{"product_id":"2940011993732","title":"Brain Snacks for Teens on the Go! Second Edition 50 Smart Ideas To Turbo-Charge Your Life","description":"What are Brain Snacks? Well, there's an old adage, \"Success\u003cbr\u003eleaves tracks, and failure does, too.\" In other words,\u003cbr\u003eif someone is particularly successful in an area of his or\u003cbr\u003eher life, then there are things that person is doing day in\u003cbr\u003eand day out to produce that success. Likewise, if someone\u003cbr\u003eis particularly unsuccessful at something, there are\u003cbr\u003eprobably things he or she has done that have become\u003cbr\u003eobstructions. Throughout my life, I've tried to learn from\u003cbr\u003eother people's successes and failures, as well as my own\u003cbr\u003esuccess and failures as a teenager. In this second edition\u003cbr\u003eof Brain Snacks, I've updated some of the \"snacks\" with\u003cbr\u003enew information and corrected a few typos along the\u003cbr\u003eway to give you a refined version of the successes and\u003cbr\u003efailures I have learned from. So, in essence, Brain Snacks\u003cbr\u003eare effective ideas and strategies, with detailed tactics,\u003cbr\u003eto help you turbo-charge your life. They're delicious and\u003cbr\u003enutritious pieces of information that can help you become\u003cbr\u003ehappier, healthier, and more successful in your life\u003cbr\u003eand, ultimately, make the world a better place.\u003cbr\u003eI had the idea to write this after I created a blog during\u003cbr\u003ethe summer of 2008 called \"Brain Snacks,\" on which I\u003cbr\u003eperiodically wrote articles about topics I thought could\u003cbr\u003ebe helpful and interesting to my peer group. The blog\u003cbr\u003egained a small following, and my readers encouraged\u003cbr\u003eme to keep writing. After two years of steady writing, a\u003cbr\u003efriend of mine suggested an idea to me that I found intriguing:\u003cbr\u003ewhy not make my blog a book? After all, he\u003cbr\u003esaid, I had already written most of the material: my blog\u003cbr\u003eposts would probably make for a solid 150-paged paperback\u003cbr\u003ebook. I could make my teenage trials, tribulations,\u003cbr\u003eand triumphs accessible to a larger audience and\u003cbr\u003eon a more concrete level. At any rate, isn't it preferable\u003cbr\u003eto learn from someone else's mistakes than from one's\u003cbr\u003eown? I thought it was a brilliant idea.\u003cbr\u003eI spent my first few weeks of summer vacation after my\u003cbr\u003ejunior year doing some additional writing. What I hadn't\u003cbr\u003eexpected, however, was for the compiling process\u003cbr\u003ethereafter to be more challenging and time-consuming\u003cbr\u003ethan the entire writing process itself. The main obstacle\u003cbr\u003eI had to overcome was rereading each individual Snack\u003cbr\u003ewith a fine-toothed comb to ensure that I had given\u003cbr\u003ecredit where credit was due. Previously, I had never cast\u003cbr\u003ea thought to citing my material when I was blogging. I\u003cbr\u003einformally attributed statistics and studies to the relevant\u003cbr\u003eassociations who had discovered and conducted\u003cbr\u003ethem, but I never made a formal bibliography, since the\u003cbr\u003elevity of a blog generally doesn't call for one. Alas, I\u003cbr\u003espent hour upon hour citing facts I had acquired from\u003cbr\u003evarious sources and obtaining permission to reprint several\u003cbr\u003emedical studies I wanted to use.\u003cbr\u003eThen came the proofreading. Editing the book for errors\u003cbr\u003ewas an eye-opening experience. Looking back upon it,\u003cbr\u003eit's really amazing how many times I thought I had a\u003cbr\u003eperfect book--certainly not perfectly written, but perfect\u003cbr\u003ewith respect to grammar, spelling, and formatting. Even\u003cbr\u003emore amazing was the feeling of discouragement that\u003cbr\u003egradually overcame me with each passing revision of\u003cbr\u003ethe book. There was always something that could be improved,\u003cbr\u003eand with each correction I made, two more errors\u003cbr\u003eseemed to reveal themselves. Finally, after I and a\u003cbr\u003eviii\u003cbr\u003eix\u003cbr\u003enumber of close friends had read each Snack about 20\u003cbr\u003etimes, I went ahead with the final step: reviews. What I\u003cbr\u003ecertainly never expected was to actually obtain reviews\u003cbr\u003efrom the authors, CEOs, and organizations whom I had\u003cbr\u003eapproached, but with a little luck and a lot of determination,\u003cbr\u003epeople like Brian Tracy and Sean Covey have\u003cbr\u003eendorsed the book you are holding. Of the reviewers,\u003cbr\u003eI'm also fortunate to have the endorsement of Holly\u003cbr\u003eJohnson, a top orthopedic surgeon at Massachusetts\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Hospital in Boston; Clayton Jones, Chairman\u003cbr\u003eof Jones \u0026amp; Bartlett Learning; and last, but certainly not\u003cbr\u003eleast, Dr. Mark Estes, a leading cardiologist in Boston\u003cbr\u003ewho wrote the foreword to this book.","brand":"Cognosco Learning Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068334162160,"sku":"2940011993732","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011993732_p0.jpg?v=1763551627","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011993732","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}