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Nathan Lozeron May 2, 2019

Fix Fast and Faulty Decisions

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

“We are blind to our blindness” – Daniel Kahneman

You and I have two mental systems for making decisions: System 1 and System 2.

The following book summary explains both systems, along with three mental shortcuts you must watch out for when making important decisions.

1-Page PDF Summary

Filed Under: All Book Animations, Decision Making & Problem-Solving

Nathan Lozeron October 24, 2018

Love What You Do

Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

“In America, two-thirds of workers are unhappy with their jobs. And 15 percent actually hate their work.” – Designing Your Life

How can you be one of the rare few who is happy with your career?

Watch my latest book summary video to find out.

1-Page PDF Summary

Filed Under: All Book Animations, Decision Making & Problem-Solving, Success Psychology

Nathan Lozeron August 28, 2018

Know Thy Brain

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:


1-Page PDF Summary

Filed Under: All Book Animations, Decision Making & Problem-Solving

Nathan Lozeron July 31, 2018

Pain + Reflection = Progress

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.

1-Page PDF Summary

Filed Under: All Book Animations, Decision Making & Problem-Solving, Success Psychology

Nathan Lozeron January 26, 2018

Wage W.A.R. on Bad Decisions

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

Filed Under: All Book Animations, Decision Making & Problem-Solving

Nathan Lozeron July 14, 2017

Stop Eating Tadpoles

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:

1-Page PDF Summary of Eat That Frog!

Filed Under: All Book Animations, Decision Making & Problem-Solving, Time Management

Nathan Lozeron June 17, 2017

Validating Your Business Idea

Lean Startup by Eric Ries

“We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.” – Eric Ries

Developing a new business product can result in an enormous amount of wasted time and effort. Eric Ries, author of ‘The Lean Startup’ and former Chief Technology Officer of a Silicon Valley Startup, discovered this the hard way.

Watch my latest animated book summary of ‘The Lean Startup’ to discover what author Eric Ries learned from his initial mistake, and how you can use The Lean Startup method to develop your next business idea.

1-Page PDF Summary of Lean Startup

Filed Under: All Book Animations, Creativity & Innovation, Decision Making & Problem-Solving

Nathan Lozeron January 2, 2017

The Sign of a Professional

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
More than 75,000 Americans experience major complications during surgery due to avoidable human error (like a surgeon forgetting to wash their hands before surgery). Author and surgeon Atul Gawande set out to reduce these errors.

 

The following video details Atul Gawande’s discovery of a simple but powerful tool to combat costly oversights.

 

1-Page PDF Summary of The Checklist Manifesto

Filed Under: All Book Animations, Decision Making & Problem-Solving, Success Psychology

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