The Talent Code


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What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? This groundbreaking work provides readers with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others. Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the piano, writing a novel or trying to improve your golf swing, this revolutionary book shows you how to grow talent by tapping into a newly discovered brain mechanism. Drawing on cutting-edge neurology and firsthand research gathered on journeys to nine of the world’s talent hotbeds—from the baseball fields of the Caribbean to a classical-music academy in upstate New York—Coyle identifies the three key elements that will allow you to develop your gifts and optimize your performance in sports, art, music, math, or just about anything. • Deep Practice Everyone knows that practice is a key to success. What everyone doesn’t know is that specific kinds of practice can increase skill up to ten times faster than conventional practice. • Ignition We all need a little motivation to get started. But what separates truly high achievers from the rest of the pack? A higher level of commitment—call it passion—born out of our deepest unconscious desires and triggered by certain primal cues. Understanding how these signals work can help you ignite passion and catalyze skill development. • Master Coaching What are the secrets of the world’s most effective teachers, trainers, and coaches? Discover the four virtues that enable these “talent whisperers” to fuel passion, inspire deep practice, and bring out the best in their students. These three elements work together within your brain to form myelin, a microscopic neural substance that adds vast amounts of speed and accuracy to your movements and thoughts. Scientists have discovered that myelin might just be the holy grail: the foundation of all forms of greatness, from Michelangelo’s to Michael Jordan’s. The good news about myelin is that it isn’t fixed at birth; to the contrary, it grows, and like anything that grows, it can be cultivated and nourished. Combining revelatory analysis with illuminating examples of regular people who have achieved greatness, this book will not only change the way you think about talent, but equip you to reach your own highest potential.




The Help


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Original publication and copyright date: 2009.




Ultimate Glory


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A story of obsession, glory, and the wild early days of Ultimate Frisbee. David Gessner devoted his twenties to a cultish sport called Ultimate Frisbee. Like his teammates and rivals, he trained for countless hours, sacrificing his body and potential career for a chance at fleeting glory without fortune or fame. His only goal: to win Nationals and go down in Ultimate history as one of the greatest athletes no one has ever heard of. With humor and raw honesty, Gessner explores what it means to devote one’s life to something that many consider ridiculous. Today, Ultimate is played by millions, but in the 1980s, it was an obscure sport with a (mostly) undeserved stoner reputation. Its early heroes were as scrappy as the sport they loved, driven by fierce competition, intense rivalries, epic parties, and the noble ideals of the Spirit of the Game. Ultimate Glory is a portrait of the artist as a young ruffian. Gessner shares the field and his seemingly insane obsession with a cast of closely knit, larger-than-life characters. As his sport grows up, so does he, and eventually he gives up chasing flying discs to pursue a career as a writer. But he never forgets his love for this misunderstood sport and the rare sense of purpose he attained as a member of its priesthood.




The Anxiety Workbook for Teens


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This professional edition includes both the Instant Help book and a companion CD that offers the complete book and printable worksheets for your clients. About one in four teens suffers from mild to serious problems with anxiety, and many of them get little or no help. The Anxiety Workbook for Teens, written by an experienced therapist, gives teens a collection of tools to help control anxiety and face day-to-day challenges. This workbook both gives anxious teens insight into their problems and offers practical guidance for overcoming them.




The Ideal Problem Solver


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Provocative, challenging, and fun, The Ideal Problem Solver offers a sound, methodical approach for resolving problems based on the IDEAL (Identify, Define, Explore, Act, Look) model. The authors suggest new strategies for enhancing creativity, improving memory, criticizing ideas and generating alternatives, and communicating more effectively with a wider range of people. Using the results of laboratory research previously available only in a piece-meal fashion or in scientific journals, Bransford and Stein discuss such issues as Teaming new information, overcoming blocks to creativity, and viewing problems from a variety of perspectives.




100 Ways to Motivate Yourself


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Motivational speaker Chandler highlights 100 proven methods to positively change the way people think and act, methods based on feedback from the corporate and public seminar attendees he speaks to each year.




A Separate Peace


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PBS's The Great American Read named it one of America's best-loved novels. A Separate Peace has been a bestseller in the United States for nearly thirty years, and it is ageless in its depiction of youth during a time when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II. A Separate Peace is a horrific and brilliant fable about the dark side of adolescence set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II. Gene is an introverted, lonely intellectual. Phineas is a reckless athlete who is attractive and taunts others. Like the war itself, what happens between the two friends one summer robs these guys and their world of their innocence.




