At its core, Think Again – a book by Wharton professor, Adam Grant – is a book about learning how to learn better. Or as Grant might argue, “the ability to rethink and unlearn.” Adam Grant doesn’t ask readers to abandon their beliefs on demand. Instead, he suggest we build thinking systems that remain flexible under […]
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At its core, Anne-Laure Le Cunff‘s book, Tiny Experiments offers a playbook for sustainable growth through small, exploratory actions (models). This book isn’t about productivity hacks – it’s about mindset design. Each pillar of the book’s framework can be understood as a powerful experimental model guiding how we think, act, and adapt – turning challenges
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Make Ideas Unforgettable: Six Models to Memorable, Action-Driven Messaging In Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath unpack why some ideas survive while others vanish. The difference isn’t luck – it’s structure. They outline six core traits (models) of sticky ideas: Simple, Unexpected, Concrete, Credible, Emotional, and Stories – forming the SUCCESs Framework. This isn’t just
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Adam Grant’s Hidden Potential book isn’t just about personal growth – it’s a roadmap for designing it. The people who rise the farthest aren’t necessarily the most gifted. They’re the ones who think differently about how growth happens. Across a couple of major themes (and several models), he explains how we build character, structure learning environments,
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Most projects fail. It’s not always because the idea is flawed or the people are wrong – but because the thinking is. Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner, authors of How Big Things Get Done (Financial Times’ 2023 Business Book of the Year), spent decades studying why major projects crash – and what the outliers got right.
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The Let Them Theory: When people disappoint you, ignore you, cut you out, talk behind your back, or forget to include you – what do you do? Mel Robbins has asuggestion. Two words: Let Them, followed by two more: Let Me In her bestselling book, The Let Them Theory, Robbins introduces a clear, simple, but deceptively powerful
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When we make poor decisions, it’s rarely because we’re irrational. More often, we’re human: we narrow our focus. We fall in love with our own ideas. We let short-term emotions hijack our thinking. Or, we’re overconfident in predictions we shouldn’t trust. In the book, Decisive, Chip and Dan Heath offer a mental method designed to defeat those
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In The Inner Game of Tennis, W. Timothy Gallwey doesn’t just teach tennis – he reveals a radically different way of learning and performing. The book has become a classic far beyond the sports world, influencing business leaders, musicians, coaches, and educators. Gallwey’s premise is simple but profound: the barriers to peak performance are rarely physical
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In The Inner Game of Tennis, W. Timothy Gallwey introduces a mentality – or mental models – that has transformed how athletes, musicians, entrepreneurs – even CEOs – approach performance. Despite its title, the book has less to do with tennis and more to do with the quiet conflict unfolding in your own head. Gallwey argues
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In the book, Clear Thinking, Shane Parrish offers up essential mental methods for clear decision making – tools that help us pause, focus, and act wisely when it matters most. Parrish shows that poor choices rarely stem from a lack of intelligence. Instead, they often arise when we fail to slow down and think clearly
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