In a fresh twist to the ongoing tussle between cabinet minister Satpal Maharaj and Madan Kaushik, the former Saturday alleged that the Haridwar mayor got the boundary wall of his ashram demolished and the garbage dumped outside its gate. He also demanded that those responsible are removed from their positions.

This comes two days after the supporters of the two BJP ministers clashed in Haridwar in which mayor Manoj Garg sustained injuries.

On one side, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is appealing people to clean up their surroundings under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. On the other hand, the Mayor is getting the garbage dumped outside the dwelling places of sants, Maharaj alleged.

The dwelling place of sants in question is Maharajs ashram in Prem Nagar area of Haridwar.

I have, therefore, demanded that the chief minister order an inquiry into the incident so that those responsible for it are removed from their positions, Maharaj, a senior BJP leader said in apparent reference to the Garg and the Haridwar Municipal Corporation workers.

Garg is a known supporter of Cabinet minister Kaushik who represents the Haridwar (city) assembly constituency. Maharaj happens to be the minister in-charge for Haridwar district.

The violent scuffle, in which scores of people were injured, ensued after supporters of Kaushik and Maharaj came to blows over removing allegedly illegal structures outside the latters ashram. The supporters of the two ministers have also got police case registered against one another.

It is unfortunate that the mayor got the wall around the ashram demolished. The action was taken on the false pretext that the town was getting flooded because of the wall, Maharaj said asking how could just one wall cause water logging in Haridwar.

Maharaj dubbed the action as an act of vendetta. What got his (mayors) goat is that I got re-tendering of a car parking in the Hari-ki-Pairi area done. The mayor had rented it out for Rs 1 crore, he alleged, adding that he invited open bids and the same car parking area was rented out on contract for over Rs 3 crore. Maharaj alleged that in a review meeting of Haridwar district recently Garg had said that he should have the right to rent out all parking lots so that he could manage the affairs of the city in a better way.

He (mayor) made that observation because he intended to augment the citys resources so that the employees of the municipal corporation could be paid their salaries, the mayors brother Maneesh Garg said.

Speaking on behalf of the mayor who is admitted to a hospital, Maneesh justified the action of getting the wall near Maharajs ashram demolished. It was a correct move because that wall had resulted in water logging in the city, he said. Maneesh claimed that the Municipal Corporation employees had garbage dumped outside the Ashram gate in reaction to Maharajs supporters violent attack on them and the mayor.

State BJP president Ajay Bhatt, however, sought to make light of the issue. Not much should be read into what Maharaj has said because it was said in the heat of the moment, he said adding that the issue, which was circumstantial, will be resolved. I will speak to them (Maharaj and Kaushik) and have invited them for a meeting, he told HT.

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To boost tourism, the Uttarakhand Tourism department is contemplating a Beatles museum at Chaurasi Kutia, the abandoned ashram of spiritual Guru Maharshi Mahesh Yogi at Rishikesh, where members of the world famous rock band The Beatles stayed in.

Uttarakhand Tourism Minister Satpal Maharaj, announced on Tuesday that Uttarakhand Tourism department would develop a Beatles Museum at Rishikesh.

The move was probably inspired by The Beatles Story museum at Liverpool in England from where the members hailed. The Beatles Story, located in a two-storey building, is a major tourist draw.

The Beatles Story is also celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Beatles visit to India and Rishikesh next year.

"A team from The Beatles Story had visited Rishikesh sometime back to finalise their programmes slated for next year," said Raju Gusian, a Beatles' fan and journalist who helped the team.

The Rishikesh ashram situated in the Rajaji National Park was thrown open to tourists in 2015 by the Uttarakhand forest department, attracting thousands of visitors. The forest department now charges an entry fee from each tourist for their visit to the 'ashram'. Each foreign tourist is charged Rs 600 and Indians have to pay Rs 150 per head. More than 10,000 tourists visited the ashram where the Fab Four composed songs for their iconic albums like Abbey Road, Let it Be and The White Album.

The Beatles, an English rock band, stayed here in 1968 for an advanced transcendental meditation (TM) training session under spiritual guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The legendary musicians John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr stayed in the ashram.

Unused for more than a decade after the lease of the spiritual guru expired in 2000, the ashram is being developed as an eco-tourism destination and a pilgrimage place for Beatles fans.

The bungalow of Mahesh Yogi, where the Beatles stars learnt meditation, would be a major attraction. The walls have been covered by graffiti on Beatles and Mahesh Yogi to remind the visitors of the significance of the place.

Mahesh Yogi was allocated 15 acre of forest land near Rishikesh for his ashram in 1961.The Indian spiritual guru became an international name after the four singers toured India to learn meditation in February 1968.

The Beatles boys came to Rishikesh for a three- month course, but none of them completed it. Ringo was the first to leave after only 10 days. Paul stayed for five weeks while John and George left after eight weeks.

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By spinning a wheel in his Sabarmati Ashram, no one would have imagined that a simple man would spin the fate of malnourished, underprivileged and uneducated mass of people, trying to break the shackles of 200 years of British imperialism.

Draped in his Khadi shawl and dhoti, carrying a staff and showing a path to Indians, leaving their everything, unified for a single cause of a free India, Gandhi ensured that they all become part of the worlds largest and strongest democracy.

