Introduction | Welcome to the Party!
Part One | Programming Your Subconscious Self
1 Dreams | Wake Up to Their Power
2 Visualization | Use Your Brain to Reach the Top of Your Game
3 Images | What You See Is What You “Get” Deep in the Brain
4 Hypnosis | It’s Real and It Works, so Don’t Be a Chicken
Part Two | Conditioning Your Conscious Self
5 Yarn | Oh, That’s a Good One
6 Quantum Physics | What It Is, What It’s Not, and What About Negative Thoughts?
7 Choice | Choose to Use Yours
8 Up | A Mental Direction Worth Aiming For
Part Three | Thinking Through Your Embodied Self
9 Judgment | Know When (And When Not) to Trust Your Gut
10 Kinesthesia | The Inner Influence of Your Body-Talk
11 Exercise | Of the Physical Kind—One Great Way to Build Your Mind
12 Sleep | The Natural Makeover, from a Brain Shampoo to a Slimmer You
Part Four | Integrating Your Social Self
13 Reaching Out | How to Roll the Social Snowball
14 Laughter | What’s So Darn Funny About It?
15 Play | You Seriously Must, Scientists Say
16 XX and XY | Girls and Boys and Stress, Oh My!
Part Five | Vitalizing Your Striving Self
17 Why? | The Question You Must Ask to Access Your Superpower
18 Talent | Schmalent! Don’t Let the Fallacy Hold You Back
19 Action | Don’t Talk, Just Do
20 The Zen of Self-Forgiveness | When Every Mistake Is and Is Not a Mistake