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How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
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Martin E. P. Seligman Ph.D.
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You can acquire optimism and significantly improve your life! Are you an optimist or a pessimist? How often do you take on exciting new projects or celebrate your successes? Now psychologist Martin E.P. Seligman, one of the world's experts on motivation, shows you how to chart a new approach to living with "flexible optimism." Dr. Seligman's principles of reasoned, flexible optimism will help you rise above pessimism and the depression that accompanies negative thoughts.
Learned Optimism shows you how to:
- Attain maximum personal achievement
- Boost your mood - and your immune system - with healthful thoughts
- Help your children by practicing the patterns of thought that encourage optimism at an early age
- Change your interior dialogue and experience the astonishing positive results
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In The Marshmallow Test, Mischel explains how self-control can be mastered and applied to challenges in everyday life - from weight control to quitting smoking, overcoming heartbreak, making major decisions, and planning for retirement. With profound implications for the choices we make in parenting, education, public policy and self-care, The Marshmallow Test will change the way you think about who we are and what we can be.
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Great performance, but lacking in content
- By Hilary - San Francisco on 09-27-14
By: Walter Mischel
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Rethinking Positive Thinking
- Inside the New Science of Motivation
- By: Gabriele Oettingen
- Narrated by: Karen Saltus
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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Based on her groundbreaking research and large-scale scientific studies, Oettingen introduces a new way to visualize the future, called mental contrasting. It combines focusing on our dreams with visualizing the obstacles that stand in our way. In Rethinking Positive Thinking, Oettingen applies mental contrasting to three key areas of personal change - becoming healthier, nurturing personal and professional relationships, and performing better at work.
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Simply unimpressive
- By Jeff Fiske on 10-25-14
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Attitude Is Your Superpower
- How to Create Incredible Life-Changing Success
- By: Eduardo Clemente
- Narrated by: Manish Dongardive
- Length: 4 hrs
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You might be in a negative spiral, productively or psychologically, stuck thinking you’re just not good enough, you’ll never get ahead, and the world is unfair. Or perhaps you feel pretty good about your attitude, but you know there’s always room for improvement, and you’re curious about what you can tweak to do better. Whatever your current position, you have the opportunity to take agency at work and in life. You can actively improve your situation because it all comes down to attitude, and your attitude is not set in stone.
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Attitude the key to open doors
- By Anonymous User on 07-30-24
By: Eduardo Clemente
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Dear Stranger, You Deserve to Be Loved
- By: Ashish Bagrecha
- Narrated by: Ashish Bagrecha
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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Everything we do in life is for love. Why? I don't know. Maybe love is what keeps us going. Maybe love is the means and ends to this life. Maybe the universe runs on love. Whatever may be the reason, love is what we all demand, and love is what we all want. But very often, we find ourselves without love. Some of us have lost love, some of us have lost ourselves in love and some of us don't believe in love. And for so many of us, it's worse because we don't feel we deserve to be loved. Right? I know how it feels to feel unloved for many years.
By: Ashish Bagrecha
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You Don't Need a Title to Be a Leader
- How Anyone, Anywhere, Can Make a Positive Difference
- By: Mark Sanborn
- Narrated by: Mark Sanborn
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
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Through the stories of a number of unsung heroes, Sanborn reveals the keys each one of us can use to improve our organizations and enhance our careers. He has an unparalleled ability to explain fundamental business and leadership truths through simple stories and anecdotes. You Don't Need a Title to Be a Leader offers an inspiring message for anyone who wants to take control of his or her life and make a positive difference.
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Excellent
- By Dez on 10-27-08
By: Mark Sanborn
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The Brain's Way of Healing
- Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity
- By: Norman Doidge M.D.
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
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In The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge described the most important breakthrough in our understanding of the brain in 400 years: the discovery that the brain can change its own structure and function in response to mental experience - what we call neuroplasticity. His revolutionary new book shows, for the first time, how the amazing process of neuroplastic healing really works. It describes natural, noninvasive avenues into the brain provided by the forms of energy around us.
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Extremely helpful understanding my TBI.
- By Robert Deramo on 02-12-15
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Presence
- Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
- By: Amy Cuddy
- Narrated by: Amy Cuddy
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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Brilliantly researched, impassioned, and accessible, Presence is filled with stories of individuals who learned how to flourish during the stressful moments that once terrified them. Every listener will learn how to approach their biggest challenges with confidence instead of dread, and to leave them with satisfaction instead of regret.
