Tag: Inspiring Books

The book Smart Thinking: Skills for Critical Understanding and Writing is written by Matthew Allen. I have been fortunate to discover that I was right in assuming that a practical book on critical thinking skills in the context of communication would be both popular and necessary. I continue to be involved in teaching critical thinking in the Applied Reasoning unit, which is now part of some study courses through Open Learning Australia and is being revived on the Curtin University campus. I also realized that by writing Smart Thinking I myself learned everything I expected from its readers and therefore, in the end, it was an easy decision to produce a new edition.This second edition reflects the experiences of teaching with Smart Thinking over the years since it was first published. Revi...

The book Mindset: Changing The Way You Think To Fulfill Your Potential is written by Dr. Carol Dweck. One day, my students sat me down and ordered me to write this book. They wanted people to be able to use our work to improve their lives. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time, but it became my number one priority.My work is part of a tradition in psychology that shows the power of people's beliefs. These may or may not be beliefs that we are aware of, but they strongly affect what we want and whether we get it. This tradition also shows how changing people's beliefs, even the simplest beliefs, can have profound effects.In this book, you'll learn how a simple belief about yourself, a belief we discovered in our research, guides a large part of your life. In fact, it permeates...

The book Ego is the Enemy is written by Ryan Holiday. “Although the history books are full of stories of obsessive visionary geniuses who remade the world in their image and likeness with sheer, almost irrational force, I discovered that history is also made by people who fought against their egos at all times, who They avoided being the center of attention. , and who put their highest goals above their desire for recognition.” —from the prologue. Ego Is the Enemy draws from a wide range of stories and examples, from literature to philosophy to history. We meet fascinating figures like George Marshall, Jackie Robinson, Katharine Graham, Bill Belichick, and Eleanor Roosevelt, who achieved the highest levels of power and success by conquering their own egos. Their strategies and tactics can ...

The book The Social Skills Guidebook is written by Chris MacLeod MSW. THIS BOOK IS FOR ANYONE who feels they need to brush up on their social skills. You may feel shy, anxious, and insecure around people. You find it difficult to strike up a conversation and leave a good impression on others. You're lonely and isolated and don't go out as often as you'd like, or you just have a few casual acquaintances and want closer relationships. Maybe all of the above. Perhaps you feel that you somehow missed out on learning the unwritten social rules that everyone else seemed to have mastered by the time they were thirteen. If you have these social difficulties, you are not alone. You may feel like an exceptionally broken outcast, but these are all common problems. Millions of people feel the same as...

The book The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment is written by Eckhart Tolle. This book represents the essence of my work, as far as it can be expressed in words, with individuals and small groups of spiritual seekers over the last ten years, in Europe and North America. With deep love and appreciation, I would like to thank these exceptional people for their courage, and their willingness to embrace inner change, a thought that kept repeating itself in my mind. Then suddenly I realized how peculiar that thought was. “Am I one or two? If I can't live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'me' and the 'me' that 'me' can't live with." Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real. your challenging questions and your willingness to listen. This book would not have come into exis...

The book Games People Play: The psychology of human relationships is written by Eric Berne. THIS book is designed primarily to be a follow-up to my book Transnational Analysis in Psychotherapy,1 but it has been planned so that it can be read and understood independently. The theory necessary for the analysis and clear understanding of the games has been summarized in Part I. Part II contains descriptions of the individual games. Part III contains new clinical and theoretical material which, added to the old, provides some understanding of what it means to be game-free. Those who want more background can refer to the previous volume. The reader of both will note that, in addition to theoretical advances, there have been some minor changes in terminology and point of view based on new thinki...