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#1 When I opened my private practice as a psychologist, I was deluded about what I would be doing. I was expecting to cure my patients, but instead I had to learn how to be flexible as new information trickled in weekly.
#2 It's difficult to treat a patient who isn't psychologically oriented. Laura just wanted her herpes cured and, in her mind, therapy was a means to...
2) Summary of Steven Kotler's The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: “The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance” (2014) is a psychology and self-help book about realizing our true potential through the power of flow—a state of consciousness characterized by total immersion in an activity. American author Steven Kotler explains how flow has enabled extreme athletes to push the boundaries of human potential....
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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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#1 In the late 1800s, massive changes in American farming and transportation invited a long list of destructive bugs. Farmers lost natural parasites and predators of the pests, which created bigger problems in the process.
#2 While working for a Swiss company, Eugene Froelicher studied how insects attacked crops, and how to grow crops that would resist those attacks....
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Book Preview: #1 The first nine mental models in this book are about how the world works. They are representations of how something works, and they help you understand and think about your world. They are essential to making rational decisions, even when there is no clear path.
#2 To see a problem for what it is, you must first break it down into its substantive parts. This bottom-up...
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#1 The mind of every therapist I've ever known is full of unhelpful thoughts. And the mind of every person who struggles with anxiety, depression, or addiction. We start from the assumption that the normal psychological processes of a normal human mind readily become destructive, and that the root of this suffering is human language itself.
#2 The mind is not a thing or an object....
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#1 The creation of writing was a massive technological breakthrough that empowered us to disseminate important texts to millions of people. This allowed mass education and mass collaboration on a scale never before seen in human history.
#2 The internet changed all that. It made it easy to share information on a massive scale, and this has resulted in an absolute explosion...
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Book Preview: #1 The path to healing is a long one, and it involves the emotional discovery of your childhood history. If you choose instead to content yourself with intellectual wisdom, you will remain in the sphere of illusion and self-deception.
#2 The repression of childhood pain influences not only the life of an individual but also the society's taboos. The typical run of biographies...
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Book Preview: #1 Change is endlessly fascinating to brains. The brain is constantly on alert for the unexpected, because unexpected change is a portal through which danger may enter. But change is also an opportunity, and curiosity is how we should feel in the opening moments of a story.
#2 Storytellers create moments of unexpected change that seize the attention of their protagonists...
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Get the Summary of Richard C. Schwartz's No Bad Parts in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Is there just one "you"? We've been taught to believe we have a single identity, and to feel fear or shame when we can't control the inner voices that don't match the ideal of who we think we should be. Yet Dr. Richard Schwartz's research now challenges this "mono-mind" theory. "All of us are born...
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#1 The Vegetable Lamb was a myth that persisted for centuries, despite being debunked by several leading naturalists. It is still felt today among some that certain foods can cause cancer.
#2 Pope Endorses Trump. On September 26, 2016, about six weeks before Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, a website called ETF News posted a story with the headline...
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Get the Summary of Tasha Eurich's Insight in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Research shows that self-awareness-knowing who we are and how others see us-is the foundation for high performance, smart choices, and lasting relationships. There's just one problem: most people don't see themselves quite as clearly as they could.
Fortunately, reveals organizational psychologist Tasha Eurich,...
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Book Preview: #1 The most important thing is how you feel inside. Scales like the ones you just completed are among the best in the world at measuring how you feel. They are approximately 95 percent accurate.
#2 Your feelings about other people can change from time to time, so make sure you take these tests as often as you like, but make sure that the person you're thinking about...
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Get the Summary of Kate Mascarenhas' ‘The Psychology of Time Travel’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: In 1967, four female scientists worked together to build the world's first-time machine. But just as they are about to debut their creation, one of them suffers a breakdown, putting the whole project-and future of time travel-in jeopardy. To protect their invention, one member...
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#1 The first few chapters of this book will help you understand what attachment theory is and how it impacts your day-to-day interactions with others. It will provide you with tools, strategies, and steps to help you create healthier patterns and change what is preventing you from reaching your full potential in relationships with friends, family, and romantic partners.
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#1 We learn by repetition. Something we do enough times gets its own neuronal pathways in the brain. Each neuron learns to connect and fire with the next one down, and the behavior gets set. We wouldn't be able to enjoy movies without this process.
#2 We are the only machine that can program itself. We are meta-programmable and can set deliberately designed, automated...
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Book Preview: #1 We are often the last people to know what is going on inside us. We suffer because there is no easy way to introspection. We are not a fixed destination, but an eternally mobile, unfocused, and vaporous specter.
#2 Emotional skepticism is the recognition that our own minds can be faulty and misleading. It is the first step towards emotional maturity, which involves...
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#1 I have to get dressed. I take out a jumper and a white shirt, and from the dresser I get white socks and white underwear and a white undershirt, and I get my favorite saddle shoes. I suit up completely. I must be very quiet or my parents will hear.
#2 I would pace up and down the hall, getting more and more anxious until I wiggled free and began to run around the...
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#1 The similarities between Western psychotherapy and Eastern ways of life are that they both focus on changing the consciousness of individuals, and that the normal state of consciousness in our culture is the breeding ground of mental disease.
#2 The idea of stuff is based on the experience of coming to a limit where our senses or instruments are not fine enough to...
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#1 The human mind is made up of a tapestry of genetics, biology, and relationships that allow us to be interwoven into the superorganisms we call families, tribes, and cultures. Our deep evolutionary history accounts for the profound connections among our bodies, minds, and the nature and quality of our relationships.
#2 Our brains have multiple parallel tracks...
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