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Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 04:15

... House, Inc Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Duhigg, Charles The power of habit : why we what we in life and business / by Charles Duhigg p cm Includes bibliographical references ... Everyone in the room felt like they were on the brink of something important And they were When you woke up this morning, what did you first? Did you hop in the shower, check your email, or grab ... we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not They’re habits And though each habit means relatively little on its own, over time, the meals we...

Ngày tải lên: 11/03/2014, 18:09

... Underhill and Why We Buy "The Dalai Lama said, 'Shopping is the museum of the twentieth century.' Paco Underhill explains why Brilliantly." -Faith Popcorn, author and Future Forecaster "Why We Buy is ... invented as we go along, it's a living, breathing field of study-meaning we never quite know what we' ll find until we find it, and even then, we sometimes have to stop to figure out what it is we' re ... When we checked with our client, we learned that sales from that tie rack were lower than they expected from a fixture located on a main thoroughfare The butt-brush factor, we surmised; was why...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 15:16

... could support such valuations These accounting expedients allowed them to claim they were healthy—until they weren’t Write-downs were later revised by several orders of magnitude to acknowledge ... will we have a financial system fit and proper for serving as the lubricant for an economy as dynamic as that of the United States Richard W Fisher As a nation, we face a distinct choice We can ... excessive risk or growing ever bigger TBTF institutions were at the center of the financial crisis and the sluggish recov- ery that followed If allowed to remain unchecked, these entities will continue...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:21

... between knowledge and belief We believe what we know to be true, and we not believe what we know to be false: ‘I am writing on a page with a pen It is true that I am, I believe that I am, if I weren’t ... for power The project of an engaged scepticism suggests that we should sketch out the history of scepticism, particularly in the Western and Islamic traditions (although from elsewhere as well, ... in it, which ideally they would like to terminate at the earliest opportunity As we shall go on to discuss in Introduction Chapter 5, this is not scepticism as we understand it, since it is generally...

Ngày tải lên: 05/06/2014, 11:25

... because we live among other people and want them to admire us that we want the material things we If we were indifferent to social status, it is unlikely that we would want the car, the jewelry, ... is unlikely that we would put ourselves out trying to acquire these things From this it follows that if we wish to understand why we experience the desires we do—understand, that is, why we want ... possibility that when we wake up tomorrow morning, we, like McMurtry, will have lost our ability to desire, or 30 The Secret Life of Desire that we, like Siddhartha, will discover that we no longer desire...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 02:02

... perspective, we speak because it aVords us pleasure or because we need to, but that tells us nothing about why, biologically, we have the mode of communication that we have Though we shall of ... representations which we evaluate When we hear on the weather forecast the words A southerly depression is on the way, we Wrst construct a representation of the situation, then we assess the unpleasant ... realm of living creatures Why we have this ability and other species not? I am convinced that, if we systematically apply evolutionary insights to cognitive science, we can thoroughly transform...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 09:45

... Death is like birth, painful, messy and undignified Most of the time anyway.” She thought, Perhaps it’s just as well Reminds us that we re animals Maybe we d better if we tried to behave more like ... famine, and infectious disease Why are we cut off by age, left to decline instead of prosper in our prime? Why are we rendered helpless by senescence? Why are we consigned to intolerable fear, ... Indeed, why “changes occur in a human being from 30 to 70 to increase the chance of dying by roughly 32 fold”?4 WHY DO WE DIE? All these questions smack of mystery, and many mystifying answers have...

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Ngày tải lên: 21/07/2014, 11:51

... these public services to come from? That question is answered by another; for whose benefit are all these services maintained? The answer is, for the public It is the people as a whole, rich ... as we have a good and efficient government, so long as our money is being used in the right way, and so long as the burden of taxation is distributed fairly, as different classes can bear it, we ... protect the life and property of the citizens, to maintain law and order and settle disputes between citizens in a just and orderly way through the law- courts, to defend the country from foreign...

Ngày tải lên: 21/07/2014, 20:20

... fabrics that smelled like wet dogs, cigars, sweaty socks, Chinese food, musty shirts, and dirty towels When he put HPBCD in water and sprayed it on the samples, the scents were drawn into the ... cleansers He wets a paper towel and wipes hard If his clothes smell like smoke or cat hair, he doesn’t notice Or care However, the experiments that Schultz has conducted over the past twenty years ... we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not They’re habits And though each habit means relatively little on its own, over time, the meals we...

Ngày tải lên: 22/07/2014, 21:26

... his school fees and for his parents’ presents I like Nam very much because of his honesty and straight forwardness He is always ready to help his weak friends in their study; as a result, lots...

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2014, 19:21

... staff attitudes and obstacles to MET use longer viewed as simply managing critically ill patients within the confines of the ICU (‘the ivory tower’) Instead, they are seen in the hospital wards ... been associated with an improvement in the interaction between the ICU and all other departments of the hospital The MET service has allowed the ICU to work closely with the Clinical Governance ... may take several years to develop We recently surveyed 350 ward nurses to assess their understanding and attitudes toward the MET service (unpublished data) We found that the nurses understood...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... an important common feature: in a cost–benefit analysis, we currently place much greater weight on unlikely but catastrophic events than we used to This is neither “right” nor “wrong” per se (in ... seems as though we feel startled by the ability of our actions to have far-reaching consequences— and in some domains we probably attribute to ourselves far more destructive power than we actually ... destructive power of our own actions, we may feel that we have a greater responsibility to control and manage the risks that they have given rise to Hence, if this view is correct, we can begin...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 12:20

... • • • • • • • • • • Prepare some questions for Gopher about dad: • What sports does your father like? • Does he prefer playing them or watching them? • Where does he watch (play) them? • How often ... Baseball Softball Polo Tennis Squash Racquetball Cricket Croquet Bowling (Field) hockey Sepak takraw … Why practising sports is good for you: Give him some tips to get better: • It keeps you fit • Take...

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