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Decoding Greatness: The Hidden Strategy for Achieving Extraordinary Success
The game-changing approach to success that will transform the way you master new skills and generate creative ideas. Learn how to work like top performers and use reverse engineering to unlock your full potential.
‘An eye-opening, fast-paced read that will transform the way you approach your next project.’ Shawn Achor
For generations, we've been taught there are two ways to succeed - either from talent or through practice. In Decoding Greatness , award-winning social psychologist Ron Friedman illuminates a powerful third path - one that has quietly launched icons in a wide range of fields, from artists, writers, and chefs, to athletes, inventors and reverse engineering.
To reverse engineer is to decode what works for others and learn how to apply those same methods and strategies to develop your own unique ideas and projects. Exploring what lies behind the success of top performers – from Agatha Christie to Andy Warhol, Barack Obama to Serena Williams, and many more – you will learn from the best. Combined with ground-breaking research on pattern recognition, skill acquisition, motivation, performance and creativity, this book is a practical guide to achieving success within any field.
Decoding Greatness provides a new way of thinking and working, and through unforgettable stories and strategies, you will learn how to improve your skills and spark break-through ideas. And once you have learned this formula, you can apply it to anything.
‘An eye-opening, fast-paced read that will transform the way you approach your next project.’ Shawn Achor
For generations, we've been taught there are two ways to succeed - either from talent or through practice. In Decoding Greatness , award-winning social psychologist Ron Friedman illuminates a powerful third path - one that has quietly launched icons in a wide range of fields, from artists, writers, and chefs, to athletes, inventors and reverse engineering.
To reverse engineer is to decode what works for others and learn how to apply those same methods and strategies to develop your own unique ideas and projects. Exploring what lies behind the success of top performers – from Agatha Christie to Andy Warhol, Barack Obama to Serena Williams, and many more – you will learn from the best. Combined with ground-breaking research on pattern recognition, skill acquisition, motivation, performance and creativity, this book is a practical guide to achieving success within any field.
Decoding Greatness provides a new way of thinking and working, and through unforgettable stories and strategies, you will learn how to improve your skills and spark break-through ideas. And once you have learned this formula, you can apply it to anything.
288 pages, Hardcover
Published June 15, 2021
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Ron Friedman
14 books5 followersRon Friedman is an author, lighting designer, cook, gardener, inventor, photographer, father, step-father, and husband. He has worked as a waiter, advertising copywriter, salesman, a truck-driver, warehouseman, county road-crewman, and a sheep-herder.
He is the author of Night Shines as
Day, a novel, and numerous short stories and essays. He is the principal of Art & Science Lighting Design, an architectural lighting consultancy.
He lives in Northern Ohio with his wife, Sue, and Tille, The Farm Dog.
He is the author of Night Shines as
Day, a novel, and numerous short stories and essays. He is the principal of Art & Science Lighting Design, an architectural lighting consultancy.
He lives in Northern Ohio with his wife, Sue, and Tille, The Farm Dog.
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