Title: How To Win Friends & Influence People Author: Dale Carnegie. "was an American writer and lecturer, and the developer of courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills." (thanks, wikipedia) My Thoughts: This book is a classic becaus...
https://amzn.to/2LaO8gr Title: Feel The Fear ...and Do It Anyway Author: Susan Jeffers. (Bio) My opinion of this book: This book is great. Whenever some fear of doing something pops up, this book can help you take on the fear. It's amazing how a few insights from a new perspective can really help yo...
Title: Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning Authors: Peter C. Brown (Bio), Henry L. Roediger III (Bio), Mark A. McDaniel (Bio) My opinion of this book: This is a fantastic and eye-opening book on learning and memory. This book is more or less the bible of the competitive memor...
Title: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Author: Stephen R. Covey My Overall Thoughts: This book is fantastic and changes lives. This is one of the first personal productivity books I ever read (some 20 years ago) and over the years it has made a big difference to me in many ways. Looking over...
Title: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion Author: Robert B. Cialdini. Per his bio, "Dr. Robert Cialdini has spent his entire career conducting scientific research on what leads people to say 'Yes' to requests." My opinion of this book: This is a classic book on persuasion and marketin...
Meta Points Title: Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own WayAuthor: Steven Pressfield. He is an fiction author, screenplay writer and coach. In my own words: At first glance this small book with its extreme fonting seems gimmicky. It is not. This book lays bare the uncomforta...
Title: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success Author: Carol S. Dweck. She is "a pioneering researcher in the field of motivation, why people succeed (or don't) and how to foster success." My opinion: This book deserves all the praise it gets. The growth mindset is an incredibly useful concept and th...
I decided to check in on my blogging strategy this morning. The last couple of posts I wrote felt like I was maybe getting off into the weeds. (Keep in mind that the order I write them in is not the same order you see them in. By the time I post this, the posts prior to this one could be any of them...
Title: Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career Author: Scott H. Young. Bio from his website: "I'm a writer, programmer, traveler and avid reader of interesting things. For the last ten years I've been experimenting to find out how to learn and thi...
Feeling pretty good about meditating for 100 days and making it nearly automatic, I decided to see if I could create a second habit. I was excited about this. If I could start “habit stacking” (also called habit chaining) by making the completion of one habit the automatic trigger my doing of the ne...