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Mastery (Part 3: Unleashing Creativity) Jan 10, 2020

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This is Part 3 of our 3-part series on 'Mastery' by Robert Greene. Now that we've discovered our calling in part 1, then went through an apprenticeship in part 2, it's time to bring in creativity to make something new and original and masterful. Using historical examples, Greene gives us some strategies for developing something unique.

If you're just discovering this episode, you might want to check out the previous two episodes first to lay the foundations:

Part 1 = Discover Your Calling

Part 2 = The Apprenticeship

Part 3 = Unleashing Creativity

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Mastery (Part 2: The Apprenticeship) Jan 08, 2020

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All of us are born with an essentially similar brain, with more or less the same configuration and potential for mastery. Why is it then that in history only a limited number of people seem to truly excel and realize this potential power?

In today's episode we cover part 2 of our 3-part series, The Apprenticeship phase. We will learn about the 3 Modes of the Apprenticeship Phase, strategies for completing the ideal apprenticeship, and the Mentor dynamic.

Part 1 = Discover Your Calling (previous episode)

Part 2 = The Apprenticeship (this episode)

Part 3 = Unleashing Creativity (next episode)

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Mastery (Part 1: Discover Your Calling) Jan 04, 2020

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Robert Greene has done it again with Mastery.

We are a one time phenomenon in the universe - our exact genetic makeup has never occurred before nor will it ever be repeated. At your birth a seed is planted, that is your uniqueness.

This is Part 1 of our 3-part series, in this episode you'll learn about how to develop your uniqueness and find Your Life's Task.

Part 1 = Discover Your Calling

Part 2 = The Apprenticeship

Part 3 = Unleashing Creativity

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Best of 2019 Dec 30, 2019

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As we come to the end of another year of the podcast, we look back on our favourite books we've read this season (so far). As we do at the end of every year then again at the end of every season, we each look back and rank all of the books we read, compile our respective 'Top 10' lists, then share the biggest lessons we took from each book. This is a great way to get a taste of all of the books and decide which ones you want to dive into further and listen to the full episode.

Adam Ashton's favourites:

10. Turning Pro - by Steven Pressfield

9. Getting Past No - by William Ury

8. Eat That Frog! - by Brian Tracy

7. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big - by Scott Adams

6. Oh, The Places You'll Go! - by Dr Seuss

5. Grit - by Angela Duckworth

4. Ego Is The Enemy - by Ryan Holiday

3. Thinking, Fast and Slow - by Daniel Kahneman

2. Unscripted - by MJ DeMarco

1. Meditations - by Marcus Aurelius

Adam Jones's favourites:

10. Zero to One - by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters

9. Ego Is The Enemy - by Ryan Holiday

8. Quiet - by Susan Cain

7. Getting Past No - by William Ury

6. Unscripted - by MJ DeMarco

5. Oh, The Places You'll Go! - by Dr Seuss

4. Homo Deus - by Yuval Noah Harari

3. Collapse - by Jared Diamond

2. Thinking, Fast and Slow - by Daniel Kahneman

1. Antifragile - by Nassim Taleb

Read the full blog post here: https://whatyouwilllearn.com/best-books-we-read-in-2019/

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The Body Dec 20, 2019

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The body is often likened to a machine. But it is much more than that, it works 24 hours a day for decades without for most part, needing regular servicing or the installation of spare parts. It runs on water and a few other organic compounds, is soft and rather lovely, reproduces itself with enthusiasm, feels affection and appreciates the sunset How many machines behave like that?

In this episode we'll take you through the best bits of Bill Bryson -The Body, we'll look at the microbial organ, food, exercise medicine and death. Enjoy!

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The One Minute Manager Dec 14, 2019

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The book breaks down effective management through the tale of the 'One Minute Manager' through 3 simple secrets.

The First Secret - One Minute Goals

Most organisations when you ask people what they do and then ask their boss, normally you get two different lists.

Once the manager has told you what needs to be done, or you have agreed what needs to be done, each goal is recorded on no more than a single page. The OMM then feels that a goal and its performance standard should take max 250 words. It should be able to be read in a minute.

