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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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
– Oliver Sacks

“If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self – himself – he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.”  In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of […]

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 […]

Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life (Part 2) – Gail Sheehy

[ READ Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life (Part 1) – Gaily Sheehy HERE ] To make the life stages easier to grasp, Sheehy’s innovation was to break them down into easy-to-understand decades. The Twenties In our 20s, we have to work out our path in life, whatever ways of being or doing give us […]

Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life (Part 1) – Gail Sheehy

“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.”  At last, this is your story. You’ll recognize yourself, your friends, and your loves. You’ll see how to use each life crisis as an opportunity for creative change — to grow to your full potential. Gail Sheehy’s brilliant road map […]

Stumbling on Happiness
– Daniel Gilbert

“My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.”  Why are lovers quicker to forgive their partners for infidelity than for leaving dirty dishes in the sink?Why will sighted people pay more to avoid going blind than […]

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