هنر ظریف اهمیت ندادن اثر مارک منسون
اولین و شاید بزرگترین درسی که کتاب The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck به شما می آموزد این است که دست از انتظارات مثبت و غیر واقعی بردارید…برای دهه هاست که می شنویم مسیر رسیدن به یک زندگی شاد و پرآرامش، داشتن تفکرات مثبت است. اما مارک منسن ایده ی دیگری در ذهن دارد. منسن در این کتاب متفاوت و فوق العاده موفق، با بی پردگی و صراحتی بی نظیر به مسائل مختلف زندگی و راه های رسیدن به آرامش می پردازد. منسن این کتاب را نوشدارویی برای تفکراتی می داند که دائم و به شکلی تک وجهی، افراد را به خوشحالی همیشگی فرا می خوانند؛ تفکراتی که انسان ها را فقط برای ارضای نیاز افراطی دیده شدن و فخرفروشی، به کسب موفقیت های بیشتر و بیشتر تشویق می کنند. منسن با استفاده از تحقیقات ثابت شده ی علمی و همچنین شوخ طبعی منحصر به فرد خود، استدلال می کند که راهکار بهبود شرایط زندگی، نه در تبدیل دائمی تهدیدها به فرصت، بلکه در آمادگی برای مواجهه با سختی های زندگی نهفته است. این نویسنده بیان می کند که هر کسی محدودیت ها و نقص هایی دارد و قرار نیست همه در کارهایشان به موفقیت برسند. او به مخاطبین خود توصیه می کند که محدودیت های خود را بشناسند و آن ها را بپذیرند. به محض این که ترس ها، کمبودها و تردیدهایمان را در آغوش بگیریم، به محض این که از فرار دست بکشیم و با حقایق تلخ زندگی مان رو به رو شویم، خواهیم توانست شجاعت، پایداری، صداقت، مسئولیت پذیری، کنجکاوی و بخششی که دنبالش هستیم را در درون خودمان پیدا کنیم.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Self-Help
HarperCollins
September 13, 2016
224
Unabridged
English
#1 New York Times Bestseller Over 1 million copies sold In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up. Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek. There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.
تفکر، سریع و کند اثر دنیل کانمن
در این کتاب روان شناسانه و پر فروش، نویسنده ما را به سفری برای اکتشاف توانایی ها و سیستم تفکر به درون ذهن هدایت می کند. نخست او یک نظام سریع و بدیهی و عاطفی را معرفی کرده و سپس به واکاوی نظام منطقی تر و اهسته تری می پردازد.
با شناخت این دو نظام مهم و اساسی، ما قادر خواهیم بود که برای رسیدن به اعتماد بنفس و پیش بینی عوامل خوش بختی و یا مدیریت تمام برنامه های ساده و روزمره و کسب و کار عملکرد موفقی داشته باشیم.
با روایت شیوا و جذاب، ما به فرایند و نظام های فکری خود مسلط می شویم و از مزیت چنین توانایی و درک درست نسبت به ذهن خود در زندگی و کار بهره بسیار خواهیم برد. به راستی، راهبردهای این کتاب به ما خواهد اموخت که چه موقع باید اهسته و منطقی و چه موقع باید سریع و عاطفی بیاندیشیم.
برنده جایزه نوبل ادبیات اقتصاد و برنده جایزه ملی اکادمی بهترین کتاب های علمی و برنده جایزه لس انجلس تایمز، هر انچه که برای دست یابی به موفقیت در زندگی شخصی و حرفه ای خود لازم است را در اختیار ما قرار می دهد.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Decision making
Anchor Canada
October 25, 2011
512
Unabridged
English
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Two systems drive the way we think and make choices, Daniel Kahneman explains: System One is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System Two is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Examining how both systems function within the mind, Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities as well as the biases of fast thinking and the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and our choices. Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, he shows where we can trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking, contrasting the two-system view of the mind with the standard model of the rational economic agent.
Kahneman's singularly influential work has transformed cognitive psychology and launched the new fields of behavioral economics and happiness studies. In this path-breaking book, Kahneman shows how the mind works, and offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and personal lives--and how we can guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble.
ایگو دشمن من است اثر رایان هالیدی
بسیاری از ما اصرار داریم که مانع اصلی یک زندگی کامل و موفق دنیای خارج است. در حقیقت ، متداول ترین دشمن در این میان نهفته است: نفس ما. در اوایل زندگی شغلی ما ، مانع یادگیری و پرورش استعداد می شود. در صورت موفقیت ، می تواند ما را نسبت به تقصیرهایمان کور کند و مشکلات آینده را برطرف کند. در صورت خرابی ، هر ضربه را بزرگ می کند و بهبودی را دشوار می کند. در هر مرحله ، نفس ما را عقب نگه می دارد. “توصیه هایی به جوانی که می خواهد به جایی برسد” نوشته رایان هالیدی طیف گسترده ای از داستان ها و نمونه ها را از ادبیات تا فلسفه گرفته تا تاریخ ترسیم می کند. ما با چهره های جالبی همچون جورج مارشال ، جکی رابینسون ، کاترین گراهام ، بیل بلشیک و النور روزولت آشنا می شویم که همه آنها با فتح نفس های خود به بالاترین سطح قدرت و موفقیت رسیده اند. استراتژی ها و تاکتیک های آنها نیز می تواند مورد استفاده ما باشد.
