This is a book about what it feels like to be exceptional - and what it takes to get there. Why can some people achieve greatness when others can't, no matter how hard they try? What are the secrets of long life and happiness? Just how much potential does our species have? Rowan…
From Inc.com's most popular columnist, a counterintuitive -- but highly practical -- guide to finding and maintaining the motivation to achieve great things. It's comforting to imagine that superstars in their fields were just born better equipped than the rest of us. When a co-…
In "How Children Succeed', Paul Tough introduced us to research showing that personal qualities like perseverance, self-control and conscientiousness play a critical role in children's success. Now, in "Helping Children Succeed', he outlines the practical steps that adults - fro…
AIn his international bestseller How Children Succeed, Helping Children Succeed, he outlines the practical steps that adults ₆ from parents and teachers to policymakers and philanthropists ₆ can take to improve the chances of every child, however adverse their circumstances. And…
This book walks psychologists through the study of motivation, exploring all conditions that exist within the person and within the environment and culture that explain why we want what we want and why we do what we do.