To quote Albert Einstein, Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth. Mahatma Gandhi, who evolved the philosophy of Satyagraha in South Africa and practised it successfully, landed at Bombay on 9 January 1915. And on 25 May 1915, in Ahmedabad at Kocharab in a bungalow, Gandhiji laid the foundation of Satyagraha Ashram, conveying both the goal and the method of service.

Gandhi, who was thrown off of a train in South Africa for refusing to move from his First Class seat to Third Class (even though he held a valid First Class ticket), knew that such discrimination against Indians was common practice and this personal experience gave him a reason to fight racial discrimination.

The first step towards an untouchability-free society was taken by Gandhi, when he himself admitted to Ashram an untouchable family of Dudabhi, his wife Danibehn and their daughter Laxmi, for which he faced strong opposition. All monetary help was stopped and even social boycott was threatened but Gandhi said, In the very beginning we proclaimed to the world that the Ashram would not countenance untouchability.

Gandhi conducted the Champaran Satyagraha and the strike of Ahmedabad mill-workers during this period. He left the Sabarmati Ashram on 12 March, 1930 with a vow not to return to this Ashram till India became independent.

He held consultations with the poorest of the poor and with the richest, the highest and the emissaries of the government. On 12 March 1930, at the age of 61 years, Gandhi travelled 320 km (200 miles) on foot for 24 days to Dandi to make his own salt, presenting a tough stand against the Britishers, who made it illegal for Indians to make their own salt.

Taking the final call on 8 August, 1942, Gandhi asked the Indians to do or die for poornaswaraj (complete Independence), by launching the Quit India Movement, as a result of which, India achieved Independence within a duration of five years.

Commemorating 75 years of Quit India Movement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, The Independence struggle had seen people from all walks of life coming together. I urge lawmakers to rise above party lines and differences and contribute to Indias growth.

To mark the occasion, the Lok Sabha unanimously passed a resolution promising to work tirelessly in the next five years to build the India of Mahatma Gandhis dream. It was read out by Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, We, the representatives of more than 125 crore people, resolve to take along every citizen in working towards building a nation as envisioned by Mahatma Gandhi and other freedom fighters by 2022, when we will celebrate 75th anniversary of our Independence. We shall remain committed and dedicated to build a strong, prosperous, clean and glorious India, which is free of corruption. We are committed to the welfare of all sections and promote harmony and patriotism.

Gandhi, a man who believed in dialogues, non-violence and truth, possessed the power to bring change in the society. To quote Gandhi himself, he told everyone, You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

It is very saddening when one realises that Gandhi is now limited only to currency notes or old history text books. To trap Gandhi and his Gandhivaadi beliefs would not only be insulting to a visionary but is also harmful to the vision of a free India. Gandhi lived his life on the 11 vows he had taken ~ truth, non-violence, swadeshi, fearlessness, removal of untouchability, Brahmacharya, control of the palate, non-stealing, non-possession and physical labour.

A country, once known as the Golden Bird, remained in the cage of imperialists for 200 years and when set free is still learning to fly high over the past 70 years. How far has India come and will go is very tough to say. But yes, Gandhivaad never failed to provide the light in the hours of darkness. As Gandhi said, I feel and I have felt during the whole of my public life what we need, what a nation needs; but we, perhaps of all the nations of the world, need just now, is nothing else and nothing less than character building.

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Life Coaching

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Access to Tony Robbins proprietary and proven strategies is what sets apart a superior Tony Robbins personal coach from all of the rest. The total immersion philosophy, for example coupling coaching with live events and triggers from the live events, is also a major differentiator. These techniques ensure that each approach is completely personal and adapted to your own experiences.

Tony Robbins life coaching will help you create a culture of excellence that will become the basis for every aspect of your life. When this dedication to your personal best which is not a set standard, but something you are consistently improving in small increments is the basis for everything you do, you will find that you achieve more than you ever imagined possible.

Your personal coach will help you optimize your life step by step. He or she is a skilled, trained listener, and will notice what you dont say just as much as what you do say. This life coaching process will grow and develop, allowing you to get more and more from it over time.

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Coaching is a form of development in which a person called a coach supports a learner or client in achieving a specific personal or professional goal by providing training and guidance.[1] The learner is sometimes called a coachee. Occasionally, coaching may mean an informal relationship between two people, of whom one has more experience and expertise than the other and offers advice and guidance as the latter learns; but coaching differs from mentoring in focusing on specific tasks or objectives, as opposed to more general goals or overall development.[1][2][3]

The first use of the term "coach" in connection with an instructor or trainer arose around 1830 in Oxford University slang for a tutor who "carried" a student through an exam.[4] The word "coaching" thus identified a process used to transport people from where they are to where they want to be. The first use of the term in relation to sports came in 1861.[4] Historically the development of coaching has been influenced by many fields of activity, including adult education, the Human Potential Movement, large-group awareness training (LGAT) groups such as "est", leadership studies, personal development, and psychology.[5][6]

Professional coaching uses a range of communication skills (such as targeted restatements, listening, questioning, clarifying etc.) to help clients shift their perspectives and thereby discover different approaches to achieve their goals.[7] These skills can be used in almost all types of coaching. In this sense, coaching is a form of "meta-profession" that can apply to supporting clients in any human endeavor, ranging from their concerns in health, personal, professional, sport, social, family, political, spiritual dimensions, etc. There may be some overlap between certain types of coaching activities.[5]