Ego Is the Enemy
Business & Economics
Penguin
June 14, 2016
256
Unabridged
English
The instant Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and international bestseller “While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive visionary geniuses who remade the world in their image with sheer, almost irrational force, I’ve found that history is also made by individuals who fought their egos at every turn, who eschewed the spotlight, and who put their higher goals above their desire for recognition.” —from the prologue Many of us insist the main impediment to a full, successful life is the outside world. In fact, the most common enemy lies within: our ego. Early in our careers, it impedes learning and the cultivation of talent. With success, it can blind us to our faults and sow future problems. In failure, it magnifies each blow and makes recovery more difficult. At every stage, ego holds us back. Ego Is the Enemy draws on a vast array of stories and examples, from literature to philosophy to history. We meet fascinating figures such as George Marshall, Jackie Robinson, Katharine Graham, Bill Belichick, and Eleanor Roosevelt, who all reached the highest levels of power and success by conquering their own egos. Their strategies and tactics can be ours as well. In an era that glorifies social media, reality TV, and other forms of shameless self-promotion, the battle against ego must be fought on many fronts. Armed with the lessons in this book, as Holiday writes, “you will be less invested in the story you tell about your own specialness, and as a result, you will be liberated to accomplish the world-changing work you’ve set out to achieve.”
بین جهان و من اثر تا-نهیسی کوتس
Between the World and Me
Biography & Autobiography
Text Publishing
July 16, 2015
176
Unabridged
English
Winner, Kirkus Prize for Non-Fiction, 2015 In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, the story of race and America has remained a brutally simple one, written on flesh: it is the story of the black body, exploited to create the country's foundational wealth, violently segregated to unite a nation after a civil war, and, today, still disproportionately threatened, locked up and killed in the streets. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can America reckon with its fraught racial history? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’ attempt to answer those questions, presented in the form of a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son the story of his own awakening to the truth about history and race through a series of revelatory experiences: immersion in nationalist mythology as a child; engagement with history, poetry and love at Howard University; travels to Civil War battlefields and the South Side of Chicago; a journey to France that reorients his sense of the world; and pilgrimages to the homes of mothers whose children's lives have been taken as American plunder. Taken together, these stories map a winding path towards a kind of liberation—a journey from fear and confusion, to a full and honest understanding of the world as it is. Masterfully woven from lyrical personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me offers a powerful new framework for understanding America's history and current crisis, and a transcendent vision for a way forward. Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for the Atlantic and the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. Coates has received the National Magazine Award, the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, and the George Polk Award for his Atlantic cover story 'The Case for Reparations'. He lives in New York with his wife and son. ‘Coates offers this eloquent memoir as a letter to his teenage son, bearing witness to his own experiences and conveying passionate hopes for his son's life...this moving, potent testament might have been titled Black Lives Matter.’ Kirkus Reviews ‘I’ve been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates. The language of Between the World and Me, like Coates’ journey, is visceral, eloquent and beautifully redemptive. And its examination of the hazards and hopes of black male life is as profound as it is revelatory. This is required reading.’ Toni Morrison ‘Extraordinary...Ta-Nehisi Coates...writes an impassioned letter to his teenage son—a letter both loving and full of a parent’s dread—counselling him on the history of American violence against the black body, the young African-American’s extreme vulnerability to wrongful arrest, police violence, and disproportionate incarceration.’ David Remnick, New Yorker ‘A searing meditation on what it means to be black in America today...as compelling a portrait of a father–son relationship as Martin Amis’s Experience or Geoffrey Wolff’s The Duke of Deception.’ New York Times ‘Coates possesses a profoundly empathetic imagination and a tough intellect...Coates speaks to America, but Australia has reason to listen.’ Monthly ‘Heartbreaking, confronting, it draws power from understatement in dealing with race in America and the endless wrong-headed concept that whites are somehow entitled to subjugate everyone else.’ Capital ‘In our current global landscape it’s an essential perspective, regardless of your standpoint.’ Paperboy ‘Impactful and poignant.’ Reading With Jenna
چیزهای کوچک زیبا اثر شرل استرید
در پس هر داستانی که برای دنیا تعریف می‌کنیم، قصه‌ی حقیقی تری وجود دارد که نمی‌توانیم یا نمی‌خواهیم ببینیم‌شان، قصور و توهمات و چیزهایی که در آنها گیر افتاده‌ایم. شرل استرید شاید مهربان باشد، اما تضاهر نمی کند. او چیزی را به مردم می دهد که مادر به فرزندش می دهد: ترحم کافی تا در میان نیاز های ناجورمان احساس امنیت کنیم و دانش کافی تا امیدوار باشیم. چیز های کوچک زیبا را می توان به مثابه‌ی زندگی نامه‌ای منحصر به فرد خواند اما زندگی‌نامه‌ای هدفمند. شرل با صبر فراوان و فصاحت کلامش به خواننده اطمینان می دهد که در میان آشفته بازار شرم و ناامیدی و خشم، معنایی نهفته است و در آن معنا امکان نجات یافتن وجود دارد. نکته‌ی اساسی حرف های شرل در این کتاب این است که غمی وضف ناپذیر انتظار همه‌ی ما را می کشد. زندگی بازی اینترنتی خودخواهانه‌ای نیست، همه چیز اهمیت دارد، همه ی گناهان، همه‌ی پشیمانی ها و همه‌ی مصیبت ها.
