Top 30 Best Quotes from “The Organized Mind”
Daniel Levitin The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload is a bestselling popular science book written by the McGill University neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, and first published in the United States and Canada in 2014. It is...Top 50 Best Quotes from “Permanent Record” by Edward Snowden
Permanent Record, Book by Edward Snowden Revealing state secrets is hard, but revealing yourself in a memoir might be even harder. As Edward Snowden writes in the preface of “Permanent Record”: “The decision to come forward with evidence of government wrongdoing was...How Not to Take Things Personally? | Frederik Imbo
I loved this Ted Talk about not taking things personally by Frederik Imbo About Frederik Imbo Frederik Imbo studied theatre at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent and has acted in lots of television series. He founded Imboorling and now has over 15 years’ experience...Top 85 Best Quotes from “Quiet: The Power of Introverts”
In her book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so
WHEN COLLABORATION MAY KILL CREATIVITY
If you had gathered the same people who created Linux, installed them in a giant conference room for a year, and asked them to devise a new operating system, it’s doubtful that anything so revolutionary would have occurred.
Top 40 Quotes from The Coddling of the American Mind
In The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, the authors make the case that our culture has embraced three Great Untruths in the past ten years or so: The Untruth...60 Insightful Quotes From The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge
Peter Senge is the author of the book “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization.” The Fifth Discipline is focused on group problem solving using the systems thinking method to convert companies into learning organizations.
Top 30 Quotes (and Tips) From Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
Does we really need seven or eight hours of sleep a night? The answer is that we do, even if we have convinced ourselves that we don’t.
Top 26 Quotes from “Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World” by Adam M. Grant
“Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World” by Adam M. Grant. How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies “originals”: thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In...Optimism and Pessimism: Two Ways of Looking at Life
The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and are their own fault. The optimists, who are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world, think about misfortune in the opposite way. They tend to believe defeat is just a temporary setback, that its causes are confined to this one case.
Bezos, Musk, & Buffett See The World Differently, Because They See Time Differently (by Michael Simmons)
Long-term thinking supports the failure and iteration required for invention, and it frees us to pioneer in unexplored spaces. Seek instant gratification — or the elusive promise of it — and chances are you’ll find a crowd there ahead of you. — Jeff Bezos
Top 60 Quotes From “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
In his seminal work, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Csíkszentmihályi outlines his theory that people are happiest when they are in a state of flow—a state of concentration or complete absorption with the activity at hand and the situation.
Top 22 Quotes from When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing By Daniel H. Pink
Pink sets out to “unearth the hidden science of timing” – to uncover it as a significant but unrecognized player in our lives.
Top 32 Quotes from Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates US, which draws on 50 years of behavioral science to overturn the conventional wisdom about human motivation
Best 10 Quotes and Review of “Never Split the Difference” by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz
Chris Voss, a former international hostage negotiator for the FBI, offers a new and tested approach to high-stakes negotiations. But the principles of the book can be applied to every negotiations of our lives.
Top 37 Quotes From The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Sir Ken Robinson
The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything is about the point where natural talent meets personal passion. The author explores the conditions that lead us to live lives filled with passion, confidence, and personal achievement.
Top 30 Quotes From Start With Why by Simon Sinek
How to be an inspiring leader can be learned, it is not limited to “natural-born leaders”. If we learn to start with the WHY, and we are disciplined, we can all become inspiring leaders.
Top 25 Best Quotes From Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
Simon Sinek’s Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t is the natural extension of Start with Why, expanding his ideas at the organizational level.
Top 45 Best Quotes from Grit by Angela Lee Duckworth
Grit is the combination of passion and perseverance. Angela Duckworth found grit to be a stronger predictor of high-achievement than intelligence, talent and other personality traits.
Top 41 Best Quotes from Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
The title and the message of the book by Brené Brown Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, are inspired by a speech given by Teddy Roosevelt in 1910
Top 40 Best Quotes from The Gift of Imperfection by Brené Brown
The Gift of Imperfection is more than a self-help book, it is a motivational and inspiring guide to what she called “wholehearted” living.
TEDx Speaker Amy Blankson and President Russell M. Nelson’s Invitation of a 10-day Social Media Fast
TEDx Talk Speaker Amy Blankson at BYU
Top 25 Best Quotes from Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson
The argument of this book is that a series of shared properties and patterns recur again and again in unusually fertile environments … The more we embrace these patterns — in our private work habits and hobbies, in our office environments, in the design of new software tools — the better we will be at tapping our extraordinary capacity for innovative thinking.
Start with Why by Simon Sinek: Book Review
Why certain leaders or companies are successful, and others are not? Because “people don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it.”
Talk Like Ted by Carmine Gallo
Talk Like Ted by Carmine Gallo
Live Each Day Like It’s Your First, Not Your Last: good idea!
What an interesting idea! I just discovered this very interesting TEDx talk video where Leanne Delle, who is a writer and a registered nurse, explains the problem with “last day” mentality. In the beginning of her talk she refers to the famous Stanford commencement...Follow & like
