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Are you frustrated by stymied relationships, missed connections, and the loneliness of the search for someone to spend the rest of your life with? Are you ready, instead, to find &#8220;The One&#8221;? In Calling in &#8220;The One,&#8221; Katherine Woodward Thomas shares her own personal experience to show women that in order to find the relationship that will last a lifetime, you have to be truly open and ready to create a loving, committed, romantic union. Calling in &#8220;The One&#8221; shows you how. Based on the Law of Attraction, which is the concept that we can only attract what we&#8217;re ready to receive, the provocative yet simple seven-week program in Calling in &#8220;The One&#8221; prepares you to bring forth the love you seek. For each of the 49 days of Thomas&#8217;s thoughtful and life-affirming plan, there is a daily lesson, a corresponding practice, and instruction for putting that lesson into action in your life. Meditation, visualization, and journaling exercises will gently lead you to recognize the obstacles on your path to love and provide ways to steer around them. At the end of those 49 days, you will be in the ideal emotional state to go out into the world and find &#8220;The One.&#8221; An inspirational approach that offers a radical new philosophy on relationships, Calling in &#8220;The One&#8221; is your guide to finding the love you seek.

Calling in "The One" by Katherine Woodward Thomas, read by Katherine Woodward Thomas

#1 New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell shares the secrets to success in this 90-day guide, based on his book Thinking For a Change.
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Maxwell provides the wisdom and inspiration you need to become a better thinker and achieve your dreams by mastering the eleven types of successful thinking, including: Big-Picture Thinking--seeing the world beyond your own needs and how that leads to great ideas; Focused Thinking--removing mental clutter and distractions to realize your full potential; Creative Thinking--thinking in unique ways and making breakthroughs; Shared Thinking--working with others to compound results; and Reflective Thinking--looking at the past to gain a better understanding of the future.

Filled with inspiring quotes, engaging lessons, and stimulating questions, over the course of three short months you'll make daily strides toward more effective thinking while tracking your progress in this portable volume.

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Maria Konnikova’s new book, The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time, takes a deep dive into the psychology of con artists and the psychology of the trusting people they take advantage of. It’s a scary and fascinating book that reveals the methods and motives of con artists like Bernie Madoff, Jim Bakker, and Lance Armstrong, and explains why everyone is vulnerable to the con artist’s game, even other con artists.

11: Marina Konnikova, author of The Confidence Game

Listen to an excerpt from MAGIC OF THINKING BIG by David Schwartz and read by Jason Culp

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&ldquo;I know where I&rsquo;m going. I&rsquo;m still myself. I just can&rsquo;t remember things as well as I once did. So on short trips, I work hard not to be confused. I&rsquo;ll say to myself, What are we going to do? How long are we staying? It&rsquo;s like I&rsquo;m talking to my other self&mdash;the self I used to be. She tells me, This is what we need to buy&mdash;not that. I&rsquo;m conscious of that other self guiding me now.&rdquo; &#160; Restaurateur, magazine publisher, celebrity chef, and nationally known lifestyle maven, B. Smith is struggling at 66 with a tag she never expected to add to that string: Alzheimer's patient.&#160; She&rsquo;s not alone. Every 67 seconds someone newly develops it, and millions of lives are affected by its aftershocks. &#160; B. and her husband, Dan, working with Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Shnayerson, unstintingly share their unfolding story. Crafted in short chapters that interweave their narrative with practical and helpful advice, readers learn about dealing with Alzheimer's day-to-day challenges: the family realities and tensions, ways of coping, coming research that may tip the scale, as well as lessons learned along the way. &#160; At its heart, Before I Forget is a love story: illuminating a love of family, life, and hope.

Before I Forget by B. Smith, Dan Gasby, Michael Shnayerson, read by B. Smith, Dan Gasby

After three weeks spent reading, the SciFri Book Club is back! Last month, the Book Club joined special-guest readers Maria Popova and Danielle Ofri in picking up Oliver Sacks’ autobiography, On the Move.

Sacks’ story took us from the weight-lifting platforms of California’s Muscle Beach to the jellyfish-infested waters of his beloved City Island. We witnessed Sacks’ struggles in the lab (dropping hamburger crumbs into his centrifuge, misplacing a crucial sample) and his triumphs in the clinic (witnessing the “awakenings” of his post-encephalitic patients). We listened to his favorite music, took a peek at his library, and even took a tour of the ferns and cycads that he loved at the New York Botanical Garden. Now the SciFri Book Club returns to discuss On the Move, and lessons from a life well-lived.

Meet our On the Move guest readers, Brain Pickings editor Maria Popova and physician and writer Danielle Ofri.


The SciFri Book Club Talks Oliver Sacks’ ‘On the Move’

After three weeks spent reading, the SciFri Book Club is back! Last month, the Book Club joined special-guest readers Maria Popova and Danielle Ofri in picking up Oliver Sacks’ autobiography, On the Move.

Sacks’ story took us from the weight-lifting platforms of California’s Muscle Beach to the jellyfish-infested waters of his beloved City Island. We witnessed Sacks’ struggles in the lab (dropping hamburger crumbs into his centrifuge, misplacing a crucial sample) and his triumphs in the clinic (witnessing the “awakenings” of his post-encephalitic patients). We listened to his favorite music, took a peek at his library, and even took a tour of the ferns and cycads that he loved at the New York Botanical Garden. Now the SciFri Book Club returns to discuss On the Move, and lessons from a life well-lived.

Meet our On the Move guest readers, Brain Pickings editor Maria Popova and physician and writer Danielle Ofri.

Listen to an excerpt from HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE by Dale Carnegie, and read by Andrew Macmillan.

