The earth, that first among good mothers, gives us the gift that we cannot provide ourselves.
BRAIDING SWEETGRASSNon-Fiction
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Emotion is a necessary element to decision making that we ignore at our own peril.
NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCESelf-Help / Business
When you’re “just talking” to yourself, two minutes feels like all five centuries of the Dark Ages.
100 RULES FOR LIVING TO 100Non-Fiction
When you want to flip a dubious counterpart to your side, ask them, “Why would you do that?” but in a way that the “that” favors you.
NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCESelf-Help / Business
People are often tired of being hammered with their own name. The slick salesman trying to drive them to ‘Yes’ will hit them with it over and over. Instead, take a different tack and use your own name.
NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCESelf-Help / Business
Habits are a double-edged sword. They can work for you or against you, which is why understanding the details is essential.
ATOMIC HABITSSelf-Help / Business
There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.
OUTLIVENon-Fiction
The Warburg effect, also known as anaerobic glycolysis, turns the same amount of glucose into a little bit of energy and a whole lot of chemical building blocks—which are then used to build new cells rapidly. Thus, the Warburg effect is how cancer cells fuel their own proliferation. But it also represents a potential vulnerability in cancer’s armor.
OUTLIVENon-Fiction
If we do plan to leave this place, better to do so as an adult. Let’s spend the awkward years learning and then strike out for new vistas.
A CITY ON MARSNon-Fiction
To the team at Avery and Penguin Random House who made this book a reality, thank you. I owe a debt of special thanks to my publisher, Megan Newman, for her endless patience as I continually pushed back deadlines.
ATOMIC HABITSSelf-Help / Business
People always make more effort to implement a solution when they think it’s theirs. That is simply human nature.
NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCESelf-Help / Business
Every man is a bridge, spanning the legacy he inherited and the legacy he passes on.
OUTLIVENon-Fiction
How could I answer, how could I tell him that I was born a botanist, that I had shoeboxes of seeds and piles of pressed leaves under my bed, that I’d stop my bike along the road to identify a new species, that plants colored my dreams, that the plants had chosen me?
BRAIDING SWEETGRASSNon-Fiction
No matter how you measure your improvement, habit tracking offers a simple way to make your habits more satisfying. Each measurement provides a little bit of evidence that you’re moving in the right direction and a brief moment of immediate pleasure for a job well done.
ATOMIC HABITSSelf-Help / Business
It is so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value of making small improvements on a daily basis.
ATOMIC HABITSSelf-Help / Business
We are constantly scanning our environment and wondering, “What is everyone else doing?” We check reviews on Amazon or Yelp or TripAdvisor because we want to imitate the “best” buying, eating, and travel habits. It’s usually a smart strategy.
ATOMIC HABITSSelf-Help / Business
The point of this exercise is not how much extension or flexion you can reach in extreme Cat or Cow but rather how much segmental control you can achieve, going from one extreme to the other.
OUTLIVENon-Fiction
If you want to predict where you’ll end up in life, all you have to do is follow the curve of tiny gains or tiny losses, and see how your daily choices will compound ten or twenty years down the line.
ATOMIC HABITSSelf-Help / Business
The trick to spotting feelings is to pay close attention to changes people undergo when they respond to external events. Most often, those events are your words.
NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCESelf-Help / Business
In one brain imaging study, psychology professor Matthew Lieberman of the University of California, Los Angeles, found that when people are shown photos of faces expressing strong emotion, the brain shows greater activity in the amygdala, the part that generates fear. But when they are asked to label the emotion, the activity moves to the areas that govern rational thinking.
NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCESelf-Help / Business
This is also why movement and exercise, not merely aerobic exercise but also more complex activities like boxing workouts, are a primary treatment/prevention strategy for Parkinson’s.
OUTLIVENon-Fiction
It is the cardinal difference between gift and commodity exchange that a gift establishes a feeling-bond between two people.
BRAIDING SWEETGRASSNon-Fiction
The place was teeming with energy, like every single person in that gym was about to explode with their uncontrollable excitement.
BETTER THAN THE MOVIESYoung Adult
All these need to be addressed if your life is to be worth prolonging—because the most important ingredient in the whole longevity equation is the why.
OUTLIVENon-Fiction
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