The concept of ADHD coaching was first introduced in 1994 by psychiatrists Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey in their book Driven to Distraction.[8] ADHD coaching is a specialized type of life coaching that uses specific techniques designed to assist individuals with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. The goal of ADHD coaching is to mitigate the effects of executive function deficit, which is a typical impairment for people with ADHD.[9] Coaches work with clients to help them better manage time, organize, set goals and complete projects.[10] In addition to helping clients understand the impact ADHD has had on their lives, coaches can help clients develop "work-around" strategies to deal with specific challenges, and determine and use individual strengths. Coaches also help clients get a better grasp of what reasonable expectations are for them as individuals, since people with ADHD "brain wiring" often seem to need external mirrors for accurate self-awareness about their potential despite their impairment.[11]

Unlike psychologists or psychotherapists, ADHD coaches do not provide any therapy or treatment: their focus is only on daily functioning and behaviour aspects of the disorder.[12] The ultimate goal of ADHD coaching is to help clients develop an "inner coach", a set of self-regulation and reflective planning skills to deal with daily life challenges.[13] A 2010 study from Wayne State University evaluated the effectiveness of ADHD coaching on 110 students with ADHD. The research team concluded that the coaching "was highly effective in helping students improve executive functioning and related skills as measured by the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI)."[14] Yet, not every ADHD person needs a coach and not everyone can benefit from using a coach.[15]

Business coaching is a type of human resource development for business leaders. It provides positive support, feedback and advice on an individual or group basis to improve personal effectiveness in the business setting. Business coaching is also called executive coaching,[16] corporate coaching or leadership coaching. Coaches help their clients advance towards specific professional goals. These include career transition, interpersonal and professional communication, performance management, organizational effectiveness, managing career and personal changes, developing executive presence, enhancing strategic thinking, dealing effectively with conflict, and building an effective team within an organization. An industrial organizational psychologist is one example of executive coach. Business coaching is not restricted to external experts or providers. Many organizations expect their senior leaders and middle managers to coach their team members to reach higher levels of performance, increased job satisfaction, personal growth, and career development. Research studies suggest that executive coaching has a positive impact on workplace performance.[17]

In some countries, there is no certification or licensing required to be a business or executive coach, and membership of a coaching organization is optional. Further, standards and methods of training coaches can vary widely between coaching organizations. Many business coaches refer to themselves as consultants, a broader business relationship than one which exclusively involves coaching.[18]

Career coaching focuses on work and career and is similar to career counseling. Career coaching is not to be confused with life coaching, which concentrates on personal development. Another common term for a career coach is career guide.

Christian coaching is common among religious organizations and churches.[citation needed] A Christian coach is not a pastor or counselor (although he may also be qualified in those disciplines), but rather someone who has been professionally trained to address specific coaching goals from a distinctively Christian or biblical perspective. Although various training courses exist, there is no single regulatory body for Christian coaching. Some[which?] of the Christian coaching programs are based on the works of Henry Cloud, John Townsend, and John C. Maxwell.[citation needed]

Co-coaching is a structured practice of coaching between peers with the goal of learning improved coaching techniques.

Financial coaching is a relatively new form of coaching that focuses on helping clients overcome their struggle to attain specific financial goals and aspirations they have set for themselves. Financial coaching is a one-on-one relationship in which the coach works to provide encouragement and support aimed at facilitating attainment of the client's financial plans. A financial coach, also called money coach, typically focuses on helping clients to restructure and reduce debt, reduce spending, develop saving habits, and develop financial discipline. In contrast, the term financial adviser refers to a wider range of professionals who typically provide clients with financial products and services. Although early research links financial coaching to improvements in client outcomes, much more rigorous analysis is necessary before any causal linkages can be established.[19]

Health coaching is becoming recognized as a new way to help individuals "manage" their illnesses and conditions, especially those of a chronic nature.[20] The coach will use special techniques, personal experience, expertise and encouragement to assist the coachee in bringing his/her behavioral changes about, while aiming for lowered health risks and decreased healthcare costs.[21] The National Society of Health Coaches (NSHC) has differentiated the term health coach from wellness coach.[21] According to the NSHC, health coaches are qualified "to guide those with acute or chronic conditions and/or moderate to high health risk", and wellness coaches provide guidance and inspiration "to otherwise 'healthy' individuals who desire to maintain or improve their overall general health status".[21]

Homework coaching focuses on equipping a student with the study skills required to succeed academically. This approach is different from regular tutoring which typically seeks to improve a student's performance in a specific subject.[22]

Coaching in education is seen as a useful intervention to support students, faculty and administrators in educational organizations.[23] For students, opportunities for coaching include collaborating with fellow students to improve grades and skills, both academic and social; for teachers and administrators, coaching can help with transitions into new roles.[23]

Life coaching is the process of helping people identify and achieve personal goals. Although life coaches may have studied counseling psychology or related subjects, a life coach does not act as a therapist, counselor, or health care provider, and psychological intervention lies outside the scope of life coaching.

Relationship coaching is the application of coaching to personal and business relationships.[24]

In sports, a coach is an individual that provides supervision and training to the sports team or individual players. Sports coaches are involved in administration, athletic training, competition coaching, and representation of the team and the players.