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Facebook, Apple, and even the New York Times are investing in virtual reality to expand social networks and storytelling. Can more immersive media help us forge deeper digital and real-world connections? Cognitive psychologist Jeremy Bailenson, who is founding director of Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, discusses the promises and pitfalls of virtual reality.

How Can Virtual Reality Plug In to Social Media?

Quick: What’s the difference between a quark and a gluon? Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli explains that and more in the most poetic book you’ll ever read about modern physics, his Seven Brief Lessons On Physics. Rather than expounding, he’s aimed for concision, in hopes of keeping the non-physics expert engaged. The result is a tour through some of the greatest ideas in physics, in just over 80 pages.

A Brief, Poetic Tour of Modern Physics

&ldquo;I&rsquo;m a person who listens for a living.&#160; I listen for wisdom, and beauty, and for voices not shouting to be heard.&#160; This book chronicles some of what I&rsquo;ve learned in what has become a conversation across time and generations, across disciplines and denominations.&rdquo; &#160; Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and National Humanities Medalist Krista Tippett has interviewed the most extraordinary voices examining the great questions of meaning for our time. The heart of her work on her national public radio program and podcast,&#160;On Being, has been to shine a light on people whose insights kindle in us a sense of wonder and courage. Scientists in a variety of fields; theologians from an array of faiths; poets, activists, and many others have all opened themselves up to Tippett's compassionate yet searching conversation. &#160; In&#160;Becoming Wise, Tippett distills the insights she has gleaned from this luminous conversation in its many dimensions into a coherent narrative journey, over time and from mind to mind. The book is a master class in living, curated by Tippett and accompanied by a delightfully ecumenical dream team of teaching faculty. &#160; The open questions and challenges of our time are intimate and civilizational all at once, Tippett says &ndash; definitions of when life begins and when death happens, of the meaning of community and family and identity, of our relationships to technology and through technology. The wisdom we seek emerges through the raw materials of the everyday. And the enduring question of what it means to be human has now become inextricable from the question of who we are to each other. &#160; This book offers a grounded and fiercely hopeful vision of humanity for this century &ndash; of personal growth but also renewed public life and human spiritual evolution. It insists on the possibility of a common life for this century marked by resilience and redemption, with beauty as a core moral value and civility and love as muscular practice. Krista Tippett's great gift, in her work and in Becoming Wise, is to avoid reductive simplifications but still find the golden threads that weave people and ideas together into a shimmering braid. &#160; One powerful common denominator of the lessons imparted to Tippett is the gift of presence, of the exhilaration of engagement with life for its own sake, not as a means to an end. But presence does not mean passivity or acceptance of the status quo. Indeed Tippett and her teachers are people whose work meets, and often drives, powerful forces of change alive in the world today. In the end, perhaps the greatest blessing conveyed by the lessons of spiritual genius Tippett harvests in&#160;Becoming Wise&#160;is the strength to meet the world where it really is, and then to make it better. 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Becoming Wise by Krista Tippett, read by Krista Tippett

 groundbreaking exploration of the science of productivity from the author of the international bestseller The Power of Habit.

In the international bestseller The Power of Habit, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charles Duhigg explained why we do what we do. In Smarter Faster Better, he applies the same relentless curiosity, rigorous reporting and rich storytelling to explain how we can get better at the things we do. The result is a groundbreaking exploration of the science of productivity. 

A group of data scientists at Google embark on a four-year study of how the best teams function, and find that how a group interacts is much more important than who is in the group. 

A Marine Corps general, faced with low morale among recruits, reimagines boot camp – and discovers that instilling a ‘bias toward action’ can turn even the most directionless teenagers into self-motivating achievers.

The filmmakers behind Disney’s Frozen are on the brink of catastrophe – until they shake up their team in just the right way, spurring a creative breakthrough that leads to one of the highest-grossing movies of all time.

What do these people have in common? 

They know that productivity relies on making certain choices. The way we frame our daily decisions; the big ambitions we embrace and the easy goals we ignore; the cultures we establish as leaders to drive innovation: these are the things that separate the merely busy from the genuinely productive. 

At the core of Smarter Faster Better are eight key concepts – from motivation and goal-setting to focus and decision-making – that explain why some people and companies get so much done. Drawing on the latest findings in neuroscience, psychology and behavioural eco­nomics – as well as the experiences of CEOs, educational reformers, four-star generals, air­plane pilots and Broadway songwriters – this painstakingly researched book explains that the most productive people, companies and organizations don’t merely act differently. 

They view the world, and their choices, in profoundly different ways.

Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg (audiobook extract) read by Mike Chamberlain

David Whyte reads his poem "Everything Is Waiting for You." 

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"Everything Is Waiting for You" by David Whyte

David Whyte reads his poem "Finisterre." 

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"Finisterre" by David Whyte

David Whyte reads his poem "No One Told Me." 

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"No One Told Me" by David Whyte

David Whyte reads his poem "Stone" (Thobar Phadraig). 

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"Stone" (Thobar Phadraig) by David Whyte

David Whyte reads his poem "Sweet Darkness."

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"Sweet Darkness" by David Whyte

David Whyte reads "Vulnerability," an excerpt from his book "Consolations." 

"Vulnerability" by David Whyte

David Whyte reads his poem "Working Together." 

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"Working Together" by David Whyte

“Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet / confinement of your aloneness / to learn / anything or anyone / that does not bring you alive / is too small for you.”

David Whyte is a poet and philosopher who believes in the power of a “beautiful question” amidst the drama of work as well as the drama of life — amidst the ways the two overlap, whether we want them to or not. He shared a deep friendship with the late Irish philosopher John O’Donohue. They were, David Whyte says, like “two bookends.” More recently, he’s written about the consolation, nourishment, and underlying meaning of everyday words.

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Vortex Vibration

Tim Stanforth