Psychology Genius

Über die Suche nach dem Sinn und wo er uns begegnet. "Welches Leben möchte ich gelebt haben?" Mit dem Tod ihres geliebten Großvaters gerät Sophies heile Welt ins Wanken, und sie sieht sich plötzlich mit den unausweichlichen Fragen des Lebens konfrontiert: Warum bin ich hier? Wofür schlägt mein Herz? Was erfüllt mein Leben? Und was werde ich der Welt hinterlassen? Nach Monaten der Trauer reist sie auf eine einsame norwegische Insel, um sich ihren Fragen und Zweifeln zu stellen.

Ever wonder why you lack motivation with some or all areas of your life? Does it feel like you’re constantly low on energy and you feel lazy all the time? If this sounds like you, then read on. You’ve already taken the first steps by willing yourself to research the topic of motivation and find this detailed and insightful guide. Now it’s time to take the next step toward achieving what you want out of life.

Heal Yourself with Writing offers a step-by-step journey of discovery and re-visioning through focused journaling, a practice that can enable healing and empowerment. In this way, each listener is able to make meaning out of memory and put the past where it belongs - behind them.

Find your creative purpose. Overcoming the barriers to innovation is easier than you think. Marc Silber, best-selling author and award-wining creative and educator shows you how to avoid the traps of procrastination, overthinking, and self-doubt. The exercises in Create are specifically designed to help you find certainty and confidence in self-expression.

Jennifer Kahnweiler offers a five-step process that will enable introverts and extroverts to work together harmoniously and achieve more than they ever could on their own. The process can be precarious. The key, Kahnweiler says, is to remember that these relationships are most successful when opposites stop emphasizing their differences and use approaches that focus them both on moving toward results.

Unlock your potential with The Beginner's Guide to UGC Creating: A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Started as a UGC Creator. This comprehensive guide offers aspiring UGC creators a clear, actionable roadmap to success in the dynamic world of User-Generated Content (UGC).

Are you ready to learn the vital keys that will enable you to build profound emotional intelligence, create trust, and establish immediate rapport? Are you prepared to gain a negotiation advantage in every possible situation and win? Do you want to know how to avoid being the gullible victim of schemes and avoid being the victim of unscrupulous individuals? Then this book is for you! Reading People and Psychology is full of intriguing psychological secrets that positively influence emotional response and encourage idea acceptance.

One of the nation's leading psychologists asks why today's corporate leaders desire but reject creative solutions - and finds some surprising conclusions.

An entertaining, fact-filled defense of the nearly universal tendency to procrastinate, drawing on the stories of history's greatest delayers, and on the work of psychologists, philosophers, and behavioral economists to explain why we put off what we're supposed to be doing and why we shouldn't feel so bad about it.

Richard is at the end of his financial rope and disappears into the woods behind his home. Where has he gone, and what is required of Felicity before she can find him? Unlock with Richard the secret behind the voice of inspiration and find out for yourself how truly dependable and ingenious your own inner voice can be.

Don't die before you make your dent in the universe. Do you ever feel like you have something special to offer the world? Something that only you can bring to the table? With your unique talents, past experiences, and passions, you can make something totally new. Is it a novel? Is it a screenplay? A Michelin-star restaurant? Maybe it's the next billion-dollar app, or a world-changing non-profit. Whatever it is, it's your art. And it's just waiting to get out of you. All you have to do is start.

In Life Finds a Way, biologist Andreas Wagner reveals the deep symmetry between innovation in biological evolution and human cultural creativity. Rarely is either a linear climb to perfection - instead, "progress" is typically marked by a sequence of peaks, plateaus, and pitfalls. For instance, in Picasso's 40-some iterations of Guernica, we see the same combination of small steps, incessant reshuffling, and large, almost reckless, leaps that characterize the way evolution transformed a dinosaur's grasping claw into a condor's soaring wing.

A series of books to give inspiration and opportunity to those middle-class persons who are not poor enough for charity, nor rich enough to afford things themselves. The author intended to inspire, with the kind of inspiration that makes a man go out and create his own opportunity. Yours is the world and everything in it!

In our demanding, fast-paced culture, it's increasingly important to find ways to decompress and recuperate from the busyness and stress of life. More and more, mindfulness and creativity are being recognized as antidotes to the speed and overstimulation of modern society. This beautiful book combines the two, offering both creative and meditative practices to provide a guided journey into contemplative art for healing, relaxation, deeper connection, and greater well-being.

Casual and conversational, Hidden Treasures will lead you to a higher awareness of the laws connected to the blessing of temporal abundance. The ideas will astonish you, and you'll feel empowered as they comfort, encourage, and enlighten you on your journey to financial deliverance.

A revelatory synthesis of cultural history and social psychology that shows how one-to-one collaboration drives creative success. Weaving the lives of scores of creative duos - from John Lennon and Paul McCartney to Marie and Pierre Curie, to Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak - Joshua Wolf Shenk identifies the core qualities of that dizzying experience we call "chemistry". Revealing the six essential stages through which creative intimacy unfolds, Shenk draws on new scientific research and builds an argument for the social foundations of creativity - and the pair as its primary embodiment.

Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts brings together in one volume cutting-edge research that turns to recent findings in cognitive and neurobiological sciences, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and evolutionary biology, among other disciplines, to explore and understand more deeply various cultural phenomena, including art, music, literature, and film. The essays fulfilling this task for the general listener as well as the specialist are written by renowned authors.

When we're kids, our parents tell us that being creative is fun, fun, fun. But when you decide to turn art into your career, whether that's painting, writing, drawing, or sculpting Edgar Allan Poe out of earthworms, that's when things get tough. In this insightful and heartfelt guide, artist and speaker Phil Hansen shares his hard-won wisdom from the front lines of life as a professional creative. Hansen provides advice for the difficult moments - the slumps, the creative blocks, the times when something you love doesn't resonate with the world - and gives you the pep talk you need....

Erno Rubik was a child when he first became obsessed with puzzles of all kinds. "Puzzles", he writes, "bring out important qualities in each of us: concentration, curiosity, a sense of play, the eagerness to discover a solution". To Rubik, puzzles aren't just games - they're creativity machines. He encourages us to embrace our inner curiosity and find the puzzles that surround us in our everyday lives. "If you are determined, you will solve them", he writes. Rubik's own puzzle, the Cube, has been solved by millions worldwide for more than 40 years....

Does your toaster oven make you feel shamefully inadequate with his lofty ideals and Jeffersonian views of the world? Is the letter Q the wrong shade of yellow? Are you frequently bothered by abstract images and geometric shapes falling from the sky? If so, this book can help. The Toaster Oven Mocks Me is a humorous memoir that chronicles Steve's discovery, concealment, and eventual acceptance of synesthesia.