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Books listed below to Read on topics on which I write including Economics, Innovation, Health, Spirituality, Thinking, Design, Personality, Emotional Intelligence, and Downsizing:
The Books below are linked to Amazon.com. I recommend them for further study and often list them at the bottom of posts when they contain information used in the Posts.
Underlined Titles are Links to Amazon followed by brief descriptions.
I usually buy the Used Books when they are less expensive because they are of excellent quality and ship just as fast.
Heal Your Mind Rewire Your Brain by Patt Lind-Kyle
Learn how your brain functions, how your personality is determined, and how you can create a high functioning mind/brain synchronicity that supports your ambitions. I have read it at least six times and it has created the foundation for all my other brain and mind readings.
Whole Brain Thinking:Working With Both Sides of Your Brain to Achieve Peak Job Performance by Jaquelyn Wonder
Understanding which of your brain spheres is dominant and how to move back and forth from right and left or from the rational to the creative is important for the innovation process. In the duel against computers, we had better learn how to maximize our brain.
Lateral Thinking by Edward de Bono
Lateral Thinking in the innovation process is about the practice of suspending judgment on new ideas. Lateral thinking consists of concepts and exercises on how to challenge assumptions and rethink the patterns that led to the current situation. It is the 101 of Creative Thinking.
Innovation is Everybody’s Business Robert B Tucker
Innovation is the new mantra. Business, individuals, schools, cities, and countries need to products, services, and processes to streamline and create new followers. This is a how to on turning today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities.
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Some say it is more important than I.Q. in becoming successful. Recognizing your own feelings, being empathetic with others’ feelings and knowing how to collaborate are tools everyone needs for success. How to develop flow in activities and your life.
Spend Shift by John Gerzema and Michael D’Antonio
The Great Recession initiated and accelerated a change in values from filling superfluous needs to those that are required. Values have changed to support businesses that are local, quality, and sustainable. There is a new age of optimism by the Millenials and those downsizing to where they have control of their lives.
The Happiness Advantage, The Seven Principals of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work by Shawn Achor
Many think happiness follows success but a small sector of the psychology field is actually engaged in positive mental states. Shawn reflects on all the studies that show happiness and positive thinking are a prerequisite to peak performance.
“Wrong , Why Experts Keep Failing and How to Know When Not to Trust Them” by David H. Freedman
Experts more frequently than we imagine reach the wrong conclusions. They are too often motivated by the need to prove desired results and the need to select popular topics that can get funding. They even have to fudge the data to get the desired outcomes.
Click, the Magic of Instant Connections by Ori and Rom Brafman
We all have the magical moments, but then with knowledge and skill we can create rapport in more instances by understanding how and when it happens.
Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am? By John Powell, S.J.
A study of emotional intelligence and how to have deep relationships more often by knowing how to disclose and converse in personal terms. It’s easy to stay safe but more rewarding to form deeper relationships.
Clutch, Why Some People Perform Under Pressure and Others Don’t by Paul Sullivan
Some people face immense pressure as part of their vocations. There are secrets to performing successfully and common reasons why people choke.
Glimmer, How Design Can Transform Your Life and Maybe Even the World by Warren Berger
Design may be the best discipline for the radical change needed in business, cities, countries and our personal lives. Leading design firms have the mandate to search wide and deep for answers and can take the time to think that entities won’t fund for their own people. Learn the secrets of happiness as a process instead of an end.
The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simon
We tend to overestimate our capabilities, our intelligence, the power of our memories, and our abilities to do good work multi-tasking. Confidence is important but we will be more effective if we accurately assess our abilities and learn to focus.
The Shadow Effect by Deepak Chopra
We all have dark forces as part of the duality of our personalities. Health and happiness come from recognizing our negativity and giving it light by dealing with the feelings that might be the source of our negativity. We can’t be whole without embracing who we are and accepting the good with the bad.
Beyond the Crash by Gordon Brown
Former British Prime Minister wrote this book within a few months of leaving office. Its his account of how the Great Recession occurred. But more valuable is his view of how the global community operates and how countries must improve consumerism to create employment and lift populations out of poverty.
Attached. By Amir Levine, M.D. and Rachel S.F.Heller M.A.
We each have relationship styles. These authors have found that we are secure, anxious, or avoidant. Knowing what we are and knowing the best match can be crucial in pursuing or attracting a life long mate. It is also enlightening to know why we may have made a lot of mistakes that didn’t work out. Its never too late.
The World in 2050 by Laurence C. Smith professor of geology and professor of earth and space sciences at UCLA
The world is changing daily. There are demographic changes, energy changes, climatic changes, and resource changes. Each country has its strengths and weaknesses and each is being affected by weather and resource use out of their control.
Infinite Quest by John Edwards
Are you interested in the psychic world? I read it to learn how to access my intuition and universal energies. Depending how far you want to go, John is considered a leading medium and teacher on psychic awareness.
The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth by Jonny Bowden
This has been one of my bibles on how to change my diet from traditional American Diet to powerful natural diet. He lists the most powerful foods in each food group and their attributes. I have lived with kale, parsely, cabbage, broccoli, and spinach as the strongest cancer fighters, mineral providers, and anti oxidant rich diet foundations.
“The PostCastrophe Economy” by Eric Janzen
Discusses how the FIRE economy (Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate) usurped the legislative process and manufacturing to lead the nation to a giant meltdown. We’re by no means out of the woods because saving the FIRE eocnomy transferred private debt to public debt (govt, taxpayers) and now we have to survive interest on debt and currency challenges
“7 Personality Types” by Elizabeth Puttick, PHD
Knowing your personality is an insight into your talents and what you enjoy. It might affect your life’s mission. The point of dividing personality into these types is to give you an idea of who you are and who your best mating or working relationships might be.
