Career Education

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What is daily life like in space? How do astronauts cook, sleep, and go to the bathroom? Listeners will learn all about the interesting daily life of an astronaut.

What jobs does an astronaut have? What kind of work needs to be done on a spacecraft? Listeners will learn all about the work an astronaut does.

The teaching objectives for this section are the following: identify three common mistakes in problem-solving; demonstrate root cause analysis as a narrowing and focusing process; and associate countermeasures with hypotheses that should be tested.

Are you up against a cruel and malevolent narcissist who thinks you deserve everything you will get just because you left him? Are you worried you will lose everything to the narcissist, including your house and your children? You are in the right place! In 20 minutes, we will give you some pointers on how to handle yourself in and out of court while you are dealing with the narcissist.

Tens of millions of Americans owe a combined $1.5 trillion in debt for student loans. Much of this staggering expense has been unnecessary. Attending college is more of a tradition - a cultural rite of passage - than a necessary step toward a successful career, thus not justifying its steep cost. As countless entrepreneurs and creative hustlers have shown, there is a path to success outside of the institutions of so-called higher learning.

Firefighter Greg has a physical job to do so he stays strong and fit. He gets up early in the morning and sleeps where he works. Did you know that Firefighter Greg practices putting on his safety gear–in less than one minute? Or that his gear–helmet, facemask, air pack, boots and jacket–weighs 75 pounds? Find out how firefighters practice putting out fires in a training tower!

Are you keen to grow a career as a full-time professional speaker? It can be done, and it can be very lucrative, but only if you go about it correctly. You will have to treat it as a serious business. Veteran professional speaker and business author Douglas Kruger helps you to carve years off your learning curve by introducing you to the business end of the speaking profession. In this audiobook, Douglas covers all the how-to of building a successful full-time speaking career.

You've just written a book - a masterpiece, the next great classic, the single piece of literature that's going to be required reading 100 years from now, long after you're good and dead and most of mankind has been replaced by robots. But...now what? Can you afford an editor? How do you decide on a good one? And how much of it can you do by yourself?

As the Self-Love Aficionado, Heather Reinhardt really loves herself. And she wants you to really love yourself, too. Her personal belief is that self-love supports people through their struggles. On a mission to make sure as many people as possible have the proper tools to cultivate self-love, Heather decided to write Go Love Yourself. In this audiobook, she shares her personal (vulnerable, yet humorous) stories with the steps that helped her pave the path to her very own self-everything (respect, worth, and love).

The adviser to Senator Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, and President Bill Clinton proves that small is big by identifying 75 hidden-in-plain-sight trends that are moving America, revealing that the nation is no longer a melting pot but a collection of communities with many individual tastes and lifestyles. In 2000, The Tipping Point entered the lexicon. Now, in Microtrends, one of the most respected and sought-after analysts in the world articulates a new way of understanding how we live.

People in all stages of life can be adrift, overcommitted, distracted, or just plain stuck, which can keep them from reaching their full potential. Steve Cesari understands that developing clarity, then making proper adjustments, is the first step towards leading a happier and healthier life. In his new audiobook, Cesari draws on his own personal and professional experiences to help others realize their full potential, by empowering, encouraging, and developing a clear vision to achieve desired results.

What good will it do to skillfully craft a written argument if you lose your audience? Simple emails, formal reports, blogs, presentations, articles—they need punch to gain influence. Clear structure and logic alone won’t do. To engage readers, you need to make mentally stimulating choices in language—choices that electrify your readers’ mental hotspots. Veteran journalist Bill Birchard reveals the secret of making that happen. He blends the findings from a global cadre of psychologists and neuroscientists with lessons from his long, successful career as a professional writer.

Nowadays, the concepts of corporate leadership and management are too vague. According to Simon Sinek, a British speaker and author, a true leader is one who always puts the interests of the group he or she leads first, rather than being obsessed with performance. Care for the human being is key for any group to thrive.

'Intelligence' and 'learning' are commonly misunderstood and underutilized. The value and function of 'intelligence' is mainly dependent on our ability to 'learn'. How well we learn is about intelligently absorbing and processing information. Here Ziad Makhzoumi presents a mindset for both organizations and individuals to adapt to a new business environment of perpetual systemic chaos to gain a competitive edge.

When Temple Grandin was born, her parents knew that she was different. It wasn’t until years later that she was diagnosed with autism, a brain disorder that makes communication difficult. Today, Dr. Temple Grandin is a scientist and professor of animal science at Colorado State University. Her career has revolutionized the livestock industry - each year, half the cattle in the United States are handled in cruelty-free facilities she designed. She is also a passionate advocate for autism, using her experience to prove that people with this disorder can have “normal” lives.

This is a game plan for getting the promotion you're after. It's not a book. There are no chapters, no chapter headings, and there's no table of contents. There are 25 sections, one after another. Each section includes a clear, concise, specific thing to do to get the promotion you're working hard for. Use them to nail it down, before somebody else does.

Book summary of Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz.

In a world with an endless hunger for innovation, why is it so hard to create audacious change? According to thought leader Seth Goldenberg, the answer to this question stems from how we, as a society, view questions themselves. In Radical Curiosity, Goldenberg argues that because we value knowing above learning and prioritize doing over thinking, curiosity has become an endangered species.

I wrote The Power of Writing Well to address everything managers, leaders, engineers, scientists, and others need to be better senders and receivers, not to cover everything they need to know about the language or to be the perfect sender or receiver; nobody is.