Since the mid-1990s, coaching professional associations such as the Association for Coaching (AC), the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC), the International Association of Coaching (IAC), and the International Coach Federation (ICF) have worked towards developing training standards.[1]:287312[25] Psychologist Jonathan Passmore noted in 2016:[1]:3

While coaching has become a recognized intervention, sadly there are still no standards or licensing arrangements which are widely recognized. Professional bodies have continued to develop their own standards, but the lack of regulation means anyone can call themselves a coach. [...] Whether coaching is a profession which requires regulation, or is professional and requires standards, remains a matter of debate.

One of the challenges in the field of coaching is upholding levels of professionalism, standards and ethics.[25] To this end, coaching bodies and organizations have codes of ethics and member standards.[1]:287312[26] However, because these bodies are not regulated, and because coaches do not need to belong to such a body, ethics and standards are variable in the field.[25][27] In February 2016, the AC and the EMCC launched a "Global Code of Ethics" for the entire industry; individuals, associations, and organizations are invited to become signatories to it.[28][29]:1

With the growing popularity of coaching, many colleges and universities now offer coach training programs that are accredited by a professional association.[30] Some courses offer a life coach certificate after just a few days of training,[31] but such courses, if they are accredited at all, are considered " la carte" training programs, "which may or may not offer start to finish coach training," according to the ICF.[32] In contrast, "all-inclusive" training programs accredited by the ICF, for example, require a minimum of 125 student contact hours, 10 hours of mentor coaching and a performance evaluation process.[33][34] This is very little training in comparison to the training requirements of some other helping professions: for example, licensure as a counseling psychologist in the State of California requires 3,000 hours of supervised professional experience.[35] However, the ICF, for example, offers a "Master Certified Coach" credential that requires demonstration of "2,500 hours (2,250 paid) of coaching experience with at least 35 clients"[36] and a "Professional Certified Coach" credential with fewer requirements.[37] Other professional bodies similarly offer entry-level, intermediate, and advanced coach accreditation options.[38] Some coaches are both certified coaches and licensed counseling psychologists, integrating coaching and counseling.[39]

Critics see life coaching as akin to psychotherapy but without the legal restrictions and state regulation of psychologists.[25][40][41][42] There are no state regulation/licensing requirements for coaches. Due to lack of regulation, people who have no formal training or certification can legally call themselves life or wellness coaches.[43]

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You might find it interesting to know that each of us has a unique preference for the way in which we like to receive, learn and internally represent new information and experiences.

This knowledge can be particularly helpful in relationships and in careers that involve educating, helping or motivating people (teachers and life coaches are two examples).

Before I explain any more about these different channels of learning and representation (commonly called modalities) and so that you do not unfairly prejudge what I have to say I would invite you to explore your own preferred learning modality.

Confucius

New Insights is unique in offering a structured 13-session coaching system for its trainee coaches to use in practice coaching and if they choose in their professional coaching endeavours after certification.

When the system is properly followed, the coaching process takes coach and client around six months or so to complete and may be followed up with ongoing coaching if needs be.

Six months? Is there no quick fix? I often get asked.

There are no short cuts to any place worth going.

Beverly Sills

Is there anyone who can say, with hand on heart, that they are not in awe of or at the very least inspired by the amazing diversity of scenery, climate, trees, plants, animals, fish and even insects that we are so privileged to be surrounded by on this beautiful planet of ours?

I have yet to come across such a person!

Why is it, then, that so many humans struggle to come to terms with the issue of diversity within our own species?

It is our inability to recognise, accept and celebrate those differences.

Audre Lord

Have you ever noticed how these three little words, could, would and should, tend to dominate our language?

They all have many important and rather innocuous uses of course, but they can also be reflective of a life not lived to its full potential.

Im referring, in particular, to the use of these words when paired with the word have, as in could have , would have and should have .

Gabrielle Zevin

Politically and socioeconomically speaking, the world is pretty unstable right now. I doubt many readers would disagree with this.

Although New Insights is proud to have trainee coaches and certified coaches all over the world, our main markets are the UK and South Africa.

And right now both countries, in particular, are currently experiencing a level of political and socioeconomic uncertainty not felt for a long time.

As we citizens struggle to make sense of the upheaval, it is tempting to point a finger of blame at our leaders, whinge and complain amongst ourselves and then sit back and hope that the whole mess sorts itself out soon.

But that would amount to simply existing when we really should be living!

Louis E. Boone

If you are a regular reader of this Blog and youre not already a coach, or training to become one, theres a good chance that becoming a life coach is something you have given serious consideration to.

If so, Ive been in the business long enough now to know whats likely to be holding you back.

There are about half a dozen questions that 90% of people considering a career in life coaching routinely ask. Right up in the rankings is: Can I make a success out of this?

I normally preface my stock answer with the following quote from Henry Ford (see the box below:)

Henry Ford

Were celebrating!

Glance to the right and youll notice an award for Life Coaching Insights. Feedspot adjudged us to be one of the top 100 life coach related blogs internationally (you can click on the award to read more).

In fact, we cracked their top 20, being placed 18th a great honour indeed.

One of the main criteria for this award was quality and consistency of the content posted.

That got me thinking

Elbert Hubbard

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Steve Spurrier joined Taylor Zarzour and Greg McElroy on SiriusXM College Sports Nation Thursday morning to discuss life after coaching football.

More than anything, Spurrier said, he misses game days.

I do not miss all the extracurricular stuff that (coaches) have to do now, Spurrier said. Recruiting has turned year round Theyre calling guys, texting, what have ya, so I dont miss that.

