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In this audiobook summary, Karen Eber shares some of the ideas from her book. Find out how you can use brain science to tell better stories, generate endless story ideas, and tell stories that bring data to life. Avoid common storytelling mistakes.

Skills: Storytelling

Tags: Connections · Influence · Good Story · Leadership · Leaders · Mistakes · Storytelling · Addressing Mistakes · Creatively · Personally

How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices

Join decision-making expert Annie Duke in this audio-only course, as she walks you through exercises, illustrations, and stories about how to manage risk when you're faced with tough choices. Get tips and tools for making more informed decisions.

Skills: Decision-Making

Tags: Guidebook · Best Tools · Confidence · Penguin Random House · Tools · Real-World Examples · Making Better Decisions · Exercises · Stories · Illustrations

Reasons Not to Worry: Stoicism in Chaotic Times

In the 2022 book "Reasons Not to Worry: Stoicism in Chaotic Times", author, journalist, and co-creator of the Netflix series "Wellmania", Brigid Delaney, outlines and applies some of the core concepts of the ancient philosophy known as stoicism.

Skills: Positive Psychology · Change Management

Tags: Author · Brigid Delaney · Wellmania · Netflix · Journalist · Core Concepts · Ancient Philosophy · Stoicism · Reasoning · Next Big Idea Club

Cloud Security Concepts: Services and Compliance

Understand the basics of cloud security — one of the most critical components of cloud computing. Beginning with the basics, David Linthicum explains the business case for cloud security and provides an overview of the levels and models available.

Skills: IT Compliance · Cloud Services · Cloud Security

Tags: David Linthicum · Cloud Security · Security · Basics · Risk Management · Services · Best Tools · Software · Critical Components · Cloud Computing

The Art of Impossible: On Peak Performance (Book Bite)

In his book, "The Art of Impossible: On Peak Performance", author and peak performance expert Steven Kotler decodes the secrets of those elite performers — athletes, artists, scientists, CEOs, and more — who have changed our definition of the possible.

Skills: Peak Performance Training

Tags: Tasks · Goals · Artists · Next Big Idea Club · Athletes · Steven Kotler · Scientists · Human Potential · Beyond Our Capabilities · Book

Head and Heart: The Art of Modern Leadership

In the 2023 book "Head & Heart: The Art of Modern Leadership", author Kirstin Ferguson — award-winning columnist, leadership expert, and 2021 Thinkers50 Top 30 Thinker to Watch — explores the challenges and opportunities of leadership today.

Skills: Emotional Intelligence · Leadership

Tags: Make an Impact · Kirstin Ferguson · Next Big Idea Club · Common Challenges · Leaders · Leadership · Leadership Expert · Challenges · Opportunities · Influence Others

Good Habits, Bad Habits (Blinkist Summary)

This audiobook summary lays out the workings of human habits, drawing on groundbreaking new research into the psychology of human behavior. Combining the insights of neuroscience and lab-based experiments, it shows how we can harness our habits.

Skills: Personal Development

Tags: Habits · Bag of Chips · Book · Blinkist · Actions · Thinking · Human Habits · Neuroscience · Email · Lab-Based Experiments

Cultivating a Growth Mindset

Dr. Gemma Leigh Roberts guides you to recognize your mindsets — and how those mindsets alter your response to challenges. Gemma shows you ways to build a growth mindset through an understanding of the relationship between neuroscience and mindset.

Skills: Growth Strategies

Tags: Mindset · Key Mindset · Growth · Talent · Ability · Fuel for Growth · Tactical Strategies · Neuroscience · Challenges · Dr. Gemma Leigh Roberts

Creative Confidence (Blinkist Summary)

This audiobook summary of "Creative Confidence" shows the amazing value and impact that creativity has in our everyday lives. In fact, being able to think creatively can increase your happiness and success in both your professional and personal spheres.

Skills: Creativity and Innovation · Self-Confidence

Tags: Creativity · Imagination · Creative Confidence · Monopoly · Artistic · Right Techniques · Blinkist · Music · Writing · Painting

Moving On Doesn't Mean Letting Go: A Guide to Grief

In the 2023 book "Moving On Doesn't Mean Letting Go: A Modern Guide to Navigating Loss", author, licensed psychotherapist, and mental health advocate Gina Moffa takes a compassionate journey through the complex emotions that accompany loss and grief.

Skills: Grief Counseling

Tags: Mental Health · Self-Compassion · Loss · Grief · Navigating Loss · Licensed Psychotherapist · Next Big Idea Club · Gina Moffa · Author · Book

Writing Like the Greatest Masters of Persuasion

Strong writing is foundational to your career–regardless of your position. If you have a great idea, but can't communicate it effectively, nothing happens. In this course, Carmine Gallo shares practical wisdom to help your writing connect and convince.

Skills: Persuasive Writing · Writing

Tags: Pete Mockaitis · How to Be Awesome at Your Job · Writer · Universal Principles · Key Principles · Audience Engagement · Audience · Writing · Active Voice · Carmine Gallo

The Miracle Morning (Blinkist Summary)

Learn how to embrace the morning with purpose and excitement and how to raise your wake-up motivation level. Explore ways to set aside time for purposeful silence or meditation, start a habit of positive affirmations, and schedule exercise into your day.

Skills: Personal Development

Tags: Routines · Blinkist · Impact · Impact Our Lives · Impact the Future · Miracle Morning · Positive Affirmations · Keystone Habits · Habits · Miracles

The 4-Hour Workweek (Blinkist Summary)

This course from Blinkist describes the life of the New Rich, people who've emancipated themselves from office work and built a life centered around happiness in the here and now. If you want to lead such a life too, you can start by being productive.

