epub, mobi | | | Author:Ian Leslie [Leslie, Ian]

* This may help to explain why pupils who have thrived in schools that provide a hot-housing, activity-packed environment sometimes find it hard to progress after leaving. The KIPP schools, ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Elizabeth Kuhnke

Figure 9-12: A woman offering her hand first shows she’s in charge. Conveying attitude Some people shake hands as if they’re Attila the Hun about to put you in your ...

epub |eng | | Author:David DiSalvo

18. Manifest Your Resilience IT IS IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE GENUINE CONDITIONS OF OUR LIFE THAT WE MUST DRAW OUR STRENGTH TO LIVE AND OUR REASON FOR ACTING. —Simone ...

epub |eng | | Author:Uri Gneezy [Gneezy, Uri; List, John A.]

Now, imagine the exact same scenario in the exact same conditions. The only difference this time is that Bob is a white man. Here’s the question: which man gets a ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-30 | Author:Robert Blumenfeld [Blumenfeld, Robert]

The Psychiatric Interview: In analyzing a patient, Sullivan would want all the details possible. Aside from using free association as a therapeutic technique and having the patient prepare a chronology ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-11-16 | Author:Kolenda, Nick [Kolenda, Nick]

He saved up his money and bought a boat. The stormy seas tossed the boat. The researchers presented those two sentences to people and asked them to focus solely on ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:John C. Maxwell [MAXWELL, JOHN C.]

The other thing I do is focus on asking questions. For too many years I concentrated on giving answers. As a young leader, I felt that was expected of me. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-02-17 | Author:May, Rollo

What Freedom Is Not We can understand more clearly what freedom is if we first look at what it is not. Freedom is not rebellion. Rebellion is a normal interim ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Malcolm Gladwell [Malcolm Gladwell]

9. Does this mean that Freireich should be glad he had the childhood he had? The answer is plainly no. What he went through as a child no child should ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2011-03-02 | Author:Foer, Joshua

Twain lived in an age when the technologies for storing and retrieving external memories—paper, books, the recently invented photograph and phonograph—were still primitive compared to what we have today. He ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Cheney, Carl D., Pierce, W. David [Cheney, Carl D., Pierce, W. David]

* * * Key Words Ainslie—Rachlin principle Behavioral economics Bias Changeover delay (COD) Changeover response Choice Commitment response Concurrent schedules of reinforcement Extraneous sources of reinforcement Findley procedure Generalized matching ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jeremy Dean [Dean, Jeremy]

What seems like a fairly simple task of making a plan actually requires some creativity. Although people do spontaneously make plans, they aren’t usually precise enough. We need these ifs ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Ariely, Dan [Ariely, Dan]

Consider the story of Andrew Potok, a blind writer who lives in Vermont. Potok was a gifted painter who gradually began losing his sight to an inherited eye disease, retinitis ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2012-05-28 | Author:Phil Stutz [Stutz, Phil]

What the Tool Is For In intimidating situations, when you find it difficult to express yourself or even connect with other people. These are moments when you “freeze,” become wooden ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Shawn Achor [Achor, Shawn]

FINDING THE PATH UP You’ve probably heard the oft-told story of the two shoe salesmen who were sent to Africa in the early 1900s to assess opportunities. They wired separate ...