We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and the amount of ground that we can gain. Hidden Potential offers a new framework for reaching aspirations and exceeding expectations. It's not about being a genius-growth depends more on developing character skills than cognitive...

The essays of The Loneliest Places began as a chronicle of Rachel Dickinson's life after her son's suicide. Dickinson writes the unimaginable and terrifying facts of heartbreaking loss. She tells stories from her months fleeing from her grief and herself, as she escapes to Iceland and the Falkland Islands—as far as possible from the memories of her son. She frankly relates the paralyzing emotion that sometimes left her trapped in her home, helplessly...

Presents nearly three hundred optical illusions along with an explanation for how each works.

During the brutal crucible of Navy SEAL training, instructors often tell students to "embrace the suck." This phrase conveys the one lesson that is vital for any SEAL hopeful to learn: lean into the suffering and get comfortable being very uncomfortable. In this powerful, no-nonsense guide, Navy SEAL combat veteran turned leadership expert Brent Gleeson teaches you how to transform every area of your life--the Navy SEAL way. Gleeson breaks it down...

The Narcissist in You and Everyone Else introduces readers to the notion of narcissism as a spectrum-based model of increasing loss of empathy (due to a variety of factors including genetics, trauma, abuse, conditioning and environment) that can give way to a propensity toward narcissism. Through studies and examples, Sterlin Mosley defines the 27 subtypes of narcissism and how these variations differ from the limited description of the narcissistic...

A groundbreaking new model for finding joy in work, avoiding misery and frustration, getting more done, and working better with others. The 6 Types of Working Genius details a simple and lightning-fast way to discover and use your natural, God-given talents.

We're never going to measure up to the 'perfect parent' model we've built up in our heads, cobbled together from our childhoods, our parents, cultural ideals, social media, and everything in between. We want to be good parents, but our pasts hold us back. If you're thinking: 'I can't be a good parent because I had a shitty childhood, bad parents, or a traumatic experience,' stop! Let go of what came before and start taking action in the present to...

The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life-distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone. Arnold's stratospheric success happened as part of a process. As the result of clear vision, big thinking, hard work, direct communication, resilient problem-solving, open-minded curiosity, and a commitment to giving back. All of it guided...

To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his "art" to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed his "art" to limits even Compton hadn't previously imagined....

Follows Ben, a struggling Bay Area filmmaker. When he's not on his day job managing an art house movie theater, Ben spends his time obsessing over unavailable blonde women, watching DVDs and eating in diners with his best friend Alice, a queer grad student. When Ben's girlfriend Miko moves to New York, Ben is left to his own devices and begins to explore what he thinks he might want.