Download or read book Superpowers for Good written by Devin Thorpe and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, author Devin Thorpe asked hundreds of guests on his podcast, "What is your superpower?" Their inspiring answers, along with profiles highlighting their social impact and insights into how you can emulate them, comprise Superpowers for Good.Early praise:Devin has leveraged his "superpowers" to drive impact in the world his entire career, as an executive, through media and podcasts, as an author. In his new book, he assembles deeply personal stories that will inspire all of us to build a brighter future. ~Isabelle HauWe all have a superpower, even if we don't know what it is. Devin Thorpe's ability to reveal the amazing powers of amazing people is unmatched. Superpowers for Good is an incredible collection of stories from people who are making an impact on the world around us. ~Richard Bliss

Download or read book Superpowers written by David J. Schwartz and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-06-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madison, Wisconsin: In the summer of 2001, five college juniors wake up with . . . not just a hangover, but superpowers. . . . Jack Robinson: Grew up on a farm, works in a chem lab, and brews his own beer. Age: 19. Superpower: SPEED. Caroline Bloom: Has a flair for fashion design and a mother who’s completely out of touch. Works as a waitress for a lunatic boss. Age: 20. Superpower: FLIGHT. Harriet Bishop: Studied violin, guitar, and piano . . . and was terrible at them all. Now writes about music for the campus paper. Age: 20. Superpower: ­INVISIBILITY. Mary Beth Layton: Is managing a 3.8, but feels like she’s working three times as hard as the people around her. Age: 20. Superpower: STRENGTH. Charlie Frost: Has an anxious way about him, and always looks like he’s on day 101 of his most recent haircut. Age: 20. Superpower: TELEPATHY. But how do you adjust to an extraordinary ability when you’re an ordinary person? What if you’re not ready for the responsibility that comes with great power? And how do you keep your head in a world that’s going mad?

Download or read book Influence Is Your Superpower written by Zoe Chance and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover the superpower that makes good things happen, from the professor behind Yale School of Management's most popular class “The new rules of persuasion for a better world.”—Charles Duhigg, author of the bestsellers The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better You were born influential. But then you were taught to suppress that power, to follow the rules, to wait your turn, to not make waves. Award-winning Yale professor Zoe Chance will show you how to rediscover the superpower that brings great ideas to life. Influence doesn’t work the way you think because you don’t think the way you think. Move past common misconceptions—such as the idea that asking for more will make people dislike you—and understand why your go-to negotiation strategies are probably making you less influential. Discover the one thing that influences behavior more than anything else. Learn to cultivate charisma, negotiate comfortably and creatively, and spot manipulators before it’s too late. Along the way, you’ll meet alligators, skydivers, a mind reader in a gorilla costume, Jennifer Lawrence, Genghis Khan, and the man who saved the world by saying no. Influence Is Your Superpower will teach you how to transform your life, your organization, and perhaps even the course of history. It’s an ethical approach to influence that will make life better for everyone, starting with you.

Download or read book The Big Book of Superpowers written by Susanna Isern and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2020 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superheroes have superpowers, abilities like strength or invisibility or flight. But did you know that ordinary kids have superpowers too? From dancing to reading to persistence and optimism, all of us have a superpower that makes us special and unique, a special ability that enables us to make a difference in the world. What's your superpower? With eighteen stories of kids with everyday superpowers, The Big Book of Superpowers will inspire kids to look inside and find what makes them extraordinary

Download or read book What s My Superpower written by Aviaq Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nalvana feels like all of her friends have some type of superpower. But when her mom shows Nalvana that she is unique and special, she realizes that her superpower was right in front of her all along.

