A summary of things you should know about Fueled By Failure according to Jeremy Bloom: Introduction In this episode, business expert and Olympian, Jeremy Bloom gives an in-depth preview ofRead More
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]]>In this episode, business expert and Olympian, Jeremy Bloom gives an in-depth preview of his book, Fueled By Failure, where he coaches you on turning failure into success.
In his book Bloom provides actionable advice on overcoming failure through the personal lessons he has learned from well-respected coaches, athletes, and business leaders that have brought him to the top. The goal of the book is to help you push yourself through hard times, learn how to rebound after being defeated, create an amazing business culture, and uncover motivation you never knew existed.
This book is perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs who have a desire to change the world, but lack the coaching and motivation of fighting through the difficulties of overcoming life’s challenges.
I believe that my perspective is a little more different and unique because of the people I have had the privilege of sharing life with and the experiences I have gone through.
One of my pet peeves is redundancy and so I wanted to write a book that was really concise and didn’t repeat things I was saying over and over again. You can pick up this book and literally read it in one afternoon.
It would be to suppress your ego. I believe that our egos can get in the way of so many different things in our lives. Think about the decisions that you make in your life and how much ego is attached to them. If you think that your ego potentially has a larger control on your life than you’d like there are a lot of things that you can do to suppress that.
I’ll cover a few chapters and start with chapter one which is my most favorite.
My biggest dream in athletics was to win an Olympic gold medal. My dad is an Olympic historian and growing up he would often times get emotional during opening ceremonies and when US athletes would win medals. He was one of my biggest heroes in life, my mentor and coach, and I really wanted to win a gold medal not only for myself but also for him. I won three world championships, I won more world cups than anybody in history in a single season, and I was ranked number one in the world coming into the Olympics but I had 23 seconds to make a 22 year old dream come true and my one small mistake cost me that chance. In the book I talk about what a dark place that put me in and talk about what I call the 48 hour rule principle that got me through it. I think the most important thing to do in times of failure is to prescriptively with ourselves set a deadline for how long we are going to allow ourselves to revisit the failure. When I woke up the next morning after losing that 22 year old dream I gave myself 48 hours to be inside my head, try and dissect what happened, and to take the lessons out of that experience and move on. After the 48 hours I committed to moving on and about three days later I went to the NFL combine and competed well there and got drafted into the NFL. This is a concept that I use today in business and continue to use in athletics.
Another one of my favorite chapters in the book and something I believe strongly in is this idea of starting with culture. Before you have a business I think it’s incredibly important to define what your culture is. This should become a roadmap for you and your employees to look at to know exactly what needs to be done to become the best employee and/or leader. At Integrate, the company I run, we have five cultural pillars. The first pillar is performance and we define that as the most importance key metric is increasing the overall value of the business and everybody buys into that. When you set performance first in the culture it creates a different tone. The second pillar is being entrepreneurial. The third pillar is personal responsibility and we define that as you lead with conviction but accept when your ideas aren’t implemented with grace. The fourth pillar is creativity and we define that as you are a curator of originality. The last and the nonnegotiable pillar is humility and we define that as being quick to give credit for results and slow to take it.
NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 08:36
“Don’t let the good days go to your head or the bad days go to your heart.” – Jeremy Bloom
I grew up in Loveland Colorado most of my life. I first saw the Olympics on TV when I was 10 years old and was struck by how incredible they were. I had been a skier since I was three years old and after seeing the Olympics is when I realized I could do something with that talent. I was also a football player and I told my parents at age 10 that I wanted to ski in the Olympics and I wanted to play in the NFL. They both looked at me and told me that I could do that if I really put my mind to it and attack my dreams. Through a lot of good luck and fortune I was able to live out both of those dreams. I competed in two Olympics for the United States in freestyle skiing and then went on to get drafted in the fifth round by the Philadelphia Eagles which I spent two seasons there. I was with the Pittsburgh Steelers before launching into my nonprofit and now running a venture back startup.
My inspiration for writing this book came from my own personal experiences and also the observation of others. I grew up with some incredibly talented athletes and now I’m exposed to some wonderfully talented entrepreneurs and it’s been my observation in life that the inevitable setbacks that everybody encounters along their journey handles those moments a little bit differently. Along our journey we develop an ego and one of the things that an ego can do to be destructive to our dreams is over personalize the setbacks in our lives. I wanted to dive into this topic, talk to some of the most successful people, and share my journey in hopes of helping someone else accomplish their dreams.
Good to Great by Jim Collins
The Power of Intention by Wayne Dyer
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]]>A summary of things you should know about 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do according to Amy Morin: Introduction In this episode Amy Morin reveals all her insights onRead More
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]]>In this episode Amy Morin reveals all her insights on 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do where she helps you train your brain for success and happiness.
