While whales are known to breathe through their blowholes they are unable to breathe through their mouth because the trachea is not connected to the whales throat. According to some researchers whales are also able to use up to 90% of the oxygen they inhale as compared to humans that are only able to use around 15% of the oxygen they inhale.

Andrew: what is your, who is your ex-business partner or what, what do we need to know about him that allowed him to do this? I guess I’m trying to understand. This is especially true while the turtle is sleeping. During this time, they breathe through cloacal respiration and their metabolism rate slows down, which means the turtle requires less oxygen to survive than before. As a result, aquatic turtles can stay underwater for up to 7 hours while they sleep.In another chapter that I remember somewhat vividly from this novel, George reminisces about getting to spend a few months alone on an island, at some strange care-taking job, just sitting alone, reading and thinking. Coming up for air, you might say. Life might offer a peaceful interregnum here or there, Orwell suggests, but there's also an awareness throughout his work that the world will not simply allow us to go into hiding and read books. Not for long, anyway. In addition to his literary career Orwell served as a police officer with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922-1927 and fought with the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War from 1936-1937. Orwell was severely wounded when he was shot through his throat. Later the organization that he had joined when he joined the Republican cause, The Workers Party of Marxist Unification (POUM), was painted by the pro-Soviet Communists as a Trotskyist organization (Trotsky was Joseph Stalin's enemy) and disbanded. Orwell and his wife were accused of "rabid Trotskyism" and tried in absentia in Barcelona, along with other leaders of the POUM, in 1938. However by then they had escaped from Spain and returned to England. And he’s not leaving in two weeks or two days. He’s leaving in two minutes. Right. And so I’m sitting there and I go white because I’m like, holy crap. The way that we had separated the business was he was the people facing person, and I was the behind the scenes person. And we had all these clients, all these team members, we had this broken business model. Because turtles need air to survive, all species can drown. This includes aquatic turtles, such as sea turtles. This is why all turtle owners must have a basking spot for the turtle to access. Without proper access to air and land, turtles will drown and eventually die. Still, your turtle isn’t breathing underwater whenever it is fully submerged. Instead, it is simply absorbing oxygen through the water. After a while, it must come up for air.

Gone is the side-splitting humour, as we find ourselves immersed in George Bowling’s childhood. This is a world of innocence, and of vivid sights and smells; of boyhood, family life and rambling in the country. We read about George and his older brother, living in their parents’ shop in “Lower Binfield” near the River Thames. It is a seed merchant’s, but selling sundry items too, and has a peculiar dusty smell. Such shops were rapidly becoming outmoded, and going downhill. It saddens George to think of his father, working so hard at a soul-destroying business and barely keeping his head above water: You’ll learn the proven empirical strategies from someone who not only turned his company around when it was on the verge of bankruptcy, but has also helped thousands of organizations around the world become more efficient and leverage the right systems and tools for explosive growth. Come Up for Air is the employee manual you never received. I am so excited to finally share this with you all! I’ve spent nearly four years working on my new book, Come Up for Air, and it’s finally available to the public. And so they are hired by many companies to do this. I invited him here, um, to talk about how he systemize and how he built up a business where he does this for clients and to find out about his book, which he sent me an early copy of. It’s called Come Up for Air, how Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop drowning in Work.I think John Wain was right when he said, "What makes _Coming Up For Air_ so peculiarly bitter to the taste is that, in addition to calling up the twin spectres of totalitarianism and workless poverty, it also declares the impossibility of 'retaining one's childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies' - because it postulates a world in which these things are simply not there any more." George Bowling is an unhappily married, middle-aged insurance salesman and social conformist. One day, after an unexpected windfall of cash, he embarks on a sabbatical journey to his childhood home hoping to find a respite from his miserable existence and to re-discover the mythical ’Walden Pond’ of his youth. But, much to his dismay, George discovers that every touchstone of his upbringing has been obliterated by urban sprawl and development. And so I went off and developed this scheduling tool. So it’s, I’ve always been passionate about productivity and saving time. And during that journey, virtual, which at that time was one of the biggest virtual assistant companies and we’re, we’re mutual friends with the old, old former founder. Um, they announced bankruptcy one day and I was having dinner with my ex-business partner.

