How To by Randall Munroe

  [Society & Technology] {#251} #BriefAudioBook - 2 December 2021

Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

Randall Munroe

19 min read

overview

“How To” is an instruction manual for taking everyday problems and using science and creative thinking to turn them into much bigger and more exciting problems. It teaches you how to jump really high, by using the physics of pole vaulting, how to throw a pool party when you don’t have a pool, and walks you through how to play football, by increasing your weight, speed, and power. From mailing packages from space, to how to make friends, it describes unusual ways to accomplish common tasks and analyzes what would happen to you if you tried them. In addition to being a profoundly unhelpful self-help book, it’s an exercise in applying math, science, and research to ordinary problems, and a tour through some of the strange and fun science underlying the world around us. “A witty, educational examination of ‘unusual approaches to common tasks’...generously laced with dry humor... Munroe’s comic stick-figure art is an added bonus... Apart from generating laughter, the book also manages to achieve his serious objective: to get his audience thinking.” ~ “Publishers Weekly”, starred review

[Society & Technology] {#251} #BriefAudioBook - 2 December 2021

How to Day Trade for a Living by Andrew Aziz

  [Money & Investments] {#250} #BriefAudioBook - 1 December 2020

How to Day Trade for a Living

A Beginner's Guide to Trading Tools and Tactics, Money Management, Discipline and Trading Psychology

Andrew Aziz

19 min read

overview

Very few careers can offer you the freedom, flexibility, and income that day trading does. As a day trader, you can live and work anywhere in the world. You can decide when to work and when not to work. You only answer to yourself. That is the life of the successful day trader. Many people aspire to it, but very few succeed. Day trading is not a gambling or an online poker game. To be successful at day trading you need the right tools and you need to be motivated, to work hard, and to persevere. In this book, Andrew Aziz how you can take control over your life and have success in day trading on the stock market. It is not a difficult, technical, hard to understand, complicated and complex guide to the stock market. It's concise. It's practical. It's written for everyone. You can learn how to beat Wall Street at its own game.

[Money & Investments] {#250} #BriefAudioBook - 1 December 2020

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams

  [Self-Growth] {#249} #BriefAudioBook - 30 November 2020

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

Kind of the Story of My Life

Scott Adams

17 min read

overview

Have you ever taken a look back at your life and wondered why you haven't gone much further along in life? Well, we've all had one or two instances when we thought we should have gotten more out of life than we currently do. There are times when we take a look back at the previous two or three years and wonder where it all went wrong. But in most cases, nothing went wrong. We're just not patient enough to see that every failure we encounter comes with bits of opportunities and lessons essential to set us up for greater success. Scott Adams has likely failed at more things than anyone else you’ve ever met. So how did he go from hapless office worker and serial failure to the creator of Dilbert, one of the world’s most famous syndicated comic strips, in just a few years? In “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big”, Adams shares the strategy he has used since he was a teen to invite failure in, to embrace it, then pick its pocket.

[Self-Growth] {#249} #BriefAudioBook - 30 November 2020

How to Find Fulfilling Work by Roman Krznaric

  [Business & Career] {#248} #BriefAudioBook - 29 November 2020

How to Find Fulfilling Work

How to Find Fulfilling Work

Roman Krznaric

10 min read

overview

Have you ever wondered why that dream job of yours doesn’t give you the happiness you expected? Have you ever looked at your job and felt somehow incomplete? Studies have shown that a large percentage of people don’t love their job, and yet, they keep on doing them. What could be the reason? Getting a job is an essential part of human life. In one way or the other, at a point in your life, you must start work that takes care of your needs. So, how do you get a job that satisfies your needs, your dreams and at the same time gives you happiness? Roman Kznaric is an author whose works have been proven to be motivational and life-changing, and this book is no different. It talks about finding happiness in your work, how to get a job that gives your life purpose, meaning, and happiness.

