title: Delusion is Good: A Visionary Guide to Extraordinary Outcomes
author: Robert Ahola
description: About the AuthorsRobert Joseph Ahola is the author and co-author of six previously published works, including 101 Ways to Make a Difference, Personal Identity, The Silent Healer, and Creatures in our Care. As CEO of Galahad films, he is a producer of over 300 films and documentaries. Robert is also an accomplished playwright and filmmaker. Delusion is Good is his first collaboration with Paul Peccianti. Paul John Peccianti is a leading motivational speaker, lecturer and personal counselor. A top executive with a multinational corporation, Paul has a master's degree in clinical psychology. He has used that unique combination of skills to design and formulate a number of success technologies. Delusion is Good, designed and written with Robert Ahola, is his first book based on many of those success skills.
zlib_text: USEFUL
  DELUSIONS
  The Power and Paradox
  of the Self-Deceiving Brain
  Shankar Vedantam
  and Bill Mesler
  
  To my mother, Vatsala, who showed me
  that reality bends to willpower
  —Shankar Vedantam
  And to my mother, Chun Yun, a little girl from
  Pyongyang, who survived wars and famines,
  and willed herself across seas and continents
  —Bill Mesler
  
  For if people wish to believe a thing, and long for it and
  depend on it to be true, and feel the better for it, is it
  cheating to help them to their own belief . . . Is it not
  rather a charity, and a human kindness?
  —MARGARET ATWOOD, ALIAS GRACE
  
  Contents
  INTRODUCTION
  PART I
  EVERYDAY LIFE
  1. Hot Air
  2. Everything Is Going to Be OK
  3. The Theater of Healing
  4. The Invisible Hand
  PART II
  THE SEARCH FOR MEANING
  5. The Heart Has Its Reasons
  6. Predictive Reasoning
  7. Somewhere Over the Rainbow
  PART III
  THE TRIBE
  8. Walking through Fire
  9. Something Worth Dying For
  10. The Grand Delusion
  Epilogue
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  NOTES
  
  BIBLIOGRAPHY
  INDEX
  
  Introduction
  Shankar 