Tag: Wisdom

Free Download Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D6NJZJ41 | 2024 | 10 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 310 MB
Author: Maggie Jackson
Narrator: Maggie Jackson
In an era of terrifying unpredictability, we race to address complex crises with quick, sure algorithms, bullet points, and tweets. How could we find the clarity and vision so urgently needed today by being unsure? Uncertain is about the triumph of doing just that. A scientific adventure set on the front lines of a volatile era, this epiphany of a book by award-winning author Maggie Jackson shows us how to skillfully confront the unexpected and the unknown, and how to harness not-knowing in the service of wisdom, invention, mutual understanding, and resilience. Long neglected as a topic of study and widely treated as a shameful flaw, uncertainty is revealed to be a crucial gadfly of the mind, jolting us from the routine and the assumed into a space for exploring unseen meaning. Far from luring us into inertia, uncertainty is the mindset most needed in times of flux and a remarkable antidote to the narrow-mindedness of our day. In laboratories, political campaigns, and on the frontiers of artificial intelligence, Jackson meets the pioneers decoding the surprising gifts of being unsure. Each chapter examines a mode of uncertainty-in-action, from creative reverie to the dissent that spurs team success. Step by step, the art and science of uncertainty reveal being unsure as a skill set for incisive thinking and day-to-day flourishing.

Free Download Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D4VYWTG4 | 2024 | 9 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 281 MB
Author: Marcia Bjornerud
Narrator: Rebecca Stern
Earth is vibrantly alive and full of wisdom for those who learn to listen. Earth has been reinventing itself for more than four billion years, keeping a record of its experiments in the form of rocks. Yet most of us live our lives on the planet with no idea of its extraordinary history, unable to interpret the language of the rocks that surround us. Geologist Marcia Bjornerud believes that our lives can be enriched by understanding our heritage on this old and creative planet. Contrary to their reputation, rocks have eventful lives-and they intersect with our own in surprising ways.

Free Download The Wisdom of Sheep: Observations from a Family Farm (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPT9GGLP | 2024 | 5 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 334 MB
Author: Rosamund Young
Narrator: Rosamund Young
A touching, wise and surprising chronicle of the rich inner lives of animals, drawn from Rosamund Young’s extraordinary lifetime as an organic farmer. We talk a lot about sheep: following the herd, counting sheep to fall asleep and looking out for wolves in sheep’s clothing. But, just like people, animals don’t always follow the pack. Some are affectionate while others butt heads; some follow the leader while some guide the whole flock home. With startling beauty and tenderness, Rosamund Young reveals the remarkable emotional and intellectual complexity of the animals she lives with on her family farm, and the story of her life’s work, with the intimacy of a personal diary. Through tender portraits of her sometimes eventful but always rewarding days at Kite’s Nest, Young recounts a multitude of discoveries, such as how cows converse with one another, why sheep are so strongheaded-and why you should never, ever text whilst milking. That’s a lesson you need learn only once. This is a story of joy, discovery, cooperation and, sometimes, heartbreak. But through it all, The Wisdom of Sheep is a fresh and delightful tribute to the miraculous inner worlds of the animals all around us and what we can learn about them, and about ourselves, by watching them more closely.

Free Download The Stoicism Workbook: How the Wisdom of Socrates Can Help You Build Resilience and Overcome Anything Life Throws at You (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D7QQPLN2 | 2024 | 4 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 269 MB
Author: Scott Waltman, R. Trent Codd III, Kasey Pierce
Narrator: Tim Fannon
What’s the secret to lasting happiness? How do you gain the resilience needed to weather life’s inevitable storms? For ancient philosophers like Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Zeno, and Epictetus, these questions were more than mere musings-they were key elements of a school of thought called Stoicism. In The Stoicism Workbook, you’ll learn how thinking like Socrates can help you identify what truly matters in your life, and build the resilience needed to go and get it! Combining ancient philosophical wisdom with modern psychology, this practical self-help workbook will help you think flexibly, maintain inner peace, adapt to difficult situations, and improve your overall mental health and well-being. You’ll also discover how the core Stoic virtues can be your compass as you navigate an increasingly uncertain world. Stoicism isn’t about being emotionless in the face of pain or suffering. It’s about giving yourself space for reflection before reacting. It’s about seeing opportunities in everyday challenges. It’s about wielding the power to decide to what extent sadness, pain, and anger affect you. Let this workbook guide you to learn more, and put this ancient wisdom into practice every day.

