book: The Progress Principle

Amazon.com: The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work eBook: Teresa Amabile, Steven Kramer: Kindle Store


TEDxAtlanta - Teresa Amabile - The Progress Principle - YouTube
engagement drives performance

most important principle: making progress in meaningful work

Teresa Amabile: "The Progress Principle" | Talks at Google - YouTube

Teresa Amabile: Track Your Small Wins to Motivate Big Accomplishments - YouTube

Benefits of keeping a work diary

• celebrate small wins
• plan next steps
• nurture personal growth
• cultivate patience

book's web site: Teresa Amabile's Progress Principle

Book Review: The Progress Principle | Inc.com

The Power of Small Wins

Why progress matters: 6 questions for Harvard's Teresa Amabile | Daniel H. Pink

The Progress Principle by Teresa Amabile, Steven Kramer - PhilosophersNotes | Optimize with Brian Johnson

book reviews & recommendations sites

Excellent book summaries:

Book Crunch Archives - WhyWhatHow.xyz

Book Crunch: "The Elements of Style", William Strunk, Jr. - WhyWhatHow.xyz

Book Crunch: "How to Win Friends and Influence People", Dale Carnegie - WhyWhatHow.xyz

Book Crunch: "Eat That Frog!", Brian Tracy - WhyWhatHow.xyz

Book Crunch: "The Power of Habit", Charles Duhigg - WhyWhatHow.xyz

Book Crunch: "A Mind for Numbers", Barbara Oakley - WhyWhatHow.xyz

Book Crunch: "Man's Search for Meaning", Viktor Frankl - WhyWhatHow.xyz

Book Crunch: "Deep Work", Cal Newport - WhyWhatHow.xyz




Book Recommendations | Barbara Oakley

How Caffeine Works?

Caffeine and Adenosine - Caffeine and Dopamine | HowStuffWorks

"Why do so many people consume so much caffeine? Why does caffeine wake you up?
In short, it's all about... brain chemistry.

As adenosine is created in the brain, it binds to adenosine receptors.
This binding causes drowsiness by slowing down nerve cell activity.
To a nerve cell, caffeine looks like adenosine: Caffeine binds to the adenosine receptor.
However, caffeine doesn't slow down the cell's activity like adenosine would
Instead of slowing down because of the adenosine's effect, the nerve cells speed up.

Caffeine's effect on the brain causes increased neuron firing."

Caffeine and Dopamine - Health Benefits of Caffeine | HowStuffWorks

"Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that activates pleasure centers in certain parts of the brain.
Caffeine increases dopamine levels..."

You can see why your body might like caffeine in the short term, especially if you are low on sleep and need to remain active. 

• Caffeine blocks adenosine reception so you feel alert. 
• It injects adrenaline into the system to give you a boost. 
• And it manipulates dopamine production to make you feel good.

How Sleep Works | HowStuffWorks


How Does Caffeine Work? | Mental Floss

"Caffeine may give you that much-needed morning boost, but it can also make you crash—hard...
So when the caffeine wears off... It leaves you feeling even groggier than you felt before."
What Caffeine Really Does to Your Brain


Caffeine: All You Need To Know

The Next Wave: Predicting the future of coffee in New York City

Book: High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard

Books by Brendon Burchard

Amazon.com: High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way eBook: Brendon Burchard: Kindle Store

High Performance Habits: Excerpts - Brendon Burchard
HP6:

1. Seek Clarity
2. Generate Energy
3. Raise Necessity
4. Increase Productivity
5. Develop Influence
6. Demonstrate Courage

HIGH PERFORMANCE HABITS by Brendon Burchard | Animated Core Message - YouTube

High Performance Institute

The Power of Habit: Setting Up "Triggers" to Sustain Habits - YouTube

Brendon Burchard's 5x50 Productivity Formula

High Performance Habits Tools

Brendon Burchard - Wikipedia

book: What Color Is Your Parachute

What Color is Your Parachute? 2017: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers: Richard N. Bolles, Mel Foster: 0191091262870: Amazon.com: Books

Dick Bolles: "How to Decide what you'll be doing Five Years from Now" | Talks at Google - YouTube


Approach to question "What you will be doing 5 years from now?"

• Luck: "ignore the question", ride the wave
• depends on connections, meetings, LinkedIn
• Automated Reference Check | Talent & Hiring Tools | Checkster
• Intuition: "I will know when I see it"
• to be alert, depends on what you notice, what is different than baseline
• focus on what you like to work with most: data, people, things 
• Design (forethought, "planning" does not quite work: can not plan, can design)
• what are kinds of things that may be needed
• start with inventory of yourself
• unlearn image of yourself; rethink who you are
• gather what you may need
• write 7 stories about yourself, to identify favorite skills 

What Color Is Your Parachute 2016 | Dick Bolles.com

"In 2009, the most recent year for which I have these figures, out of the 1000 business books that were published that year, only 62 sold more than 5,000 copies. According to BookScan, this is typical. The average non-fiction book now sells less than 5,000 print copies in its entire lifetime. By contrast, “What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers” has sold over 10,000,000 print copies."

The Importance of Self Inventory in Finding Your Ideal Job, by Dick Bolles - YouTube

Dick Bolles /What Color is Your Parachute /Bonfire Heights 2012 - YouTube

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Effective Job Search: Interview with What Color Is Your Parachute? author Richard N. Bolles - YouTube


Flower Exercise - Anatomy of a Job - YouTube


Jobs | Dick Bolles.com


What Color Is Your Parachute? 2018 By Richard Bolles — Bassocantor Reviews

Richard Bolles Dies at 90; Wrote ‘What Color Is Your Parachute?’ - The New York Times

book: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - Google Search

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less: Greg McKeown: 8601420561397: Amazon.com: Books

The key choice: 

• do many things averagely well, or
• do a few things superbly well

Essentialism | Greg McKeown | Soundview Book Review

My Favorite Book of 2014 —Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Notes on 'Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less'

Essentialism – Actionable Books


Greg McKeown: Essentialism - The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - YouTube

Greg McKeown: "Essentialism" | Talks at Google - YouTube

LinkedIn Speaker Series: Greg McKeown - YouTube

Discerning what is Essential | Author Greg McKeown - YouTube


Essentialism - Greg McKeown @ssanj.net
"Essentialism is the disciplined, systematic approach for determining where our highest point of contribution lies, then making execution of those things almost effortless."
The Highest Point of Contribution:
Focused Impact:

"If you don’t prioritize your life someone else will."


The Disciplined Pursuit of Less: Essentialism by Greg McKeown

"Trivial Many vs. the Vital Few"

"Designing Your Life" Class - Greg McKeown




Video Review for Essentialism by Greg McKeown - YouTube

book: The ONE Thing

The ONE Thing

Amazon.com: The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results (Audible Audio Edition): Gary Keller, Jay Papasan, Timothy Miller, Claire Hamilton, Ltd. Rellek Publishing Partners: Books


The One Thing - Gary Keller - Animated Book Reviews - YouTube


THE ONE THING BY GARY KELLER | ANIMATED BOOK REVIEW - YouTube


10 Best Ideas | The ONE Thing | Gary Keller | Book Summary - YouTube