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Books > Health, Home & Family > Self-help & practical interests > Popular psychology > General
So, you got fired, laid off, restructured, canned. Welcome to the club,
baby! In today’s seismically changing job market, getting fired doesn’t
automatically meet you failed; it’s a rite of passage.
With their decades of experience in high-stakes leadership roles, Laura
Brown and Kristina O’Neill know firsthand the challenges―and thrilling
opportunities―that come with losing a job, no matter where you are in
your career. They’ve been through the shock, grief, anger, and
confusion, and they’re here to help you navigate the experience. All
the Cool Girls Get Fired is both a roadmap and a mindset shift―a
pragmatic, empowering and humorous way to make lemonade from lemons.
With candor, humor, actionable advice, and exclusive “I’ve been there,”
interviews from inspirational women, All the Cool Girls Get Fired
challenges outdated corner office perceptions of career success. From
coping mechanisms and self-care practices to networking strategies and
reinvention techniques, the book is a comprehensive GPS to navigate the
path of career recovery and bounce back with more professional mojo
than ever.
The New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Magical Overthinking and Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how “cultish” groups, from Jonestown and Scientologists to SoulCycle and social media gurus, use language as the ultimate form of power.
What makes “cults” so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and fall down rabbit holes researching suburban moms gone QAnon is because we’re looking for a satisfying explanation for what causes people to join—and more importantly, stay in—extreme groups. We secretly want to know: could it happen to me? Amanda Montell’s argument is that, on some level, it already has . . .
Our culture tends to provide pretty flimsy answers to questions of cult influence, mostly having to do with vague talk of “brainwashing.” But the true answer has nothing to do with freaky mind-control wizardry or Kool-Aid. In Cultish, Montell argues that the key to manufacturing intense ideology, community, and us/them attitudes all comes down to language. In both positive ways and shadowy ones, cultish language is something we hear—and are influenced by—every single day.
Through juicy storytelling and cutting original research, Montell exposes the verbal elements that make a wide spectrum of communities “cultish,” revealing how they affect followers of groups as notorious as Heaven’s Gate, but also how they pervade our modern start-ups, Peloton leaderboards, and Instagram feeds. Incisive and darkly funny, this enrapturing take on the curious social science of power and belief will make you hear the fanatical language of “cultish” everywhere.
It's true that life holds many challenges, but oftentimes the
biggest obstacle to our own success and happiness comes from
within. In fact, we are experts at self-sabotage. If we could just
get out of our own way, imagine what we could accomplish! That's
exactly what bestselling author John Mason is going to help you do
in this book. Honing in on areas of life where you might be
standing in your own way, Mason will help you conquer - negative
self-talk - fear - lack of focus - regret - indecision - trust
issues - distraction - perfectionism - anxiety - overwhelm - and so
much more With his enthusiastic help, you'll discover how you can
set and achieve your goals, maintain a positive attitude, and face
each day with a spirit of gratitude and possibility.
Explore what it means to be an Enneatype 1 (Life Strategy: "To be
good and honest, and live a life of purpose") through in-depth
descriptions, writing prompts, guided journal entries, beautiful
illustrations, and more. Pronounced ENN-EE-UH-GRAM, stemming from
the Greek words ennea (nine) and grammos (a written symbol), the
Enneagram is a centuries-old categorization tool that classifies
human personalities into nine interconnected personality types. It
is a powerful tool for self-observation, maximizing your strengths,
and improving your relationships. In this shorter, giftier, and
interactive follow-up to What's Your Enneatype? (Fair Winds Press,
2020), authors Liz Carver and Josh Green, the creators of the
hugely popular Instagram account @justmyenneatype, help you
discover how knowing your type-and the types of those around
you-can affect your daily life, your decisions, and your
relationships with others, and how to use this wisdom to live life
with more clarity, peace, and insight than you ever thought
possible. If you are type ONE, find out more about yourself and
others today and get started on the journey to better understand
your world and your place within it.
Explore what it means to be an Enneatype 6 (Life Strategy: "Own
your power.") through in-depth descriptions, writing prompts,
guided journal entries, beautiful illustrations, and more.
