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Welcome to another practical and applicable episode of the Playing Books podcast. Seeking or affirming the validation of at least one person or some people can largely influence our entire life, decisions, choices, food, accommodation, purchases, education, career, and relationships, like marriage. Living this way is bondage.

This episode discusses how to accept yourself and have the courage to be disliked. It takes courage to be your true self in private, public, straining, and comfortable situations.

This episode is from Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga's The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness. The authors based the book on Alfred Adler's psychological principles. For instance, no experience determines the outcomes of your life. It is rather how you deal with and handle the situation that brings happiness or despair.

You can overcome the past, change for the better, have an interesting, mutual interpersonal relationship, and connections with others; become valuable to your community, and find true happiness.

Feeling inadequate, trauma, insecurities, excuses, and holding on to what people think of you are the seeds of unhappiness. But you can break free from this, and it is your task to change your life and lead a truly happy life.

Get the book, The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness, and use the ideas in the guide that comes with the book to cultivate self-acceptance, confidence in others, and learn how to make positive contributions where you are with what you have. You can get it on Amazon, https://amzn.to/4eZpcBV, and other bookstores.

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This is a reflective episode. The 2025 Fourth of July Independence Day celebrations have just concluded. Flag parades, barbecues, and fireworks followed the observance. Everyone seems well, happy, hopeful, grateful, and eager to see what the United States will bring to them and the world. We often forget that each time people gather to celebrate any major national holiday in the US, some citizens experience pain and relive oppressive memories. This episode discusses Howard Zinn's ‘A People's History of the United States.’ It aims to inspire a renewed sense of gratitude and privilege in living and enjoying America by viewing the country through the eyes of marginalized, hurting, and overlooked citizens. Hear questions about power, economic success, struggles, and justice in the U.S. Explore the role of interest in history and gain insightful analysis of the most significant events in American history. Zinn’s book examines American history from the bottom up, challenging the official narratives taught in schools, events, and historical monuments. Zinn closely examines Columbus and his brutal treatment of indigenous Americans, the subsequent establishment of slavery, class struggles, labor movements, and acts of resistance throughout American history, from Bacon's Rebellion to the fight for women's suffrage and workers' rights. It also analyzes the motivations and consequences of U.S. foreign policy, revealing a consistent pattern of economic interests driving U.S. military interventions and the suppression of dissent at home and abroad. You can purchase the book from Amazon, https://amzn.to/4kATcoM, or at any major bookstore. Please share your thoughts on U.S. history, Zinn’s approach, and how we might discuss our country's difficult past. Also, recommend this episode and the Playing Books podcast. Thank you.

Since untapped talents, unwritten books, unsung songs, unstarted enterprises, unfulfilled destinies, unbacked mission, and other unused human endowments collectively make the grave the wealthiest place with wealth unparalleled by the oil-rich Middle East and other affluent regions worldwide, this episode presents revolutionary concepts to dare, harness, and utilize human talents and resources in addressing solvable global challenges, thereby contributing to a more improved world, and the grave less weathy.

According to Rutger Bregman, moral ambition serves as the solution to the substantial waste of talent. Guilt should not hinder personal development and talent cultivation until one achieves significant value in joining others dedicated to societal improvements.

This episode provides practical guidance on recognizing potential, taking strategic actions, and creating substantial ripple effects in both personal and global life.

While seeking personal happiness may not yield satisfaction, true progress often stems from leveraging individual skills and resources to address community and global challenges.

This episode offers valuable insights and practical strategies. For a comprehensive understanding of Rutger’s Moral Revolution, consider purchasing the book “Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference” by Rutger Bregman and Erica Moore. You can find it on Amazon at https://amzn.to/44CYRVz, as well as at other book retailers.

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This podcast is practical. Your outdated ignorance and assumptions have come a long way enough. Labeling people, assuming there is a them and us, and other biases should come to light for your admission, then, accepting the facts and learning how to be factful in looking at people and things.

Ignorance and assumptions prevent the mind from learning the truth about the world, which affects relationships, education, progress, health, and the future. This episode points out what you can do to outsmart wrong generalizations.

Hans Rosling and his coauthors offer a fact-based worldview perspective on conclusions and trends. They urge readers to embrace curiosity, compare data, and question assumptions to overcome these instincts and recognize the significant, albeit often unreported, progress in global well-being.

Listen and challenge your hidden biases. You should notice a fresh mental freedom as you become truly curious, creative, and practically involved in tackling global problems. Overcome fear instincts from bias and false information in embracing the facts.

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We have an exceptional, practical, and useful episode for you. Emergencies, sudden violence, looting, massive protests, tornadoes, fire, fuel scarcity, and food crises might only get worse. Shouldn't you have a trusted plan, preparation, and an in-house safe place when any of this hits?

In the past, people reserved gas for getting away to distant lands where no trace of the disorder they escaped from could tamper with their peace and welfare. Others flee on foot to caves and mountains or climb trees to survive. Many books offer guides on what to pack, how to escape, run fast, and survive during emergencies.

Escaping and surviving crises have been about fleeing rather than remaining in prepared and fortified houses. This episode discusses one of the first guides on surviving and even enjoying any crises in your home. Joel Lambert's A Navy SEAL's Bug-In Guide: How to Turn Your House into the Safest Place on Earth offers proven instructions, complete with pictures, on preparing your house for almost all kinds of emergencies.

When wildfire hit Southern California, looters, and intruders prospered. Learn the strategies to overpower them in this episode.

Having power is decisive? How do you plan to live when electricity is out? Joel Lambert got you.

This book is packed with many life-saving tips.

Joel Lambert's Bug-In Guide not only provides safety and survival instructions, but the book also prepares your mind, helps you overcome fear and despair, augments your confidence, challenges your thinking, and makes you more creative.

