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Interview: Show Your Work with Austin Kleon Nov 17, 2015

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This is Austin Kleon's second masterful little book on optimizing creativity. The first? Steal Like an Artist. After learning how to get our creativity on, we're ready to become the artist whose ideas *others* steal. Big Ideas include chain creating, micro sabbaticals, playing till the 9th inning, troll pooper scoopers, and the #1 way to get more followers.

PNTV - Bounce by Matthew Syed Nov 16, 2015

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What do you think about excellence? Do you think it’s primarily driven by natural, inborn talent? Or, do you think that it’s primarily driven by effort? Matthew Syed tells us that’s a very important decision that has a broad impact on how we show up and shows us how to Bounce into our highest potential. Big Ideas we explore include: the iceberg illusion, 1 million balls, doublethink and the importance of purposeful practice + the growth mindset.

Interview: Black Box Thinking with Matthew Syed Nov 15, 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.

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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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.

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