Its no secret Spurrier liked to live life outside the coaches office. In the interview, he talks about an article someone once wrote about him saying it was surprising to see him coaching into his late 60s, because he liked to golf and go to the beach a lot.

Spurrier said he seldom stayed at the office until 10 or 11 at night.

Theres other things in life besides coaching, he added.

In todays arms race that is college football, full of egos and maniacal coaches, its refreshing to hear from Spurrier, who never took thingstooseriously.

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Frank Broyles knew two things had to happen if the Arkansas Razorbacks had any hope of competing in the SEC in football.

The facilities race already had begun in 1999 when he broached the subject of adding 20,000 seats to Razorbacks Stadium and giving it more eye appeal.

The director of athletics at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville also knew to support it and help pay for it he would have to move one of the three games from Little Rock.

First, he would need the approval of the UA board of trustees. In an open forum he met with the board and brought in a model of a stadium that looked like it was out of Star Wars, futuristic with pods running out of it.

There was a stunned silence, and Broyles had it removed. Another model, a classic with beauty and elegance, was brought in and he got his vote. Reynolds Razorback Stadium was born.

Broyles was a great football coach but as director of athletics he was brilliant, a visionary, a fundraiser and perhaps one of the greatest athletic directors in college history.

He raised more than $240 million for physical improvements. Every sports facility was built or updated on his watch.

He flew through a snowstorm to North Carolina to hire Eddie Sutton before Duke could.

He was ahead of his time when he hired Nolan Richardson, who brought a new style of basketball and a national championship.

He recognized the potential in a driver's ed teacher named Norm DeBriyn.

He hired John McDonnell.

He hired so many assistant coaches that went on to success as head coaches that David Bazzel created the Broyles Award for the nation's top assistant.

When he hired a mistake, he fired him. It was never personal. He always believed it was in the best interest of the UA.

A few years ago Jeff Long, who replaced Broyles as athletic director, decided to honor Broyles for more than 50 years of service to the school at halftime of a football game. The invitation was for any player or former assistant who wanted to come down on the field at the half.

They came from all over the world, and Frank Broyles Field was almost covered with the guys who wanted to pay tribute to their mentor.

In 1991 he made a move that would eventually change the landscape of college football. He and the Razorbacks joined the SEC.

Broyles and his best friend Darrell Royal, the former Texas coach and special assistant to the school's president, wanted to make the move together, but Texas had too much power in the Southwest Conference and decided to stay.

South Carolina was added to the move, and the SEC became the first conference to expand and was able to get a $5 million TV deal for its conference championship. There may not be Power 5 conferences and multimillion-dollar TV contracts if Broyles did not have the foresight to move the UA to the SEC.

In his last years, Broyles worked tirelessly for Alzheimer's awareness. His first wife Barbara died from complications of Alzheimer's in 2004, and Royal did as well in 2012. The disease got Broyles on Monday, but not before he established the Broyles Foundation to help teach caregivers of Alzheimer's patients how to cope and deal with the disease.

His book, Coach Broyles' Playbook for Alzheimer's Caregivers, is available through broylesfoundation.com, and more than a million copies have been distributed. It has been published in 11 languages.

Frank Broyles -- football coach, administrator, TV analyst and Arkansas' No. 1 ambassador -- will be missed by legions of fans, but his legacy may live forever.

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You could say I was red-pilled by Nietzsche.

Thats how white nationalist leader Richard Spencer described his intellectual awakening to the Atlantics Graeme Wood in June. Red-pilled is a common alt-right term for that eureka moment one experiences upon confrontation with some dark and previously buried truth.

For Spencer and other alt-right enthusiasts of the 19th-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, that dark truth goes something like this: All the modern pieties about race, peace, equality, justice, civility, universal suffrage thats all bullshit. These are constructs cooked up by human beings and later enshrined as eternal truths.

Nietzsche says the world is in constant flux, that there is no capital-T truth. He hated moral and social conventions because he thought they stifled the individual. In one of his most famous essays, The Genealogy of Morality, which Spencer credits with inspiring his awakening, Nietzsche tears down the intellectual justifications for Christian morality. He calls it a slave morality developed by peasants to subdue the strong. The experience of reading this was shattering, Spencer told Wood. It upended his moral universe.

There is, of course, much more to Nietzsche than this. As someone silly enough to have written a dissertation on Nietzsche, Ive encountered many Spencer-like reactions to his thought. And Im not surprised that the old German philosopher has become a lodestar for the burgeoning alt-right movement. There is something punk rock about his philosophy. You read it for the first time and you think, Holy shit, how was I so blind for so long?!

But if you read Nietzsche like a college freshman cramming for a midterm, youre bound to misinterpret him or at least to project your own prejudices into his work. When that happens, we get bad Nietzsche, as the Weeks Scott Galupo recently put it.

And it would appear that bad Nietzsche is back, and he looks a lot like he did in the early 20th century when his ideas were unjustly appropriated by the (original) Nazis. So nows a good time to reengage with Nietzsches ideas and explain what the alt-right gets right and wrong about their favorite philosopher.

In her recent book about the rise of the alt-right, Irish academic Angela Nagle discusses their obsession with civilizational decay. Theyre disgusted by what they consider a degenerate culture, she told me in a recent interview.

