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Decisive: How to Make Better Choices
– Chip and Dan Heath

“Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can’t control luck. But we can control the way we make choices.”  Chip and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick, tackle one of the most critical topics in our work and personal lives: how to […]

Burning FAT
– the perennial problem for men and women

MONDAY MORNING MOTIVATION: How to burn stored fat and burn it faster!   [ How to Burn Stored Fat ]   [ How to Burn Fat Faster ]

Why you will fail to have a great career
– Larry Smith

Why you will fail to have a great career Professor Larry Smith @ TEDxUW A professor of economics at the University of Waterloo in Canada, Larry Smith coaches his students to find the careers that they will truly love. Why you should listen Larry Smith is a professor of economics at University of Waterloo. A […]

HOW THE INTERNET GOT STARTED
– According to the Bible

WEDNESDAY WITTINESS (Funnies, ok?) (I am a Witness to this – I was around when the internet was born, yes I was) In ancient Israel , it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a healthy young wife by the name of Dorothy. Dot Com was […]

How BIG DATA will transform our lives
– Viktor Mayer-Schonberger
and Kenneth Cukier

“Sometimes the constraints that we live with, and presume are the same for everything, are really only functions of the scale in which we operate.” A revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large. Which paint color is most likely […]

The Emotional Life of your Brain
– Richard J. Davidson and Sharon Begley

“recent research has shown that when we empathize, the brain activates many of the same networks as when we ourselves experience pain, physical or otherwise.” What is your emotional fingerprint? Why are some people so quick to recover from setbacks? Why are some so attuned to others that they seem psychic? Why are some people […]

Can You Make Yourself Smarter?
– Dan Hurley

Can you make yourself, your kids, and your parents smarter? Expanding upon one of the most-read New York Times Magazine features of 2012, Smarter: The New Science of Building Brain Power penetrates the hot new field of intelligence research to reveal what researchers call a revolution in human intellectual abilities. Shattering decades of dogma, scientists began publishing studies in […]

The Infinite Asset
– Sam Hill and Chris Lederer

Remember when brand management was as straightforward as promoting a single product or service? Today, brands mingle so much – McDonald’s and Disney partner on promotional giveaways, Subaru markets an L.L. Bean edition of the Outback, Toys R Us and Amazon.com jointly launch an online toy store – a whole system of brands can make […]

The Language and Thought of the Child (Part 2) – Jean Piaget

[ READ The Language and Thought of the Child (Part 1) – Jean Piaget HERE ] Different thinking, different worlds Piaget borrowed a distinction from psychoanalysis about two types of thought: Directed or intelligent thought is that which has an aim, adapts that aim to reality, and can communicate it in language. This thinking is based on […]

The Surprising Science of Happiness
– Dan Gilbert

From TED.com Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert says our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong — a premise he supports with intriguing research, and explains in his accessible and unexpectedly funny book, Stumbling on Happiness. Why you should listen Dan Gilbert believes that, in our ardent, lifelong pursuit of happiness, most of us […]

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