8 Things The Most Successful People Do That Make Them Great
ere's A Right Way To Learn Want to be more successful? Actually, that's not ambitious enough -- want to be the best? I do. So I called my friend Daniel Coyle, author of the best books on getting better at anything: The Talent Code and The Little Book of Talent. Dan knows that the "10,000 hour rule" is nice but you need to align your effort with the way your brain was designed to learn. Hours are vital but you can get to mastery faster…
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How To Be A Better Parent: 3 Counterintuitive Lessons From Science
cerpts from my interview with Po Bronson, New York Times bestselling author of NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children, about how to be a better parent. 1) Peer Pressure Can Be A Good Thing Myth: Peer pressure is always bad, just leading kids to drinking, drugs and vandalism. Fact: The same instinct that makes some kids so vulnerable to peer pressure also makes them better students, friends and, eventually, partners. Po Bronson: The same kids who were very vulnerable to peer pressure…
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The Leadership Secret Steve Jobs And Mark Zuckerberg Have In Common
cerpts from my interview with Robert Sutton, professor at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and author of Scaling Up Excellence: Getting To More Without Settling For Less. What You Can Learn About Leadership From Jobs And Zuckerberg Robert Sutton: We all have imperfections and surrounding yourself with people who can do things you can't is really essential. If you just look at Zuckerberg, the guy is very, very focused on the product and is probably not particularly great interpersonally. So…
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The Art Of Negative Thinking: How Negativity Can Make You Happier
cerpts from my interview with Oliver Burkeman, author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking. What The Ancient Stoics Can Teach You About Happiness Oliver Burkeman: To sum up the Stoic perspective very simply: it's your beliefs about the world that cause distress, not the world itself. Eric: And this leads to a very powerful technique for increasing happiness. Oliver Burkeman: Yes. It's what the Stoics call, "the premeditation" - that there's actually a lot…
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The Scientific Way To Survive The Zombie Apocalypse
's Halloween! Let's talk to a PhD neuroscientist about the zombie brain and the scientific way to survive the zombie apocalypse. Bradley Voytek is a neuroscientist and cognitive scientist at UCSD. He did his PhD in neuroscience at UC Berkeley and post-doc research in neurology at UCSS. He’s also one of the "leading experts" on the zombie brain and is currently writing a book on it for Princeton University Press. Bradley and I spoke about the zombie brain, the most realistic zombie…
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FBI Profiler Jim Clemente Talks Serial Killers, Deception And Danger
terview with FBI Profiler Jim Clemente Jim Clemente is a retired FBI profiler who worked at the elite Behavioral Analysis Unit at Quantico. He investigated serial killers, serial rapists, child abduction, child homicide cases, and was part of the team that cracked the DC Sniper case. Jim worked undercover on Wall Street, participated in the Whitewater investigation, was on the scene after the towers fell on 9/11 and was brought in to consult on interrogation after the controversy at Guantanamo. He…
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Which Job Skills Will Be Most Important In The Coming Years?
2011, Foreign Policy Magazine named Tyler Cowen #72 in their list of the "Top 100 Global Thinkers." He is a professor of economics at George Mason University and, along with Alex Tabarrok, he blogs at Marginal Revolution, one of the most popular economics sites on the internet. Tyler is a New York Times bestselling author, having written 13 books including Discover Your Inner Economist and The Great Stagnation. His latest book is Average Is Over which gives a fascinating look into where the…
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Susan Cain Interview: 5 Things You Need To Know About Introverts
san Cain is the New York Times bestselling author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. It's one of the best books I read last year and I've posted about it numerous times (here, here, here and here.) Her wonderful TED talk on the subject has nearly 5 million views: Susan and I discussed how introverts and extroverts should best deal with each other, what we can all learn from introverts, and how she…
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