The Motivational Vampire
Learn critical thinking skills by learning about vampires!
How did corpses become sexy? Why do vampires hate garlic? Want to meet Asian headless vampires, or the blood-sucking-toes vampire of Australia? Did you know that everything you’ve heard about vampires came from government paperwork? Or that the earliest vampires hungered not for blood, but beef stew?
The Motivational Vampire is the ultimate in edutainment. You’ll learn:
How Bram Stoker ditched his entire plan for Dracula to escape the sunk cost fallacy.
How the Great Vampire Epidemic humbled the Vatican and transformed the Holy Roman Empire teaches us how to identify an agenda.
How early science “verified” the existence of vampires teaches us about confirmation bias.
How the evolution of vampires—from page to stage, Bela Lugosi to Brad Pitt, Dragula to Twilight, shows us how to handle our ever-changing world.
Find drama in how the first vampire novel was written by the world’s greatest lover in a year without a summer—then stolen by his doctor, then stolen by his publisher.
Find laughs in my offbeat travels through Transylvania. I wanted to meet a vampire, so my guide told me, “Go where the people still believe.” I found out the hard way why she didn’t add, “Because they have reason to.” But I still ended up living in Transylvania for years, mere blocks from Dracula’s birthplace.
Find out how fear functions and how vampire movies can make us better able to overcome it—not emotionally, but physically!
Learn why the world is this way and how to overcome fear—by learning about vampires. Buy The Motivational Vampire today!
Audio (with SFX)
Paperback
Hardcover
Learn critical thinking skills by learning about vampires!
How did corpses become sexy? Why do vampires hate garlic? Want to meet Asian headless vampires, or the blood-sucking-toes vampire of Australia? Did you know that everything you’ve heard about vampires came from government paperwork? Or that the earliest vampires hungered not for blood, but beef stew?
The Motivational Vampire is the ultimate in edutainment. You’ll learn:
How Bram Stoker ditched his entire plan for Dracula to escape the sunk cost fallacy.
How the Great Vampire Epidemic humbled the Vatican and transformed the Holy Roman Empire teaches us how to identify an agenda.
How early science “verified” the existence of vampires teaches us about confirmation bias.
How the evolution of vampires—from page to stage, Bela Lugosi to Brad Pitt, Dragula to Twilight, shows us how to handle our ever-changing world.
Find drama in how the first vampire novel was written by the world’s greatest lover in a year without a summer—then stolen by his doctor, then stolen by his publisher.
Find laughs in my offbeat travels through Transylvania. I wanted to meet a vampire, so my guide told me, “Go where the people still believe.” I found out the hard way why she didn’t add, “Because they have reason to.” But I still ended up living in Transylvania for years, mere blocks from Dracula’s birthplace.
Find out how fear functions and how vampire movies can make us better able to overcome it—not emotionally, but physically!
Learn why the world is this way and how to overcome fear—by learning about vampires. Buy The Motivational Vampire today!
Audio (with SFX)
Paperback
Hardcover
Learn critical thinking skills by learning about vampires!
How did corpses become sexy? Why do vampires hate garlic? Want to meet Asian headless vampires, or the blood-sucking-toes vampire of Australia? Did you know that everything you’ve heard about vampires came from government paperwork? Or that the earliest vampires hungered not for blood, but beef stew?
The Motivational Vampire is the ultimate in edutainment. You’ll learn:
How Bram Stoker ditched his entire plan for Dracula to escape the sunk cost fallacy.
How the Great Vampire Epidemic humbled the Vatican and transformed the Holy Roman Empire teaches us how to identify an agenda.
How early science “verified” the existence of vampires teaches us about confirmation bias.
How the evolution of vampires—from page to stage, Bela Lugosi to Brad Pitt, Dragula to Twilight, shows us how to handle our ever-changing world.
Find drama in how the first vampire novel was written by the world’s greatest lover in a year without a summer—then stolen by his doctor, then stolen by his publisher.
Find laughs in my offbeat travels through Transylvania. I wanted to meet a vampire, so my guide told me, “Go where the people still believe.” I found out the hard way why she didn’t add, “Because they have reason to.” But I still ended up living in Transylvania for years, mere blocks from Dracula’s birthplace.
Find out how fear functions and how vampire movies can make us better able to overcome it—not emotionally, but physically!
Learn why the world is this way and how to overcome fear—by learning about vampires. Buy The Motivational Vampire today!
Audio (with SFX)
Paperback
Hardcover
Brian David Bruns is a bestselling author, repeat winner of Foreword Magazine’s Humor Book of the Year and winner of the USA REBA Grand Prize. He has been featured in articles across a dozen nations, but is most delighted by being a British tabloid favorite.
Adventuring in over 70 nations around the world, he writes of his unique experiences with a self-mocking and cheeky wit, an astute insight into human behavior, and a love of quirky history.