Shows how everyone has the capacity to succeed and how most use only a small portion of their talents.

This work provides a practical framework for sparking explosive growth by turning your company into an explosive powerhouse. It offers an insider's perspective on the explosive world of corporate venturing through interviews with such pioneers as Roger Ackerman of Corning, David Wetherall of CMGI and Mitch Kapoor of Accel. The book also offers a framework for identifying new sources of growth, launching and managing ventures, balancing the tension between established discipline and entrepreneurial creativity and maximizing the value of ventures.

The quest for enlightenment has occupied mankind for millennia. And from the depictions we’ve see—monks sitting on meditation cushions, nuns kneeling in prayer, shamans communing with the universe—it seems that this elusive state is reserved for a chosen few. But now, neuroscientist David Perlmutter and medical anthropologist and shaman Alberto Villoldo have come together to explore the commonalities between their specialties with the aim of making enlightenment possible for anyone. Joining the long-separated worlds of science and spirit, Perlmutter explores the exciting phenomena of neurogenesis and mitochondrial health, while Villoldo brings his vast knowledge of shamanic and spiritual practices. Drawing the most powerful tools from each discipline, Perlmutter and Villoldo guide you through this groundbreaking, five-week program to help you overcome toxic emotions and awaken the power of your higher brain. Power Up Your Brain will show you how to: • reduce your risk of devastating diseases like Alzheimer’s, cancer, heart disease,and Parkinson’s; • overcome painful memories and break unhealthy emotional and behavioralpatterns; and • gain powerful clarity of thought to experience inner peace, creativity, andenlightenment—all without the use of prescription drugs! The nutritional advice, dietary supplements, fasting, and physical exercise outlined will not only help repair parts of your brain that have been affected by stress but also create a fertile environment to grow new brain cells and turn on the genes responsible for longevity, improved immunity, and enhanced brain function. And the shamanic practices, meditation, and visualizations will help bring online brain regions that allow for peace, compassion, innovation, and joy to arise naturally. Following the Power Up Your Brain program will help you clear your mind and healyour body; and open you up to experience the inner peace, vast insight, and extraordinary creativity that define the experience of enlightenment.

HOW THIS BOOK CAN WORK MAGIC IN YOUR LIFE THE moment you picked up this book, you held the key to rebuilding your life. In the 367 pages that follow, there is set forth in plain terms knowledge that is scientifically sound, easy to understand and easy to apply to your own affairs. As you read these pages—and as you fill in the very important sections that deal with you alone—you find out: How to make of your life anything you want it to be. How to free your days of the deadly monster, monotony, and fill your days with interest and pleasure and health and love. How to make happiness a habit with you. How to use every hour of the day—even your sleeping hours—to add years to your life and life to your years. In the sixteen carefully arranged chapters that make up this book, you will read exactly how these things are possible. You will see they are possible for you. Hardly a person has not said to himself: "If only I could change myself and do better!" And it is not only older people who look back and sigh over wasted decades. Young people, too, look back and realize they are not using their full powers, and think: "If only I could change myself!" This book shows you how to change yourself from within. You have the power now. This book shows you how to find it. The one great key: your Superconscious mind

Power Your Mind is a simplified introduction to the Recovery Method, an evidence-based cognitive-behavioral program to help individuals manage symptoms of stress, anger, anxiety and depression. Designed for young people, graphic novel pages and real-life situations teach tools for coping with everyday events that may trigger symptoms. It can be used as a self-help workbook or as part of a group workshop.

Virtually everyone fears mental deterioration as they age. But in the past thirty years neuroscientists have discovered that the brain is actually designed to improve throughout life. How can you encourage this improvement?Brain Power shares practical, state-of-the-evidence answers in this inspiring, fun-to-read plan for action. The authors have interviewed physicians, gerontologists, and neuroscientists; studied the habits of men and women who epitomize healthy aging; and applied what they describe in their own lives. The resulting guidance; along with the accompanying downloadable Brain Sync audio program; can help you activate unused brain areas, tone mental muscles, and enliven every faculty.