Learn to Thrive
Your Brain at Work by David Rock
“Your capacity to change yourself, change others, and even change the world, may boil down to how well you know your brain…” – David Rock
Your brain is an amazing machine but it has a few surprising limitations…
Watch the following video to understand three limitations of your brain at work, and what you can do to produce your best work despite those limitations:
Principles by Ray Dalio
“I believe that the key to success lies in knowing how to both strive for a lot and fail well. By failing well, I mean being able to experience painful failures that provide big learnings without failing badly enough to get knocked out of the game.” – Ray Dalio, Principles
Ray Dalio has encountered many failures on route to creating the largest hedge fund in the world, Bridgewater Associates.
In the following book summary you will learn Ray Dalio’s principled approach to failure, and how to use failure to increase your odds of success.
Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath
“Sometimes we are given the advice to trust our guts when we make important decisions. Unfortunately, our guts are full of questionable advice.” – Chip & Dan Heath, Decisive
The following book summary video of ‘Decisive’ will teach you three ways to counteract bad decision-making:
1-Page PDF Summary for Decisive
Eat That Frog! by Brian Tracy
“The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous.” – Brian Tracy
What ‘frog’ are you avoiding in your professional life? What difficult task are you putting off?
In the book ‘Eat That Frog!’ author Brian Tracy provides effective strategies for eating your biggest frog (your most important task). The following video and PDF summary detail those strategies:
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
(Checklists) not only offer the possibility of verification but also instill a kind of discipline of higher performance.” – Atul Gawande, MD
1-Page PDF Summary of The Checklist Manifesto
Little Bets by Peter Sims
By expecting to get things right at the start, we block ourselves psychologically and choke off a host of opportunities to learn.” – Peter Sims, Little Bets
People like Chris Rock, Frank Gehry and the Pixar filmmakers are perfectionists who systematically make mistakes to discover new ideas and develop great products. How is this possible?
Sprint by Jake Knapp
No problem is too large for a sprint.“ – Jake Knapp
Google Ventures invests $300 million dollars in start-ups each year. To protect their investment Google Ventures helps these start-ups solve big problem and test new product ideas.
In an effort to solve problems and test new products quickly, Google Ventures designers Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz have designed a rapid problem-solving method called ‘Sprint’.
Watch the following video to understand how you can solve big problems in just 5 days: