The following self help and leadership insight has been adopted from Simon Sinek’s book Start With Why
“Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something bigger than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you’ll be stuck with whoever’s left.”
The following self help and leadership insight has been adopted from Simon Sinek’s book Start With Why
“For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It’s not “integrity,” it’s “always do the right thing.” It’s not “innovation,” it’s “look at the problem from a different angle.” Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea – we have a clear idea of how to act in any situation.”
The insight has been inspired from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink illuminates us on a quirk of expertise.
“When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.”
The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink
“Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his or her medicine cabinet- understands this implicitly; you can learn as much – or more – from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.”
The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink
“Being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience”
The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink
“The answer is that we are not helpless in the face of our first impressions. They may bubble up from the unconscious – from behind a locked door inside of our brain – but just because something is outside of awareness doesn’t mean it’s outside of control.”
The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Charles Duhigg’s book The Power of Habit
“Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things.”
The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Charles Duhigg’s book The Power of Habit
“The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.”
The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Travis Bradberry’s book Emotional Intelligence
“People with the highest levels of intelligence (IQ) outperform those with average IQs just 20% of the time, while people with average IQs outperform those with high IQs 70% of the time.”
The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Travis Bradberry’s book Emotional Intelligence
“The link between EQ and earnings is so direct that every point increase in EQ adds $1,300 to an annual salary.”