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Steal Like an Artist

af Austin Kleon • 2012

Steal from a hundred heroes, start before you're ready, and let your flaws become your style.

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📚 Creativity Guides 🎛️ Remix Culture 🔧 Practical Creativity 📅 Daily Creative Practice ⏰ Creative Routine

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Steal Like an Artist

Steal from a hundred heroes, start before you're ready, and let your flaws become your style.

af Austin Kleon 2012 174 sider

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📚 Creativity Guides 🎛️ Remix Culture 🔧 Practical Creativity 📅 Daily Creative Practice ⏰ Creative Routine

Om at skrive

af Stephen King • 2000

Stories get found, not built. Read voraciously, write privately, cut ten percent.

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🛠️ Writing Craft 📖 Craft Memoirs ⛏️ Discovery Writing ✂️ Revision Strategies ⏰ Daily Writing Practice

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Om at skrive

Stories get found, not built. Read voraciously, write privately, cut ten percent.

af Stephen King 2000 288 sider

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🛠️ Writing Craft 📖 Craft Memoirs ⛏️ Discovery Writing ✂️ Revision Strategies ⏰ Daily Writing Practice

The Artist's Way

af Julia Cameron • 2002

Two daily rituals to unblock your creativity: a morning brain-dump and a weekly solo expedition.

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🩹 Creative Recovery ☀️ Daily Creative Practice ✍️ Freewriting 🧘 Creative Solitude 🌌 Spiritual Creativity

The Artist's Way

Two daily rituals to unblock your creativity: a morning brain-dump and a weekly solo expedition.

af Julia Cameron 2002 349 sider

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🩹 Creative Recovery ☀️ Daily Creative Practice ✍️ Freewriting 🧘 Creative Solitude 🌌 Spiritual Creativity

Kunstens krig

af Steven Pressfield • 2002

Procrastination is not a flaw but an enemy. The only weapon is daily, professional discipline.

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🧱 Creative Block 🪤 Self-Sabotage 🛠️ Artistic Discipline 😨 Fear Of Success 🙏 Spiritual Creativity

Kunstens krig

Procrastination is not a flaw but an enemy. The only weapon is daily, professional discipline.

af Steven Pressfield 2002 165 sider

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🧱 Creative Block 🪤 Self-Sabotage 🛠️ Artistic Discipline 😨 Fear Of Success 🙏 Spiritual Creativity

The Artist's Way Every Day

af Julia Cameron • 2009

Three pages of daily longhand writing, a weekly solo play date, and a year of creative unblocking.

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🌀 Creative Recovery 📝 Daily Creative Practice ✨ Creative Spirituality 🧱 Overcoming Creative Blocks 🔇 Inner Critic

The Artist's Way Every Day

Three pages of daily longhand writing, a weekly solo play date, and a year of creative unblocking.

af Julia Cameron 2009 417 sider

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🌀 Creative Recovery 📝 Daily Creative Practice ✨ Creative Spirituality 🧱 Overcoming Creative Blocks 🔇 Inner Critic

Hvordan man læser en bog

af Mortimer J. Adler • 1940

Beyond words: the four-level method for reaching real understanding in serious books.

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📖 Critical Reading 📚 Great Books Tradition ✍️ Active Reading 🧠 Deep Reading 🔍 Comparative Reading

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Hvordan man læser en bog

Beyond words: the four-level method for reaching real understanding in serious books.

af Mortimer J. Adler 1940 450 sider

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📖 Critical Reading 📚 Great Books Tradition ✍️ Active Reading 🧠 Deep Reading 🔍 Comparative Reading

How to Take Smart Notes

af Sönke Ahrens • 2017

Turn scattered notes into a thinking network that writes your drafts and kills the blank-page dread.

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🗂️ Zettelkasten Method 💡 Personal Knowledge Management 🧠 Extended Cognition ✍️ Writing As Thinking 🎓 Academic Writing

How to Take Smart Notes

Turn scattered notes into a thinking network that writes your drafts and kills the blank-page dread.

af Sönke Ahrens 2017 171 sider

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🗂️ Zettelkasten Method 💡 Personal Knowledge Management 🧠 Extended Cognition ✍️ Writing As Thinking 🎓 Academic Writing

Making Movies

af Sidney Lumet • 1995

How a director keeps a movie from dying the death of a thousand compromises.

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🎬 Filmmaking Craft 👁️ Visual Storytelling 🎭 Actor Direction ✂️ Editing Room 🔊 Sound Design

Making Movies

How a director keeps a movie from dying the death of a thousand compromises.

af Sidney Lumet 1995 240 sider

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🎬 Filmmaking Craft 👁️ Visual Storytelling 🎭 Actor Direction ✂️ Editing Room 🔊 Sound Design

Smart Brevity

af Jim Vandehei • 2022

Readers give you 26 seconds. Journalists' best system for writing shorter and being read.

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📧 Business Communication ✂️ Concise Writing 👁️ Attention Economics 🌊 Information Overload 📰 Journalism Methods

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Smart Brevity

Readers give you 26 seconds. Journalists' best system for writing shorter and being read.

af Jim Vandehei 2022 199 sider

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📧 Business Communication ✂️ Concise Writing 👁️ Attention Economics 🌊 Information Overload 📰 Journalism Methods

Confessions of an Advertising Man

af David Ogilvy • 2004

Entertaining ads rarely sell. Great ones make a concrete promise, then repeat it for decades.

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🎨 Advertising Craft ✍️ Copywriting 🏗️ Brand Building 🧠 Sales Psychology 🥃 Madison Avenue

Confessions of an Advertising Man

Entertaining ads rarely sell. Great ones make a concrete promise, then repeat it for decades.

af David Ogilvy 2004 208 sider

6.000+ bedømmelser

🎨 Advertising Craft ✍️ Copywriting 🏗️ Brand Building 🧠 Sales Psychology 🥃 Madison Avenue

The Practice

af Seth Godin • 2020

Creativity is a professional practice, not a personality. Show up, do the work, share it daily.

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🎨 Creative Practice 💼 Creative Professions 🚧 Creative Blocks 🧠 Professional Mindset 🏋️ Deliberate Practice

The Practice

Creativity is a professional practice, not a personality. Show up, do the work, share it daily.

af Seth Godin 2020 271 sider

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🎨 Creative Practice 💼 Creative Professions 🚧 Creative Blocks 🧠 Professional Mindset 🏋️ Deliberate Practice

Perennial Seller

af Ryan Holiday • 2017

Create work that outlasts the hype: the craft standards and the marketing playbook.

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🚀 Creator Business 🌿 Creative Longevity 📊 Marketing Strategy 🗣️ Word Of Mouth 📍 Positioning

Perennial Seller

Create work that outlasts the hype: the craft standards and the marketing playbook.

af Ryan Holiday 2017 256 sider

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🚀 Creator Business 🌿 Creative Longevity 📊 Marketing Strategy 🗣️ Word Of Mouth 📍 Positioning

The Heroine's Journey

af Maureen Murdock • 1990

The hero's journey was never made for women. Here is the map they actually walk.

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🧠 Jungian Psychology 🌒 Goddess Spirituality 👸 Feminine Archetypes 🌑 Mother Wound 🌗 Shadow Work

The Heroine's Journey

The hero's journey was never made for women. Here is the map they actually walk.

af Maureen Murdock 1990 229 sider

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🧠 Jungian Psychology 🌒 Goddess Spirituality 👸 Feminine Archetypes 🌑 Mother Wound 🌗 Shadow Work

How to Write a Damn Good Novel

af James N. Frey • 1987

Step-by-step dramatic craft for building a novel from premise to final draft. No muse required.

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🖋️ Fiction Writing 📚 Novel Craft 🎭 Dramatic Structure 👤 Character Development 📈 Plotting And Pacing

How to Write a Damn Good Novel

Step-by-step dramatic craft for building a novel from premise to final draft. No muse required.

af James N. Frey 1987 192 sider

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🖋️ Fiction Writing 📚 Novel Craft 🎭 Dramatic Structure 👤 Character Development 📈 Plotting And Pacing

Cashvertising

af Drew Eric Whitman • 2008

Most ads fail because they sell features. Your customers are already wired to buy something else.

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🖋️ Advertising Copywriting 🧠 Marketing Psychology 📬 Direct Response Marketing 💰 Sales Psychology 📊 Behavioral Economics

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Cashvertising

Most ads fail because they sell features. Your customers are already wired to buy something else.

af Drew Eric Whitman 2008 208 sider

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🖋️ Advertising Copywriting 🧠 Marketing Psychology 📬 Direct Response Marketing 💰 Sales Psychology 📊 Behavioral Economics

TED Talks Storytelling

af Akash Karia • 2013

One thing all great TED talks share, and the 23 techniques that make it work.

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🎤 Public Speaking 🎙️ Ted Talks 🧱 Story Structure 🙋 Audience Engagement 🖋️ Descriptive Writing

TED Talks Storytelling

One thing all great TED talks share, and the 23 techniques that make it work.

af Akash Karia 2013 72 sider

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🎤 Public Speaking 🎙️ Ted Talks 🧱 Story Structure 🙋 Audience Engagement 🖋️ Descriptive Writing

Magiske ord

af Jonah Berger • 2023

Your word choices reveal biases, shape identities, and predict who gets promoted, paid, or arrested.

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🧠 Persuasion Science 🗣️ Behavioral Linguistics 🏷️ Identity Framing 💬 Self-Talk Techniques 📖 Emotional Storytelling

Magiske ord

Your word choices reveal biases, shape identities, and predict who gets promoted, paid, or arrested.

af Jonah Berger 2023 256 sider

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🧠 Persuasion Science 🗣️ Behavioral Linguistics 🏷️ Identity Framing 💬 Self-Talk Techniques 📖 Emotional Storytelling

Words Like Loaded Pistols

af Sam Leith • 2011

Rhetoric built and toppled civilizations, and its ancient rules still run every ad you see.

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🏛️ Classical Rhetoric 🔧 Rhetorical Devices 🎤 Speechwriting 🗣️ Argumentation 📢 Public Speaking

Words Like Loaded Pistols

Rhetoric built and toppled civilizations, and its ancient rules still run every ad you see.

af Sam Leith 2011 322 sider

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🏛️ Classical Rhetoric 🔧 Rhetorical Devices 🎤 Speechwriting 🗣️ Argumentation 📢 Public Speaking

The Art and Business of Online Writing

af Nicolas Cole • 2020

Forget your own blog. The platform game that turns online writing into a paid audience.

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🖋️ Online Writing 📈 Content Marketing 👥 Audience Building 💻 Writing For The Web 🏷️ Personal Branding

The Art and Business of Online Writing

Forget your own blog. The platform game that turns online writing into a paid audience.

af Nicolas Cole 2020 336 sider

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🖋️ Online Writing 📈 Content Marketing 👥 Audience Building 💻 Writing For The Web 🏷️ Personal Branding

Epic Content Marketing

af Joe Pulizzi • 2013

The publishing playbook: stop interrupting, start teaching, and make customers seek you out.

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📝 Content Marketing 📊 Marketing Strategy 🏗️ Owned Media Platforms 👥 Audience Building 🗂️ Content Strategy

Epic Content Marketing

The publishing playbook: stop interrupting, start teaching, and make customers seek you out.

af Joe Pulizzi 2013 332 sider

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📝 Content Marketing 📊 Marketing Strategy 🏗️ Owned Media Platforms 👥 Audience Building 🗂️ Content Strategy

Save the Cat! Strikes Back

af Blake Snyder • 2009

Script problems aren't failure. They're the raw material of every breakthrough draft.

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📝 Screenwriting Guides 🏗️ Story Structure 🎯 Pitching And Loglines ✂️ Rewriting And Editing 🧱 Creative Obstacles

Save the Cat! Strikes Back

Script problems aren't failure. They're the raw material of every breakthrough draft.

af Blake Snyder 2009 200 sider

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📝 Screenwriting Guides 🏗️ Story Structure 🎯 Pitching And Loglines ✂️ Rewriting And Editing 🧱 Creative Obstacles

Improvise. Scene from the Inside Out

af Mick Napier • 2004

Improv rules make you timid. The key to great scenes is bold action before your brain objects.

