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What does it actually mean to be rational? Not Hollywood-style "rational", where you forsake all human feeling to embrace Cold Hard Logic, but where you make good decisions, even when it's hard; where you reason well, even in the face of massive uncertainty; where you recognize and make full use of your fuzzy intuitions and emotions, rather than trying to discard them. In Rationality: From AI to Zombies, Eliezer Yudkowsky explains the science underlying human irrationality with a mix of fables, argumentative essays, and personal vignettes.

Your team is playing. You can't sit still. You have to do things to help ease your mind off of the poor playing that they are doing. The opponent just scored again! Why is your team playing so badly? This book is designed to help any sports enthusiast with dealing with the stress that most fans deal with all year round.

My hope is that this book will help those out there who need to know how to get their lives back on track. For some reason, in between the time when our ancestors roamed this earth to the current point we're at today, we've lost our power. My goal is that the words in this book will help you look at your life a bit differently. Just remember that doing the same things you've been doing will net you the same results. Or, in other words, change your thoughts (and actions), and you'll change your life.

Ever feel that you are on the mouse wheel of life? Work hard, put in 40 to 60 hours a week, depending on projects that you get assigned at work. Go home, watch the same two shows, and however the main characters or the plot goes is how well you enjoyed your night or your time off.

As I attend state and national gaming conferences, there's not too many tribal executives (at least at the time of writing this book) that have any real gaming operations experience. I am truly one of the lucky and skilled tribal executives who knows first-hand what it's like to have to go through tough economic times as well as the happy times when the champagne was uncorked every January because we just broke another revenue record.