Free Download The Stoic Path to Wealth: Ancient Wisdom for Enduring Prosperity (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C6YHVVGR | 2024 | 5 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 286 MB
Author: Darius Foroux
Narrator: Mark Deakins
From investor and popular newsletter writer with 100k+ subscribers, Darius Foroux, comes an approach to building wealth that applies ancient wisdom to the chaos of modern-day markets. The Stoics understood that if you can control your reactions and manage your emotions, you can achieve success. The same principles apply to our financial lives today. The greatest investors approach the markets with discipline, emotional distance, and self-mastery-lessons that the Stoics have been teaching us for thousands of years. Combining ancient wisdom with practical investment strategies drawn from analysis of the greatest investors of all time, The Stoic Path to Wealth will teach you. As financial markets become increasingly unpredictable and chaotic, The Stoic Path to Wealth offers the key to weathering any economic storm while building wealth that will last a lifetime and beyond.

Free Download The Marketing Gita: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Business Success (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZ7L4GZ4 | 2024 | 9 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 265 MB
Author: Prateek Maheshwari, Sagar Venkateshwar
Narrator: Chandrahas Shetty
With the rapidly changing world that we live in, a new business or brand is introduced to us each day. Every brand needs a unique marketing strategy to make it big! This easy and compact manual sets out to decode the essential questions about marketing, using wisdom from ancient Indian scriptures to tackle modern marketing challenges. You can learn more about: the importance of marketing in modern business, transforming your challenges into opportunities, marketing mistakes to avoid while starting a new business, navigating your brand journey to reach the maximum potential, understanding the right marketing context to scale new heights. The Marketing Gita draws an analogy between the worlds of marketing and stories from ancient Indian scriptures, to trace the journey of a brand from its birth to the end, as also its trials and triumphs.

Free Download Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life, 2024 Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQZ5YX44 | 2024 | 10 hours and 34 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 302 MB
Author: Eric Greitens
Narrator: Eric Greitens
A masterpiece of warrior wisdom that shows how to overcome obstacles with positive action. The best-selling author, Navy SEAL, and humanitarian Eric Greitens offers a self-help book unlike any other. Two years ago, Eric Greitens unexpectedly heard from a former SEAL comrade, a brother-in-arms he hadn’t seen in a decade. Zach Walker had been one of the toughest of the tough. But ever since he returned home from war to his young family in a small logging town, he’d been struggling. Without a sense of purpose, plagued by PTSD, and masking his pain with heavy drinking, he needed help. Zach and Eric started writing and talking nearly every day, and Eric set down his thoughts on what it takes to build resilience in our lives.

Free Download Laura Beers, Tanya Eby (Narrator), "Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century"
English | ASIN: B0D5DP8V45 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:27:00 | 178 MB
For the seventy-fifth anniversary of 1984, Laura Beers explores George Orwell’s still-radical ideas and why they are critical today.
George Orwell devoted his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western society and politics. Now, the uncanny parallels between the interwar era and our own-rising inequality, censorship, and challenges to traditional social hierarchies-make his writing even more of the moment. In Orwell’s Ghosts, historian Laura Beers considers Orwell’s full body of work-his six novels, three nonfiction works, as well as his brilliant essays-to examine what "Orwellian" means and to take it out of the hands of political pundits. She explores how Orwell’s writing on free speech addresses the proliferation of "fake news," highlights his vivid critiques of capitalism, and, in contrast, analyzes his failure to understand feminism. Timely, wide-ranging, and thought-provoking, Orwell’s Ghosts investigates how the writings of a lionized champion of truth and freedom can help us face the crises of modernity.
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Free Download Merkel’s Law: Wisdom from the Woman Who Led the Free World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CWMF7VJC | 2024 | 5 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 328 MB
Author: Melissa Eddy
Narrator: Lisa Flanagan
In the vein of Notorious RBG, a fun and inspiring biography filled with lessons from the most powerful woman in the world, based on more than a decade’s worth of coverage of German Chancellor Angela Merkel from New York Times Berlin correspondent Melissa Eddy. Angela Merkel is a boss. A trailblazer. An icon of colorful suits. Formerly the new leader of the free world. With an entire hand gesture named after her (the "Merkel Diamond") and celebrated in a viral meme for sparring with Trump, Angela Merkel spent a decade economically and politically revitalizing her country. The first woman chancellor of Germany and one of the longest-serving European leaders ever, Merkel’s quiet resolve, calculated confidence, and extreme privacy around her personal life have made her a feminist role model for the ages.

Free Download Kokoro: Japanese Wisdom for a Life Well Lived (Audiobook)
English | October 01, 2024 | ASIN: B0D49XM2FR | M4B@128 kbps | 6h 2m | 335 MB
Author and Narrator: Beth Kempton
This book invites you to cultivate stillness and contentment in an ever-changing, uncertain world, inspired by ancient and contemporary Japanese wisdom.
Drawing on a thousand years of Japanese literature, culture, and philosophical ideas to explore the true nature of time and what it means to be human, Kokoro-which mysteriously translates as "heart-mind"-is a meditation on living well.