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🎭 Improv Comedy 🎤 Comedy Technique 🔨 Creative Rule-Breaking 🎬 Long-Form Improv 🏙️ Chicago Improv

Improvise. Scene from the Inside Out

Improv rules make you timid. The key to great scenes is bold action before your brain objects.

af Mick Napier 2004 272 sider

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🎭 Improv Comedy 🎤 Comedy Technique 🔨 Creative Rule-Breaking 🎬 Long-Form Improv 🏙️ Chicago Improv

Breakthrough Advertising

af Eugene M. Schwartz • 1966

Tap a mass desire and ad dollars multiply fifty-fold. Try to create one and break even.

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✍️ Copywriting 📋 Advertising Strategy 📬 Direct Response 🧠 Marketing Psychology 🛡️ Objection Handling

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Breakthrough Advertising

Tap a mass desire and ad dollars multiply fifty-fold. Try to create one and break even.

af Eugene M. Schwartz 1966 236 sider

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✍️ Copywriting 📋 Advertising Strategy 📬 Direct Response 🧠 Marketing Psychology 🛡️ Objection Handling

How To Write Funny

af Scott Dikkers • 2014

Comedy demystified: a set of learnable devices that turn humor from mystery into repeatable craft.

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🎭 Comedy Writing 🎯 Satire And Parody ⚙️ Joke Mechanics 🗣️ Wordplay And Punning ⏱️ Writing Productivity

How To Write Funny

Comedy demystified: a set of learnable devices that turn humor from mystery into repeatable craft.

af Scott Dikkers 2014 146 sider

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🎭 Comedy Writing 🎯 Satire And Parody ⚙️ Joke Mechanics 🗣️ Wordplay And Punning ⏱️ Writing Productivity

How to Write a Damn Good Novel, II

af James N. Frey • 1994

Most novelists fail at the premise, not the prose. The craft rules for getting it right.

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✍️ Novel Writing 🎭 Dramatic Structure 👤 Character Development ⏳ Suspense Techniques 🎙️ Narrative Voice

How to Write a Damn Good Novel, II

Most novelists fail at the premise, not the prose. The craft rules for getting it right.

af James N. Frey 1994 176 sider

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✍️ Novel Writing 🎭 Dramatic Structure 👤 Character Development ⏳ Suspense Techniques 🎙️ Narrative Voice

Story Driven

af Bernadette Jiwa • 2018

Most strategy starts with the market. The best strategy starts with the mirror.

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🧭 Brand Strategy 📖 Business Storytelling 🎯 Corporate Purpose 🤝 Authenticity In Business ⚖️ Values-Based Leadership

Story Driven

Most strategy starts with the market. The best strategy starts with the mirror.

af Bernadette Jiwa 2018 176 sider

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🧭 Brand Strategy 📖 Business Storytelling 🎯 Corporate Purpose 🤝 Authenticity In Business ⚖️ Values-Based Leadership

The Art of Nonfiction

af Ayn Rand • 2001

Skip the mystique: nonfiction writing is a system, and the outline is its non-negotiable start.

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📖 Philosophical Writing 💡 Clarity And Precision 🗂️ Pre-Writing And Outlining 🧠 Subconscious Creativity ✂️ Editing And Revision

The Art of Nonfiction

Skip the mystique: nonfiction writing is a system, and the outline is its non-negotiable start.

af Ayn Rand 2001 210 sider

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📖 Philosophical Writing 💡 Clarity And Precision 🗂️ Pre-Writing And Outlining 🧠 Subconscious Creativity ✂️ Editing And Revision

Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric

af Ward Farnsworth • 2010

Why great prose works: the ancient rhetorical devices that power it, catalogued and made visible.

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🧰 Rhetorical Devices 🏛️ Classical Rhetoric ✍️ Sentence Craft 🔍 Close Reading 🖋️ Prose Style

Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric

Why great prose works: the ancient rhetorical devices that power it, catalogued and made visible.

af Ward Farnsworth 2010 256 sider

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🧰 Rhetorical Devices 🏛️ Classical Rhetoric ✍️ Sentence Craft 🔍 Close Reading 🖋️ Prose Style

Save the Cat! Writes for TV

af Jamie Nash • 2021

Board it. Beat it. Weave it: the writers' room method for structuring a pilot that sells.

