検索キーワード： 著者 "Christopher Barnett" すべてのカテゴリー

We all fail at some point, but we also need to continue pushing forward. The secret is turning failure into a lesson plan for success through change. How many times have you failed and given up out of frustration or discouragement? How often does failure ruin your resolve and send you back to square one, only to fail over and over again with little hope that anything will ever change?

Funny Business is based around the theme of - what else? - humor, and if you’re familiar with Jon and the Guys Read Library, you already know what you’re in store for: 10 hilarious stories from some of the funniest writers around. Before you’re through, you’ll meet a teenage mummy; a kid desperate to take a dip in the world’s largest pool of chocolate milk; a homicidal turkey; parents who hand over their son’s room to a biker; and more.

Combining the authors' personal weight-loss stories with their passion for economics, this bold new behavioral approach to dieting recommends micro habits and meta-rules that will enable dieters to control their impulses to overeat, approach food in a healthier way, and lose weight once and for all. Chris Payne and Rob Barnett are two formerly obese economists who met while working at Bloomberg. When they finally decided to do something about it, they lost weight by applying what they know best - economics - to their waistlines.