Bowling is wondering what to do with a modest sum of money that he has won on a horserace and which he has concealed from his wife and family. Much later (part III), he and his wife attend a Left Book Club meeting where he is horrified by the hate shown by the anti-fascist speaker and bemused by the Marxist ramblings of the communists who have participated in the meeting. Fed up with this, he seeks his friend Old Porteous, the retired schoolmaster. He usually enjoys Porteous' company, but on this occasion, his dry, dead classics make Bowling even more depressed. A psychologist and Nobel Prize winner summarizes and synthesizes the recent decades of research on intuition and systematic thinking. Duecentonovanta pagine a fianco di George (omonimo dell’autore) Bowling, un quarantacinquenne pingue, tristemente sposato, che inizia a ricordare il giorno in cui si reca a Londra per ritirare la propria dentiera. Ricorda i primi anni del secolo, quando era un adolescente a Lower Binfield e arriva alla conclusione che niente come la pesca è stato importante nella sua vita. La pesca identifica la sua giovinezza, quello stagno pieno di sogni enormi dove sarebbe bastato far calare un amo, avere una canna e una lenza per tirarli su. Due to the fact that whales live in the ocean they’ve developed a way to maintain their awareness of their surroundings and maintain control of their breathing, even when at rest. Andrew: Okay. All right. Gimme an example of a client that you helped. What, what did they come to you with the problem, what did you do? And then what happened afterwards because of that?I can’t help but draw parallels between Orwell’s comedic take on bad marriage [ Coming Up For Air] and Tolstoy’s dramatic take on bad marriage [ The Kreutzer Sonata]—the difference being that Orwell’s character blissfully daydreams about the death of his wife (thus the comedy) and Tolstoy’s character actually murders his wife (thus the drama). Is each man questioning the whole institution of matrimony with similar conclusions? Or is it just me? After all, I have personally been twice married and twice divorced. Maybe I’m projecting? … Most commonly, turtles breathe through nares that are found above their mouth. Whenever they are breathing air, the process is very similar to ours, but it is not exactly the same. Because of the turtle’s hard shell, the turtle has certain muscles that aid in the breathing process. We’re going to have it organized in this way that you can follow along. Okay. I’m with you. Let’s get into how you did this. You worked on Wall Street. You met someone who opened your eyes to entrepreneurship. What did the person say?

The book also contains some hints at what was to come with ' Nineteen Eighty-Four' which Orwell would write a few years later - specifically musings on an "after-war" dystopian future characterised by hate, slogans, secret cells etc. Remarkably prescient and demonstrating he was already thinking about some of the themes that were later developed so memorably in ' Nineteen Eighty-Four'. George Bowling begins to remind himself of how good things used to be as a child. There is a overwhelming sense of longing; a grasp for something out of reach; a straining to recapture some of that lost idyllic time. And we find now that we are reading a completely different sort of book from that first hilarious section. As soon as we begin, we sense the sardonic tone recognisable from George Orwell’s autobiographical essays such as “Why I Write” or “Confessions of a Book Reviewer”, (both written later) and think “Ah, this is a comic novel”. The first line is: Açıkçası bu kitap kütüphanemde aylardır bekliyordu. Bir iki defa elimde gezdirdim ama tam anlamıyla canım istemediği için bıraktım. Neden sonra bir iştahla bu kitabı aradım rafların arasında ve elime almam ile bitirmem bir oldu demek isterdim ama araya hastalık girdiği için birkaç gün ertelendi kitabın bitişi ve bu inceleme yazısı.I can see the war that’s coming and I can see the after-war, the food-queues and the secret police and the loudspeakers telling you what to think.” And you have to start investigating the issue, it wipes out all profitability kind of right away. And we just had way too many people, we were too inefficient managing a team of, you know, over a hundred people, when you just aren’t mature enough to handle that kind of size and you don’t have the systems and the processes, it’s extremely difficult. The only exception I’ve made to this rule is Asana! When it comes to work management tools, I truly believe Asana is as good as it gets, and I’ve specified that in the book. (I’m sure many of you will agree!) Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language, and a belief in democratic socialism. Striking research showing the immense complexity of ordinary thought and revealing the identities of the gatekeepers in our minds.