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Posts Tagged ‘psychology’

Situations Matter : Understanding How Context Transforms Your World ~Sam Sommers

Reading Situations Matter was pure pleasure.  I savored every section and idea and wondered who would ever think a book about the mundane moments of living, those that we take for granted, would have such a profound effect on our lives and outcomes of our actions?  It was similar to taking a camera outside on [...]

You Are Not So Smart ~David McRaney

The author of this book, David McRaney, is a rather smart guy who has taken every psychological study he can find and written about it on his blog.  Along came a publishing house representative and discovered the blog You Are Not So Smart and persuaded the blogger to turn it into a book. I think [...]

7 Steps of How to Learn

The scientific studies are all completed, categorized and published so that we now know how human beings learn.   This blog has reviewed several books recently about how we are motivated to learn and how we are distracted from learning, but we each have to go through the same steps with our own personal style and [...]

Four Great Books to Add to Your Reading List

Here are some great reads that I wanted to share with you because I enjoyed them.  None of these books are on easy topics, but they are all valuable story lines and explore the concept of children experiencing trauma. 1.     The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Heidi W. Durrow  Based on the [...]