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Poke The Box - by Seth Godin 'When was the last time you did something for the first time?' Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling you what you couldn't do. If you lived in that world, what would you do? Go. Do That. Check out Seth's free Poke The Box Workbook here: http://whatyouwilllearn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PoketheBox_Workbook.pdf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dr Robert Cialdini is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Best-Selling author. His first book Influence was published in 1984 and has sold over 3 MILLION copies, and his latest book Pre-Suasion , published in 2016, was a New York Times Best Seller. Dr. Robert Cialdini has spent his entire career researching the science of influence earning him an international reputation as an expert in the fields of persuasion, compliance, and negotiation. In other...
Pre-Suasion - by Robert Cialdini 'A revolutionary way to influence and persuade' After his 1984 masterpiece 'Influence', Robert Cialdini brings us his second book: Pre-Suasion. Influence was all about the CONTENT of your message, whereas Pre-Suasion shows us that it's also important to manage the CONTEXT. The secret doesn't just lie in the message itself, but in the interactions before the message is delivered. You will learn the 'single chute question' for the recipient to hunt for...
Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist. This is an absolute bible for socially and politically navigating the world of relationships. In every single interaction, one individual will have more power and more status, and the other will have less. Be that in your work, business, romance, friendships, family, or otherwise, this book will show youre the 'dos and donts'. ...
We spoke to Rachel Botsman when she was in town recently. Rachel has written a bunch of awesome books and presented some amazing TED Talks. Her TED Talks have had over 4 MILLIONS views and have subtitles in 29 languages. Rachel Botsman writes and researches about how technology is transforming trust and what this means for life, work and how we do business. Rachel is a lecturer at Oxford Universitys Sad Business School, where she designed and teaches the worlds first MBA course on the Collaborat...
The Hero With 1,000 Faces - by Joseph Campbell The hero's journey is can be found in mythology, popular culture and religion. The nucleus involves taking on the call for adventure, slaying the dragon, and returning home with the pot of gold, and with the knowledge and power you have achieved along the way. "The cave you fear to enter, holds the treasure you seek" - Joseph Campbell But most importantly it is a about you. What is your call to adventure, accept the challenge conquer the fear...
Blue Ocean Strategy - by W Chan Kim and Renee Maurborgne 'How to create uncontested market space and make the competition irrelevant' The Problem: Current markets are flooded with competition. More and more companies are competing for smaller and smaller profit margins. This cut-throat battle leaves the water bloody. This is the Red Ocean. The Solution: Swim away from the competition. Make the competition irrelevant. Find somewhere that is wide open. Create a Blue Ocean. Hosted on Acast. ...
We just read and reviewed our 100th book for this podcast. We thought we'd pull together what we found to be the Top 10 lessons from all of these great books: You're gonna die someday Be proactive (realise that you have the power to take action) Get in the arena, don't sit on the sidelines Delayed Gratification (long-term satisfaction far outweighs instant gratification) The Power of Questions and the Importance of Curiosity Bias for Action (thinking and planning and dreaming are nice, but actio...
I Will Teach You To Be Rich - by Ramit Sethi 'No guilt. No excuses. No BS. Just a 6-week program that works' In 2006, the average Goldman Sachs employee made $622,000. That was the AVERAGE! You might think that because of such compensation, they are superior money managers. The truth? You can very easily beet them after fees and taxes with very simple advice. I Will Teach You to be Rich, despite such an embarrassing name that you don't want to get holding the book, can get you back on tra...
The War of Art - by Steven Pressfield 'Break through the blocks and win your inner creative battles' If you're looking to achieve anything, especially something creative, you almost definitely have the skills and abilities to be able to do it. For example, if you want to be a writer, based on the fact that you're reading this, you have the ability to read and write. But being able to write isn't the be-all-and-end-all of actually writing a book. " There's a secret that real writers...