In her book Morin combines interesting stories with simple solutions that will take your outlook on life to the next level when it comes to health, wealth, and relationships. The goal of the book is to teach you how to overcome the bad habits that suppress success, how to strengthen your mental capacity, how to cope with the setbacks of life, and how to avoid negative behaviors.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs that are tired of feeling sorry for their selves, being jealous of other people’s success, and holding personal grudges from failure.
There are some other books on mental toughness but I found that a lot of times a lot of people focus on being tough instead of acting strong. I don’t know of any other books on the market that are specifically about mental strength and how to become stronger regardless of whether your goal is to become strong in your personal life or your business.
My book is divided up into 13 chapters, one chapter for each of those 13 things. I find that some people focus specifically on the chapter that affects them most but you can very well read straight through.
The biggest thing is to change the way we think. We know that if people want to change the way we feel we have to change how we think and change how we behave. One simple way to do that is to practice gratitude on a regular basis.
My book starts out with the introduction which gives a little about my personal journey and the story behind it. And it also gives an overview of what mental strength really is and explains why I talk about what mentally strong people don’t do.
From there we dive into the 13 chapters which focus on each of the 13 things. The first one is that mentally strong people don’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. For every moment you spend focusing on the problem you can’t look at a solution and it keeps you stuck and you don’t move forward.
Chapter two talks about how mentally strong people don’t give away their power. And by that I mean it’s a combination of emotions and blame other people for the things we do. Sometimes just changing our language and the way we view things can make a big difference in recognizing the choices we have in everyday life.
Chapter three is that mentally strong people don’t shy away from change. We all like to stay in our comfort zones but when we do that we don’t grow better and take on new opportunities and become the people we won’t to be in life.
Chapter four is that mentally strong people don’t waste energy on things they can’t control. If we put our energy into the things we can control we’d be much better prepared for if something bad does happen.
Chapter five is that mentally strong people don’t worry about pleasing everyone. So often I think it becomes a problem where people lose sight of their values.
Chapter six is about how mentally strong people don’t fear taking calculated risks. You need to figure out how to accurately calculate the real risk and when you do that you can’t make choices that aren’t so scary anymore.
Chapter seven is that mentally strong people don’t dwell on the past. The solution is to figure out how to make peace with the past and sometimes that’s a matter of letting go or forgiving.
Chapter eight is about how they don’t make the same mistakes over and over. We all know that it would be great if we learned from our mistakes the first time but sadly we don’t and so it’s all about figuring out how to learn from each one.
Chapter nine is that mentally strong people don’t resent other peoples success. It’s usually easy to be happy for other people when you are on top but when you feel like you are on the bottom it seems to be a lot harder to be happy for others.
Chapter ten is that mentally strong people don’t give up after their first failure.
Chapter eleven is that mentally strong people don’t fear alone time and what I mean by that it’s really about being alone with your thoughts.
Chapter twelve is that mentally strong people don’t feel that the world owes them anything.
Finally, chapter thirteen is about how mentally strong people don’t expect immediate results.
At the end of the book we have a conclusion that explains how to move forward and how to keep building mental strength on a daily basis.
NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 06:56
“Never allow inaccurate beliefs about yourself to hold you back from reaching your greatest potential.” – Amy Morin
I am a license clinical social worker and psychotherapist. I am also a college psychology instructor and a few years ago I started writing articles for the web and now I write for places like Forbes and Psychology Today.
It had started out as an article and then morphed into a book from there. The reason I had written the article was because of some personal issues that were going on in my life. As a therapist I inherently was interested in psychology and mental strength in general but back in 2003 my journey became personal. I had just bought my first house, I was married and things were looking good when my mother passed away suddenly from a brain aneurism and I had to figure out how to publicly help people still deal with their problems when I am very privately grieving. And if you fast forward to three more years my 26 year old husband died suddenly of a heart attack and again had to figure out how to go to work to help people with the same problems that I was facing. I knew then that I had to sort out the things and tools I needed to do to become the very best that I can so that I can balance these two things in my life. If you fast forward a few more years things were looking up and I decided to get remarried but shortly after that my father-in-law was diagnosed with terminal cancer and unlike the sudden death of my mother and husband this time I knew what was coming. That is when I sat down and wrote this list of 13 things mentally strong people don’t do to basically remind myself of the things that could hold me back in life if I allowed them to.
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
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]]>A summary of things you should know about Overwhelmed according to Brigid Schulte: Introduction In this episode Brigid Schulte shares her insights on her book, Overwhelmed, where she the factorsRead More
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]]>In this episode Brigid Schulte shares her insights on her book, Overwhelmed, where she the factors contributing to our collective sense of being overwhelmed, seeking insights, answers, and inspiration.
