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The Science of Hypnosis

2016

Hypnosis: that's just a fun gimmick for stage shows and plot twists, right? Well, turns out there might be more to it.

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7 Useful Tips for Improving Your Mental Focus

Staying on task can be difficult, but it can be particularly challenging when you are surrounded by constant distraction. In today's always-connected world, diversions are nothing more than a click away.

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Kendra Cherry
2020
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Need Help Staying Focused? Try These 10 Tips

If there’s one thing we could all probably use a lot more of, it’s the ability to focus. But telling yourself to stay focused on a task, especially a mundane one, is often a lot easier said than done.

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Timothy J. Legg
2019
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Black Hole Focus: How Intelligent People Can Create a Powerful Purpose for Their Lives

Don’t get stuck on a career path you have no passion for. Don’t waste your intelligence on something that doesn’t really mean anything more to you than a paycheck. Let Isaiah Hankel help you define a focus so powerful that everything in your life will be pulled towards it.

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Isaiah Hankel
2014
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Solution-Oriented Hypnosis: An Ericksonian Approach

Demystification has become an intellectual buzzword; finally, we have a book that accurately fits the definition. When most people think of "hypnosis" they imagine either a sinister, Mesmeresque figure declaring to his subject "you're getting sleepier and sleepier ...

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William Hudson O'Hanlon, Michael Martin
1992
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Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century

Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publication.

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Edward Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, Adam Crabtree, Alan Gauld, Michael Grosso, Bruce Greyson
2009
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Handbook of Medical and Psychological Hypnosis: Foundations, Applications, and Professional Issues

Winner of the Best Book in Hypnosis presented by Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. A unique, state-of-the art, interdisciplinary resource on clinical hypnosis in psychology and medicine "I have adopted it as the primary text for my upcoming course.

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Gary Elkins
2025
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A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)

Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material.

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Barbara Oakley
2014
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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

To most of us, learning something “the hard way” implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier.

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Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel
2014
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FindCenter Quotes ImageExcessive use of external motivation can slow and even stop your journey to mastery.

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George Leonard
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FindCenter Quotes ImageLearning any new skill involves relatively brief spurts of progress, each of which is followed by a slight decline to a plateau somewhat higher in most cases than that which preceded it . . . the upward spurts vary; the plateaus have their own dips and rises along the way. . . .

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George Leonard
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