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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In Flip Thinking, Berthold Gunster, the founder of the Dutch omdenken--or flip thinking--philosophy, presents fifteen strategies to transform your thinking away from limitations and negativities and towards possibilities and opportunities. From disrupting (turn all the rules upside down) to flaunting (play up what you want to hide) and from importing (get the enemy on board) to amplifying (do more of what works), Gunster's strategies and stories...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Building a Second Brain is Getting Things Done for the digital age. It's a revolutionary new productivity method for consuming, synthesizing, and remembering the vast amount of information we take in, allowing us to become more effective and creative and harness the unprecedented amount of technology we have at our disposal"--
Author
Publisher
Harriman House, Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"What distinguishes the truly exceptional from the merely great? The highest performers don't use tricks or hacks to achieve greatness. They use mental frameworks that fundamentally change the way they see the world. They've learned how to unlock their hidden genius in order to reach their full potential."--Adapted from inside front flyleaf.
Author
Publisher
Hay House
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Argues that all human beings have the power within them to overcome predisposed beliefs and habits to make significant changes in life, and provides step-by-step tools to make such changes using understandings between science and spirituality.
Author
Publisher
Tapioca Stories
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
'There are all kinds of collections in this world...serious, funny, weird. Imagination has no limits! And Rosália's collection might be the weirdest yet, as she collects the heads, histories, and memories of those who have died. Ana Matsusaki's beautifully illustrated book explores the delicate and complex cultural aspects of death with great humor and invites us to reflect on the shared and unique contents inside each of our heads."--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking account of the power of our thoughts to improve our health-by the "mother of mindfulness" and first female tenured professor of psychology at Harvard When it comes to our health, too many of us think that a medical diagnosis describes a static or worsening condition. We then live our lives as though our ailments-our stiff knees or frayed nerves or failing eyesight-can only change in one direction: for the worse. Ellen J. Langer's...
Author
Publisher
Herder
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
Contrariamente a lo que muchas personas creen, la meditación no es un atajo para evitar las dificultades de la existencia humana, sino una herramienta para afrontarlas, atravesarlas y trascenderlas conscientemente. En los ochenta capítulos de este libro, Jorge Zentner nos invita a una práctica de atención y presencia. Esta experiencia transformadora de pausa, silencio y recogimiento nos ayudará a explorar los rincones profundos y oscuros de nuestro...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Courage to Be Disliked, already an enormous bestseller in Asia with more than 3.5 million copies sold, demonstrates how to unlock the power within yourself to be the person you truly want to be. Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of twentieth century psychology, The Courage to Be Disliked follows an illuminating conversation between a philosopher and a young man. The philosopher explains to his pupil how each of us is...
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial de Libros, S.L
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Una historia estimulante sobre cómo la imaginación interactúa con las facultades psicológicas, --emoción, percepción y razón-- para formar la historia de la vida humana. El imaginar (para ver lo que no está presente) es la asombrosa habilidad que ha alimentado el desarrollo y la innovación de los humanos a lo largo de los siglos. Como especie, somos únicos, con nuestra singular capacidad para remodelar el mundo después de ver las imágenes...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Vida
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Todos hemos tratado de encontrar una manera de salir de los malos hábitos y los patrones de pensamiento poco saludables, solo para encontrarnos atrapados en una mente fuera de control y una vida diaria fuera de lugar. Groeschel entiende esta batalla diaria contra la duda y el pensamiento negativo, y aquí revela las estrategias que descubrió para ayudarlo a cambiar su mente y su vida a largo plazo. Basándose en las Escrituras y los últimos descubrimientos...
114) I've been thinking
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A memoir by one of the greatest minds of our age, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel C. Dennett."--Amazon.
Daniel C. Dennett, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering the thorniest, most fundamental mysteries of the mind. Do we have free will? What is consciousness and how did it come about? What distinguishes human minds from the minds of animals? Dennett's answers have profoundly shaped...
Author
Publisher
Lexham Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Christ's nearness to my own suffering -- my mental breakdown, my journey to the psych ward, my long, slow, painful recovery -- and how Christ will use even our agony and despair to turn us into servants and guests of the mercy offered in his gospel. We cannot answer suffering. And yet suffering demands an answer. If Jesus is the answer to suffering, what kind of answer is Jesus? Everything that could be taken from a person was...
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