Lean In - by Sheryl Sandberg 'Women, Work and the Will to Lead' This book is all about maximising your career. In parts, it's about how we all do things that sabotage our own opportunities, and in others it's directly targeted at women, such as how they approach juggling the demands of family and work at the same time. Things are different for women at work compared to men, especially in the more senior positions. Sheryl Sandberg, is rated as one of the top 5 most powerful woman in Forbes and ha...
Outliers - by Malcolm Gladwell 'The Story of Success' What seemingly arbitrary fact is common amongst the top Canadian Hockey players? Why are all of today's software billionaires born between 1954-1956? Why did Jews dominate to New York legal landscape in the 1980s, when they struggled to get jobs in the prior decade? Why are Asians so good at math?? Outliers looks beyond individual achievement. Gladwell is less concerned with what the people who achieve success are like, and more intere...
Awaken the Giant Within - by Tony Robbins 'Take immediate control of your mental, emotional, physical and financial destiny' Tony Robbins is a very big papa and one of the most influential people on the planet. Today we review his book Awaken the Giant Within, which is all about releasing the incredible force we have inside us to put a dent in the world. This book essentially has the same content as his 'Date With Destiny' seminar, which costs about 10K to go to - so if you can actively r...
Sapiens - by Yuval Noah Harari 'A brief history of humankind' Human beings have come a long way since we were once apes. We evolved in many different directions - survival in the snowy plains of northern Europe required different traits than those needed to stay alive in Indonesia's steaming jungles. We quickly dispelled of our other human brothers, such as the Neanderthals, because we were given a unique gift: the 'Tree of Life Mutation' sparked a cognitive revolution that allowed us to ...
This is a phenomenal book. This is a must-read if you have any relationships at any level with any other humans. A lot of the concepts are common sense, but thats the beauty of it: we already KNOW all of these things, we just need to be reminded of the best way to bring them all together. Yes, these techniques have been adopted by con-artists and slimy salespeople, but we trust that youll use them for good, not evil. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Thanks for listening to Season 2 of What You Will Learn! In this episode, we'll recap our favourite lessons from our favourite books, our favourite snippets from our favourite interviews, as well as drawing the winner of the Season 2 competition. We'll be back on the 1st of July 2018 with How To Win Friends and Influence People. Grab our Top 50 books: www.whatyouwilllearn.com/top50 Grab a few book summaries: www.whatyouwilllearn.com/summary Adam Ashton's Top 10: 10 - 12 Rules ...
The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck - by Mark Manson 'A counterintuitive approach to living a good life' This is a very popular book - it's been at the top of the charts for a couple of year - so we thought it was time we should check it out. IT's a very conversational, cheeky, matter-of-fact, not-holds-barred approach. Manson tells people what they need to hear - he doesn't sugar coat it in the traditional 'self-improvement' manner. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...
Chip Conley is the best selling author, founder of Joie de Vivre hotels and the Head of Global Hospitality & Strategy at Air BnB. After reviewing the Peak, we were really interested in how to make the climb from the base to the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. We also dive into the value of an education, the peak experience of Burning Man Festival and how he throws a huge party ever 5 years (looks like we are invited, hopefully we can bring you along). He is a legend, we hope you enj...
Jay Papasan tells us "when you're suppose to be working, work. When you're suppose to be playing, play. It's a weird tightrope you're walking, but it's only when you get your priorities mixed up that things fall apart" The antidote to having things fall apart, is by focusing on the One Thing. In this interview we jump in a little deeper from the context of an employee, how to protect your 'one thing' when you are a little bitch and one important habit to install to increase productivity. Jay is ...
The ONE Thing - by Gary Keller & Jay Papasan 'The surprisingly simply truth behind extraordinary results' We believe a lot of lies when it comes to work and productivity: multitasking is a lie, work-life balance is a lie, 'everything matters equally' is a lie. The ONE Thing helps us break down our big long term goal into a series of dominoes, then forces us to focus on just ONE thing, which is knocking over that very first domino. If you hack away at your one thing every day, eventual...
