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“An infant’s scent seems to flip certain neural switches in the parents. The mother’s sense of smell gets completely rewired during pregnancy, so that the scent of her own infant becomes incredibly alluring. In the meantime, though, because the olfactory infrastructure is being overhauled, other wonderful aromas may smell disgusting. When”
― The Village Effect: Why Face-to-face Contact Matters
― The Village Effect: Why Face-to-face Contact Matters
“it would take the average American only eleven hours of labor per week to produce as much as he or she produced in forty hours in 1950.”
― The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
― The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
“Hans Selye, another great psychologist, said, “As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.”
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
“Yet research shows that skill in reading, writing, and arithmetic, academic standing in high school, scores on college entrance tests and much more besides, are linked to sitting down to family dinner. The more meals you eat with your child, the larger the child’s vocabulary and the higher his or her grades, an effect that is exaggerated in girls. From”
― The Village Effect: Why Face-to-face Contact Matters
― The Village Effect: Why Face-to-face Contact Matters
“The move from scarcity thinking to abundance thinking, from zero-sum competition to one-hundred-sum collaboration, is not just a “nice” or “moral” idea. In the twenty-first century, it’s plain good sense. Scarcity says, “I’m going to keep all my ideas to myself and sell more than anyone else.” Abundance says, “By mentoring, coaching, and sharing all our best ideas, we’re going to create a powerful tide that raises all our ships—and we’ll all sell more as a result.”
― Flash Foresight: See the Invisible to Do the Impossible
― Flash Foresight: See the Invisible to Do the Impossible
Peter’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Peter’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,351 books
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542 friends
211 books
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65 friends
97 books
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113 friends
49 books
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46 friends
5 books
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50 friends
1 book
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19 friends
0 books
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13 friends
0 books
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17 friends
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