Social Motivation

“Packed with valuable insights, unique lessons, and practical steps, this book will help you break through your procrastination and take immediate action toward your goals.” — Jay Shetty, New York Times bestselling author of Think Like a Monk and 8 Rules of Love The audiobook is narrated...

Bandura and the Social Mind: How Observational Learning, Self Efficacy, and Reciprocal Determinism Shape Human Behavior is a comprehensive and accessible exploration of the ideas of Albert Bandura, one of the most influential psychologists of the modern era. This book examines how Bandura transformed the understanding of learning, motivation, morality, and human agency by showing that behavior is shaped through social interaction, belief, and environment rather than through conditioning alone. Written for general readers, educators, students, and professionals, it presents Bandura’s ...

Looking for short bedtime stories that help children build confidence and emotional strength? Inspiring Short Stories for Kids is a thoughtfully written collection of 10 motivational bedtime stories created for boys and girls ages 7–10. Each 5–10 minute story explores everyday situations children face—such as fear, self-doubt, friendship challenges, and learning from mistakes—through relatable characters and meaningful lessons. These short stories encourage: • Confidence and healthy self-esteem • Emotional awareness and understanding • Resilience in everyday challenges • ...

Read by the author. Jesus didn't come to find perfect people. Instead, He came to find those hungry for His presence and willing to be transformed into His image. We often fall into the trap of thinking the Christian life should be a steady climb upward—like a growth line that goes only up and...

“A thought-provoking analysis on what exactly we’re doing with all our many hours of screen time.” —Harper’s Bazaar An eye-opening look at how social media shapes the stories we tell and the lives we lead Over the past two decades, platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok have...

En este libro el doctor Hawkins nos describe los estados emocionales del ser humano y explica el camino de ascenso desde la depresión y la ira hasta los estados de paz y alegría. Es el trabajo lúicido y genial de un hombre que ha sabido aunar la ciencia, era médico psiquiatra, con la conciencia, realizando una síntesis única que resulta muy aclaratoria para quienes entender el camino del desarrollo humano y el crecimiento personal. El doctor Hawkins es un hombre muy respetado en los círculos especializados y su trabajo recibió elogios de Madre Teresa de Calcuta.

Why can an irrelevant number alter what seems reasonable? Why can a habit survive after it stops helping? Why can a vivid memory feel certain even when some of its details are wrong? The Psychology of Everyday Life brings together 100 short, surprising facts about the patterns that influence ordinary decisions, reactions, relationships, and routines. Organized into five parts, it moves from thinking traps and habits to emotion, social influence, identity, memory, and perception. Established research provides the foundation, but the writing remains clear and no psychological tendency is ...

📖 Things will go wrong. Here's what to do when they do. Meet Morgan — a 12-year-old who learned about Murphy's Law from their older cousin: "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong." But here's the real lesson: sideways moments are normal. They're not your fault. And you can handle them. Murphy's Law for Kids gives children ages 7–12 a peer guide through 101 of the most common difficult moments kids actually face — told by a kid who just lived through them. Morgan isn't a teacher or a counselor. Morgan is 12, just finished 6th grade, and went through a family divorce, a move to a...

The Antidote is a series of journeys among people who share a single, surprising way of thinking about life. What they have in common is a hunch about human psychology: that it’s our constant effort to eliminate the negative that causes us to feel so anxious, insecure, and unhappy. And that there is an alternative "negative path" to happiness and success that involves embracing the things we spend our lives trying to avoid.

The New York Times bestselling author of Unfu*k Yourself helps you get out of the past, focus on the future, and build the life you’ve always wanted. There are countless self-help books telling you how to get the life you want—how to find your purpose, make your plan, follow your goals. Yet...

The world of self-help is overflowing with advice. Countless books, podcasts, therapies, and videos talk about how to build a better life.. For Spencer Greenberg and Jeremy Stevenson, the most essential part of all this advice is the techniques. Techniques answer the million-dollar question...

By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counterintuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. He offers eleven practical steps on how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on the important ones and ignore the rest, and ultimately derive greater satisfaction from the choices you have to make.

Cynicism is making us sick, but Stanford Psychologist Dr. Jamil Zaki has the cure. "A ray of light for dark days” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author In 1972, half of Americans agreed that most people can be trusted; by 2018, only a third did. Different generations, genders...

Dopamine and Motivation Explained: The Science of Focus, Distraction, Habits, Social Media, Productivity, and Drive is a practical guide to how motivation actually works in daily life. Instead of repeating the usual claim that dopamine is just a “pleasure chemical,” it shows how dopamine is tied to wanting, effort, attention, learning, and the pursuit of rewards. That makes it central to problems people recognize immediately: procrastination, compulsive phone checking, difficulty starting important work, loss of momentum, and the strange power of small temptations over larger goals. The...

Have you ever wondered why success seems to follow a specific pattern for the world's most influential people? Success is not a matter of luck; it is a science and a skill set. This powerful collection brings together the three absolute pillars of personal development, serving as the "secret weapon" for high achievers for over a century. By integrating Napoleon Hill's mindset philosophy, Wallace D. Wattles' laws of wealth accumulation, and Dale Carnegie's art of human relations, you gain the complete toolkit necessary to build a legacy of prosperity and influence.

Period Power is a profound but practical blueprint for aligning daily life with the menstrual cycle, to give all menstruators a no-nonsense explanation of what the hell happens to us every month and how we can use each phase to its full advantage. Ninety per cent of people who have periods experience symptoms of PMS, a syndrome which features a wide range of signs and symptoms, and yet there's an enduring lack of understanding about what it actually is and a disappointingly meagre range of treatment options.

In The First 20 Hours, Josh Kaufman offers a systematic approach to rapid skill acquisition: how to learn any new skill as quickly as possible. His method shows you how to deconstruct complex skills, maximize productive practice, and remove common learning barriers. By completing just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice you'll go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing noticeably well. What do you want to learn?

"An exquisite book that reminds us our minds aren't soloists but symphony players: we are wired for connection."—David Eagleman, PhD, author of Incognito and Livewired A neuroscientist’s guide to boosting your brain health by living a more connected life, and thriving in a post-interaction...

Modern society is plagued by fragmentation. The various sectors of our communities - businesses, schools, social service organizations, churches, government - do not work together. They exist in their own worlds. As do so many individual citizens, who long for connection but end up marginalized, their gifts overlooked, their potential contributions lost.

Amanda Knox reflects on her world-famous confinement in an Italian prison and her return to an “ordinary” life—revealing hard-won truths about purpose and fulfillment. "An engrossing reflection on reclaiming identity and finding peace in the aftermath of global notoriety." —Kirkus...