I Hope You Will Be Very Happy: Leadership Lessons From a Lifetime in Lacrosse


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"I first thought of playing lacrosse in the fall of my freshman year at Brown in 1970. Coming up on 50 years in the game, I have had a number of friends and fans who told me I needed to write a book about a life in the game. Never quite convinced that my life was that interesting to begin with, I have become preoccupied with sharing my experience with those who might value and benefit from some practical observations. What you will find within here are letters to players, parents and fans, a series on leadership that applies to both athletes and coaches, essays on the zone defense that carried us to the National Championship in 2011, a family situation that provided an opportunity to make strategic adjustments that led to a Championship in 2003, the language of lacrosse, the value of being a great passer, and many others that recount personal stories and life lessons that have shaped my career. My goal is that you will find something here that will help you on your journey." - Dom Starsia




Screen to Screen Selling: How to Increase Sales, Productivity, and Customer Experience with the Latest Technology


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Screen to Screen Selling is one of the most powerful tools you will ever use. It’s on your desktop, your laptop, your tablet, and your smartphone. It puts face-to-face accessibility at your fingertips, delivers high impact at a low cost, and opens up a whole new world of sales possibilities. From remote business meetings to long-distance presentations to live customer feeds, screen-to-screen is where it’s at. And since it works on multiple platforms, it’s wherever you want to go. That’s the power of Screen to Screen Selling, a game-changing step-by-step guide that shows you how to: INCREASE SALES by reaching out to customers anywhere in the world BOOST PRODUCTIVITY by making every meeting count, getting every worker on board, and keeping every customer engaged IMPROVE PERFORMANCE by using visual aids in your screen-to-screen meetings, presentations, and conversations ENHANCE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE by delivering the kind of personal, one-on-one service they won’t find anywhere else Filled with money-saving tips, time-saving strategies, and practical tech-smart solutions to all your business needs, screen to screen selling is the perfect go-to guide for making person-to-person connections that really count—and really pay off. If the success of your business depends upon your ability to communicate, influence, persuade, or present ideas that solve problems, you need to harness the power of screen to screen technology to help you get the job done—faster, more efficiently, and more affordably. This essential user’s guide provides all the information you need to access and implement the best digital and online tools available for conducting remote meetings, sales presentations, training sessions, and much more. Screen to Screen Selling will show you how to: Boost sales, performance, and customer experience—without being physically present Choose the right technology for the right job and the right budget Prepare the best visuals for every transaction, every client, every time you connect Find the highest-rated apps, software, and online services—at the lowest price possible Visually demonstrate value that only you can provide—in a way that makes you stand out from the competition Conduct meetings, train employees, coach teams, and give presentations that captivate audiences—and seal the deal every time Jam-packed with field-tested strategies, user-friendly tips, and market-ready solutions, this comprehensive guide will help you reduce your costs, manage your time, expand your customer base, and run your meetings more efficiently—even if you can’t be there in person. You’ll find revealing case studies of successful screen-to-screen sellers, as well as valuable presentation tools, security tips, and other online resources. As a bonus, the book includes a selection of links to screen-to-screen tutorials, webinars, checklists, and presentation slides—so you can access the information across multiple devices in multiple ways. These simple but powerful techniques can be applied to virtually any industry. Even if your primary responsibility isn’t sales, you can use this innovative technology to make better decisions, stronger connections, and more new contacts than ever before. It’s the picture-perfect way to sell your vision. Coast to coast. Person to person. Screen to screen. Doug Devitre is the founder of Doug Devitre International, Inc. He was inducted into the National Association of Realtors Business Specialties Hall of Fame, awarded Entrepreneur of the Year from University of Missouri-Columbia, and bestowed the top honor of Certified Speaking Professional Designation by the National Speakers Association.




Narcotics Anonymous


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Narcotics Anonymous (NA) describes itself as a "nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem". Narcotics Anonymous uses a traditional 12 step model that has been expanded and developed for people with varied substance abuse issues. This work is the so-called "Basic Text" and is divided into two parts. Part 1 discusses the basics of the NA fellowship program and the twelve steps and traditions. Part 2 is composed of many personal recovery stories.