Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Do you ever have the impression that no one takes your ideas seriously? It turns out that all ideas that spread like wildfire share some common principles. Learn how to apply them.
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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
Brain Rules is a fascinating book that explores twelve simple principles to help us make the best use of our brains, enabling us to become better teachers, students, parents and business leaders. Check out the full scoop.
A Whole New Mind
The rules of the game are changing: in order to thrive in this new era of abundance of cheap processing capabilities, we must acquire a new set of skills. Although “left brain skills” continue to be useful, they’re not enough anymore.
How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci
How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci does a superb job of capturing the essence of Leonardo’s genius and laying it out in a practical framewor. Here are the 7 key areas that shaped Leonardo’s genius and which you can use for your own self-improvement.
The Medici Effect
In The Medici Effect, author Frans Johansson explores one simple yet profound insight about innovation: in the intersection of different fields, disciplines and cultures, there’s an abundance of extraordinary new ideas to be explored. Click and check the full book summary.
Study Matrix Mind Map Showcase
Recently, from a comment in blog, I found Adam Sicinski’s IQ Matrix Blog. What a wonderful surprise! The website has a wealth of amazing, beautifully-crafted mind maps about various topics relevant to personal development. Check it out.
Journal to the Self: 13 Tools to Make Journaling Work for You
In this post, I present 13 specific journaling tools you can start using immediately, along with a mind map of the great book Journal to the Self.
Getting to Yes
Learning to better negotiate is more useful than you would probably think. Here’s a summary of the book Getting to Yes, which presents the great concept of principled negotiation, useful in many life situations. Check it out.