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Editors’ Picks: Personal Growth
Skip carouselAttainable happiness…
Funny, moving, thoughtful, and highly relatable, this million-selling memoir details one woman's year-long journey to become happier.
In the moment...
How often do you worry about the future? Agonize over the past? According to Eckhart Tolle, that’s pretty much all we do. This book teaches how to let go of distracting anxieties we can’t control.
Creativity unleashed…
The seminal psychological work on creativity unleashed, this book investigates & illuminates the satisfying power of total immersion in work.
Live a freer, happier life…
“Eat, Pray, Love” author Elizabeth Gilbert wants you to be happy—and in “Big Magic”, she shares ingredients that cook up joy, fulfillment, and a life with less regrets.
To err is human…
When society values success at all costs, the smallest mistake can be devastating. This book teaches positive self-talk techniques to accept setbacks as a natural part of the human experience.
Timeless wisdom…
The Nobel Prize-winning Dalai Lama reveals that meditations on self-awareness & realization reveal love, compassion & a singular happiness within each of us.
Contemporary classic…
A mega-bestseller with millions of copies sold, this beloved book holds the key to ultimate awareness, inner peace & happiness: the present.
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The Upside Of Outliers
Greater loyalty “There’s a secret sauce in hiring a person who knows that I believe in him enough to take a chance,” says David Williams, CEO of Fishbowl, an inventory software firm near Salt Lake City. Williams has hired everyone from his electricia
Apr 1 20174 minutos
The Smart Way To Pay Taxes On Retirement Savings
TAX SEASON IS COMPLICATED enough without your having to worry about retirement planning. But if you want to maximize your future spending money, this is exactly the right time to review the taxes you’re paying—or not paying—on what you’re saving. Ju
Apr 1 20173 minutos
Mastering The Mobile Wallet
Payment apps are hot. How to know if they’re right for your business—and if they can strengthen bonds with your customers
Apr 1 20172 minutos
Keeping Up With The Millennials
COELI CARR AS THE OWNER OF A SHIPPING company in Puyallup, Washington, Pavel Vosk didn’t realize how little he understood his demographic until he had to hire them. Some of the applicants his age—he started the company when he was 20—who sought admi
Mar 31 201720 minutos
A New Trauma Therapy for Treating the 'Untreatable'
A group of psychologists say body-oriented therapies can heal the deepest layers of the brain—and they're hoping neuroscience will prove them right.
Mar 30 20172 minutos
Lonely People Report More Severe Cold Symptoms, Study Finds
The study builds on previous evidence linking loneliness to more serious health problems, but the findings do not link the sheer size of a person's social network to cold symptom severity.
Mar 30 20174 minutos
A Tiny Spot In Mouse Brains May Explain How Breathing Calms The Mind
A cluster of neurons connects breathing and emotion centers in mouse brains, researchers say. If this turns out to be true in humans, it could explain how controlled breathing calms the mind.
Mar 30 20172 minutos
A Cold May Feel More Miserable If You’re Lonely
People who feel lonely are likely to think their cold symptoms are more severe than those who have strong friendships and social networks. “Loneliness puts people at risk for premature mortality and all kinds of other physical illnesses,” says Angie
New Way To Test Empathy Uses Painful Images
Psychologists have developed new tests and mathematical models to help capture and quantify the snap moral and empathetic judgments we make all the time, such as when seeing footage from a war-ravaged country. Certain situations could trigger instant
Mar 30 20177 minutos
The Psychological Approach to Educating Kids
Increased focus on kids’ psychological health may seem like the education world's flavor of the day, but it's achieving results.
The Virtues of Isolation
Under the right circumstances, choosing to spend time alone can be a huge psychological boon.
Mar 30 20172 minutos
Climate Change Contributes To Mental Illness
pexels Climate change isn’t just bad for the planet and for our bodies. According to a new report by the American Psychological Association, Climate for Health, and ecoAmerica, climate change is bad for our mental health too. “We’re seeing an increas
Mar 30 20179 minutos
Why You Feel the Urge to Jump: The science and philosophy of looking down from a high place.
