ALL-ROUND IMPROVEMENT – Spirituality for Thinkers. Tools for Doers
Full audiobook below. The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz – Big up Mr. Money Moustache for the recommendation. – Talks about mediocrity and all kinds of excuse-itis – health, age, intelligence. – Use big and positive words and phrases everywhere especially with people. – Mostly pretty basic stuff like using creativity, always … Read more
The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller & Jay PapasanEvery chapter ends with a summary of the big ideas. Big up Charles Poliquin for the recommendation. The main point of the book which you should ask for everything is ‘What’s the ONE THING I can do such that by doing … Read more
1: Start With Yourself– You can’t give what you don’t have.– Accept yourself as you are (God’s child), not trying to become what you are not.Identify your insecurities and their source then hold them up to the truth.What have these insecurities held me back from? Are there any opportunities I can still seize?– “Increase your … Read more
Author: Richard Weissbourd, a Harvard psychologist with the graduate school of education, and the Making Caring Common Project have come up with recommendations about how to raise children to become caring, respectful and responsible adults. 1. Make caring for others a priority Why? Parents tend to prioritize their children’s happiness and achievements over their children’s concern for … Read more
TED Talk video at the bottom of this page – Over 80 percent said that a major life goal for them was to get rich and another 50 percent of those same young adults said that another major life goal was to become famous. – For 75 years the lives of 724 men were tracked, … Read more
“THERE’S A STRONG ASSUMPTION STILL THAT EXERTING SELF-CONTROL IS BENEFICIAL … AND WE’RE SHOWING IN THE LONG TERM, IT’S NOT” Studies have found that trying to teach people to resist temptation either only has short-term gains or can be an outright failure. “We don’t seem to be all that good at [self-control],” Brian Galla, a psychologist at the … Read more
