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Learning and Motivation in the Postsecondary Classroom (JB – Anker)

While the annals of educational psychology and scholarship of learning theory are vast, this book distills the most important material that the higher education faculty need, translating it into clear language, and rendering from it examples that can be readily applied in the college classroom. Understanding theory can enrich one’s own teaching by increasing efficiency and effectiveness of both the instructor and the student, promoting creativity, encouraging self-reflection and professional development, and advancing classroom research. Finally, a good grounding in theory can help faculty navigate when a student is having difficulty.

This clearly written book outlines the learning theories: cognitive, concept learning, social learning, and constructivist, as well as the motivation theories: expectancy value, attribution, achievement goal orientation, and self-determination. It then delves deeper into each one, showing how to develop rich, meaningful instruction so that students master basic information and move into deeper levels of learning.

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The Oxford Handbook of Work Engagement, Motivation, and Self-Determination Theory (Oxford Library of Psychology)

Self-determination theory is a theory of human motivation that is being increasingly used by organizations to make strategic HR decisions and train managers. It argues for a focus on the quality of workers’ motivation over quantity. Motivation that is based on meaning and interest is showed to be superior to motivation that is based on pressure and rewards. Work environments that make workers feel competent, autonomous, and related to others foster the right type of motivation, goals, and work values.

The Oxford Handbook of Work Motivation, Engagement, and Self-Determination Theory aims to give current and future organizational researchers ideas for future research using self-determination theory as a framework, and to give practitioners ideas on how to adjust their programs and practices using self-determination theory principles. The book brings together self-determination theory experts and organizational psychology experts to talk about past and future applications of the theory to the field of organizational psychology. The book covers a wide range of topics, including: how to bring about commitment, engagement, and passion in the workplace; how to manage stress, health, emotions and violence at work; how to encourage safe and sustainable behavior in organizations; how factors like attachment styles, self-esteem, person-environment fit, job design, leadership, compensation, and training affect work motivation; and how work-related values and goals are forged by the work environment and affect work outcomes.

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Motivation for Current and Aspiring Endurance Challenge Athletes Vol. 1: Consolidated wisdom from extreme endurance athletes who have been there and done that (Volume 1)

The world of adventure racing and obstacle course races has exploded in the past few years. This rapid expansion has resulted in a number of heavy hitting companies emerging as the standard bearers for difficulty and innovation in this newly minted ‘sport’. While all of them are different in their own way, they center around the objective of getting people outside of a usual or expected setting, pushing some personal boundaries, and in the end allow participants the opportunity to surprise themselves with their ability to overcome their predispositions. One of the facets of these challenges that makes them so hard and interesting is the variability not only between event brands but within the events themselves. These challenges can combine running, load carrying, rope climbing, swimming, dynamic lifts, neck deep mud, sleep deprivation, and hunger all in the same event! This multifaceted nature also makes these sorts of events somewhat overwhelming to prepare for, especially for the uninitiated. But because of this variability, any but the very best and most detailed ‘how to’ book (more like encyclopedia) could hope to prepare people completely. So what to do? Well I don’t have all the solutions (and that is sort of the point of this book) but I figure I can take a stab at helping out those interested by utilizing a learning technique that has never failed me yet: asking those who have gone before you for advice. You can study a task until your eyes itch but sometimes the best information comes from the person in front of you who just successfully completed the task without breaking a sweat.

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The Motivation Hacker

“Moderation in all things,” they say. That may keep a society together, but it’s not the protagonist’s job. The Motivation Hacker shows you how to summon extreme amounts of motivation to accomplish anything you can think of. From precommitment to rejection therapy, this is your field guide to getting yourself to want to do everything you always wanted to want to do.

I wrote this book in three months while simultaneously attempting seventeen other missions, including running a startup, launching a hit iPhone app, learning to write 3,000 new Chinese words, training to attempt a four-hour marathon from scratch, learning to skateboard, helping build a successful cognitive testing website, being best man at two weddings, increasing my bench press by sixty pounds, reading twenty books, going skydiving, helping to start the Human Hacker House, learning to throw knives, dropping my 5K time by five minutes, and learning to lucid dream.

I planned to do all this while sleeping eight hours a night, sending 1,000 emails, hanging out with a hundred people, going on ten dates, buying groceries, cooking, cleaning, and trying to raise my average happiness from 6.3 to 7.3 out of 10.

How? By hacking my motivation.

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Sales Success: Motivation From Today’s Top Sales Coaches (Audio Success)

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Sales Success
Motivation from Today’s Top Sales Coaches

It’s a multi-session motivational retreat in a box! And with Sales Success on 14 audio compact discs, you’ll have unlimited access to the world’s top sales motivators any time you want. From networking to negotiations, the Sales Success audio suite offers hours of inspiration and practical steps to power-up your influence while building and solidifying your client base. Featuring a DVD bonus from noted business author and marketing PhD, Tony Alessandra, and comprising an award-winning faculty of international speakers with their own rosters of Fortune 500 clients, Sales Success on audio CD functions as both a proactive master class for novice salespeople, and continuing education for seasoned sales professionals.

Featuring: 14 dynamic speakers. 14 audio discs. 1 bonus DVD. Added Bonus: Store all your discs in the convenient carrying case – included inside!

