Playing Books

Do abuses from past relationships influence your emotions and shape your identity? Do you truly empathize with others? Do you feel guilty when you’re indifferent at critical moments? Or are people already judging you for being nosy? Do you have personal stories you’ve left unfinished, and what feelings come up when you think about the stories you haven’t concluded? This episode explores emotional...

This episode is not for reading, discussion, or entertainment. It is for those who earnestly desire success, wealth, influence, and power. Do you have a clear purpose, and do you want to achieve it? Then, this episode is for you. Toil. Labor. Sweat. Long waits. Disappointments. Betrayals. Discomfort. Relationships. Education. Skills. Inheritance. Experience. Background. Location. Each of these pla...

This episode is practical, relatable, and helpful. Life depends so much on dealing with people. Relating to others influences emotions, health, finances, decisions, faith, and the future. This episode will help you better understand yourself and people. You will learn how to determine the personality of people, whether they are Red, Blue, Green, or Yellow, and communicate and relate with them acco...

Welcome to another practical and applicable episode of the Playing Books podcast. Seeking or affirming the validation of at least one person or some people can largely influence our entire life, decisions, choices, food, accommodation, purchases, education, career, and relationships, like marriage. Living this way is bondage. This episode discusses how to accept yourself and have the courage to be...

This is a reflective episode. The 2025 Fourth of July Independence Day celebrations have just concluded. Flag parades, barbecues, and fireworks followed the observance. Everyone seems well, happy, hopeful, grateful, and eager to see what the United States will bring to them and the world. We often forget that each time people gather to celebrate any major national holiday in the US, some citizens...

Since untapped talents, unwritten books, unsung songs, unstarted enterprises, unfulfilled destinies, unbacked mission, and other unused human endowments collectively make the grave the wealthiest place with wealth unparalleled by the oil-rich Middle East and other affluent regions worldwide, this episode presents revolutionary concepts to dare, harness, and utilize human talents and resources in a...

This podcast is practical. Your outdated ignorance and assumptions have come a long way enough. Labeling people, assuming there is a them and us, and other biases should come to light for your admission, then, accepting the facts and learning how to be factful in looking at people and things. Ignorance and assumptions prevent the mind from learning the truth about the world, which affects relation...

We have an exceptional, practical, and useful episode for you. Emergencies, sudden violence, looting, massive protests, tornadoes, fire, fuel scarcity, and food crises might only get worse. Shouldn't you have a trusted plan, preparation, and an in-house safe place when any of this hits? In the past, people reserved gas for getting away to distant lands where no trace of the disorder they escaped f...

Everyone cherishes the idea of healthy living without fear of falling sick, dealing with any diagnosis, having anxieties over medical expenses, and going through painful remedy processes. But in reality, only a handful even in advanced countries eat right, avoid smoking, and excessive alcohol; regularly exercise, and speak healthy or positive words on formal and informal bases. Studies show that i...

Why didn't Nikola Tesla win the Nobel Prize? Why hasn't the Nobel Committee awarded him posthumously? What is Tesla's legacy? Was Tesla wealthy? Did Tesla invent anything extraordinary? Why is Tesla referred to as the prophet of the electronic age? This episode lets Tesla speak for himself. Based on Nikola Tesla's My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla, this podcast goes far back to Tesl...

Big conflicts didn't start big. They started small. Small conflicts often went unresolved and escalated into larger conflicts. This podcast is about dealing with small to big conflicts. The episode offers reliable insights, tactics, strategies, and experience for high-stakes negotiations, deals, contracts, critical conversations, and game-changing standoffs. However, the application extends beyond...

This podcast discusses the greatest obstacle to lasting success and fulfillment for anyone: ego. Ego leads to self-deception, stagnation, and irreversible defeat, in contrast to humility, which nurtures a positive attitude, opens doors, empowers, and results in continuous victories.  Discover why Ryan Holiday uses historical examples to emphasize the importance of combating this fearsome foe, ego....

This podcast will give you a headstart in any conversation. You are about to learn how to talk to anyone from Leil Lowndes. Lowndes reveals ninety-two (92) techniques for effective, enjoyable, and memorable communication with anyone. Leil Lowndes teaches communication based on her many years of experience working as a flight attendant. A flight attendant interacts with over 240 people per flight,...

