Like the name implies, this thread is for people
who love reading books.

If you love Encyclopedias,Science,Philosophy and
History books, this is the place to be.

You can visualize this as a virtual library or bookstore where you can get interesting books
to read for free.

Kinesics or body language, refers to the subconscious gestures and body movements we
Make. They reflect how we think or feel, usually
without our awareness.


It is very important to understand body language
because most of our communication happens non verbally.


According to a research conducted Dr. Mehrabian when people transmit information:
words account only for 7%,
tone of voice — for 38%,
and body language — for 55%.
Which means that 93% of communication is
Non-verbal in nature.


In his groundbreaking book
"What Every Body Is Saying" Special FBI Agent
Joe Navarro explains in detail the science of
Body language, and how being able to read people has propelled him to outstanding success
In his 25 year career with the FBI.

Click >HERE< to download the PDF file.

You’re doing well OP

Ayo13945:
Kinesics or body language, refers to the subconscious gestures and body movements we
Make. They reflect how we think or feel, usually
without our awareness.


It is very important to understand body language
because most of our communication happens non verbally.


According to a research conducted Dr. Mehrabian when people transmit information:
words account only for 7%,
tone of voice — for 38%,
and body language — for 55%.
Which means that 93% of communication is
Non-verbal in nature.


In his groundbreaking book
"What Every Body Is Saying" Special FBI Agent
Joe Navarro explains in detail the science of
Body language, and how being able to read people has propelled him to outstanding success
In his 25 year career with the FBI.

Click >HERE< to download the PDF file.

Gracias. Interesting read.

How to Win Friends and Influence People
By Dale Carnegie


Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business.
Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.




Research done a few years ago under the auspices of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching uncovered a most important and significant fact—a fact later confirmed by additional studies made at the Carnegie Institute of Technology.




These investigations revealed that even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15 percent of one’s financial success is due to one’s technical knowledge and about 85 percent is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.




In the heyday of his activity, John D. Rockefeller said that:
“the ability to deal with people is as
purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee.”

“And I will pay more for that ability,” said Rockefeller, “than for any other under the sun.”




The University of Chicago and the United Y.M.C.A. Schools conducted a survey to determine what
adults want to study.



That survey cost $25,000 and took two years.
The last part of the survey was made in Meriden,
Connecticut. It had been chosen as a typical American town. Every adult in Meriden was interviewed and requested to answer 156 questions—questions such as:

“What is your business or profession? Your education?
How do you spend your spare time?
What is your income? Your hobbies? Your ambitions? Your problems?
What subjects are you most interested in studying?” And so on.





That survey revealed that health is the prime
interest of adults and that their second interest is people; how to understand and get along with people; how to make people like you; and how to win others to your way of thinking.




So the committee conducting this survey resolved to conduct such a course for adults in Meriden. They searched diligently for a practical textbook on the subject and found not one.



Finally they approached one of the world’s outstanding authorities on adult education and asked him if he knew of any book that met the needs of this group.
“No,” he replied, "I know what those adults want. But the book they need has never been written.”





I knew from experience that this statement was true, for I myself had been searching for years to
discover a practical, working handbook on human relations.




Since no such book existed, I have tried to write one for use in my own courses. And here it is. I hope you like it.




The rules we have set down here are not mere theories or guesswork. They work like magic. Incredible as it sounds, I have seen the application of these principles literally revolutionize the lives of many people.





To illustrate: A man with 314 employees joined one of these courses. For years, he had driven and criticized and condemned his employees without stint or discretion. Kindness, words of appreciation and encouragement were alien to his lips. After studying the principles discussed in this book, this employer sharply altered his philosophy of life.





His organization is now inspired with a new loyalty, a new enthusiasm, a new spirit of teamwork. Three hundred and fourteen enemies have been turned into 314 friends.




As he proudly said in a speech before the class: “When I used to walk through my establishment, no one greeted me. My employees actually looked the other way when they saw me approaching. But now they are all my friends and even the
janitor calls me by my first name.”




This employer gained more profit, more leisure and—what is infinitely more important—he found far more happiness in his business and in his home.