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📺 Television Writing ✍️ Screenwriting 🏗️ Story Structure 🎭 Character Development 🎯 Aspiring Tv Writers

Save the Cat! Writes for TV

Board it. Beat it. Weave it: the writers' room method for structuring a pilot that sells.

af Jamie Nash 2021 254 sider

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📺 Television Writing ✍️ Screenwriting 🏗️ Story Structure 🎭 Character Development 🎯 Aspiring Tv Writers

How to Write a Damn Good Thriller

af James N. Frey • 2010

From villain to climax, the essential rules for a thriller that readers cannot put down.

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🔪 Thriller Writing 🏗️ Story Structure ⏳ Suspense Crafting 🎭 Character Archetypes 💬 Conflict Dialogue

How to Write a Damn Good Thriller

From villain to climax, the essential rules for a thriller that readers cannot put down.

af James N. Frey 2010 306 sider

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🔪 Thriller Writing 🏗️ Story Structure ⏳ Suspense Crafting 🎭 Character Archetypes 💬 Conflict Dialogue

Word Hero

af Jay Heinrichs • 2011

How to write lines that people repeat, share, and remember: the forgotten art of rhetorical figures.

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🎭 Figures Of Speech 🏛️ Practical Rhetoric 😂 Wordplay And Wit 🎤 Public Speaking 📖 Storytelling Techniques

Word Hero

How to write lines that people repeat, share, and remember: the forgotten art of rhetorical figures.

af Jay Heinrichs 2011 354 sider

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🎭 Figures Of Speech 🏛️ Practical Rhetoric 😂 Wordplay And Wit 🎤 Public Speaking 📖 Storytelling Techniques

Mystery

af Jonah Lehrer • 2021

Clarity is overrated: why your brain needs the unknown to stay curious, creative, and connected.

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🧠 Science Of Curiosity 📖 Narrative Psychology 🎨 Neuroscience Of Art 🌊 Embracing Uncertainty 🔍 Cognitive Biases

Mystery

Clarity is overrated: why your brain needs the unknown to stay curious, creative, and connected.

af Jonah Lehrer 2021 240 sider

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🧠 Science Of Curiosity 📖 Narrative Psychology 🎨 Neuroscience Of Art 🌊 Embracing Uncertainty 🔍 Cognitive Biases

The Message of You

af Judy Carter • 2013

Your life stories are worth paying for. A blueprint for turning them into a speaking career.

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🎤 Public Speaking 💰 Speaking Careers 📖 Personal Storytelling 😂 Humor In Speaking ✍️ Speech Writing

The Message of You

Your life stories are worth paying for. A blueprint for turning them into a speaking career.

af Judy Carter 2013 336 sider

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🎤 Public Speaking 💰 Speaking Careers 📖 Personal Storytelling 😂 Humor In Speaking ✍️ Speech Writing

Persuasive Copywriting

af Andy Maslen • 2015

Why flattery, secrets, and stories sell harder than features: a copywriter's psychological toolkit.

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✍️ Copywriting 🧠 Marketing Psychology 💓 Emotional Persuasion 📖 Business Storytelling 🏛️ Rhetoric

Persuasive Copywriting

Why flattery, secrets, and stories sell harder than features: a copywriter's psychological toolkit.

af Andy Maslen 2015 256 sider

4.13

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✍️ Copywriting 🧠 Marketing Psychology 💓 Emotional Persuasion 📖 Business Storytelling 🏛️ Rhetoric

Objective Communication

af Leonard Peikoff • 1980

Most communication floats free of reality. An Objectivist shows how to anchor yours in facts.

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🧠 Objectivism ✍️ Clear Writing 🎤 Public Speaking 🗣️ Argumentation 👥 Audience Awareness

Objective Communication

Most communication floats free of reality. An Objectivist shows how to anchor yours in facts.

af Leonard Peikoff 1980 377 sider

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🧠 Objectivism ✍️ Clear Writing 🎤 Public Speaking 🗣️ Argumentation 👥 Audience Awareness

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