Category: Motivation

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Major New York Times bestsellerWinner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award in 2012Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 2011A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleOne of The Economist’s 2011 Books of the Year One of The Wall Street Journal’s Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 20112013 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient

In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.

Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow is destined to be a classic.

 

Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2011: Drawing on decades of research in psychology that resulted in a Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, Daniel Kahneman takes readers on an exploration of what influences thought example by example, sometimes with unlikely word pairs like “vomit and banana.” System 1 and System 2, the fast and slow types of thinking, become characters that illustrate the psychology behind things we think we understand but really don’t, such as intuition. Kahneman’s transparent and careful treatment of his subject has the potential to change how we think, not just about thinking, but about how we live our lives. Thinking, Fast and Slow gives deep–and sometimes frightening–insight about what goes on inside our heads: the psychological basis for reactions, judgments, recognition, choices, conclusions, and much more.  –JoVon Sotak

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How to Deliver a TED Talk: Secrets of the World’s Most Inspiring Presentations, revised and expanded new edition, with a foreword by Richard St. John and an afterword by Simon Sinek

DELIVER THE PRESENTATION OF YOUR LIFE–AND LAUNCH YOUR CAREER

A nonprofit dedicated to ideas worth spreading, TED challenges the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers to give “the speech of their lives” in 18 minutes or less. The more than 14,000 talks on TED.com have been viewed over 1 billion times and include those by such luminaries as Tony Robbins, Dan Pink, and Sheryl Sandberg.

Now you can learn how to give a TED-style talk to achieve your personal and business goals.

How to Deliver a TED Talk provides more than 100 invaluable tips–everything from opening with an explicit statement of audience benefits to framing your idea as an action-outcome response to a question worth asking. Whether you’re presenting to an audience of 1 or 1,000, this book is an indispensable resource for any public speaker.

“Not just for TED talks, it’s a great book for any presentation you have to make. If you want to deeply engage and impress your audience, this is a quick, informative, and brilliant guide.” — PETER BREGMAN, TEDx talker and author of 18 Minutes

“Jeremey’s advice was key to my successful TED talk at TEDMED.” — AMANDA BENNETT, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and Executive Editor/Projects and Investigations for Bloomberg News

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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

“The proper, wise balancing of one’s whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.”

In this classic and timeless work, Arnold Bennett’s How to Live on 24 Hours a Day offers practical advice on how one might live within the confines of 24 hours a day. Brilliantly written using humor and nonsensical guidance, Arnold Bennett addresses the many inadequacies and frustrations lurking in our paths. At the same time, Bennett’s work offers real guidance that can easily be followed to better our lives. In essence, Bennett offers the best kind of self-help: the kind that actually helps.

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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people—at work, at school, at home. It’s wrong. As Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others) explains in his paradigm-shattering book Drive, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today’s world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of our lives. He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it’s precisely the wrong way to motivate people for today’s challenges. In Drive, he reveals the three elements of true motivation:

*Autonomy—the desire to direct our own lives
*Mastery—the urge to get better and better at something that matters
*Purpose—the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves

Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward.

Drive is bursting with big ideas—the rare book that will change how you think and transform how you live.

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Motivation: A High School Student’s Guide To Success

Motivation – A High School Student’s Guide To Success. This book offers a unique way of self-motivation skills for high school students and everyone alike. Parth Shah is a high school junior on Long Island, NY. He is known among friends, classmates, athletes, teachers and the community for being a role model student and an outstanding citizen. Besides academic excellence and achievements, he has been honored for his innate leadership qualities and unique communication skills. He credits his success to staying motivated on a daily basis. He is approached frequently by friends, classmates and athletes alike to provide guidance and to help them stay motivated. He has served various leadership roles since joining the school and enjoys making a difference in the lives of others. He decided to dedicate his time to compile and create this unique journal to share and teach the skills he uses to stay self motivated. He believes that this journal has the power to change lives and sincerely wishes that you will take the actions necessary to begin your journey today. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar

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The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People

The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People, by Gary Chapman and Paul White, applies the love language concept to the workplace. This book helps supervisors and managers effectively communicate appreciation and encouragement to their employees, resulting in higher levels of job satisfaction, healthier relationships between managers and employees, and decreased cases of burnout. Ideal for both the profit and non-profit sectors, the principles presented in this book have a proven history of success in businesses, schools, medical offices, churches, and industry. Each book contains an access code for the reader to take a comprehensive online MBA Inventory (Motivating By Appreciation) – a $20 value.

The inventory is designed to provide a clearer picture of an individual’s primary language of appreciation and motivation as experienced in a work-related setting. It identifies individuals’ preference in the languages of appreciation. Understanding an individual’s primary and secondary languages of appreciation can assist managers and supervisors in communicating effectively to their team members.

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The Weight Loss Scriptures: The 30-Day Daily Devotional for Weight Loss Motivation

Have you ever started a weight loss program with great enthusiasm – only to lose focus and regain the weight you lost? Not any more. With The Weight Loss Scriptures: The 30-Day Daily Devotional for Weight Loss Motivation, you will receive encouragement, support, and strength to help you reach your ideal weight – and maintain it for life. 

You can use these healing scriptures and simple, easy-to-read messages in conjunction with any healthy-eating program, or on its own.

Each daily devotional gives you the mindset needed to become a weight loss success story – from someone who has been there. Kimberly Taylor was once 240 pounds and a size 22. But through biblical wisdom, she was able to renew her mind, lose 85 pounds and drop from a size 22 to a size 8.

Through The Weight Loss Scriptures, you will discover how to turn each weight loss stumbling block into a building block to reach your ultimate goal. You will learn that every experience is valuable if you use what you learn to start again – more intelligently each time.

Some benefits you will gain from the scriptures include:

Increased self esteemConfidence that you can succeedStrategies to stay motivated when you find yourself losing focusEnhanced energy to do all the things you need to doRenewed appreciation for the body God gave you
And much more!

Starting today, become empowered to renew your mind and change your health for the better. Get ready to be transformed by the secrets of The Weight Loss Scriptures.

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Emotions: Confront the Lies. Conquer with Truth.

I have GOT to get off this plane—right NOW!

That, of course, was impossible. The pilot had announced we were cruising at an altitude of more than 35,000 feet. There was no getting off—at least, not for a while.

But it didn’t matter. My body was in full crisis mode. My heart pounded. I couldn’t catch my breath. I looked at the emergency exit and began to contemplate my options. I wonder if I can get that door open. I need to get air. I HAVE TO GET OUT!

I pushed the button for the flight attendant. She found a doctor on board, who sat with me and asked me what was wrong.

I told him I was experiencing an overwhelming feeling of being trapped and that I needed to get off the plane. He said, “Well, you know you can’t.”

I responded, “Yes sir, I know I can’t. But the desire is absolutely overpowering.” As we talked, I admitted to him that I was going through a very trying time. He encouraged me, and the panic began to subside. It has been more than twenty years since that experience, but it taught me something very important: For us to overcome our fears, it is crucial we unearth where they originate from, which then shows us what thoughts trigger them.

Once the doctor identified the difficult circumstances I was facing as triggering my emotions, I was able to give the situation to God fully and counteract my apprehensions with truth from His Word.

—Excerpt from chapter 5