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Brian Tracy reveals the success secrets of millionaires who achieved their dreams. You'll learn how to increase your income, achieve your goals, eliminate your debts, and realize your full potential. Tracy presents motivational ideas and principles that are followed by provocative questions and action exercises to help you apply the secrets to create your own success.

Rewards. Punishments. Prices. The Nobel Prize. Candy Crush. Incentives take more forms than you might expect and they can be hard to spot, but they shape our lives in ways that we rarely examine. Some incentives are obvious, but many of the most powerful incentives are accidental, and invisible...

We've decided by consensus that consensus is good. In In Defense of Troublemakers, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that this principle is completely wrong: left unchallenged, the majority opinion is often biased, unoriginal, or false. It leads planes and markets to crash, causes juries to convict innocent people, and can quite literally make people think blue is green. In the name of comity, we embrace stupidity. We can make better decisions by embracing dissent. Dissent forces us to question the status quo, consider more information, and engage in creative decision-making.