epub |eng | 2009-08-19 | Author:Cialdini, Robert B. [Cialdini, Robert B.]

* * * Malfunctioning Copier Five minutes before the start of school on May 20, 1999, 15-year-old Thomas (“TJ”) Solomon opened fire on his classmates, shooting six of them before ...

epub |eng | 2010-05-10 | Author:James Montier

Figure 28.3 Top and bottom value decile performance using EBIT/EV plus ROC. Source: DrKW Macro research. WHAT ABOUT THE LONG/SHORT VIEW? So far we have really only concerned ourselves with ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:Joshua Foer [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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Kathryn Schulz

The word “witness” derives (obviously enough when you think about it, although I for one never had) from the word “wit.” Today we mostly use “wit” to describe a sharp ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Richard Wiseman

THE HIDDEN INFLUENCE OF HOLLYWOOD Research shows that we link looks with likeability. Whenever we see an attractive face, we unconsciously associate it with traits such as “kindness,” “honesty,” and ...

mobi |eng | 2008-06-19 | Author:Sayre, Kent [Sayre, Kent]

Fear of Success Some people subconsciously fear success. Their fear paralyzes them, preventing them from taking any positive action. Successful people find ways to overcome this fear, and that's one ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-06-01 | Author:Oliver Burkeman

‘I cannot live with myself’: the phrase is a cliché, but Tolle was stopped dead by its implications. ‘If I cannot live with myself,’ he remembered thinking, ‘there must be ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-01-02 | Author:Maria Konnikova

Distancing Through Actual Distance And what if, like Watson, you simply can’t fathom doing something that would enable you to think of something else, even if you have all of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-08 | Author:Daniel Goleman

IN THE MENTAL GYM Think of attention as a mental muscle that we can strengthen by a workout. Memorization works that muscle, as does concentration. The mental analog of lifting ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Dan Ariely

* * * “Dan, when we got this car last year I was ecstatic, but now it no longer makes me happy. What do you think about renovating the kitchen?” ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:G. Richard Shell

chapter seven State Your Case: The Proposal A problem well stated is a problem half solved. —Charles F. Kettering, inventor Strong reasons make strong actions. —King John in William Shakespeare’s ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-02-06 | Author:Henry Cloud

I was looking forward to the meeting with the big guns of the public company. I was then in the psychiatric-hospital business, and we were about to do our first ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Sheena Iyengar

VI. THE 500-POUND GORILLA IN THE ROOM The freedom lover (and Coke drinker) in you may be thinking that there must be something you can do to counteract all the ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:Joshua Foer

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 ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2005-07-21 | Author:Robert M. Pirsig

19 A mat of sunlit pine needles by my face slowly tells me where I am and helps dispel a dream. In the dream I was standing in a white-painted ...