8 takeaways from Dale Carnagie's book How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie - Book Summary
Writing
Garner's Modern English Usage 4th Edition, by Bryan Garner, 2016
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation: An Easy-to-Use Guide with Clear Rules, Real-World Examples, and Reproducible Quizzes by Lester Kaufman and Jane Straus
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser
The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker
Write Right!: A Desktop Digest of Punctuation, Grammar, and Style by Jan Venolia
Best Punctuation Book, Period: A Comprehensive Guide for Every Writer, Editor, Student, and Businessperson by June Casagrande
The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase by Mark Forsyth
Grammar testing:
Copyediting
The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications Fourth Edition by Amy Einsohn
Copyediting 101: Grammar, Style & Practice by Ashan R. Hampton
Various videos:
Sales trainers:
Schools of selling:
Sales process steps:
Selling a service:
Get Laser Focus On Your Goals In 3 Steps (That Habit Guy Channel)
Miyamoto Musashi:
Prioritization[edit]
Organizational skills
Time Management and Prioritization
How to Stop Procrastinating: Top Tricks - Reader's Digest
Managing emails:
Time orientation:
Reading speed:
Helpful Time Management websites:
Entertainment vs. education/productivity:
Amusing ourselves to death by Neil Postman - review by Library Point
Project management skills - Mindtools
Project execution:
Free project management software:
Paid project management software tools:
Videos:
Finding meaning in difficult times (Interview with Dr. Viktor Frankl) - Decision/action/freedom/responsibility; Despair = Suffering - Meaning. Meaning - For what purpose is this happening? Ultimate meaning/theology.
What Makes a Survivor? by Lawrence Gonzalez
General articles:
The Resiliency Advantage by Al Siebert, PhD
Books:
The Resiliency Advantage by Al Siebert
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales
Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience by Laurence Gonzales
Having a Plan B and resilience, Time Power: A Proven System for Getting More Done in Less Time Than You Ever Thought Possible By Brian Tracy, 2007, page 128.
Therapism
The notion that human beings are fragile and permanently damaged by traumatic experiences.
Therapism: The obsession with mental health is bad for everyone’, Creates invalidism.. PTSD has some validity, but way overblown. Vietnam War politicized this issue. Threshold for what constitutes a traumatic event has been lowered. Victim culture affected this also.
Books:
Models
Peter Clough and MTQ48:
4Cs of mental toughness - video
Mental Toughness The Four C’s - video
The 4C's of Mental Strength -video
Dr. Jim Loehr:
Adversity quotient:
Adversity advantage (harnessing adversity for motivation/character development instead of merely trying to cope with it)
General
Dealing with adversity:
Coming back after facing adversity:
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Various niches:
How to Apply Cialdini’s Six Principles of Influence to Your Website
How to Use Cialdini’s 6 Principles of Persuasion to Boost Conversions
Asking questions:
Unleashing the ideavirus by Seth Godin
Unleashing the ideavirus - free pdf by Seth God
Writing a book to market your expertise
In 2011, CNN Money recently wrote:
- "While the Internet's impact has also killed some jobs, it creates about 2.6 jobs for every one destroyed"
- "Companies using the Internet with a high intensity grow twice as quickly as low-intensity Web companies, export twice as much as they do, and create more than twice as many jobs."
- "In the United States alone, the Internet drove 15% of the country's economic growth between 2004 and 2009"
Independent internet workers vs. other workers:
In November of 2011, CNBC reported:
"MBO Partners found just the opposite. Nearly 80 percent of independent workers in the survey say they are highly satisfied (58 percent) or satisfied (21 percent) with their work situation; just 11 percent are dissatisfied. Only 19 percent plan on looking for a traditional job in the next 24 months. Instead, 63 percent plan to continue as independent workers; 12 percent say they want to build their operations into businesses with employees."
In 2010, the popular news website The Week reported that only 45% of workers reported liking their jobs, so clearly independent workers are much happier with their working life than the average worker.
Avoiding errant thinking:
Books:
Superthinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg (founder of DuckDuckGo search engine)
Cognitive bias mitigation:
Recognizing the tactics of those engaged in disinformation:
Lines of questioning:
Strategic questioning:
Questions for business:
videos:
Renewing your mind by R.C Spoule
Jim Rohn Books:
"The first to plead his case seems right, Until another comes and examines him." - Solomon, (Proverbs 18:17 NASB)
Ray Dalios 5 steps to success (problem solving included):
Articles:
Systems thinking:
George Polya's 4 steps to problem solving:
How to solve it - overview by George Polya
VUCA:
General problem solving:
Mind mapping:
Mindmeister - Chrome store - Works with Google drive
Lateral thinking:
Creative problem solving:
Vuca:
Forecasting:
Multiple strategies
Guide to creative thinking by Brian Tracy
Unlocking creativity by Brian Tracy
International Center for Studies in Creativity:
Now here:
CNN - Next, innovation:
Innovation articles:
Ray Dalio: Be radically open-minded:
General:
Personal strategic plan - slideshare overview
Creating a personal strategic plan:
Personal balance assessment:
Personal strategic plan: workbooks, checklists, etc.:
Strategic and tactical thinking
The Indirect Approach by B. H. Liddell Hart
Sun Tzu:
George Washington:
"Washington’s true genius as a military leader was his refusal to give up. He was also very much inclined as a leader to listen to the other military leaders around him. Invariably, he adopted the consensus of opinion reached by his military advisers in making his decisions. Unlike flashier generals, Washington was always able to maintain a steady demeanor and, most importantly, keep his army in being. A lesser general would have risked all for a spectacular but non-decisive victory against the British. As a leader who valued winning the war more than winning individual battles, Washington knew well that time was on his side given the realities of geography and the larger geopolitical situation." - Command and Control, Great Military Leaders from Washington to the 21st Century by Mark R. Polelle
"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all." - George Washington
Sun Tzu and marketing:
Sun Tzu and business:
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer (Author)
Other tips to improve mental performance: