High Minds

This entertaining and motivational audiobook, used by thousands worldwide, will show you how to excel in your life by using your mind in a more powerful and intentional way. It will improve your motivation, mindset, discipline, and your ability to get past procrastination and through adversity. It will show you how to find focus, clarity, and a sense of purpose.

In this eye-opening work, Graziano accessibly explores how this sense of an inner being led to empathy and formed us into social beings. The theory may point the way to engineers for building consciousness artificially. Graziano discusses what a future with artificial consciousness might be like, including both advantages and risks, and what AI might mean for our evolutionary future.

You know what the wealthiest of people of all times have in common? Self-discipline. This blend of two seemingly unimportant terms combined by a hyphen has the power to make or break your life, career, and aspirations. It is that one trait that can help turn tables and bridge the gap between you and your goals. It’s easy to get distracted by the things around us, which leads to deviation from the right path. Even comparatively affluent people leading happy lives are bereft of this magical trait, and this is exactly what is keeping them from rising to the apex.

A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. This "bigger mind" - human and machine capabilities working together - has the potential to solve the great challenges of our time. So why do smart technologies not automatically lead to smart results?

The human body is the primary instrument of war, yet those waging war often confront soldiers' bodies in a detached or merely intellectual way. In The Tenderness of Silent Minds, Martha C. Nussbaum, a leading thinker on emotion, morality, and justice, conducts a pioneering study of Benjamin Britten's musical representations of the tender male body amidst the brutality of war, and their ability to transform consciousness by evoking potent, non-personal emotions.

More than 2,000 years ago the Chinese strategist Sun Tzu advised us to know our enemies. The question has always been how. In A Sense of the Enemy, the historian Zachary Shore demonstrates that leaders can best understand an opponent not simply from his pattern of past behavior, but from his behavior at pattern breaks. Meaningful pattern breaks occur during dramatic deviations from the routine, when the enemy imposes costs upon himself. It's at these unexpected moments, Shore explains, that successful leaders can learn what makes their rivals truly tick.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a highly effective psychosocial intervention method that can change the way we look at our behavior. This audiobook focuses on the use of simple and effective strategies of CBT that can improve the quality your life.

Procrastination is one of the most well-known issues that humans have. For as long as humans have been around, they have been faced with the habit of delaying, avoiding, and procrastinating on different issues. During humans' more productive moments, when they figure out temporarily how to stop procrastinating, they feel satisfied and accomplished. But those moments don't last forever. You need to know that there exists a way to stop the procrastination problem--a cure that will help you have more productive moments than avoiding them.

How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders' oligarchy in the Civil War.

Are you ready to become the strongest, clearest, most unstoppable version of yourself? The High-Performance Mindset is your blueprint to mastering the four pillars that shape every part of your life: mindset, fitness, money, and relationships. In today’s world, motivation fades fast, discipline feels exhausting, and most people never reach their potential—not because they lack ability, but because they lack structure. This audiobook gives you that structure.

These days, companies aren’t necessarily looking for the strongest employees or even the smartest ones, but they are rather looking for people whose natural charisma allows them to easily navigate through interpersonal relationships while also keeping their own emotions in check, which helps to ensure they are able to make the best possible choice, regardless of the situation. This ability is known as emotional intelligence, and if you are looking for a way to improve your own, then this is the audiobook for which you have been waiting.

The work of self-love doesn’t happen overnight. Think of the closest relationships in your life; chances are, few of them were without their challenges, and it took time for trust and deep love to grow. It’s the same with cultivating deep love for yourself; the mind needs to be reprogrammed through repetition in thoughts, words, and action. This program is designed to boost this process and help you develop more patience with yourself as you embark on this journey.

After a decade of teaching writing and literature at the college level, Gideon Rappaport taught high school English for thirty-two years, during which time he was also teaching adult education classes, working as a theatrical dramaturge, and writing. This volume collects in Part I the chapel talks and speeches he gave at the two high schools at which he taught, in Part II his book and movie reviews, and in Part III other writings, including letters to former students and weblog posts.

It is time for an awakening in your life. It is time for you to realize your value and do something bold - unconditionally love yourself. You are a soul who is worthy of love, appreciation, and forgiveness for your faults. Before you can receive those gifts from someone else, you must first give them to yourself. This is what radical self-love is all about. These nightly subliminal affirmations are designed to help you increase your self-acceptance and practice loving yourself unconditionally.

Are you stressed to the max and about to explode? Is your world closing in? Are disappointments and despair derailing your dreams? Is fear and anxiety swallowing your energy and snuffing out your light? Do you need to keep going but don't know how? Are you looking for ways to change the narrative and triumph again? If you've asked yourself those questions, you're not alone. I asked myself the same questions, and then I found the answers. You have arrived at the perfect place for some heart-centered stress management! If you're ready for change, then this book is for you.

Inspired by the real psychology study popularized by the New York Times and its "Modern Love" column, this contemporary YA is perfect for fans of Eleanor and Park. Two random strangers. Two secrets. Thirty-six questions to make them fall in love. Hildy and Paul each have their own reasons for...

Have you ever met someone who just glows with confidence? You find yourself wondering, "How did they get there?" And, "Will that ever happen to me?" Confidence doesn’t happen just by waiting for it. Confidence comes from retraining your mind to hold yourself in the highest regard. Have you noticed that people in love have that same glow? What if you loved yourself so much it showed in both your appearance and your actions? This program is designed to stoke the fire of your confidence and bring out that inner glow.

A Collection of Thoughts is everything to me. It includes nearly all the poetry, prose, and a good chunk of the things that went through my head in high school that I deemed worth writing down. I created it to help people, whether they feel alone, are having trouble moving forward, or need a visual to take their mind elsewhere.

During the mid-seventeenth century, Anglo-American Protestants described Native American ceremonies as savage devilry, Islamic teaching as violent chicanery, and Catholicism as repugnant superstition. By the mid-eighteenth century, they would describe amicable debates between evangelical missionaries and Algonquian religious leaders about the moral appeal of Christianity, recount learned conversations between English merchants and Muslim scholars, and tell of encounters with hospitable and sincere priests in Catholic Canada and Europe. What explains this poignant shift?

When we set out on a path to self-improvement, it is tempting to be discouraged by the amount of work ahead of us, instead of taking each day one at a time. But every small step towards progress should be celebrated, because it brings us that much closer to our goals. Even when we can’t always see the improvement, it happens little by little through the actions we take. This program has been designed to transform your approach to self-improvement and improve your daily habits.