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Reality Check:
What Your Mind Knows, but Isn't Telling You
Reality Check reveals how stunning advances in such fields as genetics, neurobiology, and physics are showing us that we don’t know nearly as much as we thought we knew.
- Learn:
- * The biological reason why people are able to push your emotional buttons
- * How god may be a neurochemical reaction in our brains
- * How millenniums-old brain biology drives everything from CEO management style to baseball slumps
- * How adoptive parents are genetically related to their adoptive children
- * Why our brains are hard-wired to give us the potential for self-improvement and success, and how to make both more likely
- * How to induce happiness, why moderate levels of guilt may be good for your health, and other startling revelations about emotional biology
Reality Check gets us thinking about the nature of power and status, human potential and spirituality, and everyday behavior in new ways—from the perspective of science. The fresh, sometimes quirky, and entertaining information in this book has ramifications for parents, managers, educators, and everyone else interested in getting the most out of others and themselves.
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Power Freaks:
Dealing With Them in the Workplace or Anyplace
Are there "power-crazed, difficult people" in your life? A boss who appears to find pleasure in browbeating and intimidating you, a coworker who tries to manipulate or sabotage you behind your back, or maybe even a family member who constantly exalts his or her accomplishments while giving you credit for nothing and making you feel worthless?
Best-selling psychology author David L. Weiner reveals the personalities behind the facades of "power freaks."
Coming in many guises‚including the business psychopath (who may be working down the hall from you), the arrogant and status-obsessed, the messianic, the perfectionist‚they are all driven by an irrational need to dominate and to enhance their status, regardless of the consequences to others.
In this well-researched and insightful guide to handling power-crazed individuals who create havoc at work and at home, Weiner explains why they act the way they do and what you can do to prevent them from making your life a living hell!
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Battling the Inner Dummy:
The Craziness of Apparently Normal People
From the sexcapades of Bill Clinton to the fifteen-year-old who weighs only eighty-two pounds but believes she's obese to the professor who screams profanities at other drivers in snarled traffic, we wonder, "What are they thinking?" What drives so many apparently normal, intelligent people to act irrationally, at times harming themselves and others?
To Sigmund Freud, such behavior was caused by the "id," our built-in mental invitation to uninhibited action. For popular psychology writer David L. Weiner, who draws on the research of evolutionary psychology, "id" stands for "Inner Dummy," which resides in the primitive, limbic realm of the brain.
Through anecdotes from the famous and infamous this inviting and often humorous romp with the Inner Dummy explores how its thirst for status, sex, attachment and territory...its distorted outlooks and senseless impulses, can drive seemingly normal people to outrageous behavior. Weiner interweaves delightful, imagined conversations with a hesitant Freud and staffers at a mythical advertising agency who have been asked to develop such id antidotes as T-shirts that say "Would someone please fix my Inner Dummy before I fall in love with another idiot?" Then, with clinical psychiatrist Dr. Gilbert Hefter Battling the Inner Dummy describes the major strategies for dealing with this dunce that resides in a corner of our brains.
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Brain Tricks:
Coping With Your Defective Brain
Brain Tricks is based on what science and rational observation have discovered our lives to be. If the characteristics of your brain/mind are such that they will allow this evidence to be absorbed, the concept of Brain Tricks can work to elevate your perspective. You can begin to view the circumstances of your life from a galactic perspective rather than from the tiny platform of expectations that others have created for you.
You will have a better understanding of the nature of your limbic/instinctive programs. When you do something irrational, you will know why you did it. If someone close to you acts irrationally, you will know why. Over time, you will be able to instantly recognize those limbic/instinctive programs that are out of balance and drive irrational behavior.
You will be better able to manipulate the behavior of those persons in your life who are doing or saying things that are not compatible with the expectations of your limbic/instinctive programs and which react to make you unhappy in some way. You will be better able to find mind techniques that will help you control those emotional feelings and reactions that are not working in your favor.