Pronounced ENN-EE-UH-GRAM, stemming from the Greek words ennea
(nine) and grammos (a written symbol), the Enneagram is a
centuries-old categorization tool that classifies human
personalities into nine interconnected personality types. It is a
powerful tool for self-observation, maximizing your strengths, and
improving your relationships. In this shorter, giftier, and
interactive follow-up to What's Your Enneatype? (Fair Winds Press,
2020), authors Liz Carver and Josh Green, the creators of the
hugely popular Instagram account @justmyenneatype, help you
discover how knowing your type-and the types of those around
you-can affect your daily life, your decisions, and your
relationships with others, and how to use this wisdom to live life
with more clarity, peace, and insight than you ever thought
possible. If you are type SIX, find out more about yourself and
others today and get started on the journey to better understand
your world and your place within it.
A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune *
Smithsonian A "remarkable" (Los Angeles Times), "seductive" (The
Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab, Why
Fish Don't Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos,
scientific obsession, and--possibly--even murder. "At one point,
Miller dives into the ocean into a school of fish...comes up for
air, and realizes she's in love. That's how I felt: Her book took
me to strange depths I never imagined, and I was smitten." --The
New York Times Book Review David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a
man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he
would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known
to humans in his day. But the more of the hidden blueprint of life
he uncovered, the harder the universe seemed to try to thwart him.
His specimen collections were demolished by lightning, by fire, and
eventually by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake--which sent more
than a thousand discoveries, housed in fragile glass jars,
plummeting to the floor. In an instant, his life's work was
shattered. Many might have given up, given in to despair. But
Jordan? He surveyed the wreckage at his feet, found the first fish
that he recognized, and confidently began to rebuild his
collection. And this time, he introduced one clever innovation that
he believed would at last protect his work against the chaos of the
world. When NPR reporter Lulu Miller first heard this anecdote in
passing, she took Jordan for a fool--a cautionary tale in hubris,
or denial. But as her own life slowly unraveled, she began to
wonder about him. Perhaps instead he was a model for how to go on
when all seemed lost. What she would unearth about his life would
transform her understanding of history, morality, and the world
beneath her feet. Part biography, part memoir, part scientific
adventure, Why Fish Don't Exist is a wondrous fable about how to
persevere in a world where chaos will always prevail.
This thrilling volume would wach you the superior mantras of success.
Markets are dynamic. Competition is sitt. Adversity attacks and we
don't know how it overpowers us. This volume is a solution for all your
problems. Do you want moncy, fame, health, success in love, positive
relationships, power, stress, free lifestyle? Read this volume from the
first page to the last one. You can succeed, just like others havet You
have to think big to become big, and this volume rells you how you can
start thinking really big Dhirubhai Ambani, Bill Gates, Azim Hashim
Premji, Ratan Tata and the likes of these stats thought big and
succeeded. Remember, they all are ordinary mortals, just like you!
Take the mega-challenge of life. Read this volume and start
implementing whatever has been mentioned in its various chapters. Then,
see yourself growing... This volume is only for those who want to
succeed. It gives you marry powerful tips to acquire the following:
• Fortune
• Fame
• Cordial relations at home and work place
• Economic security
• Positive personality
• Good social relations
• Tips for getting good job
• Power to influence people
• Ability to achieve targets
• Overcoming failures and stressful situations
A research-backed framework to help you accomplish your most ambitious
goals by honing and harnessing your most powerful yet underutilised
resource: intuition.
What sets the most successful people apart? While hard work is
certainly a factor, Professor Laura Huang's extensive research –
spanning entrepreneurs, investors, Olympic athletes and Pulitzer Prize
winners – reveals that their greatest asset is something less tangible:
intuition. That instinctive ‘gut feeling’ often determines who seizes
opportunities and who misses them.
In You Already Know, Laura breaks down the science behind intuition,
explaining how it is formed from external data, accumulated wisdom and
the subconscious insights we don’t even realise we have. What follows
is a gut feeling, which shifts our perspective and drives us to act.
Grounded in Huang’s pioneering research and enriched with insights from
hundreds of illuminating interviews, this book offers a practical model
for becoming better at recognising, understanding and enhancing your
intuition to accomplish your most ambitious goals. What’s stopping you
from unlocking your full potential? You already know.
A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award. Winner of the Women's Prize for Nonfiction.
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you’d devoted your life to fighting against?
Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience―she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were sufficiently similar to her own that many people got confused about who was who. Destabilized, she lost her bearings, until she began to understand the experience as one manifestation of a strangeness many of us have come to know but struggle to define: AI-generated text is blurring the line between genuine and spurious communication; New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers are scrambling familiar political allegiances of left and right; and liberal democracies are teetering on the edge of absurdist authoritarianism, even as the oceans rise. Under such conditions, reality itself seems to have become unmoored. Is there a cure for our moment of collective vertigo?
Naomi Klein is one of our most trenchant and influential social critics, an essential analyst of what branding, austerity, and climate profiteering have done to our societies and souls. Here she turns her gaze inward to our psychic landscapes, and outward to the possibilities for building hope amid intersecting economic, medical, and political crises. With the assistance of Sigmund Freud, Jordan Peele, Alfred Hitchcock, and bell hooks, among other accomplices, Klein uses wry humor and a keen sense of the ridiculous to face the strange doubles that haunt us―and that have come to feel as intimate and proximate as a warped reflection in the mirror.
Combining comic memoir with chilling reportage and cobweb-clearing analysis, Klein seeks to smash that mirror and chart a path beyond despair. Doppelganger asks: What do we neglect as we polish and perfect our digital reflections? Is it possible to dispose of our doubles and overcome the pathologies of a culture of multiplication? Can we create a politics of collective care and undertake a true reckoning with historical crimes? The result is a revelatory treatment of the way many of us think and feel now―and an intellectual adventure story for our times.
Understand: Dare: Thrive, how to have your best career from today
is essential reading for all women, and all champions of equity,
diversity and inclusion. Every insight and answer that matters is
here, in one place. In this ground-breaking book, leading authority
Diana Parkes - business guru, psychologist and social entrepreneur
- cuts through the complexity of workplace dynamics and human
psychology to share what really works. She provides everything you
need to know to thrive throughout your career, at the pace you
choose, with the recognition and rewards you deserve.
Comprehensive, proven strategies for success Real stories - in the
words of women who've cracked it! Practical examples of how to
handle everyday challenges 24 powerful self-assessment and planning
tools Incisive coaching questions in every chapter
Help in a Hurry, Simple Tips for Finding Peace When You're Overwhelmed,
Anxious, or Stressed
Even though it's uncomfortable and sometimes even distressing to us,
it's perfectly normal to feel lost, anxious, or overwhelmed at times.
It's okay to be a bit of a mess! But none of us wants to stay that way
for long.
With actionable, evidence-based strategies to handle our most common
challenges in life, this practical guide from bestselling author and
clinical neuroscientist Dr. Caroline Leaf offers the tools you need to
prevent a descent into chaos and instead find peace and strength amidst
the turmoil of daily life.
Designed so you can quickly access the simple strategies you need in
the moment, this book helps you regain control when:
• You don't understand your intense emotions
• You're under tremendous pressure
• You feel tired, angry, or full of regret
• You're dealing with intrusive thoughts
• Your past is haunting you
• Your inner critic won't let up
• You feel like you abandon yourself to please others
If you have felt stuck in crisis mode, the strategies found in Help in
a Hurry will help you cope in the moment, manage a chaotic mind, and
start living each day with intention and inner peace.
What can an ex-gangland boss, a recovering addict and a refugee teach
you about thriving in the face of uncertainty?
It’s the ‘Do you have five minutes?’ message from your boss. The ‘We
need to chat’ from a loved one. Those spiralling thoughts at 3 a.m. and
buzz of yet another breaking news alert. The potential coming waves of
AI, climate change and unstable governments.
For most of us, uncertainty is paralysing. But learning to navigate it
effectively means more confidence, less anxiety and deeper connection
with others.
The Uncertainty Toolkit is a pioneering, evidence-based guide to doing
just that. Drawing on the world’s most extensive study into
‘uncertainty tolerance’, led with professors from University College
London, it explains the science behind how we cope with the unknown.
This research is combined with the radical expertise of an unlikely
group of experts – former addicts, hostages, gangland bosses and
prisoners – who’ve turned their experience of extreme uncertainty into
major mainstream success.
The result is a detailed, practical blueprint that will help anyone
turn unpredictability into personal and professional growth.
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