Introduction Sapiens (The Intelligent Man) by Yuval Harari, an Oxford graduate and professor of history at the University of Judea in Jerusalem, is a glimpse into the history of mankind from a cosmic height. Unlike boring history textbooks that traditionally list names, dates, and events, Harari thanks ...

Introduction The first of the subtleties of the "Subtle Art of Pofigism" is a name that lures the reader with a hope for a fashionable chatter in the spirit of "spit on the problems and opinions of others, each of us is super cool, know yourself live and have fun." In the meantime, the reader will realize that it would be more accurate to name this book ...

Introduction Our life is full of fears and anxieties. We live in constant tension, we are afraid to not be in time somewhere, not to cope with important work, to make a mistake. And as a result, we do not act, but worry. We spend energy, nerves, peace of mind, reproach ourselves for the hundredth time for a wrong decision ...

Paradigms and principles Over the past fifty years, literature on success has been superficial.It described the image-building techniques, special quick-acting techniques - a kind of “social aspirin and patch” that were proposed to solve the most acute problems....

Introduction It often seems to us that wealth is the destiny of special people and not everyone is given the chance to be successful and rich. We are not even trying to get out of the vicious circle in which there is no place for great achievements and wealth. Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich offers ways to fight our ...

Introduction Your mind can do more than you think. Freewriting - free writing - a method that increases the efficiency of the brain, forcing it to think unconventionally and without extra effort to produce original solutions and ideas. Freeriting is universal. With it, you can become your own consultant. ...

: Memories of women who went through the war: gunners, snipers, sappers, pilots, laundresses, bakers, nurses, partisans. The main narrative is on behalf of Svetlana Aleksievich, the stories of the heroines are on their behalf. Women participated in wars starting from the 4th century BC. In the first world war ...

: Having become a sovereign, you can be gracious or cruel, honest or deceitful - you have the right to do everything that strengthens your rule. When it comes to power, any means is good. Nationals must feel significant Imagine that you rule in the Renaissance and have just won a new ...

The abundance of farmers' markets, gourmet shops, and gourmet restaurants is what gourmets usually imagine of modern Britain. It may seem that now the country is undergoing a real gastronomic revolution, but the everyday British food culture indicates the opposite. Most ...

Help the reader - structure your thoughts in the form of a pyramid. When preparing a document, many people present its future content, but do not have a concrete plan - what to say and how to formulate it. They just start writing, hoping that the structure will emerge on its own. The bottom line is a messy narrative, ...

Why biotechnology is needed In the late 1970s, transgenic bacteria were created that produce human insulin. Today, they help support the lives of millions of people with diabetes. It was previously believed that it was impossible to cure hereditary diseases in which some human genes did not ...

Entrepreneurial myth Every year, a million small businesses open in America, but 40 of them go bankrupt in the first year, and 80 in the first five years. Most of these 800,000 companies are victims of the Entrepreneurial Myth. P-myth - the fundamental fallacy of American business ...

Planning, calculating and comparing armies leads to victory. If a state goes to war, it fights for its survival. This knowledge should be used for planning. A general who carefully plans before the battle will defeat the one who does not. Before the battle, think and plan everything....

Real-time life A purposeful person will not feel like a passenger in his own life. Actions create life in real time. The age of twenty to thirty is a time of uncertainty and “years of wanderings”. In people after twenty, short-term work has taken the place of long-term ...

: From his rich dad, the future millionaire learns how to break out of the “rat race” using his intellect, will and financial literacy. Fear of condemning society does not allow us to leave the “rat race” and become rich. The rat race is an endless routine of work for everyone except ourselves. Work hard ...

1. First, learn to play by the rules, then invent your own. Recently, the opinion is popular: to be successful, you do not need to learn, follow any rules, or delve into the laws by which business is done. This opinion is incorrect! Before creating your own rules, you need to study those that already exist, ...

Foreword In our difficult, unstable and unpredictable time, we need advice on how to achieve the full disclosure of our potential and the capabilities of other people. Success in relationships with people is an extremely important thing. The ability to achieve such success, perhaps, has never been so necessary....

: The artificial intelligence specialist represents a future in which machines will become intellectually equal to people, and is trying to answer the question of whether they will displace humans. Homo digitalis Man built the Great Wall of China and the Egyptian pyramids, conquered the fire and went into space ... But, despite ...

Chapter 1. Like a squirrel in a wheel The essence of traditional meditation is to concentrate fully on breathing, to follow the rhythm of inspiration and exhalation. Concentration on breathing allows you to observe thoughts as they appear and gradually stop fighting them. At some point ...

: The neurobiologist talks about the brain: how it makes decisions, how to increase its effectiveness, how gadgets and stress affect it, how to learn new things in old age and avoid Alzheimer's disease. The division of the retelling into chapters is conditional, and their names do not correspond to the original. The most basic tips ...