Po Bronson

Po Bronson y Asley Merryman han escrito el que está destinado a ser uno de los libros más provocativos e influyentes de nuestros tiempos. Tenemos aquí un nuevo y revolucionario punto de vista que va más allá de la sabiduría convencional. Algunos de los temas abordados son: El poder inverso del elogio; Por qué pelean los hermanos; La relación entre la falta de sueño y la obesidad infantil; Cuando es demasiado tarde o demasiado pronto para hablar al niño sobre ciertos temas; Por qué algunos niños (incluso los que provienen de las "mejores" familias) son agresivos y crueles; Cuando empieza el niño a mentir. Cómo la mayoría de las estrategias para fomentar la sinceridad sólo consiguen que los niños aprendan a mentir mejor; Todo parece indicar que ciertas suposiciones generalizadas sobre los niños no son válidas. La paternidad participativa e implicada de los padres modernos debería haber producido una generación de ángeles. Es evidente que no ha sido así.

A follow-up to the best-selling series,642 Tiny Things to Write About presents oodles of delightful and thought-provoking writing prompts, packaged in an uber-cute, irresistible and tiny new format. From writing a life story in five sentences, to elaborating on a tiny detail, this book will inspire writers to push the limits of their imaginations. 642 Tiny Things to Write About makes a perfect gift for the active author, stumped writer, journaler, or any creative type in need of a spark of inspiration, however tiny.

Testimonios de quienes encontraron la respuesta a la pregunta más importantePara poder escribir este libro, Po Bronson viajó en busca de gente de todas las edades y profesiones que hubiera cometido errores antes de encontrar su vocacion. Con humor y perspicacia, los testimonios intimos de estas 33 fascinantes personas van sucediendose para servir de apoyo a todo aquel que desea encontrar el verdadero sentido de su vida sin tener miedo a equivocarse o a rectificar.

We all have an imaginary definition of a great family. We imagine what it would be like to belong to such a family. No fights over the holidays. No getting on one anothers nerves. Respect for individual identity. Mutual support, without being intrusive. So many people believe they are disqualified from having a better family experience, primarily because they compare their own family with the mythic ideal, and their reality falls short. Is that a fair standard to judge against? In the pages of Why Do I Love These People?, Po Bronson takes us on an extraordinary journey. It begins on a river in Texas, where a mother gets trapped underwater and has to bargain for her own life and that of her kids. Then, a father and his daughter return to their tiny rice-growing village in China, hoping to rekindle their love for each other inside the walls of his childhood home. Next, a son puts forth a riddle, asking us to understand what his first experience of God has to do with his Mexican American mother.Every stepand every familyon this journey is real. Calling upon his gift for powerful nonfiction narrative and philosophical insight, Bronson explores the incredibly complicated feelings that we have for our families. Each chapter introduces us to two peoplea father and his son, a daughter and her mother, a wife and her husbandand we come to know them as intimately as characters in a novel, following the story of their relationship as they struggle resiliently through the kinds of hardships all families endure. Some of the people manage to save their relationship, while others find a better life only after letting the relationship go. From their efforts, the wisdom in this book emerges. We are left feeling emotionally raw but groundedand better prepared to love, through both hard times and good time.In these twenty mesmerizing stories, we discover what is essential and elemental to all families and, in doing so, slowly abolish the fantasies and fictions we have about those we fight to stay connected to.In Why Do I Love These People?, Bronson shows us that we are united by our yearnings and aspirations: Family is not our dividing line, but our common ground.

Are you looking for the right path in 2023? This book tackles the question that most of us face at some point in our lives: what should I do with my life?, and provides illuminating answers. Bronsons book is a fascinating account of finding and following the people who have taken the ultimate challenge of self-discovery by uprooting their lives and starting all over again. From the investment banker who gave it all up to become a catfish farmer in Mississippi, to the chemical engineer from Walthamstow who decided to become a lawyer in his sixties. These stories of individual dilemmas and dramatic - sometimes unsuccessful - gambles are bound up with Bronsons account of his own search for a calling.Inspirational... This book fascinates because of the broad spectrum of testimoniesFinancial TimesSomething more than the usual self-help guff. What Should I Do with My Life? is closer to the oral histories of Studs Terkel or This American Life than to Tony RobbinsTimes

Entrepreneurs and tech wizards, immigrants and investors, dreamers and visionaries are heading West to seek their fortune.Their Mecca is Silicon Valley - where one person can achieve so much with just initiative, talent and a good idea. Meet David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo and worth over $500 million, who still sleeps under his desk one night a week. Meet the 26 year-old who is already on his fifth start-up venture. Meet the man with the biggest brain in the world. Meet the nudist who works the late shift.

A vision of the future where the latest Silicon Valley tech meets cutting-edge genetics.Decoding the World is a buddy adventure about the quest to live meaningfully in a world with such uncertainty. It starts with Po Bronson coming to IndieBio.Arvind Gupta created IndieBio as a laboratory for early biotech startups trying to solve major world problems. Glaciers melting. Dying bees. Infertility. Cancer. Ocean plastic. Pandemics.As they travel around the world, finding scientists to join their cause, the authors bring their first-hand experience to the great mysteries that haunt our future. Natural resource depletion. Job-taking robots. Chinas global influence.Decoding the World is the kind of book you get when you give two guys $40 million, a world full of messy big problems, a genetics laboratory to play in, and a set of Borges collected works. After looking through their lens, youll never see the world the same.