Have you ever stood in a high place and felt the urge to jump? Judith Dancoff did one beautiful, clear day on Deception Pass Bridge, a narrow two-lane causeway that ribbons between two islands north of Seattle. If she followed her compulsion to leap,
Mar 29 20172 minutos
Can Robot Duo Track Crops Better Than Drones?
A tower and robot vehicle duo can accurately create 3D models of plants and collect data on both regions of crops and individual plants. The mobile sensor tower and an autonomous robot vehicle equipped with three levels of sensors and an additional r
Mar 29 20172 minutos
Wells Fargo’s $110 Million Settlement
The bank says it’s expecting to settle another 11 class-action cases related to the fake-accounts scandal last year.
Will Personalized Learning Become the New Normal?
Rhode Island is rolling out a statewide initiative to integrate student-specific instruction into classrooms.
Mar 28 20172 minutos
The First Year Of Raising A Baby Costs Four Times What You Think It Does
You knew having a baby is expensive, but just how very expensive might surprise you. Roughly half of expectant moms and dads peg the cost of their little tyke's first year at $5,000 or less, according to a new survey from NerdWallet. Too bad they are
Mar 28 20177 minutos
The Atheists Struggling to Find Therapists in the Bible Belt
The rise of faith-based counseling in America’s most Christian regions has brought the clash over religious liberties to the therapist’s couch.
Mar 27 20173 minutos
Planning for a Low-Tax, High-Deficit World
Lewis Braham • It’s time to maximize deductions and go light on Treasuries • “It’s like getting to bet on a horse after the race is over” It isn’t often that rushing makes sense in retirement planning. But when it comes to converting your tax-defe
Mar 27 20171 minuto
Everybody Lies, And That's Not Always A Bad Thing
When we think of lies, we think of the big stuff. We say, "I could never do something like that." But big lies start with small deceptions. Dan Ariely talks about why we lie and why we're honest.
Mar 27 20173 minutos
The Case for More Intellectual Humility
I can remember, almost a decade ago, when I was convinced out of my “Young-Earth” Creationism. It was almost a process of de-radicalization. During high school I was a generic Christian, but then some friends suggested I watch a video of a pastor onl
Mar 26 20172 minutos
Anxiety Can Even Stymie Math Whizzes
Even students who perform extremely well on math exams can suffer from anxiety. And the better a student does at math, the more strongly anxiety will drag his or her performance down, new research shows. And the relationship between anxiety and achie
Mar 25 20174 minutos
Escaping Office Ennui Through Painful Exercise
A study explores how Tough Mudders allow the “cognitariat” a break from the tedium of sedentary work
Tired People Struggle To Detect Certain Emotions
Although sleepy people had trouble interpreting happiness and sadness in a recent study, they had no problem doing so with other emotions—anger, fear, surprise, and disgust. That’s likely because we’re wired to recognize those more primitive emotions
Mar 23 20173 minutos
Why We Say "You" Even When We Mean "I"
Pexels The generic you refers to someone who doesn't really exist. Early in August 2015, then Presidential candidate Donald Trump went on the CBS news show Face the Nation and said something curious: “I fight like hell to pay as little [in taxes] as
Mar 23 20179 minutos
Why Power Brings Out Your True Self: Are you a tyrant or a servant?
At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Michelle Obama told the crowd, “Being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.” Growing up, Michelle said, she and Barack learned important lessons from their families about “dignity an
Neurons Never Quite Recover From ‘Pavlov’s Bell’
In the decades following the work of physiologist Ivan Pavlov and his famous salivating dogs, scientists have discovered how molecules and cells in the brain learn to associate two stimuli, such as Pavlov’s bell and the resulting food. What they have
Mar 22 20172 minutos
Fitness Trackers Can Be Addictive—and Dangerous
Penguin Press This is a book excerpt adapted from Irresistible by Adam Alter. Katherine Schreiber and Leslie Sim are experts on exercise addiction who believe that tech advances encourage obsessive goal monitoring. Schreiber and Sim loathe wearable t
Mar 21 20173 minutos
How Universal Child Care Affects Boys vs. Girls
A case study from Quebec reveals surprising differences in how children—and their parents—respond to subsidized care.
