Motivation Science

How to live happily and well with endometriosis, from someone who has tried everything and lived to tell (and laugh at) the tale. Part memoir, part guide book and part survival guide, Private Parts retraces Eleanor's own journey with endometriosis, offering listeners practical, down-to-earth and friendly advice covering everything from what actually happens in an internal exam, to finding the right specialist for you, the perfect post-op wardrobe and to why you should look to Frida Kahlo for inspiration in your darkest moments.

From Wall Street to the West Coast, from blue-collar billionaires to blue-blood fortunes, from the Google guys to hedge fund honchos, All the Money in the World gives us the lowdown on, among other things: the all-time richest Americans, who made and lost the most money in the past 25 years, the fields and industries that have produced the greatest wealth, the biggest risk takers, the most competitive players, the most wasteful family feuds, the trophy wives.

Top sports medicine physician Dr. Jordan Metzl illustrates the impact of fitness motivation on your long-term health—and delivers a mental and physical plan to help you push back against unhealthy motivation, create a sustainable exercise blueprint, and rekindle your love of movement. We know now that low fitness is as big a health risk as diabetes, hypertension and smoking—and that physical activity improves both your lifespan and healthspan. And yet society is at brutally low fitness levels, with nine out of ten people “metabolically unhealthy.”

There's a revolution taking place that most businesses are still unaware of. The understanding of how our brains work has radically shifted, exploding long-held myths about our everyday cognitive performance and fundamentally changing the way we engage and succeed in the workplace. Combining their expertise in both neuropsychology and management consulting, neuropsychologist Friederike Fabritius and leadership expert Dr. Hans W. Hagemann present simple yet powerful strategies.

Adam Braun began working summers at hedge funds when he was just 16 years old, sprinting down the path to a successful Wall Street career. But while traveling as a college student, he met a young boy begging on the streets of India. When Braun asked the boy what he wanted most in the world, he simply answered, "A pencil." This small request became the inspiration for Pencils of Promise, the organization Braun would leave a prestigious job at Bain & Company to start with just $25 at the age of 24.

This audiobook contains eight fantasy and sci-fi short stories perfect for your morning commute. Each story is self contained and lasts for about 1 hr of listening. Contains the following stories: Pale Rider, Magic Factory, Summer Sword, Floating Ink, Vampire Caving, Swamp Monster Voodoo, Frankenstein IT Support and Moonlight Motor. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Morning Motivation Series and listen to the best fantasy and sci fi short stories for your daily commute!

James Ronald Williams Jr. is an author trained in technical writing by the United States Armed Services Technical College of Communication in Fort Gordon, GA. The technique used to write this book utilizes Singularity. Welcome to the Information and Communication Technologies Defense (ICTD) Division. The Information and Communication Technologies Defense (ICTD) Division, U.S. Army School Cyber Leader College, provides high-quality Information Assurance/Computer Network Defense training and certification for Department of Defense personnel worldwide.

A Arte da Guerra é a bíblia dos estrategistas. Sai do universo militar para conquistar o mundo político e empresarial. Há mais de 2.500 anos, o general chinês Sun Tzu compilou os personagens filosóficos que sintetizam estratégias eficientes. Mistério, dissimulação, astúcia e surpresa são os pilares deste tratado. Um livro profundo, repleto de metáforas, que encanta e intriga os estudiosos no mundo todo.

We've decided by consensus that consensus is good. In In Defense of Troublemakers, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that this principle is completely wrong: left unchallenged, the majority opinion is often biased, unoriginal, or false. It leads planes and markets to crash, causes juries to convict innocent people, and can quite literally make people think blue is green. In the name of comity, we embrace stupidity. We can make better decisions by embracing dissent. Dissent forces us to question the status quo, consider more information, and engage in creative decision-making.

This 10th anniversary edition of the beloved classic features 10 new stories written by Dr. Robbins that help listeners gain deeper insight into the role our brains play in shaping our thoughts and actions, and what we can do to be more curious and open-minded in our diverse world. Based on his study of the fields of behavioral science and cognitive neuroscience, Robbins explores unconscious bias in many of its forms, including availability bias, confirmation bias, anchoring bias, and others.

Hunger is emotional, hunger is spiritual, and hunger is universal. Overweight or not, our relationship with food is symbolic of our relationship with ourselves, and our hunger for food is symbolic of a deeper hunger that seeks to be understood. We are hungry for connection, for belonging, for understanding and for meaning.

There are 1.3 billion people around the world who identify as having a disability. When you include friends and family, the disability market touches 53 percent of all consumers. It is the world’s largest emerging market. Unleash Different reveals how companies like Google, PepsiCo, and Nordstrom are attracting people with disabilities as customers and as employees. Replacing “nice to do” with “return on investment” allows market forces to take over and the world’s leading brands to do what they do best: serve a market segment - in this case, the disability market.

The Grateful Life is a guide to discovering and achieving one's dreams by harnessing the power of a positive attitude. In years of research and practice, authors Nina Lesowitz and Mary Beth Sammons have discovered that grateful living can transform lives. Grateful people are happier people. They are healthier and less stressed. They report much higher levels of satisfaction with their relationships and are less likely to credit the good fortune of others to luck.

This game-changing audiobook gives you a refreshing science-based approach to the classic challenge of motivation in the workplace and is ideal for any leader or manager looking to take their workplace culture in a new direction. The Game Changer includes practical advice for creating highly productive, motivated, and innovative teams.

We all eventually ask ourselves the question, "Am I making a difference?" We want our lives to have meaning. But just as an airline flight attendant will tell you to put your own oxygen mask on before assisting others, getting your own life together is the first step to making a positive impact on the world around you. In this new book, FranklinCovey cofounder Hyrum Smith shows that achieving a meaningful, fulfilling, and impactful life is a straightforward process.

In this audio program from expert David Krueger, MD, listeners will learn: a proven system to consistently perform under pressure; success strategies for dealing with stress in high pressure circumstances; the self-regulation system that pro athletes and actors use; a way to enter and sustain a mindset of optimum performance; how to avoid chokes and slumps; and how to develop proven pressure management tools to sustain focus and enhance success.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, known as Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC - AD 65), is the author of On the Shortness of Life (c. 49 AD). In it, Seneca draws insight from different streams of ancient wisdom: Stoic, Epicurean, Platonic, Skeptic and Cynic, as he addresses some of the important questions humans face. Seneca encourages people to be mindful of time and to use it purposefully. He suggests awareness and acceptance as a remedy for many worries and wasteful dissipations.

In Rebuilding Relationships in Recovery, Janice V. Johnson Dowd shows listeners how to repair and enhance their relationships after active addiction. With personal insights and professional wisdom, Dowd—a licensed social worker in recovery—explores her own personal journey through alcoholism, offering a realistic and transformative guide.

The modern understanding of what it means to be stoical is never showing any form of outward emotion regardless of all circumstances, good or bad, and indeed not having any emotions whatsoever. The entire species of the Vulcans in the popular science fiction franchise Star Trek exemplifies the popular definition. But it's easy to recognize an absence of outward emotion as not necessarily being a good thing.

The Science of Being Well was written by Wallace D Wattles as a follow up to his book The Science of Getting Rich. Wattles knew that in order to be truly successful, one must live a balanced life, and getting rich is only one part of the equation of success. Good health is essential to a happy functional life and in this audiobook, The Science of Being Well, Wattles builds on his Certain Way methodology and applies it to health and well-being. In his simple to understand way, he breaks it down into easy to understand actions that you can implement into your life.