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Sixty-three percent of Kickstarter campaigns fail. Do this one thing, and you’ll be among the 37 percent who succeed. The one thing is pre-launch. Ask any crowdfunding creator, and they will confirm that it is the key to success. You will learn how to prepare for your first crowdfunding campaign and do a pre-launch with a minimal budget by using personal efforts and delegating some work to others. 

The sections that follow will provide you with all you’ll need to know to bend people’s ideas to your will. You’ll learn different techniques of dark psychology that will become the primary tools you’ll need. After listening to the audiobook, you can expect to have greater insight into your own actions and the actions of others. You will have a strong grounding in the mechanics of basic psychology of reading body languages, manipulation, allowing you to make your own decisions about manipulating others, and recognize when others are manipulating you.

Utilize the most interesting, shocking, and counterintuitive findings in psychological science to simply make people want to be around you. The Science of Likability takes over 60 seminal, scientific, and psychological studies, and breaks them down into real, usable guidelines and tips to create the presence you have always wanted. Learn how to take advantage of people's memories for your sense of charm; the power of equity in relationships and friendships; a literal formula for "friendship chemistry"; and so much more! 

The books of Enoch contain a lot of unique material seen in no other book. From the origins of demons and Nephilim, to the reasons why some angels fell from heaven, to an explanation of why the Genesis flood was morally necessary, and a prophetic exposition of the one 1,000-year reign of the Messiah.

Tools of Systems Thinkers shares powerful strategies to organize your thoughts into transparent patterns and find the real roots of your problems to fix them, once and for all. Notice details others miss. See through complexity. Resist jumping to conclusions prematurely. Evaluate information correctly and consistently to make better decisions. Stop sabotaging your self-interest. Overwrite your autopilot with logical and analytical tools. This unique book will give them to you. Learn to utilize mental models and system maps to your greatest advantage. 

Making new friends doesn't have to be a chore. Learn how to do it quickly, efficiently, and effectively.

Getting called for an interview is a golden opportunity afforded only to a handful of hopefuls who apply for a job opening, so you need to make the most of it. Furthermore, too many interview books focus on you, the interviewee. What about the people performing the interview? What are their goals and success metrics? How do you approach the different players? If you want to be successful, you need to understand what the other side thinks. This book walks you through the motivations of the key individuals you’ll encounter, a strategic advantage when interviewing.

Should one enter a market where someone is in a monopoly position? When is going to the ER a good or a bad decision? Why is it never a good idea for rebels to concede? Practice Game Theory answers all these questions. Think about and solve problems more effectively applying strategic games models to real-life challenges. Learn how top world leaders analyze and assess their next best moves. 

Learn to Win Arguments and Succeed is your answer and solution to understanding how different people argue under different situations and always win. Author Vishal Gupta walks the listener through 20 practical and powerful argument techniques that can be employed to win any argument, always, under all situations. 

How to Be Hilarious and Quick-Witted in Everyday Conversation is full of strategies that dissect, break down, and analyze all of the types of humor that you’ll encounter in daily conversation - stuff you can really use with people you talk to. We’re not all trying to become stand-up comedians, and this isn’t a book about ha-ha jokes with setups and punch lines. These are little tips and tactics for you to become noticeably quick and clever.

Expertise - we all want it. Traditionally, it would take years of intense study and practice. But just because it’s always been that way doesn’t mean you have to follow that path. It’s time to use all the resources at your disposal and learn a new approach and a plethora of scientifically validated methods.

Using the brightest ideas and best practices of some of the greatest thinkers, you can become a self-thought critical thinker, who doesn’t accept things at face value. With the help of guided exercises, you will learn how to do your own research, think about information for yourself, and draw conclusions that stand true to you.

The median net worth of an American at age 64 is just $224,000. In retirement, the majority of Americans will have less than $15,000 per year to live on, plus their social security, assuming they plan on dying at the average age of 79! Are you desperate to avoid eking out a tiny pension for the rest of your life or having to work into your 70s? In this book, you will discover how to organize and manage your finances like the rich, why trying to find your passion is misdirecting you, and 21 specific steps to put you on the right road to wealth.

Some men just seem to have it all - always perfectly dressed, know what to say and how to say it, great at dating and with women, charming, magnetic, successful in business and life. Those are the real alpha males. But is it by luck? Not at all. Real alphas are not born as such, but their personas are instead the results of a progressive, disciplined, and continuous self-improvement journey.

This is a book about practical neuroscience. That means that while it is scientifically based, it gets down to how you can compensate for your brain's evolutionary habits and excel in spite of them. Our brains are stuck in the year 10,000 BC, so let's find out how to make that work for us. 

You are a vital part of more complex systems like your country, the economy, or the world; learn about their changing nature and find optimal solutions to problems related to them. The Elements of Thinking in Systems focuses on the nine fundamental system archetypes; our mental models related to them and the step-by-step implication methods to fix them. Learn to use systems archetypes to solve your problems at work, in your business, in your relationship, and social connections.   

How to Make Better Decisions shows you, step by step, how to choose wisely every time. You'll discover how to stop agonizing and make smart decisions quickly and confidently with zero regret. You'll also learn how to recognize influences, both internal and external, that threaten to sabotage your choices.

The science of getting started: From complete apathy to full sprint. Stop saying “I’ll do that later...” Humans, at our best, seek to take the path of least resistance. Often, this results in doing nothing at all. And it feels great. But we need to be able to switch to another gear. And you’ll learn how here. Understand the psychology of motivation (and procrastination) and how to take advantage of it. Motivation Triggers is an insightful look at motivation: How it works, and how you can interrupt our inclination to be lazy and procrastinate.

You’ve been manipulated before by advertising tricks. You’ve overlooked important details and made mistakes in your thinking. You haven’t been fast enough to detect opportunities and others snatched them from you. We’ve all been in these scenarios. But we don’t have to stay there. Transform your thinking to solve complex problems, overcome obstacles, discover opportunities, and think more clearly and accurately.

Do you feel mentally weak, unable to rise up to everyday challenges? Are you always feeling down, wasting time and opportunities? Do you blame the world and everyone else because you’re failing to take charge? Mental toughness means not letting feelings of disappointment take you over. It means leveraging the feelings of defeat to reach your goal. Mental toughness is having mental strength, and being emotionally resilient and painstakingly committed.