| | |||||||
| Fun & Recreation Travel, vacationing, enjoying life, pleasurable experiences, adventure, games, jokes, humorous stories |
|
Welcome to the Personal Development for Smart People Forums, the place for lively, intelligent discussion of all personal growth issues -- physical, mental, financial, social, emotional, spiritual, and more. You're currently viewing as a guest, which gives you limited read-only access. By joining our free community, you'll be able to post your own messages, access many members-only features, see the new messages posted since your last visit, and of course remove this header message. Registration is fast, simple, and free, so please join today. If you arrived here from a search engine, you may want to explore the main site first, which includes hundreds of deep and insightful articles on a variety of personal development topics. |
| | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
| | #1 (permalink) |
| Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 322
|
Planning to run for office at the national level someday and one of the things that I find fascinating and yet no so little about is foreign affairs (i.e. political and military history). I've watched a few documentaries like Fog of War and really enjoyed them as a means to learn more about the world. I was wondering if anyone has other suggestions along these lines?
__________________ Maximize your commute time and exercise time with audio learning @ LearnOutLoud.com |
| | |
| | #2 (permalink) |
| Moderator Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Berlin, Germany
Posts: 5,004
|
Read books. Try to understand why someone in history did the things he did. Even when you don't share the same values as that person, you can still be able to understand which values motivated the person to act. Don't reason that people did bad things because they are evil. The pictures in a documentary have emotional effects that aren't helpful when you want to build understanding of an issue. You pick up the narrative of the story without thinking for yourself.
__________________ I am always open for feedback on my posts. If your feedback would go offtopic feel free to send me a Personal Message. My posts generally don't contain medical or legal advice, if you have a problem seek the opinion of an expert Talking about this in terms of “bad news” or “bad judgment by business leaders” seems archaic. It’s like describing World War One as “a serious diplomatic concern.” Bruce Sterling about the financial crisis. |
| | |
| | #3 (permalink) |
| Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Victoria, BC, Canada
Posts: 194
|
Foreign Affairs is tough because there arent really a lot of movies out there that focus on the policy aspect like fog of war. You could look at movies based on real events like Thirteen Days (based on the cuban missile crisis and a very good movie) but really like Brutha said, you've got to read. If you're willing to read and you're really serious about becoming informed on foreign affairs what you need is a subscription to Stratfor, they know what theyre talking about when it comes to this kind of stuff. Other than that, there are a lot of good newspapers (New York Times, BBC (not a newspaper I know but very similar), weeklys (Times, Economist (is economist weekly?)) and more academic journals (Foreign Affairs, Atlantic) to keep you up to date. As for history...maybe go buy a textbook from your local university bookstore?
__________________ ImprovedLives.com | How to use Psychology for Personal Growth Follow me on Twitter, FriendFeed, and StumbleUpon |
| | |
| Bookmarks |
« Previous Thread
|
Next Thread »
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
| |
| | ||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| I want to learn a new language | officelurker | Personal Effectiveness | 20 | 05-10-2008 04:15 AM |
| My figure out the feelings inside my brain/body thread | Sunnybayes | Personal Effectiveness | 87 | 04-27-2008 04:57 PM |
| Short history of psi research | mind-energy | Psychic & Paranormal | 0 | 02-02-2007 03:29 PM |
| Next To Learn: Web Design | New Every Day | Technology & Technical Skills | 14 | 12-04-2006 03:41 PM |
| Tempted to learn how to program.. | FutureBillionaire | Technology & Technical Skills | 11 | 11-19-2006 08:11 PM |
All times are GMT. The time now is 05:46 AM.






