Bøker av Po Bronson

A gold rush is happening. Masses of entrepreneurs and tech wizards, immigrants and investors, dreamers and visionaries are heading West to seek their fortune. Their Mecca is Silicon Valley, California. This is a collection of stories about those people of the computer industry.

What if we told you...that dishonesty in children is a positive traitthat arguing in front of your kids can make you a good role modeland that if you praise your children you risk making them fail...and it was all true?Using a cutting-edge combination of behavioural psychology and neuroscience, award-winning journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman have produced an innovative, counter-intuitive read that will change the way we interact with our children forever.They demonstrate that for years our best intentions with children have been our worst ideas, using break-through scientific studies to prove that our instincts and received wisdom are all wrong. Nurtureshock is the Freakonomics of childhood and adolescence, exploring logic-defying insights into child development that have far-reaching relevance for us all.

Aims to tackle the most obvious question that anyone has to face, 'what should I do with my life?' This book presents an account of finding and following people who have uprooted their lives and fought with these questions in radical ways. It features the stories of individual dilemma and drama.