Emotions drive behavior. Every decision is an emotional decision at some level. Whatever your logical reasons are for taking action, you only feel compelled to act on them because of emotion.
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The subject, who was unaware of the ruse, would immediately become bewildered. Their eyes would open wide. They would laugh nervously to themselves. They would double-check the reactions of other participants. Their agitation would grow as one person after another delivered the same incorrect response.
ATOMIC HABITSSelf-Help / Business
I used to have a list. And I always ask them, ‘Would you have been here if I lost? Would you have been here if I lost?’ It’s funny. They know the answer is no, but they don’t want to really say it.
2024Non-Fiction
Ben Franklin used to say that one of the tricks in life is realizing that people will admire you more if they aren't jealous of you.
THE ART OF SPENDING MONEYSelf-Help / Business
The centerpiece of the traditional preparation dynamic—and its greatest Achilles’ heel—is something called the BATNA.
NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCESelf-Help / Business
Together, you can get the whole world singing a brand-new, very long made-up word! Together, you can turn life into energy, character, and emotion!
100 RULES FOR LIVING TO 100Non-Fiction
I’m just saying that I like a girl who can make me laugh, that’s all. Someone I have fun with no matter what we’re doing.
BETTER THAN THE MOVIESYoung Adult
Healthy mitochondria (fostered by zone 2 training) help us keep this fat accumulation in check.
OUTLIVENon-Fiction
What feels like fun to me, but work to others? The mark of whether you are made for a task is not whether you love it but whether you can handle the pain of the task easier than most people. When are you enjoying yourself while other people are complaining?
ATOMIC HABITSSelf-Help / Business
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
ATOMIC HABITSSelf-Help / Business
DNS beautifully integrates with all the good work you are already doing—it’s like a software upgrade for anything you are doing.
OUTLIVENon-Fiction
A crisis magnifies every leadership decision, and the most important decision a leader can make is to get all the facts, as unsavory and salacious as they may be, in front of key decision makers and, quickly thereafter, the public.
CONQUERING CRISISSelf-Help / Business
When the pressure is on, you don’t rise to the occasion; you fall to your highest level of preparation.
NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCESelf-Help / Business
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.
OUTLIVENon-Fiction
“That’s right,” he said. “Driving toward ‘that’s right’ is a winning strategy in all negotiations. But hearing ‘you’re right’ is a disaster.
NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCESelf-Help / Business
Your identity emerges out of your habits. Every action is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
ATOMIC HABITSSelf-Help / Business
If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, He would have given man a Moon.
A CITY ON MARSNon-Fiction
Split-Second Persuasion: The Ancient Art and New Science of Changing Minds (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011).
NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCESelf-Help / Business
Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
ATOMIC HABITSSelf-Help / Business
A genetic analysis of Spanish centenarians found that they displayed extremely youthful patterns of gene expression, more closely resembling a control group of people in their twenties than an older control group of octogenarians.
OUTLIVENon-Fiction
In healthy communities of thought, the people in the corner shaking their heads and wagging their fingers aren’t barriers on the road to progress, but guardrails.
A CITY ON MARSNon-Fiction
Incredible as it is, however, our circulatory system is far from perfect—in fact, it is almost perfectly designed to generate atherosclerotic disease, just in the course of daily living.
OUTLIVENon-Fiction
There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.
THE ART OF SPENDING MONEYSelf-Help / Business
People who say money doesn't buy happiness haven't yet found their thing.
THE ART OF SPENDING MONEYSelf-Help / Business
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