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The Science of Attraction

Do you want psychologically proven ways to attract the opposite sex, flirt better, and create chemistry? Or to take advantage of how we’re biologically wired to engineer love? How can you use The Science of Attraction to cut through the games to date and love better?

The Science of Attraction

The way men and women attract each other is not a product of random chance. Just about every aspect has an evolutionary and subsequent scientific basis to it. They explain why you tend to get attracted...

How to Live a Time-Full Existence

Managing Time Mindfullyexplores the use of mindfulness meditation as a practical tool for improved time management.

Living a Time-Full Existence

People who live a time-full existence are super-productive, super-creative, and also super-lucky. What are the keys to living such a life?

By using simple mindfulness techniques, our minds can become immune from the distractions and bandits of time that are sent to plague us. When we live a timeful existence, we are able to jump outside linear tim...

Linkfest ~Best Reads on Writing, Screenwriting & Self-Publishing: Simplicity

WRITING

Emotional Wounds Thesaurus Entry: Failing To Do the Right Thing, Writers Helping Writers| Tweet

When you’re writinga character, it’s important to know why she is the way she is. Knowing her backstory is important to achieving this end, andone of the most impactful piecesof a character’s backstory is heremotional wound.

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Here’s how to write books readers willlove–and yet still end...

The Past Is Present Memory

Twenty years ago, Stephen Hawking tried to explain time by understanding the Big Bang. Now, Sean Carroll says we need to be more ambitious. One of the leading theoretical physicists of his generation, Carroll delivers a dazzling and paradigm-shifting theory of time’s arrow that embraces subjects from entropy to quantum mechanics to time travel to information theory and the meaning of life.

From Eternity to Here is no less than the next step toward understanding how we came to exist, and a fa...

New Sleep Research Finds That Good, Natural Sleep Is Even More Essential Than We Thought

How much sleep do you get? Chances are, it’s not nearly enough. Deepak Chopra explains why seven-to-eight hours per night is necessary to keep your body operating as healthily as possible.

Chopra’s latest book, written with co-author Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, is titledSuper Genes: Unlock the Astonishing Power of Your DNA for Optimum Health and Well-Being.

During deep sleep, which is approximately 45 minutes every hour, we actually clean out all the sludge from our brain. Our brain is very active a...

Cultivating Creativity: Letting Go Of Comparison

In The Gifts of Imperfection, Brené Brown, a leading expert on shame, authenticity, and belonging, shares ten guideposts on the power of Wholehearted living—a way of engaging with the world from a place of worthiness.

Comparison is all about conformity and competition

At first it seems like conforming and competing are mutually exclusive, but they’re not. When we compare, we want to see who or what is best out of a specific collection of ‘alike things.’

The comparison mandate becomes this c...

Without Dark Matter, It’s Unlikely That Any of Us Would Exist at All

Here’s what we know about dark matter:

1. It’s there.

2. Its gravity affects things around it.

3. Aside from those two, we don’t really know much.

That doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of people who would like to help out…

Physicist Lisa Randall steps up to the Big Think camera this week to share her thoughts on dark matter and space in general. She’s just recently published a book about dark matter, called Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe.

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We Are Born Alone, We Live Alone, And We Die Alone.

In The Book of Women, Osho challenges readers to reclaim and assert the feminine qualities of love, joy, and celebration to bring a reunion of the intellect and the heart, that is so desperately needed now.

Aloneness is our very nature, but we are not aware of it

Because we are not aware of it, we remain strangers to ourselves, and instead of seeing our aloneness as a tremendous beauty and bliss, silence and peace, at-easeness with existence, we misunderstand it as loneliness.

Loneliness is...

You Should — No, You Must — Steal Your Way to Success

Just as Shakespeare lifted plots from his predecessors, young performers today ought to focus on emulating those artists they like most. That’s not to say plagiarism is excusable; it’s not. It just means that artists who are just getting started should seek to model themselves after those who have gone before.

Take it from John Cleese of Monty Python fame: “You say, ‘I’m going to write something completely new and original and very funny.’ You can’t do it. It’s like trying to fly a plane wit...

Richard Branson’s Secret Productivity Tool

With15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management, double your productivity WITHOUT feeling so overworked and overwhelmed!

How can you get your brain to quiet down? How can you always remember your great ideas?

Sir Richard Branson. Arguably the most celebrated entrepreneur of our time. Founder of the Virgin Group, which now comprises over 400 companies, Branson is reportedly worth $4.8 billion.

When asked about items he takes wherever he goes, Branson singled out one item as being...