The Second Secret - One Minute Praisings

Hardly anyone sees the One Minute Manager, except at the start. He knows it would be a lot easier for employees to do well if you get crystal clear feedback from him on how you are doing.

After the goals are set, the OMM is watching the employee like a hawk. He always keeping a close eye and taking notes. At first you think it is because you think he doesn't trust you, that is until I found out from some of the other people who report to him what he was really doing.

He was actually trying to catch me doing something right.

The Third Secret - The One Minute Reprimands

For those who have been there a while, they typically only see the OMM when they do something wrong. If you make a mistake, that's when you get the one minute reprimand.

He looks you straight in the eye, and tells you precisely what you did wrong. Then he shares how he feels - angry, annoyed, frustrated or whatever he is feeling.

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Ego Is The Enemy Dec 07, 2019

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Ego Is The Enemy - by Ryan Holiday

'The fight to master our greatest opponent'

All of us, at every stage of life, are the victims of our own ego. Our ego leads us to strive too far, expect too much, assume that we're deserving - all before we've even done the work. If we achieve success our ego makes us do things that lead us to failure, if we fail our ego crushes our attempts to get up and try again.

"It's always nice to be made to feel special or empowered or inspired. But that's not the aim of this book". Instead, Holiday has tried to arrange the passages of the book so that you may end in the same place he did when he was writing it: you think LESS of yourself. He hopes you will be less invested in the story you tell yourself about your own specialness, and as a result, you will be liberated to ACCOMPLISH the world-changing work you've set out to achieve.

The aim of the book is simple: to help you suppress ego early before bad habits take hold, to replace the temptations of ego with humility and discipline, when we experience success, and cultivate strength when you go through failure. Hopefully the book will help us be humble in our aspirations, gracious in our success, and resilient in our failure.

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Dr Karl (Round 3): Random Road Trip Through Science Dec 04, 2019

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Our third annual pilgrimage to Sydney took us right back to Dr Karl's office. His brand new book, Dr Karl's Random Road Trip Through Science, features an Augmented Reality app with Dr Karl popping out of the book to share his wealth of wisdom. (If you've been listening to the show for a few years, this is certainly 'breaking the script' and is a definite 'purple cow').

We talk about a bunch of random scientific things Karl learnt this year, as well an injecting a nice amount of conspiracy theory too.

Check out more Dr Karl and grab his free AR app: https://drkarl.com/

Listen to our previous two episodes with Dr Karl: https://whatyouwilllearn.com/doctorkarl/ and https://whatyouwilllearn.com/drkarl-round2/

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Eat That Frog! Nov 30, 2019

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Eat That Frog! - by Brian Tracy

'21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time'

There is never enough time to do everything you have to do. You are literally swamped with work and personal responsibilities, endless emails, social media, projects, side projects, stacks of newspapers to read, a pile of books you want to get to 'some day' as soon as you get caught up on everything else. But the fact is that you are NEVER going to get caught up. You will never get 'on top' of your tasks. You will never get far enough ahead to be able to get to all those emails, books, newspapers, and leisure time activities that you dream of.

Forget about trying to solve your time management problems by being more productive. No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplishing the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.

You can get control of your life only by changing the way you think, work, and deal with the never-ending river of responsibilities that flow over you each day. You can get control of your tasks and actives only to the degree that you can STOP doing some things and START spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.

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Radical Acceptance Nov 23, 2019

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Revealed how painfully burdened they feel by a sense of not being good enough. We don't have to wait until we are on our deathbed to realize what a waste of our precious lives it is to carry the belief that something is wrong with us. Yet because our habits of feeling so insufficient are so strong, awakening from the trance involves not only inner resolve, but also an active training of the heart and mind.

Through Buddhist awareness and practices, we free ourselves from the suffering of trance by learning to recognize what is true in the present moment, embracing whatever we see with an open heart. This is radical acceptance. It reverses our habit of living at war with experiences that are unfamiliar, frightening or intense. It is the necessary antidote to years of neglecting ourselves, years of judging and treating ourselves harshly, years of rejecting this moment's experience. It is the willingness to experience ourselves and our life as it is.

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