Nietzsche made these same arguments more than 100 years ago. The story he tells in The Genealogy of Morality is that Christianity overturned classical Roman values like strength, will, and nobility of spirit. These were replaced with egalitarianism, community, humility, charity, and pity. Nietzsche saw this shift as the beginning of a grand democratic movement in Western civilization, one that championed the weak over the strong, the mass over the individual.

The alt-right or at least parts of the alt-right are enamored of this strain of Nietzsches thought. The influential alt-right blog Alternative Right refers to Nietzsche as a great visionary and published an essay affirming his warnings about cultural decay.

Future historians will likely look back on the contemporary West as a madhouse, the essays author writes, where the classic virtues of heroism, high culture, nobility, self-respect, and reason had almost completely disappeared, along with the characteristics of adulthood generally.

In his interview with the Atlantic, Spencer, an avowed atheist, surprised Wood with a peculiar defense of Christianity: that the religion is false but it bound together the civilizations of Europe.

Spencers view is common among the alt-right. They have no interest in the teachings of Christ, but they see the whole edifice of white European civilization as built on a framework of Christian beliefs. From their perspective, Christendom united the European continent and forged white identity.

Its a paradox: They believe the West has grown degenerate and weak because it internalized Christian values, but they find themselves defending Christendom because they believe its the glue that binds European culture together.

Last August, Vox Day, a prominent alt-right thinker (who often cites Nietzsche in his posts), laid out the central tenets of the alt-right in a post titled What the Alt-Right is. There are a number of revealing points, one of which reads:

The Alt Right believes Western civilization is the pinnacle of human achievement and supports its three foundational pillars: Christianity, the European nations, and the Graeco-Roman legacy.

Nietzsche accepted that Christianity was central to the development of Western civilization, but his whole philosophy was focused on convincing people that the West had to move beyond Christianity.

When Nietzsche famously declared that God is dead, he meant that science and reason had progressed to the point where we could no longer justify belief in God, and that meant that we could no longer justify the values rooted in that belief. So his point was that we had to reckon with a world in which there is no foundation for our highest values.

The alt-right skipped this part of Nietzsches philosophy. Theyre tickled by the death of God thesis but ignore the implications.

Nietzsche's argument was that you had to move forward, not fall back onto ethnocentrism, Hugo Drochon, author of Nietzsches Great Politics, told me. So in many ways Spencer is stuck in the 'Shadows of God' claiming Christianity is over but trying to find something that will replace it so that we can go on living as if it still existed, rather than trying something new.

The alt-right renounces Christianity but insists on defending Christendom against nonwhites. But thats not Nietzsche; thats just racism. And the half-baked defense of Christendom is an attempt to paper over that fact.

Nietzsche was interested in ideas, in freedom of thought. To the extent that he knocked down the taboos of his day, it was to free up the creative powers of the individual. He feared the death of God would result in an era of mass politics in which people sought new isms that would give them a group identity.

The time is coming when the struggle for dominion over the earth will be carried on in the name of fundamental philosophical doctrines, he wrote. By doctrines, he meant political ideologies like communism or socialism. But he was equally contemptuous of nationalism, which he considered petty and provincial.

Listening to Spencer talk about Nietzsche (and, regrettably, I listened to his Nietzsche podcast) is like hearing someone who never got past the introduction of any of his favorite books. Its the kind of dilettantism you hear in first-year critical theory seminars. He uses words like radical traditionalist and archeofuturist, neither of which means anything to anyone.

Like so many superficial readers of Nietzsche, Spencer is excited by the radicalism but doesnt take it seriously. Spencers rejection of conventional conservatism clearly has roots in Nietzsches ideas, but Spencers fantasy of a white ethnostate is exactly what Nietzsche was condemning in the Germany of his time.

Nietzsche's way forward was not more [racial] purity but instead more mixing, Drochon told me. His ideal was to bring together the European Jew and the Prussian military officer. Spencer, I take it, only wants the latter. Nietzsche, for better or worse, longed for a new kind of European citizen, one free of group attachments, be they racial or ideological or nationalistic.

Racists find affirmation in Nietzsches preference for Aryan humanity, a phrase he uses in several books, but that term doesnt mean what racists think it means. Aryan humanity is always contrasted with Christian morality in Nietzsches works; its a reference to pre-Christian Paganism. Second, in Nietzsches time, Aryan was not a racially pure concept; it also included Indo-Iranian peoples.

People often say that the Nazis loved Nietzsche, which is true. Whats less known is that Nietzsches sister, who was in charge of his estate after he died, was a Nazi sympathizer who shamefully rearranged his remaining notes to produce a final book, The Will to Power, that embraced Nazi ideology. It won her the favor of Hitler, but it was a terrible disservice to her brothers legacy.

Nietzsche regularly denounced anti-Semitism and even had a falling-out with his friend Richard Wagner, the proto-fascist composer, on account of Wagners rabid anti-Semitism. Nietzsche also condemned the blood and soil politics of Otto von Bismarck, the Prussian statesman who unified Germany in 1871, for cementing his power by stoking nationalist resentments and appealing to racial purity.

So theres no way to square Nietzsches philosophy with the racial politics of the alt-right, just as it wasnt fair to charge Nietzsche with inspiring Nazism. But both of these movements found just enough ambiguity in his thought to justify their hate.

Nietzsche liked to say that he philosophized with a hammer. For someone on the margins, stewing in their own hate or alienation or boredom, his books are a blast of dynamite. All that disillusionment suddenly seems profound, like you just stumbled upon a secret that justifies your condition.