Countless numbers of salespeople have sharply increased their sales by the use of these principles.
Many have opened up new accounts—accounts that they had formerly solicited in vain.
Executives have been given increased authority, increased pay.






One executive reported a large increase in salary because he applied these truths.
Another, an executive in the Philadelphia Gas Works Company, was slated for demotion when he was sixty-five because of his belligerence, because of his inability to lead people skillfully. This training not only saved him from the demotion but brought him a promotion with increased pay.




On innumerable occasions, spouses attending the banquet given at the end of the course have told me that their homes have been much happier since their husbands or wives started this training.




“Compared to what we ought to be,” said the famous Professor William James of Harvard, “compared
to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and
mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses
powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.”




Those powers which you “habitually fail to use”! The sole purpose of this book is to help you discover,
develop and profit by those dormant and unused assets.




“Education,” said Dr. John G. Hibben, former president of Princeton University, “is the ability to meet
life’s situations.”





If by the time you have finished reading the first three chapters of this book, if you aren’t then a little
better equipped to meet life’s situations, then I shall consider this book to be a total failure so far as you are
concerned.





“For the great aim of education,” said Herbert Spencer, “is not knowledge but action.”

And this is an action book.

– Dale Carnegie
1936




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Nice thread. Readers are leaders.

Books read so far this year:

How To Win Friends And Influence People
The Art Of Thinking Clearly
Atomic Habits

Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman




Emotional intelligence (EI) is most often defined as the ability to perceive, use, understand, manage, and handle emotions.




People with high emotional intelligence can recognize their own emotions and those of others, use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior, discern between different feelings and label them appropriately, and adjust emotions to adapt to environments.





Although the term first appeared in 1964,
it gained popularity in the 1995 best-selling book Emotional Intelligence, written by science journalist Daniel Goleman. Goleman defined EI as the array of skills and characteristics that drive leadership performance.




Emotional intelligence refers to the ability to perceive, control, and evaluate emotions. Some researchers suggest that emotional intelligence can be learned and strengthened, while others claim it is an inborn characteristic.


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The 10x Rule by Grant Cardone


The 10X Rule says that
1) you should set targets for yourself that are 10X greater than what you believe you can achieve and

2) you should take actions that are 10X greater than what you believe are necessary to achieve your goals. The biggest mistake most people make in life is not setting goals high enough.



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The Denial of Death.

An Award winning Bestseller vy Ernest Becker.


https://www.nairaland.com/7105767/denial-death-award-winning-book#112431197

The Titanic


RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK, to New York City.


Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, which made the sinking one of the deadliest for a single ship up to that time.[a] It remains to this day the deadliest peacetime sinking of a superliner or cruise ship.



The disaster drew much public attention, provided foundational material for the disaster film genre, and has inspired many artistic works.

RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line.


She was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Thomas Andrews, who was the chief naval architect of the shipyard at that time, died in the disaster.

Titanic was under the command of Captain Edward Smith,who went down with the ship.
The ocean liner carried some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia, and elsewhere throughout Europe, who were seeking a new life in the United States and Canada.

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Bacteriologist:
Nice thread. Readers are leaders.

Books read so far this year:

How To Win Friends And Influence People
The Art Of Thinking Clearly
Atomic Habits

Yep, big fan of Atomic Habits too. Found this soft copy: https://selfhelpbooks.io/books/atomic-habits-tiny-changes-remarkable-results/Vo75XRygaGz

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
and Stephen J. Dubner


A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

•Pdf Link•

Excerpt from the book

INTRODUCTION:

The Hidden Side of Everything
Anyone living in the United States in the early 1990s and paying even a whisper of attention to the nightly news or a daily paper could be forgiven for having been scared out of his skin.


The culprit was crime. It had been rising relentlessly—a graph plotting the crime rate in any American city over recent decades looked like a ski slope in profile—and it seemed now to herald the end of the world as we knew it.

Death by gunfire, intentional and otherwise, had become commonplace. So too had carjacking and crack dealing, robbery and rape. Violent crime was a gruesome, constant companion. And things were about to get even worse. Much worse. All the experts were saying so.



The cause was the so-called superpredator. For a time, he was everywhere. Glowering from the cover of newsweeklies. Swaggering his way through foot-thick government reports. He was a scrawny, big-city teenager with a cheap gun in his hand and nothing in his heart but ruthlessness.

There were thousands out there just like him, we were told, a generation of killers about to hurl the country into deepest chaos.
In 1995 the criminologist James Alan Fox wrote a report for the U.S. attorney general that grimly detailed the coming spike in murders by teenagers. Fox proposed optimistic and pessimistic scenarios. In the optimistic scenario, he believed, the rate of teen homicides would rise another 15 percent over the next decade; in the pessimistic scenario, it would more than double.

“The next crime wave will get so bad,” he said, “that it will make 1995 look like the good old days.”
Other criminologists, political scientists, and similarly learned forecasters laid out the same horrible future, as did President Clinton. “We know we’ve got about six years to turn this juvenile crime thing around,” Clinton said, “or our country is going to be living with chaos. And my successors will not be giving speeches about the wonderful opportunities of the global economy; they’ll be trying to keep body and soul together for people on the streets of these cities.” The smart money was plainly on the criminals.


And then, instead of going up and up and up, crime began to fall. And fall and fall and fall some more. The crime drop was startling in several respects. It was ubiquitous, with every category of crime falling in every part of the country. It was persistent, with incremental decreases year after year. And it was entirely unanticipated—especially by the very experts who had been predicting the opposite. The magnitude of the reversal was astounding.

The teenage murder rate, instead of rising 100 percent or even 15 percent as James Alan Fox had warned, fell more than 50 percent within five years. By 2000 the overall murder rate in the United States had dropped to its lowest level in thirty-five years. So had the rate of just about every other sort of crime, from assault to car theft.



Even though the experts had failed to anticipate the crime drop—which was in fact well under way even as they made their horrifying predictions—they now hurried to explain it. Most of their theories sounded perfectly logical. It was the roaring 1990s economy, they said, that helped turn back crime. It was the proliferation of gun control laws, they said. It was the sort of innovative policing strategies put into place in New York City, where murders would fall from 2,262 in 1990 to 540 in 2005.


These theories were not only logical; they were also encouraging, for they attributed the crime drop to specific and recent human initiatives. If it was gun control and clever police strategies and better-paying jobs that quelled crime—well then, the power to stop criminals had been within our reach all along. As it would be the next time, God forbid, that crime got so bad.


These theories made their way, seemingly without friction, from the experts’ mouths to journalists’ ears to the public’s mind. In short course, they became conventional wisdom.

There was only one problem: they weren’t true.


There was another factor, meanwhile, that had greatly contributed to the massive crime drop of the 1990s. It had taken shape more than twenty years earlier and concerned a young woman in Dallas named Norma McCorvey.

Like the proverbial butterfly that flaps its wings on one continent and eventually causes a hurricane on another, Norma McCorvey dramatically altered the course of events without intending to. All she had wanted was an abortion.

She was a poor, uneducated, unskilled, alcoholic, drug-using twenty-one-year-old woman who had already given up two children for adoption and now, in 1970, found herself pregnant again.

But in Texas, as in all but a few states at that time, abortion was illegal. McCorvey’s cause came to be adopted by people far more powerful than she. They made her the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit seeking to legalize abortion. The defendant was Henry Wade, the Dallas County district attorney.

The case ultimately made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, by which time McCorvey’s name had been disguised as Jane Roe. On January 22, 1973, the court ruled in favor of Ms. Roe, allowing legalized abortion throughout the United States. By this time, of course, it was far too late for Ms. McCorvey/Roe to have her abortion. She had given birth and put the child up for adoption. (Years later she would renounce her allegiance to legalized abortion and become a pro-life activist.)


So how did Roe v. Wade help trigger, a generation later, the greatest crime drop in recorded history?


As far as crime is concerned, it turns out that not all children are born equal. Not even close. Decades of studies have shown that a child born into an adverse family environment is far more likely than other children to become a criminal.

