Brain Growth

Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations.

A New York Times Bestseller Renowned neurologist Dr. Frances E. Jensen offers a revolutionary look at the brains of teenagers, dispelling myths and offering practical advice for teens, parents and teachers. Dr. Frances E. Jensen is chair of the department of neurology in the Perelman School of...

Why do kids need to know about growth mindsets? Scientists have found that there are two different kinds of mindsets: fixed mindsets and growth mindsets. A fixed mindset never changes. In a fixed mindset your failures define you like: "I'm no good at dancing." If I never learn new things or never make new friends, I have a fixed mindset. My growth mindsets can change! When I learn something new or challenging, then I have a growth mindset like: "If I focus and practice, I can learn to dance."

You read articles. You save podcasts. You buy books you plan to finish “someday.” Yet when you try to recall what you learned last week, it feels fuzzy. Motivation fades. Focus drifts. Growth feels inconsistent. The problem isn’t your intelligence. It’s your system. Micro Habits for Massive Knowledge introduces a powerful, science-backed approach to learning that fits into real life. Instead of demanding long study sessions or extreme discipline, this book shows you how just 10 intentional minutes a day can rewire your brain, strengthen memory, and build lifelong skills.

If you want to know how and how much sleep affects your baby's development, this mini-guide contains many points for reflection that every new father and mother should keep in mind.

Joyce Meyer provides a comprehensive guide to the range of emotions that we feel every day and shows how to manage them—instead of letting them manage you. The average person has 70,000 thoughts every day, and many of those thoughts trigger a corresponding emotion. No wonder so many of us...

What if genius isn't something you're born with—it's something you build? Everyday Genius, by six-time USA Memory Champion Nelson Dellis, upgrades your everyday life through practical skills, whether it's memorizing names at a new job, doing lightning-fast mental math when it counts, honing...

“A lucid guide to energy psychology that demonstrates techniques and procedures that can bring about remarkably rapid changes in the way people feel and move through the world.” —Bessel van der Kolk, MD, #1 New York Times nonfiction bestselling author of The Body Keeps the Score What if...

In this essential guide, the groundbreaking author of Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety and The Happiness Diet explores the ten tenets vital to cultivating Mental Fitness and provides direct, actionable techniques to improve brain function and emotional health. The human brain—the complex...

Increase your powers of recall and retention with Harry Lorayne's famous Memory Development Program How to Improve Your Memory teaches you proved techniques to help remember phone numbers, prices, appointments, speeches, lists, and much more. By applying the Lorayne link and peg system of memory...

In a growth mind-set, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work. Brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience essential for great accomplishment. There is also another type of mind-set that is fixed. In a fixed mind-set, people believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits.

Do you feel like you’re riding a premenstrual roller coaster every month that leaves you feeling hungry, tired, angry, sad, and unsexy? Leading researcher and women’s hormone expert Dr. Sarah E. Hill explains why we feel so universally icky before our periods— and what to do about it. The...

Can a woman who never learned to stand up for herself find the courage to speak up for her son? Karen is a happily married, slightly frazzled working mother of two when her eight-year-old son, Matthew, develops a strange eye-rolling tic. Over the next three years, Matthew's tics multiply. He becomes clumsy and lethargic, a gifted program dropout. Karen repeatedly tries to get her husband and the pediatrician to open their eyes, but she is too full of self-doubt, too compulsively agreeable to tear off their blinders.

What does your brain have to do with experiencing joy? A lot more than most of us realize. In this breakthrough book, Dr. Earl Henslin reveals how the study of brain imaging turned his practice of psychotherapy upside down—with remarkably positive results. He shares answers to puzzling...

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Learn the key concepts for your self-development or discussion group in 15 minutes without missing the highlights. This is a summary and discussion of Brain Wash: Detox Your Mind for Clearer Thinking, Deeper Relationships and Lasting Happiness. Brain Wash explains how the world is impacting our health by looking at the impact of numerous factors on our brains.

Traditional worship told you to sit still, be quiet, and focus. Your brain didn’t get the memo. If church overstimulates you, if “quiet time” feels like torture, and if your prayers arrive in tangents, you are not broken—you’re neurodivergent. And your way of worship can be just as holy. Neurodivergent Spirituality: When Traditional Worship Doesn’t Work for Your Brain tears down the myth of the “perfect worshipper” and replaces it with a biblical, practical vision of faith that fits real bodies and real brains.

Overcome self-sabotage and build lasting mental wellness with actionable neuroscience designed for anxious overthinkers. If you find yourself hitting a wall of burnout, numbing out after a tough commute, or feeling deeply stuck despite your best efforts, your mind is actually utilizing outdated...

A paradigm-shifting achievement, built from the author’s own research, showing that pregnancy profoundly transforms our brains even more than adolescence does. Dispels “mommy brain” stereotypes and trailblazes new understanding at the core of humanity with warmth and compassion...

Internal Family Systems (IFS) meets the transformative insights of psychedelic-assisted therapy in this groundbreaking guide from Dr. Nicholas Brüss, leading expert in this emerging field, revealing how trauma, anxiety, emotional disconnection, and survival patterns can begin to soften—with...