Everyone thinks. Thinking could be so deep that we start to speak out our thoughts, completely forget the physical activity at that moment, and become enwrapped in the things we are thinking. Thinking does become a reality. If we keep thinking of positive things, over time those things will come true, the same applies to negative thinking. This episode is a serious call to take what we think more...

Layoffs. Job insecurity. Wage inflation. Tension in the family. Shaky stock market. Uncertainty about the future. All or one to two of these occupy the minds of many right now. Can you still make money in any economy? This podcast is for the curious, diligent, courageous, and shameless who desire to legitimately make good money in any economy. We discuss Abigail R. Gehring's Odd Jobs: How to Have...

Underneath information, education, hard work, intelligence, and rationality about money are emotions and deep-seated behaviors that are largely adverse to true financial success. This podcast about Morgan Housel's The Psychology of Money uncovers the realities of emotions and behaviors more than intelligence and formal education in dealing with money. Housel shared nineteen short stories in the bo...

Pregnancy. Motherhood. Parenthood. They are all replete with expectations, responsibilities, fears, happiness, and uncertainties. It is tough to be pregnant, both parents feel and bear the demands of this critical phase of family life. Heidi Murdoff and Sharon Mazel write What to Expect When You're Expecting to offer practical advice on each of these emotions, and dimensions of expecting a baby. T...

What is the use of any beliefs, assumptions, and convictions if they make you unrelatable, mean, opinionated, and unprogressive? Anyone can get trapped in their beliefs. That is why criticizing one's beliefs and monitoring what our convictions make of us is so critical. This podcast is about Adam Grant's book, Think Again. Learn the importance of objectively rethinking beliefs, knowledge, convicti...

Relationships lack what to compare them with and what the lack of great, mutual relationships imply. As social beings, relationships shorten, enliven, dampen, or elongate our lives, work, and future. This podcast is about Dale Carnegie's classic book, 'How to Win Friends and Influence People. Learn timeless principles for dealing successfully with people, which starts with yourself. Do people in a...

Coach Bob Proctor from diverse experience, vast knowledge, and laws shows readers in The ABCs of Success, the basics of success that any determined, focused, literate, and sincere person can utilize to succeed. This podcast discusses the cores that certainly birth personal and professional success. You will learn success largely comes from taking action with a positive attitude. No one succeeds th...

This podcast unpacks common sense, experience, general knowledge, strategies, and how-tos about men and women to guide men in relating better and as expected with women. Do you have that sweet lady already? Are you wondering how that gorgeous lady can be yours? Do you feel you deserve a virtuous lady? Can your relationship with women be a lot better? W. Anton's The Manual: What Women Want and How...

Dr. Seuss' Oh, the Places You'll Go isn't for kids, teenagers, students, new graduates, and those starting a career. This belief limits many people from thinking much less using up all the potential, talents, and ideas that are trailblazing and impactful. This podcast inspires you to want an adventurous life with a good attitude to handle the challenges that spring up along life's journey of going...

You wouldn't easily believe your habits revolve around your identity. But it largely does. This podcast gets you hungry enough to change or sustain a positive identity through great habits over time. Learn the four laws of any habits, good and bad habits. You should get the book, study, write, and make concrete decisions that complement your true great identity. Share, follow, like, and suggest bo...

This new episode is deterministic, practical, challenging, and full of encouraging stories. We discuss John Maxwell's 'Today Matters.' Time is up for leaving your life, potential, education, career, family, significant contributions, and important future to chance, which keeps you weak, fearful, anxious, and uncertain. Listen and learn on the go from one of the world's bestselling authors on how t...

Buy the book here: https://www.melrobbins.com/book/the-let-them-theory/ Life’s challenges and struggles, coupled with negative emotions, external factors, and the actions of others, can weigh you down. If you’re seeking to avoid reaching such a point in life or negatively staying the same, this podcast is precisely tailored for you. Based on Mel Robbins’ groundbreaking book, “The Let Them Theory,”...