Download or read book Conversations with Yourself written by Zelig Pliskin and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conversations with Myself written by Nelson Mandela and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-10-11 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has bestowed his entire extant personal papers, which offer an unprecedented insight into his remarkable life. A singular international publishing event, Conversations with Myself draws on Mandela's personal archive of never-before-seen materials to offer unique access to the private world of an incomparable world leader. Journals kept on the run during the anti-apartheid struggle of the early 1960s; diaries and draft letters written in Robben Island and other South African prisons during his twenty-seven years of incarceration; notebooks from the postapartheid transition; private recorded conversations; speeches and correspondence written during his presidency—a historic collection of documents archived at the Nelson Mandela Foundation is brought together into a sweeping narrative of great immediacy and stunning power. An intimate journey from Mandela's first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage, Conversations with Myself illuminates a heroic life forged on the front lines of the struggle for freedom and justice. While other books have recounted Mandela's life from the vantage of the present, Conversations with Myself allows, for the first time, unhindered insight into the human side of the icon.
Download or read book The Art of Talking to Yourself written by Vironika Tugaleva and published by Soulux Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Overcoming the negative effects of self-help dogma on our personal journey, and using self-awareness to understand our patterns of mental self-talk, behaviour, and emotion."--
Download or read book 10 Conversations You Need to Have with Yourself written by Shmuley Boteach and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-09-02 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrity author and therapist Rabbi Boteach shows how to use the power of self-talk to reach your full potential Some of the most effective talk therapy is self-talk therapy—learning to connect positively with that internal voice that serves as your own personal GPS to guide you through life. Rabbi Shmuley teaches the reader to reconnect with the inner voice of conscience, the source of personal dreams and values, which has been so drowned out by the noise of a culture that emphasizes form over substance, career over calling, and consumption over conviction. Drawing on Rabbi Shmuley's extensive counseling experience, this book helps you defeat negative self-talk and strengthen your positive inner voices of inspiration, conscience, and deepest self to help you move forward and live your truest life. Filled with dramatic real-life examples and practical exercises, it guides you through the ten most important and life-changing conversations you will ever have. Shows how to use the art of conversation and self-reflection to turn negative self-talk into positive self-talk and improve your life Includes dramatic stories from Boteach's own counseling work and practical self-improvement exercises Covers important life issues such as love, self-esteem, success, and fear of aging From the star of TLC's television series Shalom in the Home and author of 10 Conversations You Need to Have with Your Children and other books Start the conversation today and you'll find the voice of inspiration, the motivation to make the right choices in your life, and the ability to be true to your innermost self.
Download or read book Self parenting written by John K. Pollard and published by Generic Human Studies Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SELF-PARENTING: The Complete Guide to Your Inner Conversations is the classic and original how-to book defining the concept of "self-parenting." Many of us grew up within a parental environment that did not support our childhood needs for love, support, and nurturing. As adults, we mentally continue the same patterns as an "Inner Parent" that left us feeling alone and abandoned as a child. By beginning the daily practice of positive Self-Parenting, the negative outer parenting patterns taught as a child (and subsequently internalized as an adult) can be recognized and reversed. The foundation of the SELF-PARENTING is the daily practice of the Self-Parenting Exercises, a thirty-minute session of cognitive interaction between the Inner Parent and Inner Child. During these daily half-hour sessions Illustrated In the book, the reader learns how to love, support, and nurture his or her Inner Child as well as increase their awareness of the profound implications of their Inner Conversations in the "real world."
Download or read book Difficult Conversations written by Douglas Stone and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 10th-anniversary edition of the New York Times business bestseller-now updated with "Answers to Ten Questions People Ask" We attempt or avoid difficult conversations every day-whether dealing with an underperforming employee, disagreeing with a spouse, or negotiating with a client. From the Harvard Negotiation Project, the organization that brought you Getting to Yes, Difficult Conversations provides a step-by-step approach to having those tough conversations with less stress and more success. you'll learn how to: · Decipher the underlying structure of every difficult conversation · Start a conversation without defensiveness · Listen for the meaning of what is not said · Stay balanced in the face of attacks and accusations · Move from emotion to productive problem solving
Download or read book Beyond the Self written by Matthieu Ricard and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Buddhist monk and esteemed neuroscientist discuss their converging—and diverging—views on the mind and self, consciousness and the unconscious, free will and perception, and more. Buddhism shares with science the task of examining the mind empirically; it has pursued, for two millennia, direct investigation of the mind through penetrating introspection. Neuroscience, on the other hand, relies on third-person knowledge in the form of scientific observation. In this book, Matthieu Ricard, a Buddhist monk trained as a molecular biologist, and Wolf Singer, a distinguished neuroscientist—close friends, continuing an ongoing dialogue—offer their perspectives on the mind, the self, consciousness, the unconscious, free will, epistemology, meditation, and neuroplasticity. Ricard and Singer’s wide-ranging conversation stages an enlightening and engaging encounter between Buddhism’s wealth of experiential findings and neuroscience’s abundance of experimental results. They discuss, among many other things, the difference between rumination and meditation (rumination is the scourge of meditation, but psychotherapy depends on it); the distinction between pure awareness and its contents; the Buddhist idea (or lack of one) of the unconscious and neuroscience’s precise criteria for conscious and unconscious processes; and the commonalities between cognitive behavioral therapy and meditation. Their views diverge (Ricard asserts that the third-person approach will never encounter consciousness as a primary experience) and converge (Singer points out that the neuroscientific understanding of perception as reconstruction is very like the Buddhist all-discriminating wisdom) but both keep their vision trained on understanding fundamental aspects of human life.
