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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights. We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and...
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"Malcolm Gladwell challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages-offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks. Gladwell begins with the real story of what happened between the giant and the shepherd boy those many years ago. From there, David and Goliath examines Northern Ireland's...
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In the style of other bestselling business fables, "The Energy Bus" takes you on an enlightening and inspiring ride that reveals ten secrets for approaching life and work with the kind of positive, forward thinking that leads to true accomplishment at work and at home. Author Jon Gordon shows you how to turn negative energy into positive achievement.
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TED Books, Simon & Schuster
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[2016]
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"Payoff investigates the true nature of motivation, our partial blindness to the way it works, and how we can bridge this gap. With studies that range from Intel to a kindergarten classroom, Ariely digs deep to find the root of motivation--how it works and how we can use this knowledge to approach important choices in our own lives. Along the way, he explores intriguing questions such as: Can giving employees bonuses harm productivity? Why is trust...
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Touchstone
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[2017]
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English
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Dr. John Bargh, the worlds leading expert on the unconscious mind, presents a groundbreaking book, twenty years in the making, which gives us an entirely new understanding of the hidden mental processes that secretly govern every aspect of our behavior. For more than three decades, Dr. John Bargh has been responsible for the revolutionary research into the unconscious mind, research that informed bestsellers like Blink and Thinking Fast and Slow....
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"A guide not just for overcoming the obstacles that hold us back-but for using them for great benefit The great Athenian orator Demosthenes was born with a crippling speech impediment and was robbed of his inheritance by cruel guardians. Samuel Zemurray was a poor roadside fruit peddler pitted against the behemoth United Fruit Company. Ulysses S. Grant found himself stuck across the Mississippi river, desperately trying to break into the impenetrable...
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Little, Brown Spark
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2020.
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English
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Offers a guide to creating an intentional life that emphasises the beauty of the natural world, the importance of gaining new perspectives, the joys of real human connection, and the peace that comes from living in harmony with one's own values.
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St. Martin's Press
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2020.
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"A motivational guide to losing weight and mantaining success by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Clean & Lean. Every day of every year, thousands of people start some type of weight loss/transformation journey. Mind over Weight is an important weapon to add to their arsenals. While eating the right food and exercising is critical to weight loss success, Mind over Weight helps readers win the battle by getting everything in order above...
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PublicAffairs
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[2013]
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Can economics be passionate?... Can it center on people and what really matters to them day-in and day-out... And help us understand their hidden motives for why they do what they do in everyday life? Uri Gneezy and John List are revolutionaries. Their ideas and methods for revealing what really works in addressing big social, business, and economic problems gives us new understanding of the motives underlying human behavior. We can then structure...
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Sounds True
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2022.
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"Decorated Olympian Apolo Anton Ohno shares his "five golden principles" for overcoming challenges with resilience, creativity, and purpose. In speed skating, a hard pivot is an aggressive shift of direction that requires courage, practice, and split-second timing. For Apolo Ohno, the most frightening hard pivot of his life didn’t happen on the ice―but rather, when he had to hang up his skates for good. “After my final Olympics, I...
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Dewitt Jones Productions, Inc
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c2001
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"In his twenty year career with National Geographic, Dewitt Jones created hundreds of extraordinary visions. He discovered that the creative tools he employed as a photographer had even deeper applications when applied directly to his personal and professional growth. In Extraordinary visions! Dewitt shares his philosophy. Using his astounding photographs as illustrations, he weaves a visual tapestry of emotion and content. One that will allow you...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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[2019]
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Esther Wojcicki“Woj” to her many friends and admirersis famous for three things: teaching a high school class that has changed the lives of thousands of kids, inspiring Silicon Valley legends like Steve Jobs, and raising three daughters who have each become famously successful. What do these three accomplishments have in common? Theyre the result of TRICK, Wojs secret to raising successful people: Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and...
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Penguin Audio
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[2016]
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English
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A collection of fifty memoirs explains how the book "Eat Pray Love" influenced readers to embark on their own personal journeys, from embracing motherhood and finding love overseas to grappling with belief and finding the perfect pizza.
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