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  Mindset: The New Psychology of Success  By Carol S. Dweck   Preview  Can our successes and failures be rooted in our minds? Carol Dweck helps us understand why what we believe in can make all the difference! How we respond to and cope with failure marks the difference between mediocre and extraordinary.   About the Author  Carol S. Dweck is one of the world's leading researchers in personality, social psychology, and developmental psychology. Her scholarly book Self-Theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development was named Book of the Year by World Education Fellowship. She is a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University.     The Big Idea: The right mindset can make all the difference  Do you believe that your intelligence is a fixed quantity? Do you think that no matter how much effort you make, you will never get better at something if you do not have the aptitude for it?  As it turns out, what you believe about yourself, can shape the way you respond to an

        Habit Stacking: 127 Small Changes to Improve your Health, Wealth, and Happiness By: S.J Scott  Introduction and Context  The first edition of Habit Stacking: 97 small changes that take five minutes or less was written in April 2014 but was criticized. Many argued that the habits concept wasn't explained thoroughly, and some small actions seemed highly simplistic. Hence the author continued with a second edition in 2017 titled Habit Stacking: 127 small changes to improve your health, wealth, and happiness, which, like its prequel, are also about incorporating change by focusing on a series of small changes and building a routine to be followed daily.   Author and Style  Author SJ Scott is a psychology and business graduate who has written over 30 books in the self-improvement genre, an area he is passionate about. He devotes much time to blogging and podcasting; his blog is called Develop Good Habits and has written material on Habit-related titles is available at HabitBooks

  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values   By Robert M.  Pirsig   Preview   Zen Buddhism and Motorcycle Maintenance–two more unrelated topics could not be paired together! The author Robert M.  Pirsig  instructs us, however, that the title is misleading. The book, in his words, "should in no way be associated with that great body of  factual information  relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It's not very factual on motorcycles, either." Instead, it is a fictional autobiography that explores the rather abstract concept of the metaphysics of Quality. The book is now a classic, having sold millions of copies worldwide. It has become a highly recommended text for high school students. The author describes a 17-day fictitious motorcycle journey from Minnesota to Northern California along with his son Chris and his friends, the Sutherland couple.    About the Author   The author, Robert Maynard  Pirsig  (1928-2017) was an American writer and ph