This is an audio summary of Factfulness, an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you.

This is an audio summary of Essentialism, a book providing strategies on time-management.

Book summary of Grit by Angela Duckworth.

Book summary of How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.

"Atomic Habits" by James Clear is a transformative self-help book that delves into the science of habit formation and offers practical strategies for creating lasting change. Clear explores how small, incremental changes, or "atomic habits," can lead to significant improvements in one's life.

In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association....

This is an audio summary of Principles, a book by one of the most successful investors and entrepreneurs in the world, Ray Dalio. Ray goes below the surface of the successful reputation of his stock brokerage company, Bridgewater, to reveal the universal truths that he relied on to bring his business from the bottom to the top.

This is an audio summary or Mindset, a book that discusses the differences between people with a fixed mindset versus those with a growth mindset. This book demonstrates how we can achieve our goals by changing our mindset.

The 80/20 Principle, also known as the Pareto Principle, is a powerful concept that has been widely applied in various fields such as economics, business, and personal development. The principle states that in many situations, roughly 80% of effects come from 20% of the causes. This means that a small number of inputs (the 20%) are responsible for a large proportion of outputs (the 80%). In this audiobook, you will learn about the 80/20 Principle, and how you can use it to improve your productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness in various areas of your life.

The method you are about to learn can work extremely quickly to eradicate old procrastination habits and effortlessly boost your productivity and success in as little as one week! Do you find yourself unable to resist any temptations that waste your time? Do you want to strengthen your willpower and build solid habits that boost productivity? You're in luck, because Time Management by Steve Martin is just the audiobook you need! It's never too late. Get this audiobook now and start ingraining solid habits and strategies that will help you achieve your goals faster!

How do some people bounce back with vigor from daily setbacks, professional crises, or even intense personal trauma? This collection of articles from HBR includes "How Resilience Works", by Diane Coutu; "Resilience for the Rest of Us", by Daniel Goleman; "How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience", by David Kopans; "Find the Coaching in Criticism", by Sheila Heen and Douglas Stone; and much more.

We have more choices than we realize. In fact, according to positive psychology expert Tal Ben-Shahar, our entire life is made of choices, large and small. It is what we choose moment by moment and day by day - to do, to feel, to experience - that determines how happy and fulfilled we are. Every moment, then, is an opportunity to make a choice that will bring us greater happiness. Ben- Shahar presents 100 such opportunities, some simple, such as whether to frown or smile; others complex....

Expert Secrets - Critical Thinking is the ultimate guide to improving your decision-making, problem-solving, and speed-reading skills, using proven and real-world emotional intelligence, neuro-linguistic programming, and people-analyzing techniques. Author Maxwell Jensen has put together a life-changing guide filled with innovative critical-thinking tips.

最近、禅の本を読んでいて「これはちょっとよくわからないな」という表現がありました。禅を組んで悟りを開くと「世界を空間的にではなく時間的に捉えることができる」というのです。これが、どうもよくわからない。空間的にではなく「時間的」に世界を捉えるとは、どういうことなのか。 「時間的」に捉えたあとは、それ以前に捉えていた世界とは全然違って見えるそうなんです。「これは、一体どういう意味なのかなあ」と考えていたのですが、ある出来事をきっかけに「このことか」と思ったのです。それは何かというと、ゲリラ豪雨でした。 今は、スマートフォンにウェザーニュースなどのアプリを入れておくと、10分ごとの雲の動きが確認できますよね。さらに有料のアプリだとアラートつきで「今、雨雲が近づいています」なんてアナウンスもしてくれます。窓の外を見ると案の定、雨雲が近づいてくるのが見えたりする。それから5分くらいして実際に雨が降る。誤報もありますが、結構当たります。このアプリを使うようになって改めて実感したのが「天候は変化していくもの」だということ。 （本文より）小山龍介の「ライフハック・ストリート」はこちらから→http://yakan-hiko.com/koyama.html

"What is a minimalist life? It's one that is stripped of the unnecessary, to make room for that which gives you joy. It's a removal of clutter in all its forms, leaving you with peace and freedom and lightness. A minimalist values quality, not quantity, in all forms." So writes Leo Babauta, the creator of Zen Habits and author of The Simple Guide to a Minimalist Life. A joy to read, this little book will help you clear out clutter, be content with less, and simplify your life - with tips on everything from creating a minimalist workspace to going paperless. In short, it will help you enjoy a simpler, happier life!

