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The Motivated Brain: Improving Student Attention, Engagement, and Perseverance

What really motivates students to learn? What gets them interested—and keeps them interested—in pursuing knowledge and understanding? Recent neuroscientific findings have uncovered the source of our motivation to learn, or as neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp terms it, the drive to seek. Seeking is what gets us out of bed in the morning, the engine that powers our actions, and the need that manifests as curiosity.

Informed by new findings on the nature of the brain’s seeking system, internationally renowned educators Gayle Gregory and Martha Kaufeldt have identified key brain-friendly strategies for improving student motivation, knowledge acquisition, retention, and academic success. In this book, readers will learn

* The science behind the motivated brain and how it relates to student learning.

* Strategies for preparing a motivational environment and lesson.

* Strategies for creating engaging learning experiences that capitalize on the brain’s natural ways of learning.

* Strategies for improving depth of knowledge, complex thinking, and synthesis to get students into the ever-desired state of flow.

* How attention to the neuroscience of motivation will improve the classroom environment and student learning.

The Motivated Brain shows teachers how to harness the power of their students’ intrinsic motivation to make learning fun, engaging, and meaningful.

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Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness

NO.1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom Cass R. Sunstein and Richard H. Thaler, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Nudge is the book that changed the way we think about decision-making. Nudge is about choices – how we make them and how we can make better ones. Every day we make decisions: about the things that we buy or the meals we eat; about the investments we make or our children’s health and education; even the causes that we champion or the planet itself. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. We are all susceptible to biases that can lead us to make bad decisions. And, as Thaler and Sunstein show, no choice is ever presented to us in a neutral way. By knowing how people think, we can make it easier for them to choose what is best for them, their families and society. Using dozens of eye-opening examples and original research, the authors demonstrate how to nudge us in the right directions, without restricting our freedom of choice.’How often do you read a book that is both important and amusing, both practical and deep? … A must-read for anyonewho wants to see both our minds and our society working better’ Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow’I love this book. It is one of the few books I’ve read recently that fundamentally changes the way I think about the world’ Steven D. Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics

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Improving Motivation and Morale: A Police Leader’s Guide

True leaders don’t just lead, they inspire!

If you think that creating and sustaining a positive, motivated and ultimately thriving work environment in your agency is a insurmountable task, think again.
This revolutionary new book will give you the knowledge you need to prove that it’s not!

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Managing Motivation: A Manager’s Guide to Diagnosing and Improving Motivation

This slim motivation guidebook was written to bridge the gap between the academic research on motivation and to present it in a form that is useful to the practicing manager. In essence, the book presents a theory of motivation and how to use it without ever mentioning the word “theory”. The goal of the book is to give managers a kind of mental model to use in thinking about motivation and to show them how to use this mental model for practical management actions to diagnose and improve motivation of subordinates. The book is written in three sections: Understanding Motivation, Diagnosing Motivation and Improving Motivation. The book incorporates case studies and many examples of how to successfully manage motivation.

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The Mental Game of Poker: Proven Strategies for Improving Tilt Control, Confidence, Motivation, Coping with Variance, and More.

The mental game may be more important in poker than in any other form of competition. It’s one of the only games in the world where you can play perfectly and lose-again and again. Hundreds of poker players have turned to mental game coach Jared Tendler’s revolutionary approach to help them play their best, no matter how badly they’re running. In this book you’ll find simple, step-by-step instructions and proven techniques to permanently fix problems such as tilt, handling variance, emotional control, confidence, fear, and motivation. With the games getting tougher, now is the time to take these problems head on.
*Discover the most definitive work on tilt ever released.
*Read stories from eight players who made major improvements using Jared’s techniques.
*Get motivated with methods used by SuperNova Elites.

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Women and Self-Esteem: Understanding and Improving the Way We Think and Feel AboutOurselves

Many women feel the distressing effects of low self-esteem. They worry that they are inadequate or worthless; feel insecure about their looks and dissatisfied about their bodies; doubt that they are lovable; secretly believe that they don’t deserve success and happiness; harbor fears that they are not bright enough, not talented enough, just not good enough.

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Timeline Jumping: Self Help For Improving Your Life (Paranormal Self Help Series)

Timeline Jumping is all about making positive changes in your life. Do you want to lose weight, make more money, or be happy in your relationship? You can!

Call them alternate or parallel universes or just other possible futures, but right now there exists other versions of you out there. These “other you’s” could be thinner, richer, or just happier. There are other you’s that are already living the life that you want to live. These other timelines exist, but putting yourself into them – timeline jumping – is how you can manifest that other you. This book is a user’s guide to finding and jumping into these other timelines.

More than just a self help book, Timeline Jumping can help you create the life situations that you want. If you lack self confidence, you can find it in another timeline. It’s like life coaching without the expensive life coach, because that coach is YOU.

If you want a practical personal development guide, more than just the typical positive thinking book that you’ve probably already read many times in different forms, then Timeline Jumping just may be the book that you’re looking for.

There are lots of books about self development out there, and with so many choices it’s hard to sometimes make the right choice. But most of those other books regurgitate the same stuff using the same techniques, just different words. Well change your thinking! That’s all it takes. The road to self improvement begins with Timeline Jumping.

Here’s an excerpt from the book:

“Introduction

When you first read the title of this book, you may have thought that this was a science fiction novel about a time traveller going into different realities for whatever purpose. You may have pictured some fancy time machine or some surreal wormhole that this traveller went through in order to get where he was going.

Well, this book is NOT science fiction.

What you are about to delve into is a brand new look at some old concepts that will help you achieve your goals. You may have read other similar books – books on creative visualization, ones about manifesting your own reality (i.e. The Secret) – but nothing touches the subject of creating a new you as much as Timeline Jumping.

In fact, you really AREN’T creating a “new you”.

This process that I will be detailing in the following pages has nothing to do with changing your habits or making different choices to change the person that you are right now. In fact, you will be “jumping” into another you. A you that exists already in another timeline. A you that is thinner, richer, happier, or whatever aspect of yourself that you are looking to change.

I will go into more detail on the philosophy behind this book in the chapters ahead. But just rest assured that once you “get” the theory behind this idea, you will have no other choice but to manifest this new you.

You can achieve your goals!

I don’t care what your stated goal is. You might want to lose twenty or fifty pounds. You may want to get a job that you love doing every day. You may want to find that perfect partner and get into a loving relationship. You may want to make more money and be able to buy the things that you deserve.

Heck, you may want all of these! But don’t get greedy. You’ll need to focus on one thing at a time. Otherwise you’ll be pulling yourself – literally – in too many directions at once and you will never achieve anything but frustration.

So strap in and let’s get going. We have a wild ride ahead of us.”