What if we told you...that dishonesty in children is a positive traitthat arguing in front of your kids can make you a good role modeland that if you praise your children you risk making them fail...and it was all true?Using a cutting-edge combination of behavioural psychology and neuroscience, award-winning journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman have produced an innovative, counter-intuitive read that will change the way we interact with our children forever.They demonstrate that for years our best intentions with children have been our worst ideas, using break-through scientific studies to prove that our instincts and received wisdom are all wrong. Nurtureshock is the Freakonomics of childhood and adolescence, exploring logic-defying insights into child development that have far-reaching relevance for us all.

Compete better...In a competitive situation our bodies can experience the same level of stress hormones as jumping out of a plane. Competition is often the key to outstanding achievement. But what is it that makes the difference between rising to the challenge and buckling under pressure? Using groundbreaking studies in diverse scientific fields, Bronson and Merryman demonstrate that understanding how to harness our competitive fire means we can perform our best whether the contest is sporting, academic or in the workplace.Why are men typically prepared to gamble on long or even stupid odds and women arent?Why do some less talented students consistently outperform their smarter class mates in crucial exams?Why do higher levels of testosterone actually make you less selfish and more cooperative and cognitively astute?Why do so many market-leading companies cede their top position because they become risk averse at the wrong times?Why do sports teams where the pay differential between players is the greatest win more?The answer to all this and more is in New York Times no.1 bestselling authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merrymans Top Dog:The Science of Winning and LosingA great read for those paralyzed by the fear of failure as well as thosewho hunger for successHuffington Post

A groundbreaking book that will change the way you view parenting. In a world of modern, involved, caring parents, why are so many kids aggressive and cruel? Where is intelligence hidden in the brain, and why does that matter? Why do interracial friendships decrease in schools that are more integrated? If 98% of kids think lying is morally wrong, then why do 98% of kids lie? Whats the single most important thing that helps infants learn language?NurtureShock is a groundbreaking collaboration between award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman. They argue that when it comes to children, weve mistaken good intentions for good ideas. With impeccable storytelling and razor-sharp analysis, they demonstrate that many of modern societys strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiringbecause key twists in the science have been overlooked. Nothing like a typical parenting manual, the authors work is an insightful exploration of themes and issues that transcend childrens (and adults) lives.

New York Times Bestseller Po Bronson and Ashley Merrymans work changes the national dialogue. Beyond their bestselling books, you know them from commentary and features in the New York Times, CNN, NPR, Time, Newsweek, Wired, New York, and more. E-mail, Facebook, and Twitter accounts are filled with demands to read their reporting (such as "How Not to Talk to Your Kids,""Creativity Crisis," and "Losing Is Good for You"). In Top Dog, Bronson and Merryman again use their astonishing blend of science and storytelling to reveal whats truly in the heart of a champion. The joy of victory and the character-building agony of defeat. Testosterone and the neuroscience of mistakes. Why rivals motivate. How home field advantage gets you a raise. What teamwork really requires. Its baseball, the SAT, sales contests, and Linux. How before da Vinci and FedEx were innovators, first, they were great competitors. Olympians carry Top Dog in their gym bags. Its in briefcases of Wall Street traders and Madison Avenue madmen. Risk takers from Silicon Valley to Vegas race to implement its ideas, as educators debate it in halls of academia. Now see for yourself what this game-changing talk is all about.

El Silicon Valley de San Francisco es, sin duda, la nueva Meca de los nuevos aventureros cibernéticos, gente inquieta y llena de ideas visionarias, ansiosos de triunfar de la noche a la mañana. Po Bronson demuestra en este electrizante documento que, gracias a la informatica y las nuevas tecnologias, el viejo sueño americano del hombre corriente convertido en magnate sigue mas vivo que nunca, con sus luces y sus sombras. El nudista del turno de noche es el resultado de diez años de trabajo de campo in situ, en los que el autor pudo ver de cerca como piensan, trabajan y se desenvuelven personajes como David Filo, cofundador de la empresa Yahoo!, o Sabeer Bhatia, un joven informatico procedente de la India, perseguido denodadamente por Microsoft para hacerse con una de sus brillantes ideas como programador. Estas historias veridicas constituyen el relato de la competencia salvaje, los esfuerzos y la imaginacion desplegada por innumerables programadores para colocar sus proyectos en el mercado y evitar que la competencia se les adelante. He aqui, pues, el retrato fiel, inteligente, descarnado y humoristico de esta nueva feria de vanidades y del lugar, Silicon Valey, donde nacio y se desarrollo; como dice Bronson en el prologo: Los supermillonarios de menos de treinta y cinco años son, en realidad, una nueva forma de vida, una mutacion economica surgida de la charca del darwinismo capitalista. Esta nueva especie seduce la imaginacion mas que cualquier otro animal...