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Secrets Of Peak Performance Of Any Skill

Have you ever wanted to learn a language or pick up an instrument, only to be[image error]come too daunted by the task at hand? Expert performance guru Anders Ericsson has made a career studyingchess champions, violin virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens.

Peakcondenses three decades of original research to introduce an incredibly powerful approach to learning that is fundamentally different from the way people traditionally think about acquiring a skill.

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LinkFest ~ Best Reads on Writing, Screenwriting & Self-Publishing: Yourself

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The Key To Creating A Wholly Believable Character | LIVE WRITE THRIVE

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The Surprising Habits Of Original Thinkers

You’re not at your best when you’re stressed. In fact, your brain has ev[image error]olved over millennia to release cortisol in stressful situations, inhibiting rational, logical thinking but potentially helping you survive, say, being attacked by a lion.

Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, author of The Organized Mind, thinks there’s a way to avoid making critical mistakes in stressful situations, when your thinking becomes clouded — the pre-mortem. “We all are going to fail now and then,” he says. “The ide...

The Seventh Imperative Of Successful Individuals

If you are happy being just a dreamer, perhaps you don’t need this book.[image error]

If you’re enjoying the status quo, don’t even consider reading this book.

If you are content waiting for success to find you, please put this book down and go find something else to read.

Why has Poke the Box become a cult classic?

Because it’s a book that dares readers to do something they’re afraid of.

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Starting a project, making a ruckus, taking what feels like a risk.

Not just ‘I’m...

The Poet Who Painted With His Words

Among the great poets of literary history, certain names like Homer, Shakespear[image error]e and Whitman are instantly recognizable. However, there’s an early 20th century great poet whose name you may not know: Guillaume Apollinaire.[image error]

Geneviève Emy shows how during Apollinaire’s short lifetime he created poetry that combined text and image in a way that seemingly predicted a artistic revolution to come.

He was a close friend and collaborator of artists like Picasso, Rousseau, and Chagall. He coined the...

Who’s Making Your Lunch Today?

No More Dreaded Mondays will show you that meaningful work really is within [image error]your grasp. And once you’ve opened the door and seen all the exciting career opportunities that await you—whether you decide to revolutionize your current job or launch a new career altogether—you’ll find you can’t go back to the old way of working

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Winston Churchill said, ‘To every man there comes in his lifetime that special moment when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered a chance...

What Would Plato Think of Crowdsourcing?

Philosopher Rebecca Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex: Why Phil[image error]osophy Won’t Go Away, on what Plato would think of technology today.

If Plato were to come back today I think he would have a lot to say about so many things but crowdsourcing would be of great interest to him. I take Plato to the Googleplex and he’s very, very interested in our technology. And that would appeal to him very much. But he gets into a conversation at the Googleplex with a software engineer on crowdsourci...

Intuition: Navigating By Wisdom

We all have so much going on. A million different projects, to-do lists lo[image error]nger than your arm. We all worry about things – money, deadlines. With all this buzzing around in our heads it’s often a nightmare trying to concentrate on one thing. What if someone could show you how to empty your mind of all the noise? If you could be shown how to de-clutter your mind and concentrate on one important thing?

Well Jamie Smart, state-of-mind specialist, can do just that – with Clarity he will show you...

Want More Motivation? Take This Counterintuitive Lesson from the Marines

Probably few organizations value self-motivation like the U.S. Marine Co[image error]rps, so when their recruits began showing deficiencies, officers dug into the latest psychologist research. What they found is that one’s “locus of control” greatly determines the extent of self-motivation: do you believe you are firmly in control of your destiny or that external events determine your life?

Individuals whose locus of control is internal, i.e. they believe they control their own destiny, have a greater im...

3 Tips On How To Shift Your Mind

In Shift your mind, Steve Chandler dramatically unveils all [image error]the processes and techniques he uses with his clients (and himself) to produce the mind shifts that lead to happiness, prosperity and a peaceful sense of fulfillment in life.

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I used to wait around and hope somebody would give me a big opportunity. I used to think that was what I needed…so that I could show what I could do! I used to think that way.

Those were the days before the mind shifts started… t...