And the millions of women most likely to have an abortion in the wake of Roe v. Wade—poor,
unmarried, and teenage mothers for whom illegal abortions had been too expensive or too hard to get—were often models of adversity.

They were the very women whose children, if born, would have been much more likely than average to become criminals. But because of Roe v. Wade, these children weren’t being born.

This powerful cause would have a drastic, distant effect: years later, just as these unborn children would have entered their criminal primes, the rate of crime began to plummet.


It wasn’t gun control or a strong economy or new police strategies that finally blunted the American crime wave. It was, among other factors, the reality that the pool of potential criminals had dramatically shrunk.


Now, as the crime-drop experts (the former crime doomsayers) spun their theories to the media, how many times did they cite legalized abortion as a cause?


Zero.

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The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt


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Scientist Have Found The Secret To Self-Control.

And, it is actually a Substance, one which is very
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"A classic outdoor manual [that] addresses every conceivable disaster scenario. Don’t leave home without it”--Outside magazine





Revised to reflect the latest in survival knowledge and technology, and covering new topics such as urban survival and terrorism, the multimillion-copy worldwide bestseller SAS Survival Handbook by John "Lofty" Wiseman is the definitive resource for all campers, hikers, and outdoor adventurers.




From basic campcraft and navigation to fear management and strategies for coping with any type of disaster, this complete course includes:



Being prepared: Understanding basic survival skills, like reading the weather, and preparation essentials, such as a pocket survival kit.


Making camp: Finding the best location, constructing the appropriate shelter, organizing camp, staying warm, and creating tools.


Food: What to eat, what to avoid, where to find it, and how to prepare it.


First aid: A comprehensive course in emergency/wilderness medicine, including how to maximize survival in any climate or when injured.


Disaster survival: How to react in the face of natural disasters and hostile situations—and how to survive if all services and supplies are cut off.


Self-defense: Arming yourself with basic hand-to-hand combat techniques.


Security: Protecting your family and property from intrusion, break-ins, and theft.


Climate & terrain: Overcoming any location, from the tropics to the poles, from the desert to the mountains and sea.

The Ego is The Enemy - Ryan holiday




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“While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive, visionary geniuses who remade the world in their image with sheer, almost irrational force, I’ve found that history is also made by individuals who fought their egos at every turn, who eschewed the spotlight, and who put their higher goals above their desire for recognition.” – from the Prologue






Many of us insist the main impediment to a full, successful life is the outside world. In fact, the most common enemy lies within: our ego. Early in our careers, it impedes learning and the cultivation of talent. With success, it can blind us to our faults and sow future problems. In failure, it magnifies each blow and makes recovery more difficult. At every stage, ego holds us back.







The Ego is the Enemy draws on a vast array of stories and examples, from literature to philosophy to history. We meet fascinating figures like Howard Hughes, Katharine Graham, Bill Belichick, and Eleanor Roosevelt, all of whom reached the highest levels of power and success by conquering their own egos. Their strategies and tactics can be ours as well.








But why should we bother fighting ego in an era that glorifies social media, reality TV, and other forms of shameless self-promotion?  Armed with the lessons in this book, as Holiday writes, “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.”

The Billion Dollar Secret
20 Principles of Billionaire Wealth and Success
by Rafael Badziag


Have you ever asked yourself why is it that despite all your hustle every day, you aren’t where you want to be in life?

How is it possible that some people during one life span manage to build organizations of hundreds of thousands of people and create the amount of value that an average person would need hundreds of thousands of years to create?

What is their secret?

Is it just a question of lucky circumstances?

Is it their environment?

Maybe it is their education?

Or does the secret lie in their personalities?

What are the keys to their phenomenal success?

What do their belief systems consist of?

How did they get where they are today, and how can you embark on the same journey to success?

What are the mindsets and success rituals that these influential people have used to create such massive wealth?

What drives them?

What is the source of their exceptional motivation?

What gives them the energy to relentlessly pursue such outrageous goals?

What is it in the personalities of self-made billionaires that made them achieve so much more than an average entrepreneur and become so extremely successful in business?

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