Learn methods for obtaining pure drinking water and stockpiling food well before crises occur. Your house will feel different after learning practical survival tips from a veteran Navy SEAL instructor. You can purchase the book for pictorial instructions and other details on Amazon, https://amzn.to/40hlIV7, and everywhere books are sold. Please share your thoughts, follow, recommend the episode, and subscribe to the Playing Books podcast. Thank you.

Everyone cherishes the idea of healthy living without fear of falling sick, dealing with any diagnosis, having anxieties over medical expenses, and going through painful remedy processes. But in reality, only a handful even in advanced countries eat right, avoid smoking, and excessive alcohol; regularly exercise, and speak healthy or positive words on formal and informal bases.

Studies show that in advanced economies with access to healthcare, education, and fitness resources, 7 to 8 out of 10 people still fall short of living truly healthy lifestyles according to modern health standards.

This podcast attempts to stir you to think, be proactive, and be serious about healthy living. First, disabuse yourself of the conclusion that you must have one or more health conditions. Whereas the truth is you can live sickness-free. Second, the choices to lead a sound healthy lifestyle are within your control. Third, you can apply common sense, and listen to your body clock to avoid expected and unexpected medical conditions and heavy expenses.

Listen to this episode to find practical health answers, and learn less talk about topics, conventional habits, and ancient health beliefs. Saving billions of lives starts with you. Simple habits like washing your hands regularly, especially after going to the bathroom and other germ spots. Restore confidence in your health, and find peace in the proven information about diet, genes, physical activities, positive attitudes, herbs, and choices that will revolutionize your health for the better.

Do you know what 'Blue Zones' means? Processed foods and their consequences. Buy the book if you can, Gene Stone's The Secrets of People Who Never Get Sick: What They Know, Why It Works, and How It Can Work for You, for the full secrets of never getting sick. It is available on Amazon, https://amzn.to/3HB0LhA, and other online and physical bookstores.

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Why didn't Nikola Tesla win the Nobel Prize? Why hasn't the Nobel Committee awarded him posthumously? What is Tesla's legacy? Was Tesla wealthy? Did Tesla invent anything extraordinary? Why is Tesla referred to as the prophet of the electronic age?

This episode lets Tesla speak for himself. Based on Nikola Tesla's My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla, this podcast goes far back to Tesla's young age, his earlier attempts at inventions, sustain hunger to continue on the creative path, his notable discoveries: the Rotating Magnetic Field, Tesla Coil and Transformer, Magnifying Transmitter, and the Telautomatics, traumatic challenges, and the eureka moments behind his inimitable inventions.

This podcast is one of our most interesting episodes. We love Tesla. We want you to hear all that makes Tesla tick, exceptional, and relevant in science from Tesla himself.

Dive into the drive, influences, experience, environment, and imagination that shaped Tesla's innovative mind in this episode. Get a closer experience and insights into Tesla's strong intuition, perseverance, courage, faith, and positivity in the book, My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla on Amazon, https://amzn.to/4kuf4Dh, and other stores.

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Big conflicts didn't start big. They started small. Small conflicts often went unresolved and escalated into larger conflicts. This podcast is about dealing with small to big conflicts.

The episode offers reliable insights, tactics, strategies, and experience for high-stakes negotiations, deals, contracts, critical conversations, and game-changing standoffs. However, the application extends beyond formal occasions to everyday conversations, getting a raise, avoiding police tickets, dealing with confrontations in arguments, building a positive influence, and coming across as a good person.

This podcast episode is based on Chris Voss and Tahl Raz's Never Split the Difference. Chris Voss was one of the FBI's most effective top hostage negotiators. The book is packed with proven insights, facts, strategies, tools, and experience for winning negotiations.

Listen and buy the book, Never Split the Difference on Amazon, https://amzn.to/4mIW4lQ, and everywhere books are sold. You will become more successful in selling or buying vehicles, acquiring a home, renegotiating rent, deliberating with your wife or significant other, and enjoying conversations with your children or colleagues.

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This podcast discusses the greatest obstacle to lasting success and fulfillment for anyone: ego. Ego leads to self-deception, stagnation, and irreversible defeat, in contrast to humility, which nurtures a positive attitude, opens doors, empowers, and results in continuous victories. 

Discover why Ryan Holiday uses historical examples to emphasize the importance of combating this fearsome foe, ego. This means consciously choosing to stay out of the spotlight and prioritizing greater goals, like inner fulfillment, over recognition and applause.  

Today, social media portrays ego as essential and a way to showcase success, but those who truly seek lasting achievement and genuine fulfillment must aggressively resist ego in all its forms.  

Get the book on Amazon, https://amzn.to/3FhY6bU, and at bookstores nationwide. “You will be less invested in the story you tell about your own specialness, and as a result, you will be liberated to accomplish the world-changing work you’ve set out to achieve.” Once you declare war on your ego, this becomes attainable. 

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This podcast will give you a headstart in any conversation. You are about to learn how to talk to anyone from Leil Lowndes. Lowndes reveals ninety-two (92) techniques for effective, enjoyable, and memorable communication with anyone.

Leil Lowndes teaches communication based on her many years of experience working as a flight attendant. A flight attendant interacts with over 240 people per flight, which is talking to over 720 people per day. This gives a sense of her rich, practical experience. Because she was intentional in learning how best to talk to people, she has acquired some useful knowledge about verbal, body, and facial communication.

Conversations decide so much in nearly everything. This is an episode you want to play again and again and share with those you truly want to succeed in communication.

You can get the book to refer to it, and make notes; it can also be a great gift for family, friends, colleagues, and bosses. See the link to buy it on Amazon, https://amzn.to/43GYQiZ. How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks by Leil Lowndes is also available in most bookstores.