He tells you that the world is wrong, that society is upside down, that all our sacred cows are waiting to be slaughtered. So if youre living in a multiethnic society, you trash pluralism. If youre embedded in a liberal democracy, you trumpet fascism. In short, you become politically incorrect and fancy yourself a rebel for it.

Nietzsche was a lot of things iconoclast, recluse, misanthrope but he wasnt a racist or a fascist. He would have shunned the white identity politics of the Nazis and the alt-right. That hes been hijacked by racists and fascists is partly his fault, though. His writings are riddled with contradictions and puzzles. And his fixation on the future of humankind is easily confused with a kind of social Darwinism.

But in the end, people find in Nietzsches work what they went into it already believing. Which is why the alt-right, animated as they are by rage and discontent, find in Nietzsche a mirror of their own resentments. If youre seeking a reason to reject a world you dont like, you can find it anywhere, especially in Nietzsche.

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The alt-right is drunk on bad readings of Nietzsche. The Nazis were too. - Vox

The artist Maira Kalman summed up the current popular regard for walking when she said, Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.

Philosophers and thinkers have long pushed the idea of walking as respite, as a creative fountain or as Nietzsche said: "Only thoughts that are reached by walking have value." But what if walking, far from being benign and noble, instead represents just another conflict of our ongoing culture wars, where the forces of progress have whitewashed the past to reach the present? This proxy battle celebrates the walker of leisure and ignores those who walk because they have no other choice.

Photo: Maggie Shannon for The Outline

Photo: Maggie Shannon for The Outline

In philosophical evocations, walking is routinely an experience described, and subscribed to, by those who don't need to walk. Walking is luxury, a high-minded ramble of the enlightened; its elitism hiding behind a ruse of apparent accessibility. Exactly what you think about when you think about walking is your own internal indicator of where you live, your status, your wealth, your class. Even walking at its seemingly most egalitarian can be anything but. When the father of America's National Parks, John Muir, declared that going out was really going in, he was speaking to people with time, to people whose lives werent monopolized by survival.

Walking is an activity through which the haves are separated from the have-nots. There are the walkers of leisure and the walkers of necessity, who walk to survive, because there is no other way for them to move.

All across the world people walk. They walk in cities not designed for those without means. They walk not as a hobby, or to keep fit, or to save the environment, or to think. They walk out of necessity. While walkers of leisure may strive to escape humanity, indentured walkers seek it out; for trade, for food, for communication, for life. The essayist Edward Abbey once described walking as ... the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect like a man on his own legs," forgetting that the walker of necessity is often slumped, tired, searching for satisfaction at the destination, rather than from the act of walking itself.

Photo: Maggie Shannon for The Outline

Photo: Maggie Shannon for The Outline

In much of the world, this walking for survival remains something of a national pastime, with the people who need it most often ill-served by the hand of the state. In Botswana's barren Tuli Block game reserve, I watched workers hitchhike from the side of the road after work, surrounded by a wilderness of lions, elephants, hyenas, and leopards. Across the border in South Africa, I witnessed how a lack of infrastructure makes the process of walking uniquely dangerous. The same scene played on repeat in villages dotted all over the country; groups of men, women and children wandering the roads day and night, often without any source of light save for the headlights of the cars speeding by as darkness fell. The lack of streetlights, crosswalks, and sidewalks make the very process of walking hazardous, with pedestrians accounting for a large proportion of road deaths in the country. This situation is acknowledged by alcohol labeling that sometimes features a unique warning: Dont Drink and Walk on the Road, You May Be Killed.

Social attitudes towards walking historically show a stark divide depending on who's doing the walking. When Muir was trailblazing across America, he was dismissive of the native Americans who'd forged such paths, regarding them as dirty and subhuman in the face of an ever wondrous nature. While his attitudes would change over time, this idea of walking being almost holy when practiced by some, dangerous when practiced by others, has long been established. Lauren Elkin's recent book Flneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London, notes that even today, walking for women remains a dangerous practice in cities around the world, and in the past was something that women were culturally prevented from engaging in. Both wondering and wandering were reserved solely for men.

In Australia the term walkabout has long been used to describe Aboriginal boys becoming men via long periods spent alone in the bush. In recent years the term walkabout has had to be recharacterized as "temporary mobility" due to the negative connotations it has come to represent. In regard to Nicholas Roeg's 1971 film Walkabout, which follows the intertwining stories of two white city kids and an Aboriginal boy, the critic Roger Ebert wondered: "Is it a parable about noble savages and the crushed spirits of city dwellers? That's what the film's surface suggests, but I think it's about something deeper and more elusive: the mystery of communication."

Walking is usually nothing more than a reflection of where we are at any given time. When Napoleon force-marched his men across the Egyptian desert, telling them upon seeing Giza's pyramids, "Forward! Remember that from those monuments yonder 40 centuries look down upon you," he was basking in the realization that such endeavors created on the backs of men were part of a living history. This was walking as triumphalism, for one man at least. But walkings simplicity allows it to take on infinite forms and meanings; virtue or vice. Stalin used walking and work to break the spirit of men in the Soviet Union's Gulags, while Slavomir Rawicz's book The Long Walk details a journey of thousands of kilometers to escape them. Martin Luther King Jr., like others before him, seized the idea of walking as freedom, as protest, and in the 1963 March on Washington, a walk of less than a mile, stoked government fears that a domestic invasion was afoot. You can strip a man of everything, but short of penning him in, you can't strip his ability to walk.