Skills: Passive Income · Entrepreneurship

Tags: Dreams · Eliminate Interruptions · Blinkist · Discipline Yourself · Achieve · Achievements · Individual Achievement · Automated Income · Control Your Environment · Test The Market

How to Master Your Executive Presence

Pete Mockaitis sits down with author Muriel Wilkins to talk about strategies for mastering your executive presence. Learn more about what executive presence really means in business to develop and train your own capacities as a successful leader.

Skills: Executive Leadership

Tags: Organizational Chart · Muriel Wilkins · Author · Podcaster · Leaders · Leadership · Leadership Expert · Motivated Leader · How to Be Awesome at Your Job · Pete Mockaitis

Building a Second Brain: Organize Your Digital Life (Book Bite)

In the book, "Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential", productivity coach and best-selling author Tiago Forte explores the power and life-long benefits of developing your second brain.

Skills: Self-Management

Tags: Tiago Forte · Feeling Overwhelmed · Take Action · Next Big Idea Club · Productivity · Theories · Book · Improve Your Creativity · Audiobook Summary · Digital Life

Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection (Book Bite)

Social connections are key to our health and happiness. Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, Surgeon General of the United States, explores the importance of human connection, the hidden impact loneliness can have on our health, and the social power of community.

Skills: Health & Wellness

Tags: Social Connections · Dr. Vivek H. Murthy · Powerful Antidote · Surgeon General · United States · Consequences · Connection to Others · Small Steps · Loneliness · Next Big Idea Club

How to Change: Getting to Where You Want to Be (Book Bite)

In her book "How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be", award-winning professor and podcast host Katy Milkman offers an invaluable, science-based blueprint for identifying and overcoming common barriers to change.

Skills: Personal Development

Tags: Katy Milkman · Solutions · Blueprints · Change · Common Barriers · Impulsivity · Advice · Next Big Idea Club · Possibilities · Forgetfulness

The Lost Art of Connecting: On Relationships (Book Bite)

In the 2021 book "The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Business Relationships", author Susan McPherson explores why creating authentic relationships can help you find success in business and satisfaction in life.

Skills: Relationship Building

Tags: Social Interaction · Relationship Management · Businesses · Stay Curious · Satisfaction in Life · Connecting · Sense of Community · Better Relationships · Books · Next Big Idea Club

Turning Pressure into Power

In this course, Pete Mockaitis sits down to learn how to turn pressure into power from Dane Jensen, the CEO of Third Factor and the author of "The Power of Pressure". Explore the three critical components of pressure — importance, uncertainty, and volume.

Skills: Strengths Development · High-Pressure Situations

Tags: Lose Your Control · Pressure · Importance · Volume · Uncertainty · Pete Mockaitis · How to Be Awesome at Your Job · Tactics · Dane Jensen · Third Factor

Mastering the Skill of Confidence

Pete Mockaitis sits down with Nate Zinsser, the director of the Performance Psychology Program at West Point, to talk about some of the practices and behaviors used by athletes and military cadets to overcome pressure and build confidence in life.

Skills: Self-Confidence

Tags: Future · Life · Confidence · Affirmations · Athletes · West Point · Pete Mockaitis · Nate Zinsser · How to Be Awesome at Your Job · Military Cadets

Bed Bath & Beyond CEO Mark Tritton (Thirty Minute Mentors)

A Fortune 500 CEO, Mark Tritton is a longtime leader in the world of retail and has been leading the turnaround of one of America's best-known retailers, Bed Bath & Beyond. Mark joins leadership expert Adam Mendler to share his journey to the top.

Skills: Career Management · Personal Development

Tags: Mark Tritton · Career Development · Careers · Leadership Expert · Leaders · Leadership · Team Building · Retailing · Thirty Minute Mentors · Adam Mendler

Former Waze CEO Noam Bardin (Thirty Minute Mentors)

Waze currently serves more than 140 million customers around the world. Noam Bardin was the CEO of Waze for over a decade, leading the company from its early stages to its acquisition by Google for more than a billion dollars and beyond.

Skills: Business Strategy · Organizational Culture

Tags: Noam Bardin · Adam Mendler · Thirty Minute Mentors · Waze · Podcasts · Leadership Expert · Acquisition · Google · Leadership · Leaders

Train Your Brain's Awareness-Focus Loop

In this audio-only course from Knowable, Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine shows you how to train your mind by exercising it just like your body. Learn about a practical, five-minute, guided mindfulness exercise to enhance your brain's awareness-focus loop.

Skills: Mindfulness

Tags: Train Your Mind · Guided Mindfulness Exercise · Unstoppable · Emotions · Overcome Procrastination · Manage Your Anxiety · Knowable · Medium · Untapped Potential · Tony Stubblebine

The Extended Mind: Thinking Outside the Brain (Book Bite)

In her book, "The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain", Annie Murphy Paul posits that we can get smart by getting out of our heads and thinking outside of our bodies. She explains how we can outsource our knowledge to devices.

Skills: Mindfulness

Tags: Senses · Surroundings · Phones · Devices · Communicate · Communications · Annie Murphy Paul · Next Big Idea Club · Smarter · Book

The Habits of Successful Marketers

This audio-only course from consultant Brian Honigman focuses on four distinct types of habits: analytical, implementation, collaborative, and creative thinking. Brian helps you identify the skills that can help you advance on your professional path.

Skills: Marketing

Tags: Brian Honigman · Major Campaigns · Collaborative · Aptitudes · Careers · Marketers · Analytical · Implementation · Habits · Creative Thinking