Download or read book How to Talk to Anyone Anytime Anywhere written by Larry King and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some find talking to others uncomfortable, difficult, or intimidating. Here is a way to overcome these communication challenges. HOW TO TALK TO ANYONE, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE is the key to building confidence and improving communication skills. Written by Larry King, this guide provides simple and practical advice to help make communication easier, more successful, and even more enjoyable. Anecdotes from a life spent talking--on television, radio, and in person,--add to the fun and value of the book. Learn what famous talkers say and how the way they say it makes them so successful. Lessons include: • How to overcome shyness and put other people at ease • How to choose an appropriate conversation topic for any situation • How to ace a job interview, run a meeting, and mingle at a cocktail party • What the most successful conversationalists have in common • The one great question you can ask to enhance your conversation with anyone, anytime, anywhere
Download or read book Conversations with Friends written by Sally Rooney and published by Crown. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • From the New York Times bestselling author of Normal People . . . “[A] cult-hit . . . [a] sharply realistic comedy of adultery and friendship.”—Entertainment Weekly SALLY ROONEY NAMED TO THE TIME 100 NEXT LIST • WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK) YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD • ONE OF BUZZFEED’S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vogue, Slate • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Elle Frances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, they meet a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into her world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman’s sophisticated home and handsome husband, Nick. But however amusing Frances and Nick’s flirtation seems at first, it begins to give way to a strange—and then painful—intimacy. Written with gemlike precision and marked by a sly sense of humor, Conversations with Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth, and the messy edges of female friendship. SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD “Sharp, funny, thought-provoking . . . a really great portrait of two young women as they’re figuring out how to be adults.”—Celeste Ng, Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast “The dialogue is superb, as are the insights about communicating in the age of electronic devices. Rooney has a magical ability to write scenes of such verisimilitude that even when little happens they’re suspenseful.”—Curtis Sittenfeld, The Week “Rooney has the gift of imbuing everyday life with a sense of high stakes . . . a novel of delicious frictions.”—New York “A writer of rare confidence, with a lucid, exacting style . . . One wonderful aspect of Rooney’s consistently wonderful novel is the fierce clarity with which she examines the self-delusion that so often festers alongside presumed self-knowledge. . . . But Rooney’s natural power is as a psychological portraitist. She is acute and sophisticated about the workings of innocence; the protagonist of this novel about growing up has no idea just how much of it she has left to do.”—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker “This book. This book. I read it in one day. I hear I’m not alone.”—Sarah Jessica Parker (Instagram)
Download or read book Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes are High Third Edition written by Joseph Grenny and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keep your cool and get the results you want when faced with crucial conversations. This New York Times bestseller and business classic has been fully updated for a world where skilled communication is more important than ever. The book that revolutionized business communications has been updated for today’s workplace. Crucial Conversations provides powerful skills to ensure every conversation—especially difficult ones—leads to the results you want. Written in an engaging and witty style, the book teaches readers how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back to productive dialogue when others blow up or clam up, and it offers powerful skills for mastering high-stakes conversations, regardless of the topic or person. This new edition addresses issues that have arisen in recent years. You’ll learn how to: Respond when someone initiates a crucial conversation with you Identify and address the lag time between identifying a problem and discussing it Communicate more effectively across digital mediums When stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong, you have three choices: Avoid a crucial conversation and suffer the consequences; handle the conversation poorly and suffer the consequences; or apply the lessons and strategies of Crucial Conversations and improve relationships and results. Whether they take place at work or at home, with your coworkers or your spouse, crucial conversations have a profound impact on your career, your happiness, and your future. With the skills you learn in this book, you'll never have to worry about the outcome of a crucial conversation again.