Download or read book Your 3 Best Super Powers written by Sonia Choquette and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Your 3 Best Super Powers is an invaluable and practical guide to opening your mind and heart to unleash your creative potential." -- John Gray Super powers. You want them. You feel that life would be better with them. You wish you could have been born with them. The good news is you have super powers! According to world-renowned intuitive guide and spiritual teacher Sonia Choquette, you are blessed with three incredible super powers: meditation, imagination, and intuition. When cultivated, they give you the ability to live a life of tranquility and empowerment. In Your 3 Best Super Powers, Sonia uses meditation to tap into your other super powers, allowing you to clear mental space and to take charge of the source of all creativity, imagination--which is essential to envisioning and enacting your heart's desires. Then she seamlessly guides you to your sixth sense, intuition, to help you make the smartest, safest, and most satisfying decisions in your personal and professional life. Filled with inspiring stories, this invaluable book synthesizes Sonia's experience working with hundreds of clients for more than three decades, to provide proven techniques and practical tips that can be easily incorporated into your daily routine. Includes a digital download of guided meditations "The best part is that by developing your three best super powers, you add to the beauty, peace, creativity, and harmony of the universe. These three super powers are gifts to you that keep on giving to the world." --Sonia Choquette

Download or read book Your Mark On The World written by Devin D. Thorpe and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Mark On The World combines inspiring stories of ordinary people doing remarkable things to make the world a better place with practical advice to empower anyone to give more to a cause (charity, non-profit or social venture) without giving up a career or family.The inspiring stories include:Botevy's life and death struggle through Pol Pot's killing fields that led her ultimately to create an orphanage in Phnom Penh.Rick's personal crusade to cure cystic fibrosis to ensure that his two afflicted grandchildren will attend his funeral and not the other way around.The eight-member Smith family's world service tour.David's decision to walk away from a successful career as an international executive to volunteer to care for victims of leprosy in rural India.These stories are combined with practical financial advice to empower you to give more to a cause without giving up your family or your career.The book answers your questions:How do I get out of debt and stay out of debt?Which charity or cause do I choose to make my donation? How do I decide where to volunteer?How can our family plan a volunteer vacation?How can I save money for retirement?How much should I contribute to my 401k?Can I use Mint to manage my budget?How to retire early enough to devote healthy years to volunteering?This must-read book provides an overview of philanthropy in America and around the world, providing you with a clear picture of charity and its fruits.

Download or read book Superpower written by Ford Saeks and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A road map to better decision-making and a better life! Do you want more out of your life and your job with less effort and better results? Have you ever felt that there just has to be a better way to get there? If so, you're not alone. Millions of people, just like you, are faced with many challenges in their professional and personal lives on their journey to success. Superpower! takes you on a journey where you'll discover seven principles that will help you solve problems faster, make better decisions, and improve your professional and personal life. Develop the common sense insights and critical thinking strategies to unlock your personal power and performance at work and in life. Leverage common sense insights to develop your critical thinking and decision making skills, thus improving your performance and results in the business world Discover ways to make better decisions, implement them faster, get more done with less effort, and enjoy a better quality of life at work In today's competitive, information-overloaded, and challenging economic conditions, there is no such thing as job security—only skills security. The more you learn, the more you can earn and this book gives you the ultimate roadmap for how to think, act, and perform with less effort and better results.

Download or read book AI Superpowers written by Kai-Fu Lee and published by Harper Business. This book was released on 2018 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AI Superpowers is Kai-Fu Lee's New York Times and USA Today bestseller about the American-Chinese competition over the future of artificial intelligence.

Download or read book The Day I Lost My Superpowers written by Michaël Escoffier and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood is a magical time when even the stuff of the day-to-day is exciting and the ordinary often seems extraordinary. A part of this magic is that with just a little imagination, we all might be found to possess true superpowers! This isn't the first or last book where a child delightedly discovers her own superpowers. But it may be just about the driest, funniest, and sweetest, where the discovery is handled with humor and charm. One of the book's true pleasures is that it's a girl who discovers her own extraordinary abilities, and when her powers fail, as they must, she discovers them in her mom. All of which leads to a lovely intimacy between the two.

Download or read book Ordinary Superpowers written by Mark Henson and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unleash Your Potential and Create a Superpowered LifePositive change. It's highly desired, but hard to achieve. So how do you achieve it? Better yet, how do you create it? It all starts when you unleash the potential of your Ordinary Superpowers -- the talents and skills that create the most positive difference in your life, the lives of others, and the world around you. When you discover and maximize these powers, you will start a ripple effect of improvement in all aspects of your life, including career, family, community, and more.This book will help you identify your most powerful natural talents and create a plan to use your powers with intention and purpose. By the way, your most powerful talents may not be what you think they are...Ordinary Superpowers is the origin story of your new, superpowered life.