• Chris Widener
• Bob Burg
• Don Hutson
• Ron White
• Denis Waitley
• Zig Ziglar
• George Walther
• Tom Hopkins
• Dianna Booher
• Patricia Fripp
• Jim Rohn
• Albert Mensah
• Dr. David Palmer
• Laura Stack

All the techniques of effective sales, from cold call to closing!

CD 1
Zig Ziglar
Selling: The Proud Profession
(appx. running time 60 minutes)

Author, international speaker, and personal development trainer, this versatile authority is considered the leader in motivational coaching and personal growth.

Subjects covered:
• Salespeople & the Economy: the vital connection
• The best deal for customers
• “Sales Professional”: wear the name with pride
• Integrity: the key to sales success

CD 2
Tom Hopkins
Highlights of the Perfect Sales Process
(appx. running time 60 minutes)

Cut through the hype with the how-to strategies and up-to-the-minute tactics imparted by this world-renowned sales expert and best-selling author whose first book has been translated into 10 languages.

Subjects covered:
• Finding new business
• Presentation skills to involve the client
• Addressing client concerns
• Closing the sale & long-term relationships

CD 3
Denis Waitley
Acres of Diamonds
(appx. running time 60 minutes)

Enrich yourself with these priceless gems from this respected productivity consultant who has counseled business and athletic achievers for over 25 years, from boardrooms to locker rooms.

Subjects covered:
• Self Esteem: The 4 legs
• Building self-trust
• Letting go of fear
• Core values

CD 4
Chris Widener
Secrets of Influence
(appx. running time 60 minutes)

Let the man who has shared stages with U.S. Presidential candidates and pro athletes share with you the same leadership secrets he has revealed to executives at GE and Harvard Business School.

Subjects covered:
• Conscious & subconscious truth
• Taking your influence to the next level
• Being the person people want to follow
• Using influence to shape tough decisions

CD 5
Ron White
Improve Your Memory, Double Your Sales
(appx. running time 60 minutes)

Tap into your latent brainpower, with tips from the Guiness World Record-holder for memorizing a 28-digit number in 1 minute and 15 seconds.

Subjects covered:
• Perfect recall of names & faces
• Complete product knowledge at your fingertips
• Remembering all the details from training sessions
• Presentations: the art of the high-impact open & close

CD 6
Jim Rohn
The 5 Keys to Understanding Your Marketplace
(appx. running time 60 minutes)

Share the field-tested principles of the man considered, for over 39 years, to be America’s foremost business philosopher.

Subjects covered:
• Personal development in sales
• Behavior in the market

CD 7
Laura Stack
Time Management Secrets of Successful Salespeople
(appx. running time 60 minutes)

Specializing in productivity improvement for high-stress industries, this international consultant shares her original principles on inform

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Weight Loss Motivation Hacks: 7 Psychological Tricks That Keep You Motivated To Lose Weight

Do you feel like you’re fighting a losing battle with yourself to get motivated to lose weight?

Unfortunately, many people will never reach their weight loss goals simply because they can’t figure out how to get themselves motivated enough to stick to their resolutions. But what if you could simply reprogram your brain with powerful psychological “mind-hacks” to create unstoppable motivation on-demand, and finally reach your weight loss goals with ease? #1 best-selling weight loss author Derek Doepker reveals what years worth of psychological research has shown to be hands-down the most effective methods of transforming your habits. You’re about to discover… • The biggest myth of motivation. When you discover this trap almost everyone falls into, you’ll realize why you could never get yourself motivated before. • The 6 human needs that dictate all human behavior. When you map out your behavior blueprint, you’ll be able to flip a switch to have die-hard passion for things you previously hated doing. • How 90%+ of people who lose weight dieting gain it all back, and what YOU can do to make sure this never happens to you. • Why lack of willpower is almost never the reason people fail to stick to their weight loss goals. Discover a force stronger than willpower that can virtually guarantee you’ll never fail again. • How to avoid the misery of boring diet and exercise programs and make the entire process of weight loss not only fun, but downright addicting. • A trick research has shown can help stop food cravings dead in their tracks. NOTE: This technique is so powerful, it’s being used to successfully help smokers quit for good. • The absolute best way to create new habits with “forcing” the process. This is so simple, you’ll barely even notice you’re doing anything different. • And much more! If you’ve ever struggled to stay motivated on your path to permanent weight loss, this guide will contain the answers your looking for.

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Human Motivation

Human Motivation, originally published in 1987, offers a broad overview of theory and research from the perspective of a distinguished psychologist whose creative empirical studies of human motives span forty years. David McClelland describes methods for measuring motives, the development of motives out of natural incentives and the relationship of motives to emotions, to values and to performance under a variety of conditions. He examines four major motive systems – achievement, power, affiliation and avoidance – reviewing and evaluating research on how these motive systems affect behaviour. Scientific understanding of motives and their interaction, he argues, contributes to understanding of such diverse and important phenomena as the rise and fall of civilisations, the underlying causes of war, the rate of economic development, the nature of leadership, the reasons for authoritarian or democratic governing styles, the determinants of success in management and the factors responsible for health and illness. Students and instructors alike will find this book an exciting and readable presentation of the psychology of human motivation.