Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, by brothers Chip and Dan Heath

The biggest obstacle to change is our minds: specifically, their dual nature. Whether you think of it as the emotional self and rational self, we have an instinctive side and a deliberate, analytic side.

The Heaths borrow an analogy from Jonathan Haidt’s book The Happiness Hypothesis which I found particularly useful: the Elephant and the Rider:

Perched atop the Elephant, the Rider holds the reins and...

Laurence Gonzales (Author)

Summary: In extraordinary circumstances, like accidents or catastrophes, some people survive and others die, such that sometimes things lead you to believe that the first ones die and the second ones survive; this book explains, using numerous stories of accidents and catastrophes, and by exploring the latest scientific theories – from neuroscience to the theory of chaos – what makes one person die and another survive.

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Research suggests that there are...

Hermann Hesse (Author)

Siddhartha is an allegorical novel by Hermann Hesse which deals with the spiritual journey of a boy known as Siddhartha from the Indian Subcontinent during the time of the Buddha.

The book, Hesse's ninth novel, was written in German, in a simple yet powerful and lyrical style. It was first published in 1922, after Hesse had spent some time in India in the 1910s. It was published in the U.S. in 1951 and became influential during the 1960s.

The word Siddhartha is made...

Richard Bach (Author)

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah is a novel by writer and pilot Richard Bach. First published in 1977, the story questions the reader's view of reality, proposing that what we call reality is merely an illusion we create for learning and enjoyment. Illusions was the author's followup to 1970's Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

"UNLIMITED - The New Learning Revolution"

34 page preview of this very interesting book:

http://www.thelearningweb.net/unlimited-other/unlimited-preview.pdf

 



By year 2000 half the people on earth had never placed a phone call. Only 12 percent owned mobile phones. In 2009 over half own them: 3.3 billion. 2010, over 4 billiare in use, for the planet’s 6.7 billion people.

 

‘All of us are surging through the most profound revolution in human history. Its impact is personal...

FNAC Bookstore, at Colombo, Lisbon

15th December 2009    

  

The book "Tools of Coaching"  published in portuguese includes a testimonial by me

Robert T. Kiyosaki (Author), Sharon L. Lechter (Contributor)

The book is the story of a person (the narrator and author) who has two fathers: the first was his biological father – the poor dad - and the other was the father of his childhood best friend, Mike – the rich dad. Both fathers taught the author how to achieve success but with very disparate approaches. It became evident to the author which father's approach made more financial sense. Throughout the book, the author...