Highly reviewed skills books

A groundbreaking study of how computer machine knowledge can be extended to our everyday lives, helping solve specific decision-making challenges and highlighting the workings of the human brain. The lack of pace and time usually constrains our life, those constraints give rise to a large set of problems. Those may sound like purely human dilemmas, but they aren’t: algorithms often face the same limitations, and computer scientists have been dealing for decades with their interpretation of these problems. So they’ve found approaches that have a lot to tell us. Acclaimed writer Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths demonstrate in a dazzlingly interdisciplinary study that computer-used algorithms could often untangle very human problems. Algorithms to Live By turns the wisdom of computer science into techniques for human life, from choosing a partner to locating a parking spot, from arranging one’s mailbox to learning how memory works.

It’s not a book about enhancing conversations, speeches, and ideas; it’s about taking the blah-blah-blah out of your life for ever.

Most likely ou assume that your decisions and actions are guided by your individual, private interests and preferences. You have selected a certain profession because it is appealing for you. The idea that our own views and beliefs guide our decisions is globally accepted. Certain people’s actions have a significant effect on what we do at any moment of our lives, without us realizing it. Jonah Berger incorporates analysis and thought from psychology, and social science in Invisible Influence to reflect on the hidden, unseen forces behind our personal choices. We will determine when to oppose and when to accept it by knowing how external influence works.

Ray Dalio, one of the most influential businessmen and entrepreneurs in the world, shares the unorthodox ideas he has created, perfected and used over the past 40 years to produce remarkable outcomes in life and industry. in 1975, from his two-bedroom apartment in New York City, Ray Dalio formed an investment company, Bridgewater Associates. Forty years on, according to Fortune Magazine, Bridgewater has made more money for its investors than any other hedge fund in history and has developed into the second largest investment firm in the U.S. Dalio was added to the list of the 100 most influential men in the world by Time magazine. Dalio shares what he has learned during his incredible career in Principles. Hundreds of concrete insights from the book, built on its cornerstones of revolutionary honesty and radical openness, include Dalio pointing out the most successful strategies for people and organisations to take decisions, tackle problems, and create powerful teams. He also presents creative methods to bring a meritocracy philosophy to life, such as developing baseball cards for all workers distilling their abilities and shortcomings, or using computer-based decision-making processes to create credibility-weighted decisions. Although the book brims with innovative concepts for organisations and agencies, Principles also offers a simple, concise guide to decision-making which Dalio thinks everyone should follow, regardless of what they try to do.

Do you regularly start a new fitness routine, a new diet, and a new financial program only to determine that you are too poor to keep up with it? Dive a little further to discover the secret formula you’ve been looking for. If it’s money, happiness, success, a healthier body, or a good relationship with your family, The Art of Persistence takes readers step by step from where they stand to becoming more happy and satisfied.

Have you ever questioned how many people are easily able to make major changes when others, like you, are unable to make decisions? And if your inability to solve challenges and accomplish your goals isn’t because you don’t have what it takes, but because no one has taught you the right method to make major decisions? The methods are three critical skills that this book will help you to refine. This book is a proven method for turning life’s issues into successful resources, in your work and personal life.

New York columnist James Surowiecki discusses a deceptively basic theory with vast consequences in this endlessly interesting book: large masses of people are smarter than most leaders, no matter how clever they are to solve issues faster, promote creativity, make wise choices, and forecast the future. Surowiecki reaches through subjects as varied as culture, sociology, behavioral economy, artificial intelligence, military history and politics to illustrate the ways this concept apply in real life. Surowiecki introduces them in a beautifully entertaining manner, given the strength of his claims. The Wisdom of Crowds is a genius yet open biography of an idea, one with valuable lessons in living our lives, choosing our leaders, running our business, and talking about our environment.

In the conviction that a positive mindset is essential to creative development, award-winning acrylic artist Jo Toye leads you into an entertaining workshop-style adventure packed with imaginative methods, inventive solutions and great outcomes. Discover which tools Toye found most helpful when it comes to making art, along with 17 step-by-step tutorials of how best to use them. Eight painting assignments bring all together at the core of this book.

A interesting study of the development of information technology brings readers on a stimulating journey through the development of information era. Today’s data boom might feel like a modern trend, but the issue of information overload is not new and appears first quite a long time ago. Human beings gathered, preserved and arranged knowledge long before the invention of computers: from Ice Age taxonomies to Sumerian records, Greek libraries to monasteries of the Dark Age. Now, as our old systems fail to deal with what programmer Richard Saul Wurman called a data tsunami, we are standing at a cliff. Alex Wright weaves a fascinating tale that incorporates apparently far-flung subjects such as insect colonies, Stone Age art, medieval monasteries, Renaissance encyclopedias, early electronic networks, and the internet. To draw a startling conclusion, he brings these strands together, implying that the future of the digital age lies deep in our past.

You have two choices in life, as Brian Tracy says: either you can work for your own goals or you can help others reach their goals. Were you aware that only a small percentage of the population specifically wrote targets they work on every day? They are the individuals who eventually make the best of their lives. You’ve already reached the point where you know that having simple targets for your life could be helpful if you’re reading this. Then you’re only a button away from the opportunity to set your own targets. It is one of the most important choices of your life that you can take, and it can bring tremendous happiness. Now is the good time to start setting goals.