- Have you ever felt like your fears are holding you back from reaching your full potential? - Imagine being in a job that doesn't fulfill you. You know you should make a change, but the fear of failing stops you. So you stay where you are, year after year. It happens to all of us. We worry about not being good enough for a job, or we're scared to take a big step forward because of the uncertainty. Living in fear of the "what-ifs" can really slow you down. It's like putting a roadblock in your own path to success. Instead of growing and learning, you stick to what's safe and familiar. You miss out on new experiences because you're afraid of feeling uncomfortable. And you know what happens then? You start feeling unsatisfied because you're not truly living the life you want. You get stuck in places that no longer serve you. So, do you want to overcome these fears and take charge of your life? That's exactly why I have written this book for you. I want you to learn how to turn those fears and negative thoughts into opportunities. Inside, you'll find straightforward strategies to face your fears head-on, understand the risks, and make a solid plan of action. Plus, you'll learn how to kick negative thinking to the curb. KEY LEARNINGS: 1) Understanding Fear: You'll learn what fear really is and what makes us scared. Discover some surprising facts about fear that you probably didn't know. 2) Survival Superpower: Understand how fear is actually a built-in survival tool that has helped humans evolve and stay safe throughout history. 3) Personal Insights: Explore your own fears and learn how you create your own fear stories. This section helps you identify whether your fears are rational or not. 4) Practical Guidelines: Gain a 7-step action plan to navigate and deal with fears effectively. You'll also get to identify any phobias, anxieties, or worries you may have. 5) The Science Behind Fear: Understand the fight-or-flight response and how fear affects both your brain and body. Realize that you're not alone in experiencing fear. 6) Digging Deeper: Learn how to identify your fears with 16 practical techniques. I share my personal experiences on how I uncovered my own fears. 7) Tools and Techniques: Discover powerful methods like fear setting, cognitive behavioral techniques, relaxation methods, and mindfulness-based stress reduction. 8) Visualization Methods: Master calming visualizations as your secret weapon against fear. 9) NLP Techniques: Dive into Neuro-Linguistic Programming, a set of powerful tools for transforming your relationship with fear. Techniques like reframing, anchoring, and timeline therapy are covered with practical examples. 10) Turning Fear into Opportunity: Turn fear into growth, embrace change fearlessly, even in business. 11) Fear in Relationships: Understand common fears in relationships, like fear of abandonment or vulnerability. Get practical advice on healing from the past and building trust. 12) Performing Under Pressure: Learn how to handle high-pressure situations, even when your credibility is at stake. Gain insights on how to perform well even when the odds seem against you. This book is designed to be easy to understand and apply in your everyday life. So, if you're tired of letting fear hold you back, this book is your ticket to transforming those negative thoughts into positive, empowering ones. There is a famous Japanese proverb: "Fear is only as deep as the mind allows." Give it a read and start your journey to a fearless, more confident you!

From the renowned psychologist who introduced the world to “growth mindset” comes this updated edition of the million-copy bestseller—featuring transformative insights into redefining success, building lifelong resilience, and supercharging self-improvement. “Through clever research studies and engaging writing, Dweck illuminates how our beliefs about our capabilities exert tremendous influence on how we learn and which paths we take in life.”—Bill Gates, GatesNotes “It’s not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.” After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset—those who believe that abilities are fixed—are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset—those who believe that abilities can be developed. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment. In this edition, Dweck offers new insights into her now famous and broadly embraced concept. She introduces a phenomenon she calls false growth mindset and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset. She also expands the mindset concept beyond the individual, applying it to the cultures of groups and organizations. With the right mindset, you can motivate those you lead, teach, and love—to transform their lives and your own.