Mar 20 20173 minutos
Is Happiness A Universal Human Right?
In celebrating the International Day of Happiness on March 20, we might do well to examine rather than reaffirm our tacit assumptions about happiness and its pursuit, says psychologist Tania Lombrozo,
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Unconventional, pragmatic advice…
The book flies in the face of so much conventional self-help wisdom that it’s hard not to label the book as anti-self-help. And yet, that label undermines how pragmatic the book actually is. In the overcrowded, oversaturated, over-clichéd self-help genre, this is is a book well worth whatever f*cks you can muster.
Love Your Life
Take time this month to discover new ways to love your career, home, and life with these books and audiobooks.
Skip carousel- How to Be Alive
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- The School of Greatness
- The Little Book of Hygge
- The Achievement Habit
- Smarter Faster Better
- NeuroWisdom
- The Crossroads of Should and Must
- The Happiness Advantage
- Healthy Brain, Happy Life
- Designing Your Life
- 10% Happier
- Zero Waste Home
- The Mathematics of Love
- Carry On, Warrior
- Year of Yes
- The Happiness Project (Revised Edition)
Save for Retirement
Worried about how much money you’ll have when you retire? No matter how old you are, it’s never too early or too late to plan for retirement. Dispel your fears and find the right plan for you.
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Find out why certain methods of persuasion work so effectively and how you can use them to your advantage.
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- Thinking, Fast and Slow
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- Originals
- The 48 Laws of Power
- MONEY Master the Game
- Eat Pray Love
- Grit
- Buddhist Boot Camp
- A New Earth
- Full Catastrophe Living
- MONEY Master the Game
- The Power Of Positive Thinking
- What Is God's Will for My Life?
- Tattoos on the Heart
- Nonviolent Communication
- Blood, Bones & Butter
- Tiny Beautiful Things
- The New One Minute Manager (One Minute Manager)
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens
- The Success Principles(TM) - 10th Anniversary Edition
- The Magic of Thinking Big
Money Management
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- The Big Short
- MONEY Master the Game
- MONEY Master the Game
- Dont Sweat The Small Stuff About Money
- Rich Dad Poor Dad
- Beating the Street
- The Truth About Money 4th Edition
- Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
- Business Adventures
- The Opposite of Spoiled
- Think and Grow Rich
- The Trusted Advisor
- The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke
- The Total Money Makeover Workbook
- The Snowball
- Financial Peace Revisited
- You Can Be a Stock Market Genius
- Think BIG and Kick Ass in Business and Life
- The Automatic Millionaire Homeowner
- The Spender's Guide to Debt-Free Living
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Skip carousel- I Heart My Little A-Holes
- Boundaries with Kids
- Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Expanded Edition
- How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
- Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
- The Explosive Child
- How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk
- He’s Just Not That Into You
- The Art of Seduction
- Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems
- Hold Me Tight
- Getting the Love You Want, 20th Anniversary Edition
- Commando Dad
- Far From the Tree
- What To Expect The 1st Year [rev Edition]
- Get the Guy
- Becoming Nicole
- Girls & Sex
- NOT "Just Friends"
- Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings
- No-Drama Discipline
- The Price of Privilege
- It Takes a Village
- The New Strong-Willed Child
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- Search Inside Yourself
- The Verbally Abusive Relationship
- The New Strong-Willed Child
- Golf is Not a Game of Perfect
- How to Sell Yourself
- For Women Only, Revised and Updated Edition
- How Successful People Think
- The Truth About Money 3rd Edition
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- The Sex-Starved Marriage
- Big Think Strategy
- For Men Only, Revised and Updated Edition
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- How to Make Someone Love You Forever! In 90 Minutes or Less
- Rewire Your Anxious Brain
- Happiness Hypothesis
- Have a New Teenager by Friday
- How to Make Anyone Fall in Love With You
- Love Sense