Jordan Peterson has helped millions of people, young and old, men and women, aim at a life of responsibility and meaning. Now he can help you. Drawing on his own work as a clinical psychologist and on lessons from humanity's oldest myths and stories, Peterson offers twelve profound and realistic principles to live by. After all, as he reminds us, we each have a vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. Deep, rewarding and enlightening, 12 Rules for Life is a lifeboat built solidly for stormy seas: ancient wisdom applied to our contemporary problems.

Education can be enriching and transformative. It can also be downright excruciating—even demoralizing. When it comes to learning, why are some of us lovers and some of us haters? Welcome to the world of educational psychology, which uses science to explore what causes people to engage and learn, and what we can do to make learning opportunities more enjoyable and impactful. Spoiler alert: Teachers can only do so much. Students, too, must take control of their learning. Unfortunately, many of us never, ahem, learned the skills to do just that.

This is an audio summary of Zero to One, a book containing hard-hitting set of standards for entrepreneurs, start-ups, and thought-leaders to carefully consider when building the “next big thing” of the future.

Start speaking French in minutes, and grasp the language, culture and customs in just minutes more with Ultimate Getting Started with French Box Set, a completely new way to learn French with ease! Ultimate Getting Started with French Box Set will have you speaking with proper pronunciation from the very first lesson and arm you with cultural insight and other information to utterly shock and amaze your French friends.

Decades of research on achievement suggests people at the top of their game tend to reach their goals because of what they do - not because of who they are. In this short, provocative, and useful HBR Single, motivational psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson translates the psychological secrets of these winning human beings for your use.

With the third refreshed edition of 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself, Steve Chandler helps you create an action plan for living your vision, in business and in life. It features 100 proven methods to positively change the way you think and act - methods based on feedback from the hundreds of thousands of corporate and public seminar attendees Chandler speaks to each year. The book now also includes techniques and breakthroughs he has created for individual coaching clients.

This 2006 revision - edited by a longtime consultant to Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc., and the editor in charge of updating How to Win Friends and Influence People - is the definitive one for our era. While up to date in its language and points of reference, Public Speaking for Success preserves the full range of ideas and methods that appeared in the original, including Carnegie's complete speech and diction exercises, which follow each chapter, as the author originally designated them.

Important note: This is not the original book. This is an audiobook summary of Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most by Greg McKeown. Greg McKeown’s first book, Essentialism, was all about how eliminating the unnecessary can help us identify and prioritize what matters most in our lives. And in his second book, Effortless, Greg teaches us how to take seamless-yet-focused action on what matters most in our lives.

インターネット、SNS、twitter……。ゲームなどの娯楽から買い物、情報収集はもちろん、見知らぬ人との交流まで、家の中でできるようになったIT時代。でも、それって「経験している」「行動している」と言えるの?そんなあなたのために、著名な哲学者が時空を超えて現れ、特別授業を開く!やってきたのは、17世紀イギリスの哲学者・ロック。人間のすべては経験からできている――。“経験論”の完成者ロックが語る「心の白紙」の意味とは?今こそ、ロック先生の授業を聞こう。 小川仁志 著「心が軽くなる哲学の教室」(中経出版)より、ロックの授業をオーディオブック化しました。アリストテレス、パスカルの授業と合わせてお楽しみください。

No data is completely safe. Cyberattacks on companies and individuals are on the rise and growing not only in number but also in ferocity. And while you may think your company has taken all the precautionary steps to prevent an attack, no individual, company, or country is safe. Cybersecurity can no longer be left exclusively to IT specialists. Improving and increasing data security practices and identifying suspicious activity is everyone's responsibility, from the boardroom to the break room.