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Mastering Psychology: Discover the Science behind Motivation, Productivity and Success (Overcome Procrastination and Laziness)

Everyone in the world is motivated by something.
Some people are motivated by a need to engage in certain actions. Others might feel a desire to earn a particular reward. There are also times when people are motivated to act by simply avoiding very specific problems or issues that might happen in their lives. It is vital for people in supervisory positions to understand whatever it is that influences and motivates someone to action.
The purpose of this book is to help understand what motivation is and the many theories that make up the science of psychology.
Contents:
Understanding Motivation and Productivity
– Why Is Motivation so Important?
– A Basic Cycle
– The Three Key Parts of Motivation
– Managing Both Desires
– Maslow’s Theory of Needs and Wants
– The Jonah Complex (A Fear of Success)
– The ERG Theory
– Theories X and Y
– The Two-Factor Theory
– The 16 Basic Desires
– Resistance
– Understanding Willpower and the Link to Motivation
– Cognitive Motivation
– Intrinsic Motivation
– Extrinsic Motivation
– Arousal Theory
– The Incentive Theory
– Expectancy Theory
– Equity Theory
– Goal-Setting Theory
– Developmental Perspectives on Motivation
– Piaget’s Values for Cognitive Development
– Self-Determination Theory
– The Concept of Positive Psychology on Motivation
– The Principle of Utility
– The Instinct Theory
– Drive-Reduction Theory
– How Managers Become Leaders When Motivating People
– What Causes People to Impair Motivation?
– Positives to Find In Any Motivational Plan
– A Few Final Points
If you are sincere in changing your life for the better, this book will definitely help you.

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The Art and Science of Motivation: A Therapist’s Guide to Working with Children

Placing motivation at the heart of all encounters and therapeutic activities, this book presents a groundbreaking, evidence-based model for working with children, including those with physical disabilities, learning disabilities and emotional and behavioural difficulties.

Drawing on Self-Determination Theory (SDT), the authors describe this innovative paradigm – the model of Synthesis of Child, Occupational Performance and Environment – in Time (SCOPE-IT) – and explain how it can be used to sustain the child’s motivation and active involvement in the therapeutic process. They suggest ways of using language and of structuring and working with the environment to maximise engagement and autonomy and achieve the best possible treatment outcomes. The challenges professionals may face when working with children are also clearly addressed, and engaging case studies and photographs place the key theoretical concepts in a richly human and personal context.

Combining accessible theory with a wealth of tools and strategies for practice, this book is essential reading for all those working therapeutically with children, including occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, psychologists and psychotherapists.

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Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science

“What a splendid book! Reading it is a joy, and for me, at least, continuing reading it became compulsive. . . . Chandrasekhar is a distinguished astrophysicist and every one of the lectures bears the hallmark of all his work: precision, thoroughness, lucidity.”—Sir Hermann Bondi, Nature

The late S. Chandrasekhar was best known for his discovery of the upper limit to the mass of a white dwarf star, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983. He was the author of many books, including The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes and, most recently,  Newton’s Principia for the Common Reader.

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The Science of Likability: 27 Studies to Master Charisma, Attract Friends, Captivate People, and Take Advantage of Human Psychology

100% scientific and proven ways to make friends quickly, turn enemies into friends, gain trust, and be flat-out likable.

Some of the most interesting, shocking, and counterintuitive scientific conclusions to simply make people want to be around you.

In The Science of Likability, you’ll get all that and more. I’ve taken 27 seminal scientific and psychological studies and broken them down, so you can use their findings to your advantage. Every piece of advice in this book to increase your social standing and likability factor is 100% backed by in-depth, peer-reviewed research.

Learn how subconsciously to make yourself seem likable, trustworthy, and intelligent.

You can get a new haircut and wardrobe, and you even learn funny jokes. But likability is something more. It’s subconscious, and it’s the small signs that signal our brains to let their guards down and embrace others. Learn what common sense and intuition doesn’t teach you.

Analysis and insight from the best in the business.

From Freud, to Cialdini, to Pavlov, to Schachter, to Goleman, these studies are insightful, analytical, sometimes surprising, but most importantly, effective and actionable. Pair that with the insight and human intelligence factor of best-selling author and social skills coach Patrick King, and you have a guide that can be listened to equally for education, as for helpful, real advice.

Small and subtle actions, big results:

– Chapter 1. How to Improve People’s Moods.
Chapter 2. How to Turn Enemies into Friends.
Chapter 6. How to Gain Trust and Credibility.
Chapter 7. How to Work Well With Others.

Understand what makes people tick.

– Chapter 8. How to be More Endearing.
Chapter 10. How to Lead Anyone.
Chapter 11. How to Avoid Being Judged.
Chapter 13. How to be Funny and Charismatic.

Being likable unlocks the doors to everything you want in life.

A better career? You better believe that the people with the most promotions and highest salaries aren’t just the most qualified. Better love life? Being likable keeps you a potential date to anyone you want. Better relationships and friendships? Not only that, but you open the door to people wanting to be friends with you. Likability is the hidden force that makes people appear to be lucky in life, and receive more opportunities than they know what to do with.

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Albert Einstein: A Collection Of Quotes – His Thoughts On Nature, Life, Philosophy, Imagination, Creativity, Humor, Religion, Science, Reality, The Universe And More!

SAPIENS HUB is a collective of passionate individuals that love to appreciate timeless wisdom compiled and compressed into insightful quotes. Our main goal is to infect you with motivation and inspiration to live life and engage with it at its fullest.