[Business & Career] {#248} #BriefAudioBook - 29 November 2020

How to Have a Good Day by Caroline Webb

  [Happiness] {#247} #BriefAudioBook - 28 November 2020

How to Have a Good Day

Get Better Working Life, Feel Better, Live Better

Caroline Webb

19 min read

overview

How does our brain work? What are the factors that influence our decision-making process? Is it possible for us to be at our best consistently? Caroline Webb is an economist and former McKinsey partner. In “How to Have a Good Day”, Caroline Webb shows readers how to use recent findings from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to transform our approach to everyday working life. Advances in these behavioral sciences are giving us an even better understanding of how our brains work, why we make the choices we do, and what it takes for us to be at our best. But it has not always been easy to see how to apply these insights in the real world — until now. Throughout the book, you’ll find a blend of scientific evidence, practical techniques, and real examples from people who’ve used those techniques in their own lives.

[Happiness] {#247} #BriefAudioBook - 28 November 2020

How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less by Nicholas Boothman

  [Negotiation] {#246} #BriefAudioBook - 27 November 2020

How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less

How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less

Nicholas Boothman

17 min read

overview

In this book, Nicholas Boothman, a master of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, unveils the concept of synchrony — how you can synchronize your attitude, body language, and tone of voice in a way that instantly and imperceptibly makes you irresistibly likable to other people. Boothman explains the difference between open and closed body language, the power of communicating with what he calls a Really Useful Attitude, how to be an active listener, and how to identify and read the three most important sensory preferences. Whether you're selling, managing, pitching an idea, applying to college, or looking for a soulmate, the secret of success is based on connecting with other people. Now that connection is infinitely easier to make through the techniques of face-to-face communication unveiled in this book.

[Negotiation] {#246} #BriefAudioBook - 27 November 2020

How to Not Always Be Working by Marlee Grace

  [Business & Career] {#245} #BriefAudioBook - 26 November 2020

How to Not Always Be Working

A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care

Marlee Grace

12 min read

overview

Are you trying to balance your work with your life? Do you find it hard taking a break from work to enjoy yourself? Are you so consumed by your work that you are no longer living life? Do not worry. You have come to the right place. This book will show you how not to let your work consume you and thus, solve other problems. Marlee Grace is a dancer, improviser, and writer living in rural California. She works with improvisation as a method for navigating being alive and doing work through movement, quilting, writing, and podcasting.

[Business & Career] {#245} #BriefAudioBook - 26 November 2020

How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles van Doren

  [Productivity] {#244} #BriefAudioBook - 25 November 2020

How to Read a Book

The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

Mortimer J. Adler, Charles van Doren

17 min read

overview

Are you always busy and want to get the most from your reading? Do you want to hone your reading skill so you’ll get the best of every future book you read? If yes, then this classic work of Mortimer J. Handler is the right book for you. “How to Read a Book”, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. In this summary, you will learn the various levels of reading and how to achieve them — from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading. you will also learn the different reading techniques for reading practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science.

[Productivity] {#244} #BriefAudioBook - 25 November 2020

How to Stop Feeling Like Shit by Andrea Owen  [Happiness] {#243} #BriefAudioBook - 24 November 2020

How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t

14 Habits that Are Holding You Back from Happiness

Andrea Owen

18 min read

overview

In this bite-sized book, an internationally sought-after life coach explains 14 habits that are holding women back from experiencing life to the fullest and provides a roadmap for overcoming them. The book is filled with life stories of the author and her clients, and helps women to not only fight with their habits, but also to accept them.

[Happiness] {#243} #BriefAudioBook - 24 November 2020

How to Stop Procrastinating by S.J. Scott

  [Productivity] {#242} #BriefAudioBook - 23 November 2020

How to Stop Procrastinating

A Simple Guide to Mastering Difficult Tasks and Breaking the Procrastination Habit

S.J. Scott

16 min read

overview

If you often avoid doing what needs to be done and would rather just binge-watch TV, you are likely suffering from procrastination. Harmless as it sounds, it can be life-threatening if you postpone check-ups or other medical tests. Moreover, procrastination can lead to poor job performance and ultimately derail your career. This book provides a practical guide on how to defeat procrastination, tackle difficult tasks, and never allow this habit to be a part of your life again. You will receive advice, routines, and exercises that will help you create your personal daily plan to eliminate procrastination.

[Productivity] {#242} #BriefAudioBook - 23 November 2020