Download or read book Isaac and His Amazing Asperger Superpowers written by Melanie Walsh and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little boy with Asperger's syndrome celebrates his differences while explaining how he often has more energy than other kids, has very acute senses, and says things that may be blunt but are never intended to be mean.

Download or read book Acceptance is My Superpower written by Alicia Ortego and published by Alicia Ortego. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want your children to honor, celebrate, and see the beauty in our differences? We are all different. And whilst children are often wonderful at accepting differences easily, there are times when a lack of understanding can result in hurtful words or actions. As adults, it is our responsibility to teach children that differences are not flaws but are, in fact, our super powers. Lisa, a primary school student with a love of singing, learns just that in 'Acceptance is my Superpower' when a cruel comment from someone she regards as a friend leads her down a path of discovery of the true meaning of diversity and how it can be applied to everyone. Laid out as a charming poem with colourful illustrations, children will delight in learning: - How to love themselves - How to accept others - How to control negative emotions - How to share their newfound knowledge Learning by example The examples in this story are there to teach children that their differences are not to be ridiculed but instead, celebrated. When Lisa learns this valuable lesson in the book and then shares that knowledge with the person who upset her, we realise the importance of helping children understand the world would be a very boring place indeed if we were all the same. --- "Just like all the petals on all these different flowers, Diversity is beautiful and gives us superpowers!" Please join me and Lucas spread the word to all you know, Acceptance is our superpower and together we will grow. --- From the bestselling author of Kindness is my Superpower Join Lisa and Lucas, as together, they learn the most valuable lesson of all - they have a superpower - their acceptance. Get your copy now!

Download or read book Forging Hephaestus written by Drew Hayes and published by Thunder Pear Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gifted with metahuman powers in a world full of capes and villains, Tori Rivas kept away from the limelight, preferring to work as a thief in the shadows. But when she's captured trying to rob a vault that belongs to a secret guild of villains, she's offered a hard choice: prove she has what it takes to join them or be eliminated. Apprenticed to one of the world's most powerful (and supposedly dead) villains, she is thrust into a strange world where the lines that divide superheroes and criminals are more complex than they seem. The education of a villain is not an easy one, and Tori will have to learn quickly if she wants to survive. On top of the peril she faces from her own teacher, there are also the capes and fellow apprentices to worry about, to say nothing of having to keep up a civilian cover. Most dangerous of all, though, are those who loathe the guild's very existence. Old grudges mean some are willing to go to any length to see the guild turned to ash, along with each one of its members. Even the lowly apprentices.

Download or read book Breathing Is My Superpower written by Alicia Ortego and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that we all have Superpowers? One of them is our ability to control our breath. Breathing is My Superpower teaches children to regulate their emotions, especially if they are feeling upset, angry, or stressed. Sofia will show your little ones how to control their breathing in various situations, whether at school, at home, or on the playground. Five Breathing Technique presented in the book, will help calm your children and show them a fun way of managing their own body, breath, and emotions. This mindfulness for kids will help them to control their feelings in many ways: To relax when they think adults do not understand them. To deal with fears and worries. To cope with rejection at school. To regain self-confidence. To give kids relief from anxiety and teach them yoga basics. Your children will identify with our heroine, Sofia, and love the cheerful illustrations and charming rhymes in this bedtime story. Breathing is My Superpower is the second book from My Superpower Series - the growth mindset books for kids, suitable for all ages as well as anyone who works with children. Get your copy now!

Download or read book How I Found My Superpowers written by Katharine Branham and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of spiritually uplifting proportions. Katharine Branham guides you through the life changing journey that she experienced while finding her superpowers. She felt loneliness at times although there seemed to be a guiding presence surrounding her. She learned that this guiding presence was "frequency" or God, as many around the World reference it. Katharine's memoir takes the reader through a journey of the Spirit World that only a select few have ever experienced before.

Download or read book Your Hidden Superpowers written by Becca North and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Your Hidden Superpowers, Dr. Becca North, a researcher in the field of psychology, rewrites the story we tell ourselves about failure. She puts forth a vision of how shifting our view of failure would shift how we lead our lives, yielding profound benefits for us as individuals and as a society by exposing hidden resources within us--unleashing innovations, breakthroughs, joy, meaning, and magic yet to be discovered.