Tiny Beautiful Things
Body, Mind & Spirit
Atlantic Books Ltd
March 15, 2013
328
Unabridged
English
Rich with humour, insight, compassion - and absolute honesty - Tiny Beautiful Things is a balm for everything life throws our way, administered by the author of the New York Times-bestselling memoir, Wild Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you, you lose a family member, you can't pay the bills. But it can be pretty great, too: you've had the hottest sex of your life, you get that plum job, you muster the courage to write your novel. Everyday across the world, people go through the full and glorious gamut of life - but sometimes, a little advice is needed. For several years, thousands turned to Cheryl Strayed, a then-anonymous internet Agony Aunt. But unlike most Agony Aunts, this one's advice was spun from genuine compassion and informed by a wealth of personal experience - experience that was sometimes tragic and sometimes tender, often hilarious and often heartbreaking. Having successfully battled her own demons while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed sat down to answer the letters of the frightened, the anxious, the confused; and with each gem-like correspondence - of which the best are collected in this volume - she proved to be the perfect guide for those who had got a little lost in life.
فریفته تصادف اثر نسیم نیکلاس طالب
کتاب Fooled by Randomness مقدمه‌ای شگفت‌انگیز برای بسیاری از مغالطاتی است که ما انسان‌ها مستعد انجام آنها هستیم. “نسیم نیکلاس طالب” استدلال قانع‌کننده‌ای دارد مبنی بر اینکه ما هرگز نمی‌توانیم «کاملا منطقی» باشیم، زیرا به احساسات خود نیاز داریم تا حلقه تصمیم‌گیری بی‌پایانی را که هر تصمیم «کاملا منطقی» شامل می‌شود، کوتاه کنیم.
یکی از موضوعات ثابتی که در کتاب Fooled by Randomness به آن پرداخته شده این است که همه ما از تعصبات گذشته رنج می‌بریم. این چیزی است که شما قطعا از این کتاب یاد خواهید گرفت. ایده این است که چون آنچه در گذشته اتفاق افتاده است، به زعم ما تنها چیزی است که می‌توانست اتفاق بیفتد، پس از آن برای پیش‌بینی آنچه در آینده رخ می‌دهد، استفاده می‌کنیم. فراموش می‌کنیم که رویدادهای گذشته نیز نقطه اوج موقعیت‌های احتمالی بوده‌اند که به یک طریق حل شده است و نه به طریق دیگر. فراموش می‌کنیم که این رویدادها می‌توانستند به همین راحتی در نتیجه‌ای به همان اندازه محتمل حل شوند – نتیجه‌ای که صرفا رخ نداده است. طیف مغالطه‌هایی که “نسیم نیکلاس طالب” به تصویر می‌کشد، طیفی بسیار قابل توجه است.
Incerto #1
Economics
November 3, 2001
MP3, EPUB
Unabridged
English
Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes.
Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. Nassim Nicholas Taleb–veteran trader, renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur, and New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan–has written a modern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luck and skill.
This book is about luck–or more precisely, about how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill–the world of trading–Fooled by Randomness provides captivating insight into one of the least understood factors in all our lives. Writing in an entertaining narrative style, the author tackles major intellectual issues related to the underestimation of the influence of happenstance on our lives.
The book is populated with an array of characters, some of whom have grasped, in their own way, the significance of chance: the baseball legend Yogi Berra; the philosopher of knowledge Karl Popper; the ancient world’s wisest man, Solon; the modern financier George Soros; and the Greek voyager Odysseus. We also meet the fictional Nero, who seems to understand the role of randomness in his professional life but falls victim to his own superstitious foolishness.
However, the most recognizable character of all remains unnamed–the lucky fool who happens to be in the right place at the right time–he embodies the “survival of the least fit.” Such individuals attract devoted followers who believe in their guru’s insights and methods. But no one can replicate what is obtained by chance.
Are we capable of distinguishing the fortunate charlatan from the genuine visionary? Must we always try to uncover nonexistent messages in random events? It may be impossible to guard ourselves against the vagaries of the goddess Fortuna, but after reading Fooled by Randomness we can be a little better prepared.
Named by Fortune One of the Smartest Books of All Time
A Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year
