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Joseph O'Connor's Free Yourself From Fears: Overcoming Anxiety and Living Without Worry shows you how to face fear head on. From financial worries to social anxiety, from public speaking to personal safety, Free Yourself From Fears show us how to unlearn our fears and find emotional freedom. This practical, hands-on book will help you to know when to trust and when not to trust, how to develop your intuition to stay safe when there is real danger, how to deal with worry and change in light of an uncertain future and, most importantly, to be in the here and now, living your life to the full. Free Yourself From Fears includes dozens of insightful methods for achieving your best, avoiding anxiety and living without worry.

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Cheaper than a crystal ball and twice as fun, this book by futurist and web creator Watson examines what "someday" could be like, based on the five key trends of ageing; power shift to the East; global connectivity; the "GRIN" technologies of Genetics, Robotics, Internet, and Nanotechnology; environmental concerns, and 50 less general but equally influential developments that will radically alter human life by the year 2050. Watson gently scoffs at Jetsons-like wishful-thinking technology and flying cars; instead he predicts the fanciful (mindwipes, stress-control clothing, napcaps that induce sleep) and the useful (devices to harness the sea to generate energy; self-repairing car paint; retail technology that helps us shop, based on past buying habits; hospital plasters that monitor vital signs). In between the fun and frivolity, he prognosticates the frightening: the "extinction" of individual ugliness and free public spaces; the creation of hybrid humans; a society made of people who are incapable of the tiniest tasks; and insects that carry wireless cameras to monitor our lives. Part Jules Verne, part Malcolm Gladwell, Watson has a puckish sense of humor and his book is a thought-provoking, laughter-inducing delight.
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On a less than promising note, Watson, a self-proclaimed futurist writer and speaker, starts by back-peddling and reframing his book as a survey of 200 trends that will affect the next 42 years (presumably in order to go up to the half-century point). He has gleaned these emerging patterns from immersing himself in the popular media, a method he defends as a discipline with an everyman, anti-intellectual appeal. His predictions run from mundane (depleted oil reserves will be a problem) to trite (science will be the new religion) to facetious (memories will be erasable with a premoistened towelette called a mindwipe). He fails to provide facts, citations, or even arguments to support his meandering diatribe. One proclamation follows another, leading to an ambivalent conclusion that the future may or may not be a nice place to live. Each section ends with a postcard from the future that is apparently meant to provide comic relief. Unfortunately, more often than not they simply make obvious observations in a snide and petulant voice. Perhaps tellingly, Watson suggests "Further Reading" in lieu of citations or a bibliography. Not recommended.-Robert Perret, Univ. of Idaho, Moscow

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  • ISBN-13: 9781857885149
  • Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
  • Publication date: 12/15/2008
  • Pages: 288
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.10 (d)

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Joseph O'Connor is a Master trainer of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and the author of sixteen books, including the international bestseller Introducing NLP. He is originally from London, UK and moved to Brazil at the beginning of 2001. He founded Lambent do Brasil, a company specialising in business coaching, training, and consultancy in Sao Paulo. He is also the co-founder and President of the International Coaching Community (ICC), a worldwide network of trained coaches. Clients that he has trained and coached include: BT, UNIDO, BA, HP Invent, and Interbrew. ICC has NLP trainers all over the world - Europe, North and South America, New Zealand, Singapore, and Hong Kong. O'Connor's books have been published in twenty languages.

Table of Contents

The 5 most important trends for the next 50 years 1

Introduction 5

1 Society and Culture: why we'll take longer baths in the future 15

2 Science and Technology: the rise of the machines 38

3 Government and Politics: us and them 60

4 Media and Entertainment: have it your way 90

5 Money and Financial Services: everyone is a bank 116

6 Automotive and Transport: the end of the road as we know it 145

7 Food and Drink: faster and slower 168

8 Retail and Shopping: what we'll buy when we've got it already 191

9 Healthcare and Medicine: older and wiser 214

10 Travel and Tourism: "sorry, this country is full" 238

11 Work and Business: the new right-brain economy 258

12 Conclusions: where to next? 277

5 things that won't change over the next 50 years 285

Sources 289

Acknowledgments 293

Index 295

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  • Posted July 26, 2010

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    Accessible manual of near-future trends

    In this bold, entertaining book, futurist Richard Watson reports the results of decades of thought about the future. He identifies more than 200 separate trends, which he helpfully winnows down into five overarching themes illustrated with real-world and hypothetical examples. His breezy style weaves these themes into the major areas of life: work, finances, politics, science, health care and entertainment, among others. Watson's vision of the future covers all aspects - literally everything from taking baths to artificial intelligence - and the sweep of his ambition is impressive. He augments his text with good graphics, some perhaps tongue-in-cheek (his "Extinction Timeline" has Belgium biting the bullet around 2049). The book's one weakness is that, while Watson tells readers what will happen in the future, he doesn't always explain why. This caveat aside, getAbstract recommends this engaging book to leaders, innovators and all those interested in the future.

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