Stop procrastinating, start accomplishing, and get sh*t done! With the overwhelming presence of smart phones, the internet, and social media, our attention is under unprecedented attack. If you want to achieve anything beyond the minimal, it’s more important than ever that you learn how to focus your brain on what’s in front of you, while keeping an eye on your future.Get Sh*t Done uses psychology and neuroscience to help you overcome procrastination and become more productive—both at the office and at home.....

Drawing on years of research into making ideas stick, Chip Heath and Karla Starr outline six critical principles that will give anyone the tools to communicate numbers with more transparency and meaning. Using concepts such as simplicity, concreteness and familiarity, they show us how to transform hard numbers into their most engaging form, allowing us to bring more data, more naturally, into decisions in our schools, our workplaces and our society....

We live in a manufactured world. Unless you are floating naked through space, you are right now in direct contact with multiple manufactured products. How often do we stop to think: where do the things we buy actually come from.There exists a nearly invisible, awe-inspiring global system of manufacturing that enables virtually every aspect of our existence. The things we surround ourselves with take surprising and often byzantine journeys to reach us - be it the thousands of litres of water needed to make a single pair of jeans or the components of our smartphones travelling over six times around the world to reach us...