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Book Summary of DRIVE

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  • First is biological drive to do certain things. Second is the drive owing to external motivations like rewards and punishments.
  • When money is used as an extrinsic reward for some activity, subjects lose intrinsic interest for the activity. Just like caffeine cranks u up for a few hours, money acts as a short term booster only.

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Key Learning Points from GO GIVERS SELL MORE


 
Many people have inhibition of being a sales person. Sales is not about taking advantage of people. It’s about giving people more advantage.
 
Sales is not about getting, it’s about giving.
 
Real sales is about less talking and more listening.
 

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Suffering from chronic pain ??

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‘THE DIVIDED MIND’

by Dr.Sarno

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What is TMS?

We so often attribute the symptom of physical pain to a physical movement or injury not knowing the reality that the person’s brain decides that time is ripe now and chooses a certain movement to initiate the pain because the person will assume that it stems from an injury, not a brain-generated physical condition that caused the pain. Keep Reading

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THE WAY OF ZEN

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‘The way of zen’

By Alan Watts

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INADEQUACY OF LINEAR METHODS

My conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real ‘me’ than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems to be so fleeting and intangible but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions about what I will be in the future. So it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is. Keep Reading

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On the Subtle Art of Dharma

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‘The difficulty of being good: On the subtle art of Dharma’
by Gurcharan Das

On the Subtle Art of Dharma

Dharma is a complex word and is untranslatable. It means variously virtue, duty and law, but is chiefly concerned with doing the right thing. Duty, goodness, justice, law and custom all have something to do with it, but they all fall short.

Dharma refers to ‘balance’ – both moral balance and cosmic balance. It is the order and balance within each human being which is also reflected in the order of the cosmsos. It is the moral law that sustains the society, the individual and the world. It is the discipline of ordered existence. Keep Reading

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