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Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts (2018) by social researcher and best-selling author Brené Brown explains how to create an organizational culture built upon principles of vulnerability, connection, and meaning. For 20 years, Brown has researched vulnerability, and Dare to Lead incorporates her extensive data around shame and its cure, empathy; in addition, she interweaves the results of a seven-year education project on vulnerability and leadership, which Brown designed and implemented…

If you’re looking for ways to fully maximize your potential, then listen to this collection of audiobooks. It presents the key wisdom from four of the best personal development guides out there. Better You Box Set: Summaries is a collection of four summaries from some of the most insightful and powerful personal development guides ever published: Grit, by Angela Duckworth; Smarter Faster Better, by Charles Duhigg; Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman; and 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R Covey.

In Angela Duckworth's New York Times best-selling book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, she offers a systematic approach to finding success that discards the antiquated concept being "gifted" and instead focuses on rewarding hard work and cultivating the grit to push through adversity.

Discover how to achieve lasting happiness in a changing world in this audio summary of The Book of Joy.

Published in 2011, The 10X Rule approaches not only problems within the US economy after the stock market dip of 2008, but it also discusses issues within the mentality of employees remaining in the workforce after the crash. This audiobook encapsulates key takeaways found in the original book. We’ve also provided an in-depth analysis as well as removing any fluff to save you hours of your time. If you’ve read or listened to the original, then this audio summary will help you solidify the most important lessons.

We must learn to unlearn and then rethink what we believe and fight for when new information is presented. This can be applied to everything, from changing school majors to knowing what your perfect life partner will be like. Knowing how to rethink and approach things with a scientific lens can also help a business when trying to help others change direction or simply set the tone for a new organization.

Get the main key insights from this summary of Brianna Wiest’s 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think in just a short listen.

This book, 'Mastering College Essay Writing with 3-Paragraph and 5-Paragraph Essay' is to help you write college essay of 3-paragraph essay or 5-paragraph essay from the basics to many practices. Are you ready to write college essays with this book without worrying about it? This book will benefit students in high school or college, as well as teachers helping students and people after college.

Beliefs are very powerful. When you change your beliefs, you change your behavior and thus your outcomes. This is not some new age feel-good idea. There is solid research to back this up. I'll give you two examples. Gunder Hägg, a Swedish athlete, held the record for the one-mile run at 4:01.4, which he achieved on July 17, 1945. It took nine years for that record to be broken. On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister broke that record and ran the one mile at 3:59.4. Only two months later, that record was broken, and every few years since then the record is set lower and lower.

This is the audio summary of Switch, a book that explores how transforming your mindset can produce effective change.

This is a summary, analysis, and review of Tiny Habits, a concise and practical guide to creating long-term change by behavior scientist BJ Fogg, who explains the drivers of human behavior and outlines the steps anyone can take to create and sustain positive change.

Design thinking has helped hundreds of their students resolve some of their most pressing problems and dilemmas, and it can do the same for you, too. The duo reminds you - with the clarity and assurance that's only the reserve of seasoned instructors - that it's okay if you are 60 and haven't figured out your life yet, because everyone has multiple life versions to figure out.

Viktor Frankl's memoir, Man's Search for Meaning is about so much more than one man's experiences in a concentration camp. As a book about the Holocaust, it helps to shed light on the day-to-day struggles that inmates faced physically, psychologically, and socially. But it also reaches far beyond camp life and into the meaning of life itself.

In his acclaimed memoir, 10% Happier, Dan Harris recounts the events leading to his televised panic attack and the series of events that followed — involving evangelicals, self-help gurus, Buddhists and neuroscientists — on his accidental quest to find himself.

This FastReads Summary & Analysis offers supplementary material to 10% Happier to help you distill the key takeaways, review the book's content, and further understand the writing style and overall themes from an editorial perspective. Whether you'd like to deepen your understanding, refresh your memory, or simply decide whether or not this book is for you, FastReads Summary & Analysis is here to help. Absorb everything you need to know in under 20 minutes!

Everything is F**ked by Mark Manson sheds light on the question of why so many people in our contemporary society feel so hopeless when we are wealthier, healthier, and freer than ever before. Manson presents comprehensive arguments drawn from sociology, psychology, history, and philosophy. The audiobook highlights the notion that pain is necessary and why hope can be dangerous. A well-rounded guide to carving out a more meaningful existence.

Best-selling Bulletproof Diet author Dave Asprey puts together life-improving tips from some of the most successful people on the planet. Game Changers will certainly encourage you to re-examine some of your life choices and habits, even if it doesn’t turn you into a full-blown biohacker!

This is an unofficial companion guide to Marie Kondo's The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. It is meant to enhance your reading/listening experience and is not the original book.

Why is it that some people are able to stand up to pressure while others are not? Todd Herman answers this question by taking us deep into the world of alter egos. The author uses real-life examples of clients he has helped to improve performance in various areas of their lives. He explains how the alter ego effect model and its underlying layers work together to help you build an alter ego that can turbocharge your life. If you have always wanted to unearth the superhero within you and unleash your potential, this book will help you get started.

The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future (2018) introduces a simple, effective organizational method that uses only a pen and notebook to improve productivity and enhance introspection. Author and Bullet Journal creator Ryder Carroll explains how readers can lead a more meaningful life, vanquish challenging tasks, and streamline their workflow by creating a custom planner using the book’s journaling system. Listen to this in-depth summary by Swift Reads to learn more.

Disclaimer: This is a summary, review of the book Girl, Wash Your Face and not the original book. The book Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis carries one main theme throughout its chapters: that what becomes of your life, ultimately, is up to you. You have so much power to dictate the outcome of your life, but without trashing all the untruths you’ve been fed so far (and even the ones you fed yourself), there’s no harnessing the potential of that truth.