Download or read book We Need to Talk written by Celeste Headlee and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “WE NEED TO TALK.” In this urgent and insightful book, public radio journalist Celeste Headlee shows us how to bridge what divides us--by having real conversations BASED ON THE TED TALK WITH OVER 10 MILLION VIEWS NPR's Best Books of 2017 Winner of the 2017 Silver Nautilus Award in Relationships & Communication “We Need to Talk is an important read for a conversationally-challenged, disconnected age. Headlee is a talented, honest storyteller, and her advice has helped me become a better spouse, friend, and mother.” (Jessica Lahey, author of New York Times bestseller The Gift of Failure) Today most of us communicate from behind electronic screens, and studies show that Americans feel less connected and more divided than ever before. The blame for some of this disconnect can be attributed to our political landscape, but the erosion of our conversational skills as a society lies with us as individuals. And the only way forward, says Headlee, is to start talking to each other. In We Need to Talk, she outlines the strategies that have made her a better conversationalist—and offers simple tools that can improve anyone’s communication. For example: BE THERE OR GO ELSEWHERE. Human beings are incapable of multitasking, and this is especially true of tasks that involve language. Think you can type up a few emails while on a business call, or hold a conversation with your child while texting your spouse? Think again. CHECK YOUR BIAS. The belief that your intelligence protects you from erroneous assumptions can end up making you more vulnerable to them. We all have blind spots that affect the way we view others. Check your bias before you judge someone else. HIDE YOUR PHONE. Don’t just put down your phone, put it away. New research suggests that the mere presence of a cell phone can negatively impact the quality of a conversation. Whether you’re struggling to communicate with your kid’s teacher at school, an employee at work, or the people you love the most—Headlee offers smart strategies that can help us all have conversations that matter.
Download or read book Self Compassion written by Dr. Kristin Neff and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kristin Neff, Ph.D., says that it’s time to “stop beating yourself up and leave insecurity behind.” Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind offers expert advice on how to limit self-criticism and offset its negative effects, enabling you to achieve your highest potential and a more contented, fulfilled life. More and more, psychologists are turning away from an emphasis on self-esteem and moving toward self-compassion in the treatment of their patients—and Dr. Neff’s extraordinary book offers exercises and action plans for dealing with every emotionally debilitating struggle, be it parenting, weight loss, or any of the numerous trials of everyday living.
Download or read book Creating Winning Relationships through Conversations with Self written by T.T. Srinath Ph.D. and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are a person who wishes to build on your significant relationships and enhance them, Creating Winning Relationships through Conversations with Self is for you. This is a chatty book, with stories and live examples. It talks about the challenges we face while relating with others and aspects that can positively influence relationships. This broadens your perspective and helps you choose how you would like to enhance yourself as well as your relationships.
Download or read book Conversations with My Self written by Jean Wehner and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversations with My Self is a collection of poems by Jean Hargadon Wehner, clergy sexual abuse survivor and contributor to the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary series "The Keepers." Its focus is on the recovery of repressed memories through journal writing, conversations with the child within, and reflecting on past abuse, violence, love, loss and transformation. It is not just about recovering memories, but more importantly, it's about the journey - through time and perseverance - to find one's true Self.
Download or read book Conversations with Self written by Carol Messmer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of a single day, you have numerous inner conversations with yourself. But do you have any say over these discussions, or do they take over your thoughts, leaving you the victim of negative judgments, criticism, and expectations? Thankfully, you not only have more control over these internal dialogues than you might think, but you can also improve the quality of your life simply by choosing to pay attention to them. Drawing on her more than twenty-five years of experience as a counselor, Carol Messmer reveals how you can make use of specific methods to redirect your thoughts and create new beneficial brain pathways that will help you focus on what you want instead of on what you fear. Rather than training your brain to respond to common fears of inadequacy and rejection, Messmer shows you how to learn to reject those fears and instead achieve peace of mind. With an informal style imbued with warmth and understanding, Messmer discusses topics such as: Listening with your heart Exercising your power of mind Recognizing the use of a survival pattern Becoming more respectful and considerate of self Learning to redirect your thoughts Conversations with Self is your first step in creating a new thought process. By following Messmer's simple, yet highly effective tools, you can turn your life from average into extraordinary!
Download or read book 8 Conversations To Have With YOURSELF written by John Martin, Sr. and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We talk to ourselves all the time, right? We have programmed our way of thinking, and it reflects in our actions. But are we telling ourselves what we need to hear? Are we asking ourselves the right questions to help us grow? Our self image is what gets us through life. John Martin Sr. takes a look at what makes humans tick. He challenges your thoughts and makes you look deep within. Take a few moments and dedicate your time to reading a perspective that can help you win!
Download or read book The Complete Guide To Positive Self Talk and Your Self Concept written by Danny Davis and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us engage in an ongoing conversation in our minds. This conversation can involve providing ourselves with directions while performing a task, making observations about our surroundings or circumstances, or what is commonly known as self-talk. Self-talk is the personal story we tell ourselves internally. It is the inner voice that we may not have given much consideration or attention to. However, in reality, our self-talk can have a significant impact on our self-perception and our perception of the world. While self-talk is personal and unique from individual to individual, it is also a universally shared reality. More than ever, people are interested in looking at the psychology behind their own lived experiences, and this is where the discussion of self-talk comes in. Understanding the power of self-talk is crucial to conversations about mental health and personal growth. The words we use to communicate with ourselves can either be positive or negative, and research has shown that positive self-talk can have a profound impact on our mental well-being. With this in mind, it is essential to recognize the importance of self-talk and how we can use it to build a healthier self-image and lead a happier, more fulfilling life.
