacher asked one of the students to volunteer. A lady named Aliza came forward.

The Teacher asked her to write about 30 names of most important people in her life on blackboard. Aliza wrote her family members names and relatives names, friends names, her colleagues names and her neighbors names.

The Teacher told her “Please erase 3 names from the list that you consider most unimportant”. Aliza erased names of her colleagues. The Teacher again told her to delete 5 more names. Aliza did as the Teacher instructed and this time she erased her neighbor's names. This went on until there were just four names left on the blackboard.

Aliza now hesitated as the names left were of her mother, father, husband and her son... The entire class became silent and they realized that this wasn’t a game anymore for Aliza. She had to make the difficult choice.

The Teacher told her to delete two more names. Eliza unwillingly deleted her parents names. “Please delete one more” said the professor. Aliza became very nervous and with trembling hands she deleted her son’s name. Aliza cried out painfully...

The Teacher told Aliza to take her seat. And after a while asked her why she didn’t choose her parents or her son instead of her husband as the parents are the ones that nurtured her and the son is the one she gave birth to while she could find another husband. “Why is your husband the most important for you?” He asked.

It was totally quiet in the class, everyone was curious to know her response. Aliza calmly and slowly said, “One day my parents will pass away before me. Surely, my son will also leave me when he grows old for his studies or business or whatever reason. The only one who I truly share my entire life with, is my Husband”. All the students stood up and applauded for her in a great excitement.

We meet many people in our lives. They come and they go. Some stay for a while, some stay forever. Respect every relation, but know the priorities.
 

amitrandive

Well-Known Member
#20
Source:Useful Info, Facebook

This is a sincere request to all the parents, please read.
During holidays, instead of taking kids to movies,shopping, please try to do the following activities:

1. Go to the nearest bank and show them the functioning of the banks, how ATMs work and what is the benefit of it.

2. Take time out and visit orphanage, home for the aged and explain to them about those places.

3. Take them to the rivers,seas,oceans and teach them how to swim.

4. Give them saplings and ask them to plant them and water them and see them grow. Encourage them by saying that they will be presented with gifts for their good deeds.

5. Perform blood donations in front of them, and explain to them the need for it. Be a hero (role model) for them.

6. Take them to government hospitals and show them the difficulties the patients are going through. Tell them how difficult it is to go through this process of pain if you are met with an accident.

7. Take them to your hometown/village and let them spend time with their grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins. Let them experience the affection and good times of being with the family. Show them what is agriculture/farming and the difficulties a farmer goes through in providing the food that we are eating and that we should not waste food.

8. Take them to the nearby police station, court, jail. Explain them the punishments rendered to the inmates because of their wrong doings. This will make them aware of the bad things they should be away from.

9. Make them sit by you and ask them what their needs are and satisfy some of the useful ones and explain them which ones are essential and which ones are not. Give them a feeling that you are there for them.

10. Take them to all the places of worship without restricting to any single place. Take them to temples, Based on how much you know of each place explain it to them.
 
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