Tag: #Psychology
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Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today
Why We Fail Our Future Selves Hal Hershfield opens Your Future Self with a simple but haunting observation:we all want a better future — but we rarely act like it. “We treat our future selves as if they were strangers.” This paradox defines modern life.We know we should save more, eat better, exercise, or plan…
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
1. Why People Say Yes Robert Cialdini didn’t just want to understand persuasion —he wanted to know why smart people fall for it. So he spent years working undercover in sales, marketing, fundraising, and advertising industries,observing how influence really works in everyday life.The result was Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion,one of the most important behavioral…
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12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
Why This Book Sparked a Global Conversation When 12 Rules for Life was released in 2018, it ignited a movement.Part self-help, part philosophy, and part psychology, it offered something rare in an age of quick fixes and empty positivity: a call to grow up. Jordan B. Peterson, a clinical psychologist and professor, urged readers to…
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Thinking, Fast and Slow (by Daniel Kahneman)
Why This Book Redefines How We Think Few books have reshaped our understanding of the human mind like Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow. Written by a Nobel Prize–winning psychologist, this book dismantles the long-standing assumption in classical economics that humans are rational actors. Instead, Kahneman demonstrates that our decisions are driven by biases, heuristics,…
