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Summary of Presence by Amy Cuddy | Includes Analysis Preview: Have you ever bombed a job interview or fumbled an "elevator pitch"? Based on a number of social psychology studies, Presence is a book by Harvard Business School professor Amy Cuddy that encourages people to stop worrying about the impression they make on others and instead use simple tools like body language to change the way they feel about themselves. Presence shows how, by accessing...
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William James believed that events could not be catalogued simply as a series of facts, but had to be considered through the lens of experience. Thus each person affects and modifies their own reality based on their own unique experiences and points of view. Ultimately you can quantify facts, but only if you understand how the person looking at these facts will affect and change them.
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Uplifting and heartfelt, A Black Woman's Worth: My Queen and Backbone by psychotherapist and advocate Dr. Dwayne L. Buckingham sharesinspire Black women and young Black girls to take control of their lives by focusing on things they can influence. Black communities and the world over continue to face serious social, spiritual and political dilemmas, which jeopardize and disenfranchise Black women. This powerful manifesto helps readers of all ages...
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Psychology and Social Sanity is a classic psychology text by Hugo Munsterberg. It has always seemed to me a particular duty of the psychologist from time to time to leave his laboratory and with his little contribution to serve the outside interests of the community. Our practical life is filled with psychological problems which have to be solved somehow, and if everything is left to commonsense and to unscientific fancies about the mind, confusion...
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Get the Summary of Robert Greene's Mastery in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Mastery" by Robert Greene explores the journey to achieving mastery in one's field, emphasizing the importance of following one's natural inclinations and the Life's Task. Leonardo da Vinci's relentless pursuit of art and science, driven by curiosity and an inner force, serves as a prime example of mastery. Greene argues that careers...
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Survivism reveals itself primarily within attempts to solve an unsolicited problem and other accompanying encounters thereof. Secondarily, a movement arises, resulting from intelligences deemed necessary to process a vast array of complexities engulfing this otherwise ancient yet modern symbolic Parthenon structure representation, hence dynamically riddled with existential change infiltrated throughout a range of time and space. What manifests deeply...
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This book is about reconciliation. It is about winning forgiveness and healing for self and others at a price. That price in this book is foot washing. The research, based on descriptions and stories told, shed light on the depth of foot washing as a powerful alternative tool that can break the cycle of conflict and facilitate dialogue. Stories tell that foot washing generated emotions of tears and joy eliciting trust, forgiveness, reconciliation,...
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We have freedom of speech but we're afraid to speak. Our lives have become subjected to PC tyranny, a constant fear of "offending" someone. We think that we are independent and that it is the other guy who is influenced, brain washed, duped, persuaded. We feel like we think for ourselves. How can we feel" otherwise? There's no way to know because countless influences and interactions have molded us. We're members of various groups--circles of friends,...
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Ce livre s'adresse aux victimes directes ou indirectes de violences. Pour la victime, ce sera un outil d'aide indispensable. Si vous êtes en position d'agresseur, il pourra vous aider à mettre fin à cette spirale infernale. La violence est partout et ne fait aucune discrimination chez l'être humain. Elle commence de manière insidieuse en provoquant un déséquilibre sur les plans émotif, psychologique, psychique, spirituel et sexuel.
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In Chapter I, The book explores two fields one can focus in order to cultivate Mindful Connection:
• Empathy Filed involves any action that one takes toward creating empathy and focusing on what is emotionally going on for him/herself or another person. The basic purpose of the Empathy Field is to identify met and unmet needs by attuning to all the feelings (both joyous and non-joyous).
• Resolution Field is about any action that takes a person...
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We have freedom of speech but we're afraid to speak. Our lives have become subjected to PC tyranny-a constant fear of "offending" someone. We think that we are independent and that it is the other guy who is influenced, brainwashed, duped, persuaded. We feel like we think for ourselves. How can we "feel" otherwise? There's no way to know because countless influences and interactions have molded us.
We're members of various groups-circles of friends,...
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Patricia King and Pat Lairson, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has worked with families and at risk youth for over 12 years, expose the bully. Bullies can strike in seconds at school or work, in cyberspace, or even at home, but you will never feel powerless again. You do not have to submit meekly to abuse; you can remove the targets from your back and learn to: Deal with bullies in the same way David toppled Goliath; Disarm bullies by...
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Este libro de investigación, auspiciado por la línea estratégica Infancia y Juventud de la Universidad del Norte, explora la forma en que los niños víctimas de violencia estructural asociada a migraciones afrontan los conflictos. Se estudian en particular los casos de la niñez en Francia, Chile y Colombia con el propósito de evidenciar cómo los distintos agentes de socialización facilitan una forma de concebir el mundo que justifica la utilización...
55) Moral Education
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18 lectures by an influential theorist who discusses school as an appropriate setting for moral education. A pioneer of sociology, Durkheim explains the first element in fostering morality as the development of a sense of discipline, followed by a willingness to behave in accordance with collective interest, and a sense of autonomy.
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Ne parle pas qui veut ni qui peut, mais souvent celui qui est désigné par l'institution pour le faire. Dans le contexte de la protection de l'enfance, la parole des enfants et des parents est rarement entendue, et les marges d'action qui en découlent sont souvent réduites. Rendre audibles ces voix oubliées, tel est l'objectif central de cet ouvrage. Ce sont en effet sur celles-ci que se sont appuyés les auteurs pour repérer les enjeux de la...
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We live in a world in which we are invited to change-to become our best selves through politics, or fitness, or diet, or therapy. We change all the time-growing older and older-and how we think about change changes over time too.
We want to think of our lives as progress myths-as narratives of positive personal growth-at the same time as we inevitably age and suffer setbacks.
Adam Phillips's sparkling book On Wanting to Change explores the stories...
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It is an attempt to give a bird's-eye view of the processes of human nature, from man's simple inborn impulses and needs to the most complete fulfillment of these in the deliberate activities of religion, art, science, and morals. It is hoped that the book may give to the student and general reader, a knowledge of the fundamentals of human nature and a sense of the possibilities and limits these give to human enterprise.
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What if there was an easy way to know when someone is trying to deceive you, would you be interested? Would you like to be a better communicator and protect you and your family from shady characters? If you answered yes to either of these questions, then this book is for you!
Frank Runles, veteran FBI Special Agent, reveals everything he has learned over a 20-year career spotting liars and exposing cheats using Deceptive Language Analysis.
If you...
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Influence ...in 30 minutes is your guide to quickly understanding the important lessons on influencing human behavior covered in the best seller, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. In Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Dr. Robert B. Cialdini uses decades of research and experiments to offer insight into the psychology of human decision-making, and the world of influence and persuasion. In Influence, Cialdini reveals invaluable tools for...
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