In her book Schulte shares the story of what she found while traveling across Europe to understand how countries accommodate working parents while investigating companies that are trying to invent a new kind of workplace. The goal of the book is to provide you with practical advice on how to make better use of each day and open your eyes to why we live and work the way we do.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are determined to exhaust themselves for work but find themselves becoming overwhelmed with stress and busyness.
What really differentiates my book is that it really looks at the big picture and how interconnected everything is. I wanted to know why things are the way they are and how they could be better.
I wrote the book very intentionally that you can read it any number of ways because I understand that people are busy. So you can read from start to finish or you can jump around.
You have to take a moment to pause and disrupt the cycle of busyness that’s out there. To be truly productive, to be truly efficient, and true to yourself, you have to take a moment and pause.
The book is divided into five sections. The first section I call Time Confetti because when I first started this journey that’s what it felt like; just do everything all at once in little tiny scraps of time that were exploding all over the place. The first chapter explains how it felt to live in what I call this time confetti. I felt inadequate at work, at home, and that I didn’t have time to do anything and so I really explore that.
I look at the question of leisure; what is leisure time and who has ever had it? I look at the history of leisure and how it’s different for men and woman and also of people with different economic needs. I explore the question of busyness; we tend to think of being busy as the way we show our value. I found a researcher in Fargo, North Dakota who studies busyness and the fast pace of life and I spend time with her at a focus group she set up. The last part of this chapter I look at the consequences of us being overwhelmed and I went to the Yale Stress Center and looked at some fascinating research that they are doing about how stress is affecting our brain.
The next part of the book is divided into Work, Love, Play, and Time. In the work section I talk about policy, I have a section about the ideal worker norm, and a section called When Work Works. In the love section I talk lot about our gender roles and what many sociologist call The Stalled Gender Revolution; why women are still doing twice the housework and three times the childcare. In the play section I went to Denmark to understand what is going on in Denmark that enables people there to have so much leisure time and what I found was very interesting. The last part of this chapter looks at play and why it’s important and the science behind it.
NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 13:04
“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it; do not allow others to spend it for you.” – Carl Sandburg
I have been a longtime reporter for The Washington Post and been a journalist for most of my adult life. I have covered a wide variety of things throughout my career. I am married and the mom of two kids who are now 13 and 16. I live in Alexandria Virginia and grew up in Portland Oregon.
Overwhelmed was a completely accidental book. Through my career I have always wanted to write a book. There are lots of journalists out there and that’s sort of a big dream that they all have but you just get so busy and you don’t really have time to think about it. I was part of this group in The Washington Post where we were looking at a readership numbers and we were noticing a big gap between male and female readers. We found that more men were reading the newspaper and before women were and the reason why that is important is that women over 50 have always been the most loyal newspaper readers. So we put together what we call The Women’s Reader Committee and we wanted to understand why women are not reading the paper and how do we bring them back? This committee was made up of me and all other women. The first thing we did was roll our eyes because we as women know that we don’t have time in the mornings to read the newspaper. And it became this sort of confessional about just how crazy our lives were. From there I did a time study and to my surprise found that we have all this leisure time we aren’t aware of which led me to writing this book.
The Up Side of Down by Megan McArdle
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]]>A summary of things you should know about The Energy Bus according to Jon Gordon: Introduction In this episode bestselling author Jon Gordon reveals all his insights on his book,Read More
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]]>In this episode bestselling author Jon Gordon reveals all his insights on his book, The Energy Bus, where he shares 10 rules to fuel your life, work, and team with positive energy.
In his book Gordon reveals 10 secrets for approaching life and work with the kind of positive, forward thinking that leads to true accomplishment. The goal of the book is to help you overcome negativity, build trust with others, improve your enthusiasm, and stop holding grudges in order to bring out the best in yourself.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who have a hard time accepting the everyday challenges that come with life and are searching for a way to eliminate negativity from their lives.
I think the fact that’s it’s a fable and it was one of those first books to really talk about the importance of positivity and overcoming negative energy.
A lot of people read it from front to back within a day or two. And then after you read it you will find an action plan in the back of the book.
In the book I tell you about the man who goes to a village to speak to the wise man and he says to the wise man that he feels like there are two dogs inside of him. He has a positive and generous dog but also a mean spirited angry negative dog. These dogs fight all the time and he doesn’t know who is going to win. The wise man tells him that the dog that will win will be the one he feeds the most, so feed the positive dog.
