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Neuroscience and Decision-Making
- How to Shift from Impulsive and Irrational to Intentional and Deliberate
- Narrated by: Russell Newton
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
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Publisher's summary
Steer your emotional brain so it doesn’t overrun your life. A neuroscience-based approach to avoiding impulsive decisions, distractions, and unconscious biases.
Our brains are not wired for optimal, coolheaded, and slow decisions. They are wired for fast, survival-oriented, and emotion-based reactions. It’s time to understand your primal mental tendencies and make more deliberate, coolheaded choices.
Stop deciding on autopilot. You can do better.
Studies have shown that our decisions are disrupted by a large selection of irrationalities and biases. We tend to look for information that supports our opinion and discount that doesn’t. Sudden emotions can make us change our mind on a whim. Our brains, fascinating as they are, are often not reliable to make the best decision if left unchecked. When willpower is depleted, we tend to take the path of least resistance and procrastinate. When uncertainty arises, the amygdala can lead us into fight or flight reactions. The next thing you know is that we feel anxious, dissatisfied, or discouraged about who you are.
What if there was a way to make quality decisions consistently? Good news, there is! Neuroscience and Decision-Making breaks down the chemical and physiological events in the brain that lead to sometimes unwanted choices. Instead of labeling yourself as someone who “always makes bad decisions”, shift perspective. The solution is not personality-related; it’s awareness-related. To overcome your brain’s natural decision-making tendencies, you need to understand the brain’s urges and work with them, rather than against them. Think clearly, second-guess yourself less, and ultimately be more satisfied with your choices.
Live life with fewer regrets. In this audiobook, you'll find:
- How to fully tap into your brain’s superpower, neuroplasticity.
- How heuristics trick your brain for suboptimal choices and how to avoid them.
- The role of the amygdala in impulse decisions and how to modulate your responses to them.
- How distractions affect your “control network” and ways to mitigate their effect.
- Understanding the “I will”, “I won’t”, “I want” willpower responses.
- Should you or should you not rely on your gut feeling?
- How virtual reality can help you increase your empathy when making decisions.
Neuroscience and Decision-Making is based on extensive research and study between the fields of psychology, behavior science, neuropsychology, and decision-making. Learn to make consistently good decisions in alignment with your true goals and values.
About the Author
Albert Rutherford is an internationally best-selling author. His books draw on various sources, from corporate system building to strategic analysis, scientific research, and his life experience. He has been optimizing individual and corporate decision-making his whole adult life and brings his proven advice to you.
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Snipers are exceptional. The trained sniper is a complex fusion of hard skills such as weapons knowledge, situational awareness, knowledge of ballistics and physics, and soft skills such as emotional stability, empathy, and a stoic acceptance of the hardships associated with a particular set of circumstances. There are countless instances where a single sniper, embarking on a secret mission, would have to improvise, operate beyond any hope of support, and yet still manage to carry out the mission and get back home unharmed.
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Very good listen, a wealth of information.
- By Bill on 01-23-20
By: David Amerland
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The Molecule of More
- How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity - And Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
- By: Daniel Z. Lieberman MD, Michael E. Long
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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In The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and will Determine the Fate of the Human Race, George Washington University professor and psychiatrist Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD, and Georgetown University lecturer Michael E. Long present a potentially life-changing proposal: Much of human life has an unconsidered component that explains an array of behaviors previously thought to be unrelated, including why winners cheat, why geniuses often suffer with mental illness, why nearly all diets fail, and more.
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Did you know conservatives have more orgasms?
- By Josh on 10-21-20
By: Daniel Z. Lieberman MD, and others
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The Perfect You
- A Blueprint for Identity
- By: Dr. Caroline Leaf, Avery Jackson, Peter Amua-Quarshi, and others
- Narrated by: Margaret Winston
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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There are a lot of personality tests out there designed to label you and put you in a particular box. But Dr. Caroline Leaf says there's much more to you than a personality profile can capture. In fact, you cannot be categorized! In this fascinating book, she takes listeners through seven steps to rediscover and unlock their unique "you quotient".
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Hands down, the most helpful book I've listened to
- By Rose O'Connor on 07-31-17
By: Dr. Caroline Leaf, and others
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Making Habits, Breaking Habits
- Why We Do Things, Why We Don't, and How to Make Any Change Stick
- By: Jeremy Dean
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
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Say you want to start going to the gym or practicing a musical instrument. How long should it take before you stop having to force it and start doing it automatically? The surprising answers are found in Making Habits, Breaking Habits, a leading psychologist’s popular examination of one of the most powerful and underappreciated processes in the brain. Although people like to think that they are in control, the vast majority of human behavior occurs without any decision-making or conscious thought.
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Get the actual book
- By Trish Vidal on 05-22-14
By: Jeremy Dean
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Mastering the Art of Quitting
- Why It Matters in Life, Love, and Work
- By: Peg Streep, Alan B. Bernstein
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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In Mastering the Art of Quitting, the authors show us how to let go when we need to and how to start over. A guide to increasing our emotional and mental flexibility, assessing our goals, and knowing when to hang in or bail out, it tackles our tendencies to overanalyze, ruminate, and put a positive spin on situations we actually need to avoid. In a culture which perceives quitting as a last resort, Alan Bernstein and Peg Streep show that it’s an essential tool for a happy and successful life. They reveal simple truths which apply to goals in all areas of life including love, relationships, and work.
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Good book but not in audio format.
- By Viktar on 11-25-15
By: Peg Streep, and others
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The Anxiety Toolkit
- Strategies for Fine-Tuning Your Mind and Moving Past Your Stuck Points
- By: Alice Boyes PhD
- Narrated by: Karen Saltus
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
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In The Anxiety Toolkit, Dr. Alice Boyes translates powerful, evidence-based tools used in therapy clinics into tips and tricks you can employ in everyday life. Whether you have an anxiety disorder, or are just anxiety-prone by nature, you'll discover how anxiety works, strategies to help you cope with common anxiety "stuck" points and a confidence that - anxious or not - you have all the tools you need to succeed in life and work.
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Q&As disrupt the flow
- By Brooke on 08-25-15
By: Alice Boyes PhD
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The Persuasion Code
- How Neuromarketing Can Help You Persuade Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime
- By: Christophe Morin PhD, Patrick Renvoise
- Narrated by: Christopher Price
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Most of your attempts to persuade are doomed to fail because the brains of your audience automatically reject messages that disrupt their attention. This book makes the complex science of persuasion simple. Learn to develop better marketing and sales messages based on a scientific model; NeuroMap™. Regardless of your level of expertise in marketing, neuromarketing, neuroscience or psychology: The Persuasion Code: How Neuromarketing Can Help You Persuade Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime will make your personal and business lives more successful.
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Not about persuasion
- By Paul Kersey on 03-12-21
By: Christophe Morin PhD, and others
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-11-24
The title says it all
Very intriguing book for anyone interested in how you brain works. I personally enjoy all of Albert Rutherfords books enjoyable.
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