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Many of our ideas about the world are based more on feelings than facts, sensibilities than science, and rage than reality. We gravitate toward ideas that make us feel comfortable in areas such as religion, politics, philosophy, social justice, love and sex, humanity, and morality. We avoid ideas that make us feel uncomfortable. This avoidance is a largely unconscious process that affects our judgment and gets in the way of our ability to reach rational and reasonable conclusions.

Claims are constantly being made, many of which are confusing, ambiguous, too general to be of value, exaggerated, unfalsifiable, and suggest a dichotomy when no such dichotomy exists. Good critical thinking requires a thorough understanding of the claim before attempting to determine its veracity. Good communication requires the ability to make clear, precise, explicit claims, or "strong" claims. The rules of reason in this book provide the framework for obtaining this understanding and ability.

This book is based on the first five years of The Dr. Bo Show, where Bo takes a critical thinking-, reason-, and science-based approach to issues that matter with the goal of educating and entertaining. Every chapter in the book explores a different aspect of reason by using a real-world issue or example.

This is audiobook four of the Life Mastery course: Grammar. The topics include the importance of good grammar and 50 of the most common grammar mistakes and how to avoid them.

What is a "normal" childhood? Does it include almost being murdered by your sister with an ax? Speeding around town in the back of a station wagon because your mom is chasing an "alien spaceship"? Being busted by the police for intent to light a pond on fire? Tackling your mom to the ground and wrestling a knife out of her hand because she was trying to kill your dad?

With the help of a freakishly wise janitor, a newly-hired membership director struggles to keep a fitness center afloat while being given ridiculous tasks from an ethically-questionable owner.

This is audiobook nine of the Life Mastery course: Learning from Others. The topics include accepting Criticism and apologizing.

This is book eight of the Life Mastery course: Mastering Vocabulary. This short book discusses the importance of a good vocabulary, as well as more than 100 vocabulary words every successful individual should know.

This book is part of a course that covers hundreds of life-enhancing topics. This is more than a course on self-improvement: It is a course on mastering life. By the end of this course, you will be on the right track to designing the life you want to live and living it well.

This audiobook is part of a course that covers hundreds of life-enhancing topics that they don't teach in high school or most colleges, but should. This is more than a course on self-improvement; it is a course on mastering life. If life had an instruction book...this would be it. This is book six of the Life Mastery course: Being Diplomatic. The topics include: Three Questions to Diplomacy; The Word "But"; and Never Be Wrong Again. By the end of this course, you will be on the right track to designing the life you want to live, and living it well!

This is audiobook five of the Life Mastery course: Persuasion Skills. The topics include: winning others to your way of thinking; six words to successful communication; analogies, similes, and anecdotes; and using questions effectively.

This is more than a course on self-improvement; It is a course on mastering life. Topics include: expressing sincere interest in others, avoiding criticizing and complaining, empathy, remembering and using people's names, being flexible, building rapport, smiling, the art of praise and compliment, and avoiding "one-upping". By the end of this course, you will be on the right track to designing the life you want to live and living it well!

This audiobook is part of a course that covers hundreds of life-enhancing topics that they don't teach in high school or most colleges, but should. This is more than a course on self-improvement; it is a course on mastering life. If life had an instruction book...this would be it. This is book two of the Life Mastery course: Mastering Conversation Skills. The topics include: small talk; reading body language; meeting people; and active listening.

This audiobook is part of a course that covers hundreds of life-enhancing topics that they don't teach in high school or most colleges, but should. This is more than a course on self-improvement; it is a course on mastering life. If life had an instruction book...this would be it. This is book one of the Life Mastery course: Making a Strong and Lasting Impression. By the end of this course, you will be on the right track to designing the life you want to live and living it well!

No longer does publishing your own book have the stigma it once did, mostly due to the changes in the industry including improved technology, author's access via the Internet to self-publishing resources, and the procedures that allow self-published authors to get their books in bookstores without requiring a publisher. This short guide will not go into details about finding a literary agent or publisher willing to pay you up front for the rights to your book, but it will provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to self-publish a book.

A fact is a fact, right? Unfortunately, it's not that simple. A "fact" is primarily defined as "a thing that is indisputably the case". The problem with that definition is that virtually anything can be disputed, and most things are. But the legal language of "beyond a reasonable doubt" applies to this definition. Many times, especially on the Internet, facts that are disputed are done so without reasonable doubt.