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The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes by David Robson
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-08-05 | Author:David Robson [Robson, David]

Let’s first consider curiosity, a trait that appears common in many other high achievers besides Feynman. Charles Darwin, for instance, had failed to excel in his early education and, like ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology August 29,2019 )
Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) by Carol Tavris
epub |eng | 2008-05-05 | Author:Carol Tavris [Tavris, Carol]

Jumping to Convictions If the system can't function fairly, if the system can't correct its own mistakes and admit that it makes mistakes and give people an opportunity to [correct] ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions August 17,2019 )
Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind by Susan Schneider
epub |eng | 2019-09-30 | Author:Susan Schneider [Schneider, Susan]

DITCHING YOUR SUBSTRATE? Modified patternism faces a second problem as well, one that challenges the very possibility that an individual could transfer to a different substrate, even with no cognitive ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics August 17,2019 )
Neurofitness by Rahul Jandial
epub |eng | | Author:Rahul Jandial

Neuro Geek: You Are Not What You Eat Most of what you eat will never make it into your brain because of the blood-brain barrier. When the arteries from your ...
( Category: Biology August 16,2019 )
Such Stuff as Dreams by Keith Oatley
epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Keith Oatley

Empathy and Identification When we see someone smile, we tend to smile back. When we see someone frown we, too, tend to frown. This is called mirroring, a kind of ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology August 15,2019 )
Life Lessons From a Brain Surgeon by Dr Rahul Jandial
epub |eng | 2019-06-27 | Author:Dr Rahul Jandial

NEURO GEEK: YOU ARE NOT WHAT YOU EAT Most of what you eat will never make it into your brain because of the blood-brain barrier. When the arteries from your ...
( Category: Neurosurgery August 8,2019 )
The web of life : a new scientific understanding of living systems by Capra Fritjof
epub |eng | 1996-08-05 | Author:Capra, Fritjof

181 classical science that we run into difficulties with conventional language. Dictionary definitions of the word “stable” include fixed,” “not fluctuating,” and “unvarying,” all of which are inaccurate to describe ...
( Category: Biology August 6,2019 )
The political brain by Drew Westen
epub |eng | 2008-08-05 | Author:Drew Westen

right-wing propaganda or prejudice. They are associations born of experience. We fail as a party and as a nation when we deny those truths rather than turning moral problems into ...
( Category: Elections August 6,2019 )
The Hero Within by Carol S Pearson
epub |eng | 2018-09-21 | Author:Carol S Pearson

THE GIFT OF SPIRIT Virtually every religion in the world has a way of describing a state of oneness with the divine, the achievement of which inspires this kind of ...
( Category: Interpersonal Relations August 3,2019 )
The Self-Driven Child by William Stixrud & Ned Johnson
epub |eng | 2018-02-13 | Author:William Stixrud & Ned Johnson

What to Do Tonight Teach your kids that they are responsible for their own education. Kids should feel in charge, not that school is being done “to them.” Note this ...
( Category: Educational Psychology August 3,2019 )
Becoming Fluent by Richard M Roberts & Roger Kreuz
epub |eng | 2015-05-15 | Author:Richard M Roberts & Roger Kreuz [Roberts, Richard M & Kreuz, Roger]

7 Making Memories … The Workings of Working Memory Have you ever wondered about the length of telephone numbers? When the engineers working for the Bell Telephone Company created the ...
( Category: Neurology August 3,2019 )
Entrepreneurial Cognition by Dean A Shepherd & Holger Patzelt
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Dean A Shepherd & Holger Patzelt [Shepherd, Dean A & Patzelt, Holger]

The Identity Distinctiveness of Entrepreneurial Individuals An entrepreneurial role generally enables people to meet their distinctiveness need in ways that are in line with the theoretical and empirical findings discussed ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology August 3,2019 )
Chase, Chance, and Creativity by James H Austin
epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:James H Austin [Austin, James H]

Storr disposes of the notion that creativity necessarily involves a substantial love for power, fame, or honor. To him, the desire for fame is but one part of an artist's ...
( Category: Creativity August 3,2019 )
The Feeling Good Handbook by David D Burns
epub |eng | 1999-10-15 | Author:David D Burns [Burns, David D]

David D. Burns, M.D. SHIBA: It was just like your father to pull something like this. His head isn't screwed on straight. DAVID: He never was too good at budgeting. ...
( Category: Psychotherapy, TA & NLP August 3,2019 )
Beyond Greed and Fear by Hersh Shefrin
epub, pdf |eng | 1999-09-15 | Author:Hersh Shefrin [Shefrin, Hersh]

In putting their 1997 performances in the best light, many money managers will compare their funds with other mutual funds. That’s what Fidelity loves to do. “Your fund beat the ...
( Category: Corporate Finance August 3,2019 )

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