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#1 Our minds are capable of wandering without making contact with our external reality. This can be good for daydreaming, but it can also be bad, as it can lead us to rehearse negative conversations with others, which can make us seem critical when we're not.
#2 Your brain is not an actor in your reality, but the director and producer of it. It constructs stories that...
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Daniel Amen reveals the seven-neuroscience secrets to becoming more than 30 percent happier in just 30 days-regardless of your age, upbringing, genetics, or current situation.
Happiness is a brain function. With a healthier brain always comes a happier life.
After studying more than 200,000 brain scans of people from 155 countries, Dr. Amen has discovered five primary brain types and seven neuroscience secrets...
3) Be It Until You Become It: The Law of Attraction Explained Through Neuroscience and Ancient Wisdom
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With practical exercises and scientific studies, Natasha Graziano explains the Law of Attraction like never before in Be It Until You Become It!
Be It Until You Become It is a life-changing guide for personal empowerment that combines ancient wisdom and modern-day neuroscience. Natasha Graziano's approach encourages readers to eliminate their inner blockages and create a life beyond their wildest dreams. Her writing cites some of the world's leading...
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Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, the founders of the new discipline of neuromagic, have convinced some of the world's greatest magicians to allow scientists to study their techniques for tricking the brain. This book is the result of the authors' yearlong, world-wide exploration of magic and how its principles apply to our behavior. Magic tricks fool us because humans have hardwired processes of attention and awareness that are hackable--a...
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Years of neuroscience research have led to the current understanding of the brain as a prediction machine. The problem is that our brains' evolved capacity for avoiding and defending against threats has a slew of by-products, all tightly woven into our day-to-day thinking and behavior, that ensnare us while making our threat-anticipating brains "happy."
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"The acclaimed author of Time Warped tackles the very latest research in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and biology to provide a fresh, fascinating, and thought-provoking look at our relationship with money-- perfect for fans of Dan Ariely and Freakonomics. We know we need money and we often want more of it, but we don't always think about the way it affects our minds and our emotions, skews our perceptions and even changes the way we behave....
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A Belgian chocolate cake topped with a velvety homemade mousse catches your eye on the menu. The next thing you know, you've ordered it-despite the hefty price. But, do you know why?
Through over 40 compelling questions, this book explores how our eating decisions tread the line between conscious and subconscious, and enables us to be more intelligent about food. With expert insights that draw from psychology, neuroscience, popular culture, and more,...
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James Clear, an expert on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. He draws on proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible.
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A neuroscientist's groundbreaking, science-driven plan for revitalizing, nourishing and rejuvenating your most essential asset--your brain. Your brain is the most essential organ in your body. The brain and spinal cord are intimately connected to every bodily system and organ, so when it is balanced everything in your body and mind will function more efficiently. It's vitally important to take proactive steps now, or you risk losing everything, including...
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"The perfect introduction to psychology, Degree in a Book: Psychology covers every major subject of psychology, every methodology. Including helpful diagrams, summary sections, ideas for further reading and questions to consider, you will soon be able tounderstand the differences between Freud and Jung, its relationship to neuroscience and physiology, and how psychology is used in our everyday lives." --
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This book demonstrates how introverted people are misunderstood and undervalued in modern culture, charting the rise of extrovert ideology while sharing anecdotal examples of how to use introvert talents to adapt to various situations. At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over...
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"What is it about evil that we find so compelling? From our obsession with serial killers to violence in pop culture, we seem inescapably drawn to the stories of monstrous acts and the aberrant people who commit them. But evil, Dr. Julia Shaw argues, is largely subjective. What one may consider normal, like sex before marriage, eating meat, or working on Wall Street, others find abhorrent. And if evil is only in the eye of the beholder, can it be...
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What does the 13,000-year-old mancala game have in common with today's Minecraft ? They both require logic, critical thinking skills, and creativity! In Video Games: Design and Code Your Own Adventure, readers discover that the video games they play today have their roots in the games kids played in the deserts of Ancient Egypt, and they'll learn how to design their own games from the initial idea to the final blips on the screen. Video games are...
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"Few punctuation marks elicit quite as much love or hate as the exclamation point. It's bubbly and exuberant, an emotional amplifier whose flamboyantly dramatic gesture lets the reader know: here be feelings! Scott Fitzgerald famously stated exclamation points are like laughing at your own joke; Terry Pratchett had a Discworld character say that multiple !!! are a 'sure sign of a diseased mind'. So what's the deal with ! ? AN ADMIRABLE POINT recuperates...
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Using the latest scientific findings in neuroscience and nutrition, a psychiatrist and farmer offers a six-week plan for achieving better mental health through eating foods to reduce inflammation, cultivate a healthy microbiome, and increase brain cell health.
As cases of depression and anxiety disorders rise, many people rely on therapy and medications to alleviate symptoms. Ramsey breaks down the science of nutritional psychiatry and explains what...
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