12 Rules For Life - by Jordan Peterson 'An Antidote For Chaos' This book launched in January 2018 and has been pretty much #1 on the charts. Most of the rules are pretty straight forward, some are a little cryptic, but all are necessary to apply to your own life. Stand up straight with your shoulders back Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping Make friends with people who want the best for you Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else ...
Annie Duke is a former poker pro who has shifted her focus to decision making. She won the 2004 World Series of Poker and the 2010 National Heads-Up Poker Championship, amassing career winnings of $4m. Now, she is looking at why people make decisions that aren't in their long-term best interest, how we can gather more information information that would allow us to make better decisions, and how we distinguish between the elements of luck and skill in the outcomes of our decisions. Check out our ...
Thinking In Bets - by Annie Duke 'Making smarter decisions when you don't have all the facts' We make little decisions every single day. We also make bigger decisions regularly - moving house, changing jobs, investing in the stock market, starting/ending a relationship, and so on. In pretty much every case, we don't have all of the information we need, and there is always an element of luck in the outcome. This book is all about viewing every decision as a 'bet' so that we can make better...
We visited Peter Singer (AC), the world's most famous and most influential living philosopher. Singer's career started over four decades ago with the publication of his book 'Animal Liberation' in 1975. He essentially kicked off the animal rights movement and his since applied his utilitarian philosophy to things like charitable giving, poverty, and bioethics. He is currently the Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the Centre of Applied Philosophy at Melbourn...
The Life You Can Save - by Peter Singer 'How to play your part in ending world poverty' If you're reading this book or listening to this podcast, your life is pretty good. Compared to billions of people in the world, we life a comfortable life and we don't have to worry about where our next meal is coming from or if a little mosquito bite could kill you. Singer shows us that we have a responsible to help end suffering and help lift others out of poverty. He also shows us that there are a ...
We spoke to Chris Kresser, a podcaster, blogger and an all round health detective. Looking at the trends in the healthcare budget for the world, we are in a bit of strife: - chronic disease accounts for 7/10 deaths in the USA and for 86% of healthcare expenditure. - number of deaths from Alzheimers has increased 89% since 2000 - more killed by chronic disease than cancer The world healthcare model is failing due to bias (bullshit) in medical research, big pharma (greed) influence and broken paym...
Unconventional Medicine - by Chris Kresser 'Join the revolution to reinvent healthcare, reverse chronic disease, and create a practice you love' There is so much information out there in the world of health, diet and lifestyle, but obesity rates in the western world are higher than ever (and rising!). With that brings a lot of chronic diseases that are reducing our quality of life, but are completely preventable. Kresser shows us all a new way forward: a healthcare revolution. Check out our Top ...
We spoke to Tom Peters, the father of the modern business book. Before 'In Search of Excellence' in 1982, most business information was contained textbooks or academic journals. But thankfully, engaging and insightful information is now available and digestible for everyone. Tom Peters just released a brand new book: 'The Excellence Dividend'. The message is the same as many of his previous works, because most big companies STILL haven't got the idea. 'People First' is Peters's key to succ...
In Search of Excellence - by Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman Jr 'Lessons from America's best run companies' This is widely regarded as one of the very FIRST popular business and management books, the book that created the entire category and brought these ideas from the exclusive academic journals to the masses. Tom Peters and Bob Waterman worked in management consulting at McKinsey and wanted to find out what made an 'excellent' company. They found 8 common traits the excellent o...
Perennial Seller - by Ryan Holiday 'The art of making and marketing work that lasts' This book is all about putting in the time and effort and energy into making something that is really really good, and then getting it out into the world. It's about making something 'perennial', something that will last for decades and still be selling in the future, not putting together some low-quality garbage and a flash-in-the-pan scammy marketing campaign to sell a lot of copies in a quick amount of...
