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Scientific Secrets for Self-Control
- By: C. Nathan DeWall, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: C. Nathan DeWall
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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Join an expert in self-control research for six engaging and inspirational lessons that shatter the myths about willpower and replace them with verifiable science that can make the seemingly unattainable finally possible. Packed with eye-opening studies, experiments, and exercises to strengthen your self-control when dealing with money, fitness, personal relationships, and more, this course will have you wondering why you ever doubted yourself.
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Don't skimp on this one
- By DaemonZeiro on 07-11-13
- Scientific Secrets for Self-Control
- By: C. Nathan DeWall, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: C. Nathan DeWall
I don't know that major secrets were revealed
Reviewed: 11-10-22
I enjoyed learning about the different studies regarding impulse control and I thought the lecturer was excellent in presenting the content. I also liked the implications of how maybe people should "go to bed angry" and revisit difficult emotional conversations when they are rested and more relaxed. I don't know if bars that stay open past 10 pm should be fined or taxed more or any major policy changes like that, but it would be nice if these things were more openly discussed and debated.
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
- A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
- By: Lori Gottlieb
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.
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It was like a hallmark movie being waterboarded into my ears for 15 hours
- By Amazon Customer on 10-01-19
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
- A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
- By: Lori Gottlieb
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Great introduction to therapy from the therapist
Reviewed: 02-07-22
I really enjoyed learning how therapists strive to or fail to relate to their patients and their own therapist. The narrator did a great job.
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EPISODE 7 – SUNDAY
- By: Josh Koenigsberg
- Narrated by: Andy Richter, Yvette Nicole Brown, John DiMaggio, and others
- Length: 27 mins
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Season 1 Finale. Gary makes a bold move with Wild Ron in the Men’s Room. Janelle does something she swore she’d never do, and the gang faces a Wild Ron reckoning at high noon.
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Loved This
- By Dee on 01-09-24
- EPISODE 7 – SUNDAY
- By: Josh Koenigsberg
- Narrated by: Andy Richter, Yvette Nicole Brown, John DiMaggio, a full cast
Reminiscent of The Office
Reviewed: 07-14-21
I am on pins and needles to learn what happens to the characters next. Definitely worthy of a sequel.
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On Death and Dying
- What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy, and Their Own Family
- By: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
- Narrated by: Carol Bilger, cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross created her classic seminal work, On Death and Dying, to offer us a new perspective on the terminally ill. It is not a psychoanalytic study, nor is it a "how-to" manual for managing death. Rather, it refocuses on the patient as a human being and a teacher, in the hope that we will learn from him or her about the final stages of life.
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Terrible narration
- By Nassir on 06-25-05
- On Death and Dying
- What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy, and Their Own Family
- By: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
- Narrated by: Carol Bilger, cast
Important training for everyone about life & death
Reviewed: 06-18-21
No one really trains us how to prepare for death let alone live with no regrets or constantly suffer with intractable pain. Similarly there is inadequate training for medical staff and the public with how to have these conversations and what to expect when dying or navigating the nuances of modern health care. This book and its discussions are so important for health professionals, families, and patients with chronic, incurable illness. I would love an unbridged version if or whenever it is available.
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How Not to Be Wrong
- The Power of Mathematical Thinking
- By: Jordan Ellenberg
- Narrated by: Jordan Ellenberg
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Ellenberg chases mathematical threads through a vast range of time and space, from the everyday to the cosmic, encountering, among other things, baseball, Reaganomics, daring lottery schemes, Voltaire, the replicability crisis in psychology, Italian Renaissance painting, artificial languages, the development of non-Euclidean geometry, the coming obesity apocalypse, Antonin Scalia's views on crime and punishment, the psychology of slime molds, what Facebook can and can't figure out about you, and the existence of God.
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Great book but better in writing
- By Michael on 07-02-14
- How Not to Be Wrong
- The Power of Mathematical Thinking
- By: Jordan Ellenberg
- Narrated by: Jordan Ellenberg
How Not Be Wrong - Acknowledge your Humanity
Reviewed: 05-28-21
I thought the author did very well as the narrator and definitely came across as a math teacher that genuinely was interested in helping students understand math better. I am a visual learner so trying to visualize some of these concepts was quite a struggle, but I did not ever feel too lost or frustrated to be able to follow the train of thought or logic. If you enjoy philosophizing while learning and applying math to the real world a.k.a. statistics, construction, etc., this is a great book to explore.
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- By: J. D. Vance
- Narrated by: J. D. Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
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Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over 40 years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
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In Mamaw's Contradictions Lay Great Wisdom
- By Cynthia on 11-20-16
- Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- By: J. D. Vance
- Narrated by: J. D. Vance
Thought-provoking while inspirational
Reviewed: 05-27-21
I really appreciate how the author worked hard to show and tell the good, the bad, and the ugly of many situations and persons described. The stories ring true where everyone acts as both hero/heroine as well as villain/villainess in their own and other people's stories. I liked how the author wrote how we don't choose our childhoods, but we can choose our adult attitudes and approaches to life. This book is great for people who may not see a way out of their circumstances into living the lives they want to live. I also liked how the book emphasizes how important it is just to be present in your child's life and tell them in every way you know of how much you love them and believe in them and that no government or community program can substitute for that in a child's life.
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Bad Blood
- Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- By: John Carreyrou
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.5 billion.
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Extreme retaliation against former employees
- By LEE on 05-29-18
- Bad Blood
- Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- By: John Carreyrou
- Narrated by: Will Damron
Enthralling story with good narration.
Reviewed: 05-21-21
I found myself re-listening just because it's amazing to me how so many people in high places failed to do their due diligence in verifying safety, accuracy, and efficacy in this situation. I also don't know if Elizabeth Holmes is sociopathic, psychopathic, or merely narcissistic, but she is/was delusional regardless. She did sacrifice a lot in the early days to get what she wanted though, so she had the tenacity and work ethic necessary for the level of success she wanted. It's sad that she could have just gotten millions maybe if she had just been a lawyer, marketer, or CEO of someone else's company since she clearly was effective at raising investing funds and influencing people in power. This story is a rather bizarre conglomeration of both supposedly competent scientists and savvy investors who were all too happy to create a pseudoscience cult that was all too willing to sacrifice the lives of both scientists and potential patients in its pursuits for corporate power and funds. If the elites were trying to show how much they actually know about medical science, they certainly succeeded by their failure to vet Elizabeth Holmes and the lack of even a functional proprietary invention. John Carreyrou deserves whatever accolades because next to Farrow's work in the Weinstein story, this book is some of the best investigative journalism I have come across in my lifetime.
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