--- title: Tim McCarthy & BGF | Blog | Creativity & Favorites (29) description: Creativity & Favorites | This site is solely intended to share my learning in business and engaged philanthropy with like-minded people. Ideally, I will continue to build up my audience through readership and speaking gigs but since I've been writing and speaking for 30 years now, my real intention is just to share my journey. 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Don’t let the theme of building his own coffin (yes, that’s the story) throw you off. Rather than morbid this book is filled with wisdom, warmth and laughter. It is quite more about living than dying. Whether the cause is the author’s writing or my comprehension, the book started to really delight and engage me more after page 148, when at least a half dozen times I would stop, say “wow” and reread the paragraph or section. * [Read More **](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/furnishing-eternity-by-david-giffels) [![](https://springmag.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Overstory-1200x600.jpg) ](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/the-overstory-by-richard-powers) ## [The Overstory by Richard Powers](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/the-overstory-by-richard-powers) ** Aug 1, 2020 12:08:31 PM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Creativity & Favorites](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/creativity-favorites) [** 0 Comments](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/the-overstory-by-richard-powers#comments-listing) [******](https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-overstory_richard-powers/19531683/item/32136134/?mkwid=%7cdc&pcrid=448933291908&pkw=&pmt=&slid=&plc=&pgrid=107307614311&ptaid=pla-957644527157&gclid=Cj0KCQjwpZT5BRCdARIsAGEX0zla3H168fx95kSe5HuzF_iVMoFuKhuqudLJZLqD1D34nfF3QaykRwQaAveGEALw_wcB#isbn=039335668X&idiq=32136134) [Read More **](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/the-overstory-by-richard-powers) [![](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/hubfs/Louis%20LAmour.jpeg) ](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/louis-lamour) ## [Louis L'Amour](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/louis-lamour) ** Jul 28, 2020 10:52:48 PM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Creativity & Favorites](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/creativity-favorites) [** 0 Comments](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/louis-lamour#comments-listing) *“Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.” * [Read More **](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/louis-lamour) [![](https://cdn1.thr.com/sites/default/files/2020/07/carl_reiner_and_billy_crystal_-split-h_2020.jpg) ](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/the-2000-year-old-man) ## [The 2,000 Year Old Man](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/the-2000-year-old-man) ** Jul 27, 2020 7:02:25 PM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Creativity & Favorites](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/creativity-favorites) [** 0 Comments](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/the-2000-year-old-man#comments-listing) [Read More **](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/the-2000-year-old-man) [![](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/hubfs/JackJohnsonHillary-Walsh.jpg) ](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/jack-johnson) ## [Jack Johnson](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/jack-johnson) ** Jul 27, 2020 10:17:32 AM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Creativity & Favorites](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/creativity-favorites) [** 0 Comments](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/jack-johnson#comments-listing) [Read More **](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/jack-johnson) [![](https://149346666.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/business-adventures-book-summary-1200x600.jpg) ](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/business-adventures-by-john-brooks) ## [Business Adventures by John Brooks](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/business-adventures-by-john-brooks) ** Jun 30, 2020 9:36:51 PM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Creativity & Favorites](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/creativity-favorites) [** 0 Comments](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/business-adventures-by-john-brooks#comments-listing) Editor’s note:  *I’ve read ten books on business and philanthropy over the least few months.  None were worth sharing so I’ve been stuck on historical fiction but now it’s back to business.  Bill Gates and Warren Buffet’s recommended it so I tried it.  It was first published in the late 1960s so it took me a while to adjust to style and numbers and policies from the mid-20th century.  Who remembers “Cornering” or the flash crash of 1962?   As I adjusted, I realized that is what must have appealed to my business heroes.  That in business, as in life, that never changes is that no matter the numbers, practices and policies, we are emotional and irrational beings.* [Read More **](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/business-adventures-by-john-brooks) [![](https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/R1318_FOB_MIX_Blaze_C.jpg) ](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/blaze-foley) ## [Blaze Foley](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/blaze-foley) ** Jun 30, 2020 9:28:34 PM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Creativity & Favorites](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/creativity-favorites) [** 0 Comments](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/blaze-foley#comments-listing) [Read More **](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/blaze-foley) [![](https://media.npr.org/assets/news/2010/03/11/kushner-8c26a80d570ea379f9f55ec157b5f582157e813e-s800-c85.jpg) ](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/harold-kushner) ## [Harold Kushner](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/harold-kushner) ** Jun 30, 2020 9:10:22 PM / by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) posted in [Creativity & Favorites](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/topic/creativity-favorites) [** 0 Comments](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/harold-kushner#comments-listing) ****** [Read More **](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/harold-kushner) [** Prev](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/tag/creativity-favorites/page/28) [All posts](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/all) [Next **](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/tag/creativity-favorites/page/30) ### Subscribe to Email Updates - 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