Third World America by Arianna Huffington
The U.S. has created a division of classes and the economic trend is to create a third world economy for everyone but the super rich.
The Big Short Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
The financial meltdown was only predicted by a few very savvy investors who made billions. The balance of the machine including government, regulators, and financial institutions thought the real estate bubble would never burst
Hot. Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. By Mark Hertsgaard
The northern hemispheres of the globe may hold the secret to survival in the future as everything south of the Canadian border starts to heat up and dry out. This also places countries like Russia, Norway, and Iceland in the desirable zones.
Blind Descent by Mark M. Tabor
Many books have been written on space travel and climbing to the highest peaks. Yet descending to the deepest point on earth through caves is far more treacherous and demanding. It is frightening and unbelievable that people would endure these trials for the record of the deepest descent.
Naturally Selected. The Evolutionary Science of Leadership by Mark van Vugt
There is a natural order for all species to select leaders. The females of each species select mates who will provide best for their progeny. Business and nations recognize certain qualities and dynamics that make each person a follower or a leader.
The Power of Kabbala by Yehuda Berg
The Kabbala is not just for Jewish people. Initiated by Abraham, the founder of at least 4 religions 1800 B.C. it has been studied by Plato, Sir Isaac Newton, and other scientists. Its prediction of the “the Big Bang” theory 2,000 years ago is in accord with today’s beliefs. It creates a spiritual guide of how man can ascend to a happiness he is unable to find by material pursuits.
You Already Know How to Be Great by Alan Fine
Our best performances are hidden within us. Faith, Fire, and Focus are belief, passion, and concentration needed to birth our peak performance. How you can achieve it and coach others to do the same.
Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer
About Pat Tillman and how we created Osama BinLaden, 9/11, and our Afghanistan nightmare. We helped create and fund our current enemies to defeat the Russians in the same manner Iran is doing to us now and China did in Viet Nam. There seems to be a “CIA type mentality” in all major rivals for global supremacy.
Consciousness Beyond Life by Pim van Lommel, M.D.
As a cardiologist, Pim became interested in the near death experiences of his patients in cardiac arrest who were clinically dead then revived and yet recounted experiences of leaving their body to visit a different place of warm light, music, and unconditional love. That interest launched a 25 year study including quantum physics that lead him to conclude consciousness is eternal and we go to a better place when the body ceases to live. This book altered my thinking on our existence.
Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand
He graduated from Stanford in 1960 with a degree in ecology. Since he has studied the impact of climate change and man’s affect. The affects of climate change, urbanization, and biotechnology are determinant on how we live in the future. Climate change is a given, but do we have the political will to save ourselves.
The Revenge of Gaia: Earth’s Climate Crisis & The Fate of Humanity by James Lovelock
I have not read it, but James Lovelock is esteemed to be one of the foremost thinkers on climate change and its closer than we think earth altering consequences. He is highly regarded by Stewart Brand, who I did read and respect. James claims we are in deep trouble by 2040 and maybe even by 2025 when China, the U.S and Europe may not be able to sustain agriculture.
The Gifts of Imperfection, Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to be and Embrace Who You Are. by Brene Brown
She is a researcher and speaker on Shame. We all have secrets that we don’t bring up in conversations and that have a poisonous hold on our consciousness. Letting it out frees us and allows us to move on.
Tapping The Source. Using the Master Key System for Abundance and Happiness. William Gladstone, Concept by Charles Haanel born in 1856.
He was the first in a long line of proponents of focusing on what we want to turn energy into form. Our consciousness can access the larger reality of energy that is the source of information and knowledge.
“Extraordinary Knowing, Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplainable Powers of the Human Mind” by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer Ph.D.
We don’t want to consciously give weight to the abilities we sometimes sense of psychic knowing. Yet, it is present at all times to the willing.
The Eighth Habit, from Effectiveness to Greatness by Steven Covey
This is the culmination of the 7 Habits. In the end, it is our highest purpose to find our voice and help others find theirs.
Conscious Living, Finding Joy in the Real World by Gay Hendricks
Consciousness is eternal. The brain controls our functions but the mind can tap into universal energy that is the source of knowing.
The Science of Happiness, How Our Brains Make Us Happy-and What We Can Do to Get Happier by Stefan Klein
Connecting with purpose and contributing to the greater good maybe our highest purpose. The brains chemicals react to higher conscious thoughts and behavior like love and kindness.
The Creative Life, 7 Keys to Your Inner Genius by Eric Butterworth
It shows why we have the same access to the creative energy of the Universe as God. The Creator is still active and in us and we are Co-Creators of our own lives. We just have to get out of our own way.
“You’re All That”, Understand God’s Design for Your Life by Paula White
This is a religious book about our relationship to God. She is Pastor of a 22,000 member church and international traveler and humanitarian.
The God Code by Gregg Braden (click the book graphic)
Former senior computer systems designer, he reveals secret of hidden science of Kabbala and Torah to reveal how God is in Us. Modern String Theory supports ancient findings of 10 basic dimensions that existed before the Universe. Hydrogen was the first element to explode out of the Big Bang and is in the air, water, man’s body, the earths crust, and the main ingredient in Sun’s heat. Along with three other basic elements of oxygen, nitrogen and carbon God’s presence maybe in everything in a way we never considered, but that the ancients have known all along.
