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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 […]

The Psychology of Self-Esteem
– Nathaniel Branden

“Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.” Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as  important as the one you make about yourself. The  difference between low self-esteem and high self-esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success. Now, one of  America’s foremost psychologists and a pioneer in self-esteem development […]

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 […]

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
– David D. Burns

“When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.”  The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other “black holes” of depression can be cured without drugs. In Feeling Good, […]

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 […]

On Becoming a Person – Carl Rogers

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”  The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement, revolutionized psychotherapy with his concept of “client-centered therapy.” His influence has spanned decades, but that influence has become so much a part of mainstream psychology that the ingenious […]

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 Language and Thought of the Child (Part 1) – Jean Piaget

“Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do.”  This book is for anyone who has ever wondered how a child develops language, thought, and knowledge. Before this classic appeared, little was known of the way children think. In 1923, however, Jean Piaget, the most important developmental psychologist of the twentieth century, […]

Phantoms in the Brain
– V. S. Ramachandran

“Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.”  Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his […]

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