Mental Power

Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity - and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground. We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection. Preeminent author and researcher Sherry Turkle has been studying digital culture for over 30 years. Long an enthusiast for its possibilities, here she investigates a troubling consequence.

It's been a year since Ivy's boyfriend, Tristan, died. They've both moved on - Tristan to the other side of the afterlife, and Ivy to sweet, dependable Will. Now Ivy's heading to Cape Cod, hoping to leave the horror of last summer behind. She wants nothing more than to lie on the beach, sip lemonade, and hang out with her friends.

Ideas are everywhere, but those with the greatest problem-solving, business-transforming, and life-changing potential are often hard to identify. Even when we recognize good ideas, applying them to everyday obstacles - whether in the workplace, our homes, or our civic institutions - can seem insurmountable. According to Matthew Syed, it doesn't have to be this way. In Rebel Ideas, Syed argues that our brainpower as individuals isn't enough. To tackle problems from climate change to economic decline, we'll need to employ the power of "cognitive diversity".

Davinia Taylor was overweight, depressed and unmotivated. She couldn't walk around the block, let alone go for a run or do an exercise class, and she struggled to keep up with her four young sons. In desperation she turned to biohacking to sort her head out - the unexpected bonus was that she lost nearly three stone and has kept it off for years through a series of health tricks from cold showers, to MCT oil, to ancestral eating.

This overview discusses how important imagination is and the major effect it has on our lives, including the role it plays in hallucinations, moods, and creativity.

Welcome to the exciting world of past life regression! Hypnotherapist Steve Burgess has conducted many thousands of past life regression sessions and this book details some of the incredible healings his clients have experienced as a result of past life therapy. Each of the client’s stories is vividly re-told using the words that they spoke whilst in trance in their regression sessions. They paint exciting pictures and describe in detail the events that took place in the past lives, often giving a fascinating insight into life in former times.

A successful Wall Street trader turned Cambridge neuroscientist reveals the biology of boom and bust and how risk taking transforms our body chemistry, driving us to extremes of euphoria and risky behavior or stress and depression. The laws of financial boom and bust, it turns out, have more than a little to do with male hormones. In a series of groundbreaking experiments, Dr. John Coates identified a feedback loop between testosterone and success that dramatically lowers the fear of risk.

You might need a boost to your confidence, self-worth, and most of all, your self-esteem. And that’s exactly what you’ll get after completing The Teen Self-Esteem Workbook. The goal of this workbook is to undo all that thinking and to help you start loving yourself for everything you are. That's what self-esteem is all about, loving yourself for who you are! You’ll go on a heroic quest of self-discovery, unlocking eight power-ups until you’ve reached the final destination: confidence and higher self-esteem.

Es posible cambiar, en cualquier momento de la vida, nuestras ideas más arraigadas, nuestra forma de pensar y también nuestra experiencia emocional. Para lograrlo es suficiente una herramienta sencilla y extremadamente efectiva en la transformación de nuestro cerebro: el buen uso de la conversación.

Many people today are so dazzled by the long-term potential for artificial intelligence that they overlook the much clearer and more immediate potential for a new form of "collective intelligence": the intelligence of groups of people and computers working together. In Superminds, Thomas Malone explains what we need to do to take advantage of this potential. Groundbreaking and utterly fascinating, Superminds will change the way you work - both with others and with computers - for the better.

Unlock the Champion’s Mindset and Dominate Life. Do you want unshakable confidence, unstoppable willpower, and the mindset of a true warrior? Are you ready to conquer setbacks, embrace stoicism, and build the mental toughness of an elite athlete, alpha male, or sigma male? If so, this book is your blueprint to forge mental resilience, develop unbreakable self-discipline, and unleash your full potential. Whether you’re an athlete, entrepreneur, or anyone striving for peak performance, this guide will transform you into a powerful, unstoppable force.

Tus mejores intenciones no son suficientes. Aprende a diseñar científicamente una vida disciplinada, sé implacable y nunca te des por vencido. Sea lo que sea que quieras en tu vida, la autodisciplina es la pieza que falta. Las metas seguirán siendo sueños si cometes el error de confiar solamente en la motivación y en tus planes mejor trazados. La ciencia de la autodisciplina es una mirada profunda a lo que nos permite resistir nuestros peores impulsos y simplemente ejecutar, lograr, producir y enfocarnos.

Our “shadow” is the collection of negative or undesirable traits we keep hidden—the things we don't like about ourselves or are ashamed of, but it also includes our positive, untapped potential. The shadow is often a source of creative inspiration and greater self-acceptance. Befriending the shadow makes fear an ally and enables us to live more authentically. It also automatically improves our interpersonal relationships, because we are freed from the need to project our own negativity onto others, and we become more acutely aware when theirs is projected onto us.

What if you could activate or improve your body’s natural healing thanks to a few simple physical exercises? Just imagine those exercises reducing your body’s inflammation, anxiety, or chronic illness. How could it be possible? The Vagus Nerve partially controls our heart and other internal organs as well, insulin signaling, emotions like orgasms and other physical functions. Knowing exactly and stimulating in the right way this important nerve can bring lots of benefits on various areas.

The Self-Discipline Manual is about training you (yes, training) to achieve everything that you want and nothing less. It's about understanding what causes motivation and self-discipline and how to attack your daily tasks, habits, or goals with the fire of a thousand suns. We attack this issue of you versus yourself from every possible angle, and you will be well-armed to face your lazy and procrastinating ways.

A Wall Street Journal writer’s conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful, and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.

Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives celebrates the benefits that messiness has in our lives: why it’s important, why we resist it, and why we should embrace it instead. Using research from neuroscience, psychology, social science, as well as captivating examples of real people doing extraordinary things, Tim Harford explains that the human qualities we value – creativity, responsiveness, resilience – are integral to the disorder, confusion, and disarray that produce them.

A revolutionary, science-backed approach to living well from ABC News chief medical correspondent and cardiologist Dr. Tara Narula, that bridges the gap between our physical and mental health to show how resilience is the key to both.

If You’ve Been Looking To Get on the Path to Success and Take Back Control of Your Life, Keep Listening! Are you tired of constantly procrastinating and never getting anything done on time? Do you struggle with finding the motivation to pull yourself out of bed every morning? Do you want to finally unlock your full potential and lead the successful life you’ve always dreamed of? You’ve just found what you’ve been looking for!

Is your kid or teen facing anxiety, depression, or thoughts of suicide? Whether you're a parent, youth leader, teacher, or caring adult, not knowing how to help those dealing with difficult emotions can leave you feeling intimidated, powerless, and discouraged. It can feel scary. But we want you to know there is hope. This audiobook will help you: Understand how the brain works when someone is in despair and discover simple yet powerful tools you can use every day to connect with a kid or teenager to help them heal.