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Watch the TED Talk
- By A. Yoshida on 07-10-16
By: Amy Cuddy
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Practical Optimism
- The Art, Science, and Practice of Exceptional Well-Being
- By: Sue Varma MD
- Narrated by: Sue Varma M.D.
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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As the first medical director and attending psychiatrist at the World Trade Center Mental Health Program, Dr. Sue Varma worked directly with civilian and first-responder survivors in the aftermath of 9/11. There, she met people at every point of the stress and trauma continuum. She saw devastation and stagnancy as much as she saw amazing resilience and growth. She asked herself: how do some people survive, even thrive, despite profound challenges? And how can we optimize the things we have control over, while buffering ourselves from stress?
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Practical Optimism
- By Kindle Customer on 12-11-24
By: Sue Varma MD
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North Star Thinking
- Master Your Mindset and Live a Life You Love
- By: Will Polston, Dr John Demartini - foreword
- Narrated by: Will Polston
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
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If you are ambitious and driven, but feel stuck in a rut, directionless or overwhelmed, imagine what it would be like to live a life that you love. You can make it happen. North Star Thinking will transform the way you approach work and life. It gives you the tools and techniques to think and act differently, master your mindset and productivity, and create your guiding North Star.
By: Will Polston, and others
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Life Is What You Make It
- Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment
- By: Peter Buffett
- Narrated by: Peter Buffett
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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Which will you choose: the path of least resistance or the path of potentially greatest satisfaction? You may think that with a last name like his, Buffett has enjoyed a life of endless privilege. But the son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett says that the only real inheritance handed down from his parents was a philosophy: Forge your own path in life. It is a creed that has allowed him to follow his own passions, establish his own identity, and reap his own successes.
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My new all-time favorite book
- By K.Indira nagaveni on 06-06-17
By: Peter Buffett
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- Ann Wilds
- 05-22-20
Not a full book
Much of this discusses a test that is not included in the audible book. Am not pleased with this purchase.
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- Husnain Bajwa
- 07-01-18
Pragmatic Tools in Breezy Package
This book is short enough that I use it as a re-centering guide, kind of like a thought provoking alternative to meditation. No matter how many times I listen to this book, I always end up reflecting on how much longer I have to go to reach the level of learned optimism I desire. But I also find the narration of this book soothing and open, opinions may vary greatly on that point.
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- Vanessa j
- 03-19-17
Adapted version - not same as store bought book
Quick listen. Wish I would have known prior to buying audible that it was not the same version as printed book that I have. You need a copy of the assessment questions to determine your level of optimism and pessimism. Not sure if they are available for free on website or if buying printed book is only way to get them. I will be using the techniques.
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- Jeff
- 02-21-07
Learn the mechanics of optimism
An enjoyable insight into the mechanics of optimism and how it relates to you specifically. Be sure to complete the survey before listening to the audiobook.
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- river
- 06-17-12
great!...NEED questionnaire
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wonderful book, but not so without having the questionnaire and filling it out before starting to listen to it. You can find it online!
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-14-17
Good Book
Pretty short and to the point which I like. There are some useful tools to practice.
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- Stephanie
- 06-02-19
Mislead by audible. Wanted to buy the book not a review.
Thought I had bought the book not a review. Need to be more clear in explaining the product.
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- David
- 10-26-19
Be Realistic
Learned Optimism is great for learning how to be realistic with your thoughts and how to react when adversity strikes. After listening to this book I believe that the negative and pessimistic thoughts that overcome my thoughts are unnecessary. Most of these thoughts and feelings can and should be viewed differently. The book changes your perspective on all things positive and negative. A great read!
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- rich
- 11-25-19
Short books
I need to pay more attention book length. This length of this book caught me by surprise.
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- Stephen B. Armiger
- 07-23-23
Abridged
Audio books, from my limited experience, do not typically include the table of contents. I decided to look for the book and use the Look Inside option. I decided to purchase the book which will arrive later this week. Just as we notice the positive and negatives of movie versions of books, I am noticing the positives and negatives of audio versions. Each does what it can do. I have been reading and rereading Carl Sagan’s The Dragons of Eden. He speaks at length about the right and the left hemispheres of our brains. I think the audio and the written versions speak to our hemispheres in their own ways. I don’t know how to describe the audio version. It is definitely very different from the written version.
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