Tony Fadell led the teams that created the iPod, iPhone and Nest Learning Thermostat and learned enough in 30+ years in Silicon Valley about leadership, design, startups, Apple, Google, decision-making, mentorship, devastating failure and unbelievable success to fill an encyclopedia.Saturday, June 25, 2022
book: Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
Tony Fadell led the teams that created the iPod, iPhone and Nest Learning Thermostat and learned enough in 30+ years in Silicon Valley about leadership, design, startups, Apple, Google, decision-making, mentorship, devastating failure and unbelievable success to fill an encyclopedia.
Saturday, June 18, 2022
book: Be Your Future Self Now
Amazon.com: Benjamin P. Hardy: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle
Be Your Future Self Now by Dr Benjamin Hardy
Master Your DOPAMINE With this Unstoppable MORNING ROUTINE - YouTube
Contents
PART 1: 7 Threats to Your Future Self
Threat #1: Without hope in your future, your present loses meaning
Threat #2: A reactive narrative about your past stunts your future
Threat #3: Being unaware of your environment creates a random evolution
Threat #4: Being disconnected to your Future Self leads to myopic decisions
Threat #5: Urgent battles and small goals keep you stuck, even with extreme effort
Threat #6: Not being in the arena is failing by default
Threat #7: Success is often the catalyst for failure
PART 2: 7 Truths About Your Future Self
Truth #1: Your future drives your present
Truth #2: Your Future Self is different than you expect
Truth #3: Your Future Self is the Pied Piper
Truth #4: Your Future Self is based on what you’re actively measuring
Truth #5: Failing as your Future Self is better than succeeding as your current self
Truth #6: Success is achieved by being true to your Future Self, nothing else
Truth #7: Your view of God impacts your Future Self
PART 3: 7 Steps to Be Your Future Self
Step #1: Define your contextual purpose
Step #2: Eliminate all lesser goals
Step #3: Elevate from needing to wanting to knowing
Step #4: Ask for exactly what you want
Step #5: Automate and systemize your Future Self
Step #6: Schedule your Future Self
Step #7: Aggressively complete imperfect work
Saturday, June 11, 2022
Aesop Fables
The first rule of management is gold
Aesop, the Greek storyteller talked about it 4,000 years ago:
The wind and the sun are squabbling. They are arguing over who is more powerful. They agree to settle it with a competition.
How do they compete?
They decide to test their strength by trying to take a traveler’s coat off.
The wind tries first. He sends gust after gust of a cold, forceful, and blustering gale at the traveler. His strategy is to try to tear the coat off.
The traveler only pulls his coat tighter.
The sun scoffs at the wind’s foolishness. It’s his turn.
What does the sun do?
He sends ray after ray of warm, kind, and loving sunshine at the traveler.
What does the traveler do?
He takes his own coat off.
The moral?
Kindness, gentleness, and sophisticated persuasion win where force, compulsion, and coercion fail.
People want to be persuaded, not pushed or pulled; led, not commanded.
Be the sun, not the wind.
Kindness, gentleness, and sophisticated persuasion win where force, compulsion, and coercion fail.
People want to be persuaded, not pushed or pulled; led, not commanded.
Be the sun, not the wind.
Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail.
book list, by Tom Bilyeu (Impact Theory)
Tom Bilyeu Reading List to Unlock Your Potential | Impact Theory
Tom’s 6 Ways to Develop New Skills:
- Always be reading
- Open yourself up to change
- What you believe is a choice
- Be an eternal student
- Become antifragile
- Develop Grit
The ULTIMATE ADVICE For Every Young Person! (HOW TO SUCCEED IN LIFE) | Tom Bilyeu
a subset:
MINDSET: THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY
by Carol Dweck
MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING
by Viktor Frankl
GRIT: THE POWER OF PASSION AND PERSEVERANCE
by Angela Duckworth
PRINCIPLES
by Ray Dalio
START WITH WHY: HOW GREAT LEADERS INSPIRE EVERYONE TO TAKE ACTION
by Simon Sinek
THINK AND GROW RICH
by Napoleon Hill
MASTERY
by Robert Greene
ZERO TO ONE: NOTES ON STARTUPS, OR HOW TO BUILD THE FUTURE
by Peter Thiel
PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL: THE HIDDEN FORCES THAT SHAPE OUR DECISIONS
by Dan Ariely
ANTIFRAGILE: THINGS THAT GAIN FROM DISORDER
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Sunday, June 5, 2022
book: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
In the world driven by social media, sales and marketing, this is a "must read" to be aware of "pro" tools and techniques used "against" the people.
Amazon.com: Robert B. Cialdini: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle
Robert Cialdini is the Regents' Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Marketing at Arizona State University and was a visiting professor of marketing, business and psychology at Stanford University, as well as at the University of California at Santa Cruz
Influence: Science and Practice - Wikipedia
"The key premise of the book is that in a complex world where people are overloaded with more information than they can deal with, people fall back on a decision making approach based on generalizations. These generalizations develop because they allow people to usually act in a correct manner with a limited amount of thought and time. However, they can be exploited and effectively turned into weapons by those who know them to influence others to act certain ways."
It is based on "proper science", similar to this classic math (!) textbook.
How to Lie with Statistics - Wikipedia
Saturday, May 28, 2022
book: I Moved Your Cheese
"If you were a mouse trapped in a maze and someone kept moving the cheese, what would you do?Over a decade ago the bestselling business fable Who Moved My Cheese? offered its answer to this question: accept that change is inevitable and beyond your control, don't waste your time wondering why things are the way they are, keep your head down and start looking for the cheese.
But success in the areas of innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, leadership and business growth--as well as personal growth--depends on the ability to push the boundaries, reshape the environment, and play by a different set of rules: our own. With that in mind, Harvard Business School professor Deepak Malhotra offers a radically different answer to this question.
Saturday, May 21, 2022
sci-fi book: Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary is a 2021 science fiction novel by American novelist Andy Weir. Set in the near future, the novel centers on junior high (middle) school-teacher-turned-astronaut Ryland Grace, who wakes up from a coma afflicted with amnesia. He gradually remembers that he was sent to the Tau Ceti solar system, 12 light-years from Earth, to find a means of reversing a solar dimming event that could cause the extinction of humanity.[1] Project Hail Mary is Weir's third novel, after The Martian in 2011 and Artemis in 2017.
Amazon - Project Hail Mary: A Novel: Weir, Andy: 9780593135204: Books
Andy Weir's 'Project Hail Mary' - A conversation with science-fiction author, Andy Weir - YouTube
Project Hail Mary Audiobook - YouTube
How The Martian was written, with Andy Weir - YouTube
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