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Education can be enriching and transformative. It can also be downright excruciating—even demoralizing. When it comes to learning, why are some of us lovers and some of us haters? Welcome to the world of educational psychology, which uses science to explore what causes people to engage and learn, and what we can do to make learning opportunities more enjoyable and impactful. Spoiler alert: Teachers can only do so much. Students, too, must take control of their learning. Unfortunately, many of us never, ahem, learned the skills to do just that.

Drs. Barbara Oakley and Terrence Sejnowski's popular Online course Learning How to Learn, has enrolled more than 1.8 million students. In this much needed follow-up to A Mind for Numbers, the authors teach kids and teens how to learn effectively at a time when they most need these skills. Learning How to Learn teaches them about the importance of both focused concentration and letting their minds wander, how the brain makes connections between different pieces of information, why procrastination is the enemy of problem solving, and much more.

Negativity is a normal part of life. Nobody can be positive all that time because life isn’t always going to be perfect. That said, sometimes negativity infiltrates our minds and bodies and never leaves. A good day can be ruined by your mind dwelling on something stupid that happened years ago. You sit for hours ruminating over it, and before you realize it, you have wasted a great day. We’ve all had experiences like that, and they suck.

Do you feel like you're always distracted and unfocused? Start improving your ability to focus with A.V. Mendez's daily actionable guide that will give you the best ideas to kill distractions and build a habit that will make you more focused and ready to take action.

Following up on her acclaimed Teach Students How to Learn, that describes teaching strategies to facilitate dramatic improvements in student learning and success, Saundra McGuire here presents these "secrets" direct to students.

"A lightning bolt of a book" makes the case for why self-directed learning — "unschooling" — is the best way to get kids to learn (Lenore Skenazy) In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that in order to foster children who will thrive in today’s constantly changing...

The horse is dead. It‘s time to move on. Yet many people stay where they are, and end up wasting weeks, months, or even years. And no matter how dissatisfied they are, they don‘t change their situation. But every change - be it private or personal - has to come from the individual. With humor, wit, and pointed insight, change expert Patrick Lynen exposes our patterns of avoiding change and offers proven strategies for starting anew - strategies that are founded in science and never judgmental.

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Are you worried about the amount of alcohol you are drinking? Has that little drink on an evening changed from a 'like to have' to a 'must have'? Don't worry you are not alone, far from it! Millions of people around the world have a problem with alcohol but thousands have retaken control with the Stop Drinking Expert online cure. Craig Beck is an ex problem drinker who cured his own addiction. He is known around the world as the 'Stop Drinking Expert' and has helped countless people to deal with their drink problem.

This book demonstrates how nonscientific ideas have been encoded deep into our technological infrastructure. Offering a rigorous, fresh perspective on how technology has brought us to this place, Rage Inside the Machine challenges the long-held assumption that technology is an apolitical and amoral force.

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Wake up and take control of your life! Too many people stay where they are, and end up wasting weeks, months, or even years. And no matter how dissatisfied they are, they don't change their situation. Every change - be it private or personal - has to come from the individual. With humor, wit, and pointed insight, change expert Patrick Lynen exposes our patterns of avoiding change and offers proven strategies for starting anew - strategies that are founded in science and never judgmental.

Students and teachers alike face a dilemma: Why think deeply when we can just take a shortcut by googling something? Why read an article when we can learn from a social media headline? If, as educators, we want to encourage our students to value thoughtfulness and to embrace the effort it takes to reach deep understandings, we must model that behavior ourselves.

Leslie Odom Jr. burst on the scene in 2015, originating the role of Aaron Burr in the Broadway musical phenomenon Hamilton. Since then he has performed for sold-out audiences, sung for the Obamas at the White House, and won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. But before he landed the role of a lifetime in one of the biggest musicals of all time, Odom put in years of hard work as a singer and an actor.

Do you find it increasingly difficult to see things positively? Do you often believe that it's not going to work anyway, that you can't do something as well as others or that you’re not good enough? Do you often worry, brood a lot and are insecure - also about what others think of you? Yet you'd like to be able to think much more positively and deal with difficult situations in a relaxed way.

Sie wollen endlich frei von Ihren Ängsten sein? Sie wollen keine Angst mehr vor der Angst haben? Sie wollen wieder ein selbstbestimmtes Leben führen? Das Mentalprogramm unterstützt Sie mittels hilfreicher Suggestionen Ihre Gedanken und Gefühle zu beleuchten und neue, angstfreie Denk- und Verhaltensmuster zu entwickeln, um Ihre Lebensqualität und Lebensfreude spürbar zu verändern. Sie lernen wieder bewusst darauf zu achten, wie Sie ein Ereignis, eine Situation bewerten.

Sie wollen ein für allemal aufhören, zu grübeln? Sie wollen das Gute in Ihrem Leben wieder schätzen und genießen können? Sie wollen schädliche, negative Gedanken stoppen? Denken Sie sich Ihre Lebensfreude zurück! "Stop Negative Thinking To Go! Mentaltraining Negative Gedanken stoppen" ist ein Trainingsprogramm der erfolgreichen Münchner Hypnosetherapeutin Kim Fleckenstein. Mit diesem Training lernt Ihr Unterbewusstsein neue Denkmuster kennen. Bremsen Sie in Zukunft das Gedankenkarussell, noch bevor es in Fahrt kommt, steigen Sie aus, und betrachten Sie das Leben aus einem positiven Blickwinkel. Hören Sie auf zu grübeln und nutzen Sie stattdessen die Zeit, um weiter zu kommen mit Ihren persönlichen Zielen. Gehen Sie neue Aufgaben mit Zuversicht an, und freuen Sie sich über den Erfolg.

Haben Sie Angst vor dem Tod? Wer hat sie nicht? Aber wenn diese Angst beginnt, Ihr Leben zu bestimmen, wenn die Furcht vor dem Tod Sie davon abhält, glücklich zu sein, dann sollten Sie handeln. Legen Sie die Angst ab wie eine schlechte Gewohnheit, und lernen Sie, den Tod als Teil des Lebens zu begreifen. "Stop Fears To Go! - Death" ist ein Mentaltraining der erfahrenen Hypnosetherapeutin Kim Fleckenstein.

Do you want to be free of your fears and anxieties once and for all? Do you want to let go of the fear of being afraid? Do you wish to go back to living a self-determined life? By means of helpful suggestions, the program helps you examine your thoughts and feelings and develop new, fear-free patterns of thought and behavior so that you can significantly change your quality of life and the level of joy that you experience. You will also learn to be consciously aware of how you interpret an event or situation, so that you can look at what would have previously made you anxious or afraid from a new, more relaxed perspective. You will direct your attention away from what could happen and become independent of anxiety and its consequences.