From executives complaining that their teams don’t contribute ideas to employees giving up because their input isn’t valued--company culture is the culprit. Courageous Cultures provides a road map to build a high-performance, high-engagement culture around sharing ideas, solving problems, and rewarding contributions from all levels. Many leaders are convinced they have an open environment that encourages employees to speak up and are shocked when they learn that employees are holding back. Employees have ideas and want to be heard. Leadership wants to hear them. Too often, however, employees and leaders both feel that no one cares about making things better. The disconnect typically only widens over time, with both sides becoming more firmly entrenched in their viewpoints. Becoming a courageous culture means building teams of microinnovators, problem solvers, and customer advocates working together. In our world of rapid change, a courageous culture is your competitive advantage. It ensures that your company is “sticky” for both customers and employees. In Courageous Cultures, you’ll learn practical tools that help you: Learn the difference between microinnovators, problem solvers, and customer advocates and how they work together. See how the latest research conducted by the authors confirms why organizations struggle when it comes to creating strong cultures where employees are encouraged to contribute their best thinking. Learn proven models and tools that leaders can apply throughout all levels of the organization, to reengage and motivate employees. Understand best practices from companies around the world and learn how to apply these strategies and techniques in your own organization. This book provides you with the practical tools to uncover, leverage, and scale the best ideas from every level of your organization.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “One of the most important books I’ve ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates “Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.” —Melinda Gates "Factfulness by Hans Rosling, an outstanding international public health expert, is a hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases." - Former U.S. President Barack Obama Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective—from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse). Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future. --- “This book is my last battle in my life-long mission to fight devastating ignorance...Previously I armed myself with huge data sets, eye-opening software, an energetic learning style and a Swedish bayonet for sword-swallowing. It wasn’t enough. But I hope this book will be.” Hans Rosling, February 2017.

What can concerned parents and carers do to ensure their children, of all ages, develop great learning habits which will help them achieve their maximum at school and in life? This is probably one of the most important questions any parent can ask and now John Hattie, one of the most respected and renowned Education researchers in the world draws on his globally famous Visible Learning research to provide some answers. Writing this book with his own son Kyle, himself a respected teacher, the Hatties offer a 10-step plan to nurturing curiosity and intellectual ambition and providing a home environment that encourages and values learning. These simple steps based on the strongest of research evidence and packed full of practical advice can be followed by any parent or carer to support and enhance learning and maximize the potential of their children. Areas covered include: Communicating effectively with teachers Being the ‘first learner’ and demonstrating openness to new ideas and thinking Choosing the right school for your child Promoting the ‘language of learning’ Having appropriately high expectations and understanding the power of feedback Anyone concerned about the education and development of our children should read this book. For parents it is an essential guide that could make a vital difference to your child's life. For schools, school leaders and education authorities this is a book you should be encouraging every parent to read to support learning and maximize opportunities for all.

In this book, educators can learn everything they need to know about integrating social learning at all grade levels using the popular educational social network, Edmodo. With valuable tips and resources for both new and experienced users, it provides immediately adaptable strategies for incorporating Edmodo’s suite of tools and apps in their classrooms. Learn how to leverage Edmodo for assessment, project-based learning, flipped classroom, gamification and more. Seasoned educators and educational technology specialists Ginger Carlson and Raphael Raphael also share how educators can expand and maximize social learning networks, specifically Edmodo, to ask questions, share knowledge and create an extended network of colleagues.

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Learn Rails the way the Rails core team recommends it, along with the tens of thousands of developers who have used this broad, far-reaching tutorial and reference. If you're new to Rails, you'll get step-by-step guidance. If you're an experienced developer, get the comprehensive, insider information you need for the latest version of Ruby on Rails. The new edition of this award-winning classic is completely updated for Rails 5.1 and Ruby 2.4, with information on system testing, Webpack, and advanced JavaScript. Ruby on Rails helps you produce high-quality, beautiful-looking web applications quickly---you concentrate on creating the application, and Rails takes care of the details. Rails 5.1 brings many improvements, and this edition is updated to cover the new features and changes in best practices. We start with a step-by-step walkthrough of building a real application, and in-depth chapters look at the built-in Rails features. Follow along with an extended tutorial as you write a web-based store application. Eliminate tedious configuration and housekeeping; seamlessly incorporate Ajax and JavaScript; send emails and manage background jobs with ActiveJob; build real-time features using WebSockets and ActionCable. Test your applications as you write them using the built-in unit, integration, and system testing frameworks; internationalize your applications; and deploy your applications easily and securely. New in this edition is support for Webpack and advanced JavaScript, as well as Rails' new browser-based system testing. Rails 1.0 was released in December 2005. This book was there from the start, and didn't just evolve alongside Rails, it evolved with Rails. It has been developed in consultation with the Rails core team. In fact, Rails itself is tested against the code in this book. What You Need: All you need is a Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux machine to do development on. This book will take you through the steps to install Rails and its dependencies. If you aren't familiar with the Ruby programming language, this book contains a chapter that covers the basics necessary to understand the material in the book.