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#1 When I opened my private practice as a psychologist, I was deluded about what I would be doing. I was expecting to cure my patients, but instead I had to learn how to be flexible as new information trickled in weekly.
#2 It's difficult to treat a patient who isn't psychologically oriented. Laura just wanted her herpes cured and, in her mind, therapy was a means to...
2) Summary of Steven Kotler's The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: “The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance” (2014) is a psychology and self-help book about realizing our true potential through the power of flow—a state of consciousness characterized by total immersion in an activity. American author Steven Kotler explains how flow has enabled extreme athletes to push the boundaries of human potential....
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Get the Summary of Brian L. Weiss's Many Lives, Many Masters in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Many Lives, Many Masters" by Brian L. Weiss is a narrative that follows the psychiatric treatment of Catherine, a woman suffering from severe anxiety, phobias, and panic attacks. Dr. Weiss, a traditionally trained psychiatrist, initially attempts to treat Catherine using conventional psychotherapy methods, exploring...
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Get the Summary of Robert Greene's Mastery in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Mastery" by Robert Greene explores the journey to achieving mastery in one's field, emphasizing the importance of following one's natural inclinations and the Life's Task. Leonardo da Vinci's relentless pursuit of art and science, driven by curiosity and an inner force, serves as a prime example of mastery. Greene argues that careers...
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Get the Summary of Chip Heath and Dan Heath's Made to Stick in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Made to Stick" by Chip Heath and Dan Heath explores why some ideas thrive while others die. The book introduces the concept of Commander's Intent (CI) used by the U.S. Army to empower soldiers to adapt to changing circumstances while still achieving the overarching objective. This principle of simplicity is central to...
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Get the Summary of Richard C. Schwartz's No Bad Parts in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Is there just one "you"? We've been taught to believe we have a single identity, and to feel fear or shame when we can't control the inner voices that don't match the ideal of who we think we should be. Yet Dr. Richard Schwartz's research now challenges this "mono-mind" theory. "All of us are born...
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Get the Summary of Michael Easter's Scarcity Brain in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Michael Easter, author of The Comfort Crisis and one of the world's leading experts on behavior change, shows that the problem isn't you. The problem is your scarcity mindset, left over from our ancient ancestors. They had to constantly seek and consume to survive because vital survival tools like food,...
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Get the Summary of Damon Centola's Change in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Most of what we know about how ideas spread comes from best-selling authors who give us a compelling picture of a world, in which "influencers" are king, "sticky" ideas "go viral", and good behavior is "nudged" forward. The problem is that the world they describe is a world where information spreads, but beliefs...
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#1 Thelma was in love with her therapist, and she told me so in the first session. She handed me two old photos of a young beautiful dancer and a 60-year-old stolid woman. Thelma had not tended to her appearance in years.
#2 I had difficulty imagining the shabby old woman having an affair with her therapist, but I kept my opinions to myself. Thelma raved about her therapist,...
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#1 You should be able to: Navigate uncertain situations.-> You should be able to navigate uncertain situations. Your skills aren't as important as your attributes. What matters more are your attributes.
#2 Our attributes, which are wired into our internal circuitry, drive our behavior. They are largely invisible and often taken for granted. But they are extremely important....
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#1 The kleśa of being a personality, or individuality, is the result of the urge to divide and discriminate. It is a natural instinctive form in which libido first appears out of the unconscious. According to tantric teaching, there is an urge to produce a personality, something that is centered and divided from other beings.
#2 The instinct of individuation is found everywhere in...
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#1 The use of dream-analysis in psychotherapy is still a debated issue. Many practitioners find it indispensable in the treatment of neuroses, while others dispute the value of dream-analysis and believe that dreams are a negligible by-product of the psyche.
#2 Dreams can be used to reveal the unconscious causes of a neurosis. The Freudian answer is that dreams often...
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#1 At the highest level, we have a person who has spent countless hours training in a specific skill. While education is necessary, no one is a surgeon without having conducted thousands of hours of practice and repetition.
#2 The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability. It is related to the cognitive...
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Book Preview: #1 We are often the last people to know what is going on inside us. We suffer because there is no easy way to introspection. We are not a fixed destination, but an eternally mobile, unfocused, and vaporous specter.
#2 Emotional skepticism is the recognition that our own minds can be faulty and misleading. It is the first step towards emotional maturity, which involves...
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#1 I have to get dressed. I take out a jumper and a white shirt, and from the dresser I get white socks and white underwear and a white undershirt, and I get my favorite saddle shoes. I suit up completely. I must be very quiet or my parents will hear.
#2 I would pace up and down the hall, getting more and more anxious until I wiggled free and began to run around the...
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#1 We learn by repetition. Something we do enough times gets its own neuronal pathways in the brain. Each neuron learns to connect and fire with the next one down, and the behavior gets set. We wouldn't be able to enjoy movies without this process.
#2 We are the only machine that can program itself. We are meta-programmable and can set deliberately designed, automated...
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#1 The narcissist both appeals and appalls. He may look like a modern-day Sir Lancelot, replete with the most swaggering charm, but he is also a master of illusion. His arrogance, condescension, and lack of empathy lead to frustrating interpersonal encounters and chronically difficult long-term relationships.
#2 The majority of narcissists are male, so I'll primarily...
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Book Preview: #1 The study of psychological trauma is to come face to face with human vulnerability in the natural world, and with the capacity for evil in human nature. To study psychological trauma means to bear witness to horrible events, and when the events are of human design, those who bear witness are caught in the conflict between victim and perpetrator.
#2 The study of psychological...
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#1 The mind of every therapist I've ever known is full of unhelpful thoughts. And the mind of every person who struggles with anxiety, depression, or addiction. We start from the assumption that the normal psychological processes of a normal human mind readily become destructive, and that the root of this suffering is human language itself.
#2 The mind is not a thing or an object....
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#1 The creation of writing was a massive technological breakthrough that empowered us to disseminate important texts to millions of people. This allowed mass education and mass collaboration on a scale never before seen in human history.
#2 The internet changed all that. It made it easy to share information on a massive scale, and this has resulted in an absolute explosion...
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