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if you want to change the world, you have to enroll others in your plans and vision.
Josh Waitzkin joshwaitzkin.com
Ernest Hemingway on Writing: The most potent little book of wisdom on the creative process that I have run into.
“Life is fucking beautiful.”
Ann Miura-Ko TW: @annimaniac IG: @amiura floodgate.com
Jason Fried TW: @jasonfried basecamp.com
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”—Theodore Roosevelt
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”—William Bruce Cameron
Focus on your writing skills. It’s the one thing I’ve found that really helps people stand out. More and more communication is written today. Get great at presenting yourself with words, and words alone, and you’ll be far ahead of most.
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” –Frederick Douglass African-American social reformer, leader of the abolitionist movement
Arianna Huffington TW: @ariannahuff thriveglobal.com
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
time spent taking breaks, taking a walk, unplugging, meditating—that’s all work time, too, in the sense that time spent unplugging and recharging makes me better, more effective, and happier in my work and in my life.
“Burnout is not the price you have to pay for success.”
Science tells us the complete opposite—when we prioritize our well-being, our performance goes up across the board.
Gary Vaynerchuk TW/IG: @garyvee garyvaynerchuk.com
Everybody’s impatient at a macro, and just so patient at a micro, wasting your days worrying about years. I’m not worried about my years, because I’m squeezing the fuck out of my seconds, let alone my days. It’s going to work out.
Tim O’Reilly TW/FB: @timoreilly LI: linkedin.com/in/timo3/ tim.oreilly.com
“Work on stuff that matters.”
“Create more value than you capture.”
This is the master design pattern for applying technology: Do more. Do things that were previously unimaginable.
It is this ability to wait quietly for the right moment, rather than rushing about aimlessly, that can lead even an ambitious success-hunter to capture the biggest game.
Tom Peters TW: @tom_peters tompeters.com
The Little BIG Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence.
Tom has given more than 2,500 speeches, and his speech and writing materials are available for free at tompeters.com.
Susan Cain’s book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Frank Partnoy’s Wait: The Art and Science of Delay, Linda Kaplan-Thaler’s The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World with Kindness and The Power of Small: Why Little Things Make All the Difference, and Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.
My advice is of a different sort: Good manners pay off big time. I assume you’re smart and I assume you work hard. But being civil and decent and kind is the bedrock of career success, as well as personal fulfillment. (And if anybody tells you that’s a “soft” idea, send ’em to me and I’ll give ’em a “hard” punch in the nose.)
Bear Grylls TW/IG: @BearGrylls FB: /RealBearGrylls beargrylls.com
Rhinoceros Success by Scott Alexander.
Brené Brown IG/FB: @brenebrown brenebrown.com
Einstein said, “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.”
Leo Babauta TW: @zen_habits zenhabits.net
“You are good enough, just as you are. Breathe, and relax into the moment.”
I think the best book for beginners is What Is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind by Norman Fischer.
Mike D IG: @miked beastieboys.com
Esther Dyson TW: @edyson wellville.net
The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease by Marc Lewis. Addiction is short-term desire. Purpose is long-term desire.
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir. An explanation of scarcity for rich intellectuals, showing how poor people do stupid things for lack of money, while rich people do stupid things for lack of time.
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett. How consciousness arises, and how much it depends on a sense of past, present, and future (plus a lot of other interesting insights).
Kevin Kelly TW: @kevin2kelly kk.org
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke:
The Whole Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand:
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman:
The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi:
The Bible:
Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter:
Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse:
Ashton Kutcher FB: /Ashton aplus.com
He is currently a co-founder and chairman of the board of A Plus, a digital media company devoted to spreading the message of positive journalism,