Walking is now big business. In almost every city in the world you'll find some kind of walking tour; modest, extravagant, historical, nature-gazing. There are walking retreats, walking holidays, walking to keep fit, walking as education, walking to "find yourself." When we're not thinking, we're achieving. We record the number steps taken, the calories burned, the Instagram photos taken, the milestones ticked off on any one of the hundreds of fitness apps available. Walking in many ways has become a luxury pursuit, serviced by multi-billion dollar brands like The North Face and Patagonia originally started as bootstrapped operations to serve a few enthusiasts that sell adventure, wilderness and silence to walkers everywhere. Well, to some walkers, at least.

Walking is now at the forefront of a push to boost public health, with its virtues increasingly discovered by authorities the world over. The U.K.'s National Health Service currently touts a myriad of benefits, from lowering the risk of certain cancers to controlling weight to reducing stress levels. Indeed one of the reasons walking is so good for us is ironically because we're so bad at it. Walking is complicated, and humans walk like a bad, inefficient pendulum. In Wanderlust: A History of Walking, Rebecca Solnit captures this simultaneous complexity and simplicity of walking:

But what of the hardship of indentured walking? The sore limbs and muscles, the weight of the water on your head, the goods in your arms, or the child on your back. Walking for miles on end, only to wake up and do the same walk all over again; tired, stiff, aching.

When George A. Romero created the modern zombie genre in 1968 with Night of the Living Dead, he somehow captured this awkwardness, the exaggerated stiltedness as the undead seemed to be learning to walk all over again. Romero's allegorical films over the following decades served up social commentary on many of the perceived ills in American society, from consumerism to racism to suburbanization, something that with a sort of successive approximation led to perhaps the darkest depiction of this gait: AMC's hit show The Walking Dead. With its zombies literally called walkers, the show and the graphic novels before it unintentionally depict the less considered side of walking, with modern society using every tool it can lay its hands on to protect itself from the walkers. In this divided society, the walkers are reduced to using only their ability to walk against the people of means at least until they can sink their teeth into them.

Photo: Maggie Shannon for The Outline

Photo: Maggie Shannon for The Outline

The safe zones of The Walking Dead, brief islands of tranquility until they're eventually breached, are reflected in the design of many of the world's cities. When Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann set about renovating Paris in the 1850s, his assignment wasn't to create the walking wonderland we may know today, but rather an attempt to eradicate disease, overcrowding and crime, and allegedly the threat of revolution. Narrow streets where revolt could be and had been fomented were demolished, in their place vast boulevards carved. Haussmann would be sacked without finishing the job, but he set in motion a vast vacuum that the state and later the walkers of leisure could fill once again.

Walking through the streets of Paris late last year, it was hard not to be won over by the city, but the centuries of social cleansing that followed Haussmann's renovation has resulted in a Paris today where the walkers of need are marooned outside the walls, in forgotten banlieues, unable to take advantage of the boulevards, instead penned into great poverty traps. Such is the stark inequality at the heart of this that a new lexicon has arisen to deal with it: the comfortable suburb is the banlieue aise, the disadvantaged suburb the banlieue dfavoris. As thousands of cars are set alight in these banlieue dfavoris every summer, it's hard not to be reminded of The Walking Dead.

In Doha, Qatar, I witnessed a city where planners had been confronted by the opposite problem: to raise a city from the dust where there had been none before it. Founded in the early 1800s, but transformed by the discovery of oil and gas, this archly global city has in recent decades seen huge injections of cash. Billions of dollars have been pumped into skyscrapers, modern art and museums, designed by world-renowned architects like Jean Nouvel and I.M. Pei. Visiting it, it seemed fitting that the city was recently named one of the New7Wonders Cities "...that best represent the achievements and aspirations of our global urban civilization."

The end result for the inhabitants however, is a city dripping in wealth but permanently under construction, where Land Cruisers driven by impeccably dressed young men careen at high speeds down monstrous highways. When the city's indentured laborers have their rare days off, they make their way to the waterfront, not via carefully designed sidewalks but crammed against the barriers of highways, playing a constant game of chicken with the very fabric of the place they live, the place they're building.

In some, small, significant way, however, the walkers of necessity may be having the last laugh, realizing at least some of the benefits of a lifestyle we were designed for, rather than the one of endless progress. As much of the world struggles with soaring levels of obesity and diabetes, it's not hard to see why we're being encouraged to get out and walk more. In doing so we should perhaps come to the realization that walking can be both indentured and free, that the walkers of necessity have something to offer that much of the modern world now claws for. For now, the irony persists that the more we embrace the romanticism of walking, the more we seem to look down on those who walk because they have to.

Walking recently in the valleys of North Wales, far away from the inequalities of the city, on routes and paths that appeared Genesis-like, but were carved by need and nurture and nature, I was steadily seduced by Maria Kalman's words. The moorgrime thick round my shoulders, the silence at times all-embracing save for the work of the inefficient pendulum. I'd escaped the dumbfound town, discovered like Henry David Thoreau that This was that Earth of which we have heard, made out of Chaos and Old Night, and become sodden, enlightened, charged revived even of the glory of life.

On my return, I tried to remember that the dirt in the soles of my boots contained no less than an alternative story of man.

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