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Interview: The Game-Changers Blueprint with Robin Sharma Nov 14, 2015

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Robin Sharma is one of the world's leading authorities on leadership, greatness and living an extraordinary life. Join us for an inspiring chat about some of his top Big Ideas on how to optimize and actualize!

PNTV: How Successful People Think by John Maxwell Nov 13, 2015

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John Maxwell is one of the world's authorities on leadership. He's sold over 25 million (!) books. This is a quick-reading 127 pages packed with wisdom and Big Ideas on Maxwell's eleven essential types of thinking—ranging from Big-Picture thinking to Realistic Thinking and everything in between. Big Ideas we explore include the power of targets for focused thinking, becoming a possibility thinker and anxietivity—how creativity and anxiety go together.

Micro Class - No Pressure No Diamonds Nov 12, 2015

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In my interview with Steven Kotler about The Rise of Superman his #1 piece of advice was to remember this: “No pressure, no diamonds.” It’s time to rise.

PNTV - Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed Nov 11, 2015

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Failure. Some of us lean into it and learn as much as we can from it, and some of us prefer to avoid thinking about it and/or pretend it never happened. As you may guess, one approach leads to dramatically better performance over the long run. (Hint: Seeing failure as feedback + learning opportunities is a very wise idea.) Big Ideas we explore include a quick look at the aviation vs. health care industries, the importance of quantity of work if you want quality, marginal gains, cognitive dissonance and pre-mortems.

Micro Class - Your Mind as a Video Game Nov 10, 2015

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Imagine your mind as a video game. If you're playing intelligently, you're learning as you advance thru levels. Always better than getting killed by the same monster in the same spot every.single.time, eh?!

PNTV: The Motivation Manifesto by Brendon Burchard Nov 09, 2015

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Brendon Burchard is one of the most popular motivation and business marketing experts in the world. (To put it in perspective: He's one of the Top 100 most popular public figures on Facebook and has twice as many fans as Tony Robbins.) This book is packed with Big Ideas. We explore the root of the word motivation, how to spark + sustain + amplify our motivation, eliminating digital addictions, and creating out own motivation manifesto.

Interview: The Willpower Instinct with Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D. Nov 08, 2015

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Willpower. It's huge. The Willpower Instinct by award-winning Stanford Professor Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D., is a GREAT book based on "The Science of Willpower" class Kelly teaches through Stanford University's Continuing Studies program. It's *packed* with super practical Big Ideas on the newest scientific insights about self-control to explamkdirin how we can "break old habits and create healthy habits, conquer procrastination, find our focus, and manage stress." In this Note, we'll check out the #1 way to build willpower (it's not what you'd guess), how to give ourselves willpower boosts throughout the day and other stress-relief strategies that rock.

Interview: The Upside of Stress with Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D. Nov 07, 2015

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If you've ever had stress in your life (hah!) and wondered how to deal with it more optimally, I think you'll love this. McGonigal tells us that how we THINK about stress plays a huge role in its affect on us and walks us thru the science behind it. Rather than try to get rid of stress (good luck with that!), we're much better off shifting our mindsets to embrace and use the stress wisely!

Interview: How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big with Scott Adams Nov 06, 2015

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Dilbert creator Scott Adams is a funny guy. He's also a wise human robot. In this chat, we explore some of my favorite Big Ideas from his great (!) book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big (sub-title: Kind of the Story of My Life <-- hah!). Big Ideas include the importance of systems (and why they trump goals), deciding vs. wanting, programming your moist robot, the mysterious power of affirmations, and being the first against the odds.

PNTV - Smartcuts by Shane Snow Nov 04, 2015

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Shane Snow is a journalist and entrepreneur who takes us on a fascinating tour of “How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success.” The book is packed with stories capturing the ascent of everyone from young Presidents, Jimmy Fallon, and Elon Musk—and, of course, the “Smartcuts” they used to get there. Big Ideas we explore include: the power of progress, failure as feedback, creating a deep reservoir, stripping away the unnecessary and 10Xing our thinking.

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