Book Summaries

What I have Learnt This Week

 I have read some interesting books this week

 1 The only little Prayer you Need by Debra Landwehr Engle
 2 Beyond Willpower by Alexander Loyd
 3 Mindware - Richard E Nisbett 2015

 Some Learning Points 

1 Debra states that for healing, you only need a little prayer which is repeated daily and frequently "Please heal my fear based thoughts"

 2 Alexander talks about a technique for healing involving a simple prayer such as "I wish that whatever was causing (pain/fear/anxiety) would heal This is followed by a simple few steps of physically making circular motions on the heart, forehead and top of the head for a few minutes each day. These are consecutive actions and the circular motions are altered in direction every 10 - 15 seconds. I have not tried this myself but if you try it and have success, let me know!

 3 Mindware is very different; it is about "Tools for Smart Thinking"
 Richard states that a correlation of things does not prove a causation and that people favor evidence that matches their assumptions.
In addition, he states that humans fear risk more than they relish gain and tend to overvalue what they own. (This is in reference to something called a "Loss aversion"and "Endowment affect")

He recommends using something called Occams Razor to find the simplest solution - simpler theories are easier to test. This is because complicated evidence rarely explains evidence as well as simpler ones do

I hope you found this interesting!

Kate.









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