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Best self-help books and their review notes

Here is the list of books I want to read  Presence . Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges In the mean time before I read this book,here are the titbits given by a reviewer   Dr Ali Binazir . -- The cortisol-testosterone dual hormone hypothesis: you're most effective when you have high testosterone and low cortisol -- We usually think that confidence leads to decisions and thoughts drive behavior. But a surprising amount of the time, it's the other way around: decisions create confidence and behavior creates thoughts. -- 80% of all fibers from the vagus nerve go from the body to the brain, not the other way around. Body changes mind! -- The more people use the word "I", the less powerful and sure of themselves they are likely to be. -- "Ultimately, participants’ speaking rate had an inverse relationship with how powerful they felt. That is, the more slowly they read the sentences, the more powerful, confident, and effective th...