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The Tim Ferriss Show
Each episode, Tim Ferris deconstructs world-class performers from eclectic areas (investing, sports, business, art, etc.) to extract the tactics, tools, and routines you can use. This includes favorite books, morning routines, exercise habits, time-management tricks, and much more. Past guests include the likes of Maria Popova, Malcolm Gladwell, and Rick Rubin. Listen to the podcast here.
Read moreMichael Gervais’s Finding Mastery
Finding Mastery is a podcast that takes you inside the rugged and high-stakes environments of those on the path of mastery to explore how they train minds to be at their very best. Host and high performance psychologist, Dr. Michael Gervais, interviews people excelling in the most hostile environments to discover the mental skills used to push the boundaries. Each episode features inspiring stories from the world’s best athletes, brilliant business minds, and the musicians and artists…
Read moreThe Rich Roll Podcast
Each week Rich Roll delves deep into all things wellness with some of the brightest and most forward thinking, paradigm busting minds in health, art, entertainment, and entrepreneurship. Intimate, deep and often intense, these are not interviews. They are conversations. A weekly aural dance designed to provoke, educate, inspire and empower you to discover, uncover, unlock and unleash your best, most authentic self. Listen to the podcast here.
Read moreHarvard Business Review: Young People Need to Know Entrepreneurship Is Hard
Current research indicates the need to invest in and scale entrepreneurship education as business creation is not the only beneficial outcome of entrepreneurship education. Entrepreneurship is a key 21st century workforce skill and is also linked to higher academic achievement. Learning about entrepreneurship ignites an entrepreneurial mindset and students begin to think and act like entrepreneurs in all aspects of their lives. Entrepreneurship education allows students to communicate better, persist through failure, remain adaptable when…
Read morePunished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes
by Alfie Kohn The basic strategy we use for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summarized in six words: Do this and you’ll get that. We dangle goodies (from candy bars to sales commissions) in front of people in much the same way we train the family pet. Drawing on a wealth of psychological research, Alfie Kohn points the way to a more successful strategy based on working with people instead of…
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