How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life

By Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton
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The Theory of the Dipper and the Bucket
Each of us has an invisible bucket. It is constantly emptied or filled, depending on what others say or do to us. When our bucket is full, we feel great. When it’s empty, we feel awful.
Each of us also has an invisible dipper. When we use that dipper to fill other people’s buckets — by saying or doing things to increase their positive emotions — we also fill our own bucket. But when we use that dipper to dip from others’ buckets — by saying or doing things that decrease their positive emotions — we diminish ourselves.
Like the cup that runneth over, a full bucket gives us a positive outlook and renewed energy. Every drop in that bucket makes us stronger and more optimistic.
But an empty bucket poisons our outlook, saps our energy, and undermines our will. That’s why every time someone dips from our bucket, it hurts us.
So we face a choice every moment of every day: We can fill one another’s buckets, or we can dip from them. It’s an important choice — one that profoundly influences our relationships, productivity, health, and happiness.
(Excerpt from the Introduction of the book)

是或不 (Yes or No)

斯賓塞・約翰遜 (Spencer Johnson) 著
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本書是《誰動了我的奶酪？》作者斯賓塞・約翰遜的自傳性作品。作者用通俗生動的語言，以一隻毛毛蟲成長過程講述了自己生命的痛苦與成長過程，告訴廣大讀者成功的真正意義是什麼，怎樣獲得成功。
(摘錄自中國圖書網)

成功是件非常個人的事。它對我們每一個人而言都代表了不同的意義 ……
在美國，成功的定義通常與物質上的財富、名聲和社會地位有關。不過我在這本書裡一直不斷想要傳達的觀念是，並不是你所擁有的東西代表是了你個人的成功，而是你能從你所擁有的一切裡做出的貢獻，才是你真正的成功。
幸福和滿足看起來是與這趟旅程中所收獲的豐富經驗有關，而不是你知道你已經到達的那一刻。你不可能得到了成功之後，就坐下來享用它，把它當是一根巨大的、不會融化的棒棒糖。這也就是為甚麼那些自畫式的誤區最後讓我們感覺空虛，渴望聽到事實的真相。成功不是一個目的地，它是一趟旅程 ……
(摘錄自書中“結語——成功的意義”)

The Research Student's Guide to Success

By Pat Cryer
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Why use this book?

Research should be fascinating and fulfilling, packed with intellectual excitement. If this is to be your experience, you need to appreciate that ways of working which proved effective for taught courses, important as they still are, are no longer enough. New skills and strategies need to be developed. This book introduces them, as collected from students and supervisors across a range of disciplines and from a range of universities, colleges and other institutions of higher education throughout the world.
(Excerpt from Chapter 1 of the book)

溝通人生 ：心理交往學

金盛華，楊志芳，趙凱 著
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人生的美好是人情的美好，人生的豐富是人際關係的豐富。人和人之間如何進行溝通？怎樣才能為別人所吸引，所歡迎？用什麼方法有效地化解人際衝突？怎樣才能建立和諧的人際關係？本書對這些問題從心理交往學角度作了回答。
(摘錄自haotushu.com)

所謂心理交往，就是日常生活中所談的人際交往。它包括兩個方面的含義。從動態的角度說，當我們提及心理交往或人際交往時，意指人與人之間的信息溝通和物質的交換 ……
從靜態的角度說，人際交往指人與人之間已經形成起來的關係，亦即通常所說的人際關係。這種關係是通過直接交往所產生的情感的積澱，是人與人之間相對穩定的情感紐帶 ……
(摘錄自本書第一章)

Successful Presentation Skills

By Andrew Bradbury
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Effective communication is essential for business success. From training new employees to building a rapport with potential clients, the ability to deliver information, whilst achieving maximum impact, is a skill that all business people need, yet many find difficult to master. This fully revised edition continues to provide practical advice, addressing the common problems people face when making a presentation. Ideal for the inexperienced speaker or anyone wanting to improve their communication skills, Successful Presentation Skills includes tips on how to: overcome nerves; be concise; understand body language; and, use visual aids effectively.
... it includes up-to-date information and tips to achieve a first-class presentation, including advice on structuring a presentation and the advantages of using PowerPoint technology. This is an indispensable guide to communicating with confidence.
(Excerpt from Start-Up Books)

快速讀書法

潘意敏，潘崢崢 編著
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瞬息萬變的知識更新，洶湧澎湃的信息浪潮，浩如煙海的文字資料，網絡媒體的巨大沖擊，對每個現代人的知識獲取手段和信息處理方式都提出了嚴峻的挑戰，一般的讀書法顯然有其局限性，難以適應新的形勢。
因此，當你陷入科技信息的包圍而無暇旁顧，當你被堆積如山的公文報表壓得喘不過氣來，當你慨嘆沒有時間翻閱有趣的書報雜誌，當你面對讀不完的教科書、參考書等而發愁時，不妨讀一讀這本書。書中的字裡行間都凝聚著作者所掌握的速讀的全部真正秘密。
(摘錄自香港書城)