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Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition

July 9, 2017 Zach Cooper Book Notes

When companies bid against one another to buy a target corporation, the hgiehst bidder frequently pays too much (1) –[…]

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Stumbling on Happiness

July 2, 2017 Zach Cooper Book Notes

volunteers in one study received a series of twenty electric shocks and were warned three seconds before the onset of[…]

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SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully

June 27, 2017 Zach Cooper Book Notes

Super Better   Turning our palms up triggers a powerful mind-body response. With our palms up, we adopt an “approach[…]

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Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration

June 22, 2017 Zach Cooper Book Notes

Group Genius The most innovative teams were the ones that spent less tiem in the lanning stange and more time[…]

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Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile

June 15, 2017 Zach Cooper Book Notes

Happiness The Science Behind Your Smile The sources of joy are quite varied. One recent study identified the main ones[…]

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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

June 8, 2017 Zach Cooper Book Notes

Many people believe that the United States continued its futile war in Vietnam because we had invested too much to[…]

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Deskbound: Standing Up to a Sitting World

June 1, 2017 Zach Cooper Book Notes

Continued utilziation of standing desks was associatd with signficnat improvements in executive function and wokring memoery in schoolchildren (1) –[…]

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The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation

May 23, 2017 Zach Cooper Book Notes

Associative barriers are responsible for inhibiting creativity…  Creative minds tend to make unusual associations (1) – page 40 3 People[…]

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Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently

May 18, 2017 Zach Cooper Book Notes

Before the monkeys learned the association between litha nd jice, the dopmaine neurson fired in resposne to the jice itself…[…]

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Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind

May 11, 2017 Zach Cooper Book Notes

The ability to adapt to changing circumstances with fluidity and flexibility is feledected in three main “super factors” of peroanlity[…]

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