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Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations by Dan Ariely
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Category: Marketing | Series: Ted 2
Every day we work hard to motivate ourselves. We spend much of our time trying to motivate the people working for us, with us and in business with us. In our personal lives we try to motivate our friends, partners and children. From the economic point of view, motivation is based on a very simple trade- ...Show more
TED: Beyond Measure: The Big Impact of Small Changes by Margaret Heffernan
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Category: Management | Series: TED
A powerful manifesto for CEOs and employees alike, this book reveals how organizations can make huge changes with surprisingly small steps. In an age of 'radical' shifts and 'disruption', business leader Margaret Heffernan lays the groundwork for a new kind of thinking, arguing that organizations can cr ...Show more
TED: Follow Your Gut: How the Bacteria in Your Stomach Steer Your Health, Mood and More TED by Robert Knight
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Category: Essays | Series: TED
Part of the TED series: Follow Your Gut Today we study the brain with painstaking detail. But we largely ignore what might prove to be the most important part of our body: the trillions of microbes that live inside us, especially in our gut. Increasingly, it looks like the harmless bacteria we each have ...Show more
TED: Judge This by Chip Kidd
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Category: Essays | Series: Ted Ser.
A fun, playful look at the importance of first impressions--in design and in life--from acclaimed book designer Chip Kidd. First impressions are everything. They dictate whether something stands out, how we engage with it, whether we buy it, and how we feel. In Judge This, renowned designer Chip Kidd t ...Show more
TED: The Boiling River by Andrés Ruzo
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Category: Political / Economic | Series: Ted
Part of the TED series: The Boiling River This fantastical tale - which sent scores of Spanish conquistadores to their death during the great age of discovery - paints an intoxicating image of shamans and spells, forest-dwelling creatures and a river so hot it can boil your tea - or cook you alive. Ruzo ...Show more
TED: The Great Questions of Tomorrow by David Rothkopf
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Category: Essays | Series: Ted 2 Ser.
Government, war, the economy, human identity, philosophy and the way we work. All of these, among others, are soon to be transformed. As technological advancements usher in a time where each and every human being on the planet will be connected by more than 50 billion manmade devices, our global society ...Show more
TED: The Mathematics of Love by Hannah Fry
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Category: Essays | Series: TED
Part of the TED series: The Mathematics of Love There is no topic that attracts more attention-more energy and time and devotion- than love. Love, like most things in life, is full of patterns. And mathematics is ultimately the study of patterns. In her book The Mathematics of Love - and TEDxTalk of the ...Show more
TED: When Strangers Meet: How People You Don't Know Can Transform You by Kio Stark
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Ted 2
Part of the TED series: When Strangers Meet Our lives are increasingly insular. We are in a hurry, our heads are down, minds elsewhere, we hear only the voices we already recognize and rarely take the effort to experience something or someone new. When Strangers Meet argues for the pleasures and transfo ...Show more
The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere by Pico Iyer
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Category: Essays | Series: TED | Reading Level: very good
Part of the TED series: The Art of Stillness In this age of constant movement and connectedness, when so many of us are all over the place, perhaps staying in one place - and locating everything we need for peace and happiness there - is a more exciting prospect, and a greater necessity than ever before ...Show more
The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Category: Essays | Series: TED | Reading Level: near fine
The Laws of Medicine follows Pulitzer-Prize-winning author, Dr Mukherjee as he investigates some of the most perplexing and illuminating cases of his career - the cases that ultimately led him to identify the three key principles that govern medicine. As a young medical student, Mukherjee discovered The ...Show more
The Terrorist's Son - A Story of Choice by Zak Ebrahim
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Category: Essays | Series: Ted Ser. | Reading Level: very good
What is it like to grow up with a terrorist in your home? Zak Ebrahim was only seven years old when, on November 5th, 1990, his father El-Sayed Nosair shot and killed the leader of the Jewish Defense League. While in prison, Nosair helped plan the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. In one of his ...Show more
Who Are You, Really?: The Surprising Puzzle of Personality by Brian Little
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Category: Essays | Series: TED 2
Dr Brian Little challenges what we think we know about how our personality works and is shaped. It's time to think beyond the nature vs. nurture debate. It is our pursuit of our dreams and our personal passions that shape who we are. Previous praise for Dr Brian Little: 'Brian Little is one of the wises ...Show more
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