The Energy Bus is 10 rules for the ride of your life. It’s about a guy name George who is miserable and negative, his team at work is in disarray and he has problems at home. He wakes up Monday morning with a flat tire and he has this important meeting to get to so he ends up having to take the bus to work. George gets on the bus and meets Joy the bus driver who calls him Sugar and shows him 10 rules for the ride of his life. These 10 rules not only help him become a more positive leader but a better father and a better husband. George learns these 10 rules and then applies them to his business, life and work.
NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 6:01
“The goals in life is to live young, have fun, and arrive at our final destination as late as possible because the goal is to enjoy the ride.” – Jon Gordon
I am a writer and speaker, I consider myself a writer first. I love writing fables that inspire and encourage people. I am a husband and a father to two teenagers.
I was walking, praying, and struggling in my own life and the idea just came to me. The idea of a bus driver who inspires their passengers to change their life and to become a better leader at work just came to me. And I wrote the book in about 3 and ½ weeks of pure inspiration.
Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
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]]>A summary of things you should know about Mindset according to Carol Dweck: Introduction In this episode world-renowned Stanford University psychologist, Carol Dweck, shares all her insights on her book,Read More
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]]>In this episode world-renowned Stanford University psychologist, Carol Dweck, shares all her insights on her book, Mindset, where she explains why it’s not just our abilities and talents that bring us success–but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset.
In her book Dweck provides a checklist to assess yourself and shows how a particular mindset can affect all areas of your life, from business to sports and love. The goal of the book is to teach you how to reach your own personal and professional goes while developing a love of learning and resilience that is the bases of great accomplishment in every area in order to achieve ultimate success.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are trying to figure what it is that makes them tick and would like to increase their own feelings of success and fulfillment.
There are a lot of books on how to be successful and they are wonderful books but they don’t tell you the mindset, the way of thinking that can lead you on the path to success or failure. And they don’t tell you how to change your mindset to be more successful.
I am told that it’s a very quick read. I am also told that many CEO’s read it all the way through and read it every year to remind themselves of the mindset lessons.
I would want the reader to know that their abilities can be developed and that their abilities are developed through taking on challenges and sticking to them.
The book opens by describing the mindsets. How do people differ and why do some people love a challenge and others want to play it safe?
The first mindset is a fixed mindset where people believe that talents and abilities are just these fixed traits, you have a certain amount and that’s it. When you have this fixed mindset you really, really care where your intelligence and talents are fixed. So you’re always trying to look smart and avoid mistakes that might make you look foolish. Your life is organized around looking smart and not looking dumb and when this permeates an organization we call it a culture of genius.
The other mindset is a growth mindset. In this mindset people believe that their talents and abilities can be developed. In a growth mindset you believe your basic talents and abilities developed through hard work, good strategies, and mentoring from others. Instead of worrying if you are going to look smart or not, in the growth mindset you jump into challenges because that’s how you learn. You choose things that are hard and you stick to them and you end up accomplishing more. This growth mindset also creates better teamwork because you believe in growing abilities through collaborating with others. In the long run people with the growth mindset not only accomplish more but they foster accomplishment in others.
Then in the book I go through how these mindsets actually work. So we talked about taking on challenges verses avoiding them, and another thing is effort. In a fixed mindset effort is a bad thing and they belief is if you were really smart things should come easily.
I then go into mindset in sports and it turns out that most of the really, really successful athletes have had a growth mindset. Many of them were naturally talented but they didn’t coast on it and they capitalized that by working hard and developing it.
The next chapter is on business and I do case studies of leaders with growth and fixed mindsets.
The book also talks about mindsets and relationships and how a fixed mindset can really derail a relationship whereas a growth mindset can help solve problems over the course of the relationship.
The next chapter deals with parents, teachers, and coaches and how to foster growth mindset in kids.
The final chapter is on changing mindsets. All of us are really a combination of fixed and growth mindsets. We can have fixed mindsets in some areas and growth mindsets in others. Or we can even change from situation to situation when we feel we are being measured and judged. It teaches us how to be aware of those mindsets and how to bring ourselves more into a growth mindset when that’s desirable.
NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 4:13
“It’s for you to decide whether change is right for you right now. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But either way keep the growth mindset in your thoughts then when you bump up against obstacles you can turn to it, it will always be there for you showing you a path into the future.” – Carol Dweck
I am a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and I have been studying why people succeed and fail for over 40 years.
I have been doing research for many years on why some people are go getter’s and jump in whereas others, just as talented or able, shy away from difficulty and end up not fulfilling their potential. After researching this for many years I came to the discovery of the mindsets as the cause of these differences. My students told me I had to write this book after benefiting from this knowledge and wanted others to know about it.
Developing Talent in Young People by Benjamin Bloom
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