SAPIENS HUB brings you a compilation of the very best quotes from Albert Einstein, including his takes on:

– Nature
– Life
– Philosophy
– Imagination
– Creativity
– Humor
– Religion
– Science
– Reality
-The Universe
– Inspiration
– Religion
– Knowledge
– Learning
– Wisdom
– Success

And much more!

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The Science of Motivation: Strategies & Techniques for Turning Dreams into Destiny

Legendary college football coach, Lou Holtz once said: “When all is said and done, more is said than done.” These few, yet profound words explain one of the biggest predicaments that individuals face today. We want to be successful, happy and influential. Yet, very few of us, follow up what we say with specific actions that move us directly toward those goals. The idea of being successful is an attractive dream that fills us with positive emotions. Whereas the actions required to be successful are often difficult. The desire to be genuinely happy is a goal toward which nearly every individual aspires. But, the actions required to achieve deep and sustained happiness require us to often delay temporary gratification and “quick fixes” to problems. Saying that we want to achieve influence, either as a leader of others in the workplace, an influential member of the community, or as an admired parent and spouse, is far easier than the gut wrenching decisions, enormous amounts of personal time, and direct truth-telling that are required.

In this cutting-edge program from personal development expert and motivation master, Brian Tracy, you’ll learn that there truly is a Science of Motivation. If you apply Brian’s teachings and implement them in your life, your dreams will become your destiny as you produce the outcomes that you desire.

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Quotes: 5 in 1: Business, Artist, Politics, Science, Author

1. Most Successful Entrepreneurs of all Time

Entrepreneurs are ambitious proactively find and seek-out opportunities, focused, goal-oriented, disciplined, well-organized and meticulous. hard workers who love what they do. not afraid to take risks, not afraid to make mistakes, and face failure, have a knack for innovation and creativity. know what it takes to be successful and have excellent role models. They are also willing to fail and start over again, taking the lessons they’ve learned to create something new and improve.

2. Most Successful artists of all Time

Art is one of the only four ways in which a human being can have an unmediated experience with those essential things that are beyond description in words. These things include love and faith and hope, which are among the most critical and meaningful aspects of the human experience, but are totally incapable of being fully expressed in words.

3. Most Successful scientists of all Time

Scientists are important for the world because they help people understand the way the world works in very specific ways. Human beings have spent a lot of time figuring out how to stay alive and be happy, and science has been a powerful tool for staying alive, though it doesn’t always make us happy. Science is one particular way of looking at the universe. It’s a system of thought, a way in which we can organize what we know to better understand the way things work.

4. Most Successful Politicians of all Time

History is filled with a vast number of inspirational political leaders. A large section of the society was impressed with these political leaders and considered their belief and sayings as revelations from God Himself. The people had something called a ‘blind faith’ in those leaders.

5. Most Successful Authors of all Time

The pen is truly mightier than the sword, and if you’re a book enthusiast you know that to be true. Some of history’s most influential people were authors, writing the most important literature and political works of all time. Writers have shaped human history, capturing some of the most important historical events and reflecting the culture of a changing world around us in a profound way.

6. Most Successful poets of all Time

A poet is a possessor of unusual sensitivity or insight. He is able to express things in a beautiful and romantic way. He is an imaginative, a creative and artistic person. High perception and imagination with profound insight is what that differentiates between a poet and a layman. A multicolored arc in the sky is just a rainbow to a layman but a poet has greater capacity to receive sense impressions about it to express his powerful feelings.

How will this book help you?

Through this book, we will explore the greatest life lessons and secrets to success from The Most Successful People of all Times. Reading a quote or two everyday will motivate you achieve your goals. However, motivation is worthless without consistency. Therefore, put consistent action to achieve success. I hope this book will help you towards your journey.

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Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Enlightenment

From one of America’s greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.

Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human brain. The mind is designed to often delude us, he argued, about ourselves and about the world. And it is designed to make happiness hard to sustain.

But if we know our minds are rigged for anxiety, depression, anger, and greed, what do we do? Wright locates the answer in Buddhism, which figured out thousands of years ago what scientists are discovering only now. Buddhism holds that human suffering is a result of not seeing the world clearly – and proposes that seeing the world more clearly, through meditation, will make us better, happier people.

In Why Buddhism Is True, Wright leads listeners on a journey through psychology, philosophy, and a great many silent retreats to show how and why meditation can serve as the foundation for a spiritual life in a secular age. At once excitingly ambitious and wittily accessible, this is the first book to combine evolutionary psychology with cutting-edge neuroscience to defend the radical claims at the heart of Buddhist philosophy. With bracing honesty and fierce wisdom, it will persuade you not just that Buddhism is true – which is to say, a way out of our delusion – but that it can ultimately save us from ourselves, as individuals and as a species.

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Motivation Science

For courses in Motivation

An engaging approach that makes motivation science accessible and relevant
Revel Motivation Science presents classic and contemporary approaches to the study of motivation in a way that is fun, dynamic, and relevant to students’ lives. Combining insights from psychology, education, health, business, and sports, authors Edward and Melissa Burkley emphasize the influences of cognitive, emotional, social, and biological processes upon motivation. Using simple, engaging language, real-world examples, and compelling pedagogical features, the text helps students see how they can apply concepts from the field to achieve their own life goals.

NOTE: This ISBN is for a Pearson Books a la Carte edition: a convenient, three-hole-punched, loose-leaf text. In addition to the flexibility offered by this format, Books a la Carte editions offer students great value, as they cost significantly less than a bound textbook.

Motivation Science is also available via Revel™, an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience.