Highly reviewed skills books

Each day you go to work with the task of solving problems with solutions that meet the deadlines and precise targets. If you excel in doing so you should be able to secure your position. The moment you trade your creative mind for money, you are entering a world where being clever at all time is minimum required. It’s no longer enough to simply do the work. To succeed in today’s marketplace, we all must produce genius ideas on demand, whatever is our position. The Accidental Creative is your roadmap to keep your mind fresh and deliver the best on a every day basis.

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a great collection of Richard Feynman’s finest short plays from interviews and addresses to lectures and printed posts. It presents an personal and fascinating view of a very unique life in science. This book will fascinate anyone interested in Feynman or science in general. Feynman’s followers would be inspired by his humor and insightful knowledge of the natural world and human nature.

When we want to learn new skills or being prepared future challenges, what we need is persistence, concentration, and determination. Those qualities might appear difficult and impossible to sustain. Thomas Sterner explains how to develop skills in any area of life, from golfing to business to parenting, by learning to enjoy the process in this appealing and pragmatic novel. Life in our early years is all about trial and error, but then why are we, once adults, giving up on a missionif we don’t excel at first? Throughout his research on how we learn, Sterner found that we have lost the ideals of learning, the method of taking up a target and making constant attempts to accomplish it. Sterner’s training techniques demonstrate that trial and error is not plodding on the path to perfection, but rather a rewarding process that creates consistency, lucidity and pride.

Big, life-changing choices are so much more important than the decisions that we make every day, and they are often the most difficult: where to live, who to marry, what to believe, how to begin a business… To solve these kinds of conundrums, there is no one-size-fits-all solution. While you cannot template a once-in-a-lifetime option, you can influence the professional decision-makers’ deliberative strategies. These professionals are not just the master strategists who manage big business and discuss negotiations at the highest level. They are the novelists who evoke the complexities of the internal life of their protagonists, the city authorities who ensure long-term sources of food, and the researchers who encounter potential problems that many of us have never yet considered. The smartest decision-makers don’t rely on instinct solely. Their success is built on a forward-looking attitude and the desire to look at all their choices in a innovative, constructive manner. Through engaging narratives that share unexpected insights, Johnson describes how we can make decisions that will more effectively shape the course of a life, an organisation, or a society. Farsighted will allow you to envision the life and understand the implicit wisdom of the decisions that influenced our larger cultural past.

Real freedom is to live your life the way you want it. In this book you will learn that you can actually enjoy your liberty without changing anything in your envirnomment being people or things…

This book is a memory enhancing program by Dominic OBrien, eight-fold World Memory Champion. Dominic takes you step by step into an innovative training course, sharing some of his tried and tested methods to draw on his victorious successes in the championship. Due to his professional knowledge of how the brain reacts to basic memory learning, Dominic provides techniques and advice to increase your cognitive ability at a practical yet remarkable pace.

The Pomodoro Technique puts you back in control of your day. You will use effective strategies to determine what you are going to do today to help you accomplish your goals. Once completely engaged in brief periods of concentrated action, the mind does not drift and stays focus on your objectives. Using nothing more than paper, pencil, and a basic timer to learn to work less and do better. This unique approach to timeboxing is at the heart of the Pomodoro Technique and this book is packed with advices about how to get going and how to apply it on a daily basis.

If I told you in the afternoon one can read a whole novel, would you trust me? Old methods of learning bind us off, and that’s why so many people don’t enjoy reading. Yet once you know the right reading techniques fitting your personality, reading can be easier, more enjoyable, and more rewarding than ever before. This book incorporates the best lessons from speed reading, psychology, and new technology to help you to read more easily and understand more than you ever thought possible. If you have not been reading many books because of boredom and disappointment, this quick and easy reading will change your life.

Poker player and business strategist Annie Duke shows you how to be confident with doubt and insecurity and ultimately make better choices. In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial decisions in NFL history: he opted for a passed that was intercepted bringing his team to defeat. Did Carroll had a good plan that’s been spoiled by poor luck or his call was just plan stupid ? Point is the right decision does not necessarily yield the perfect outcome. Theres is also an aspect of chance that you can’t manage, and information out of your reach. The trick to long-term sustainability is to think like a poker professional player, before each bet you must consider the odds. Which move has the highest probability of success? Annie Duke, a former World Series of Poker champion who is now a business strategist delivers advices on accepting randomness and making decisions to the best of your knowledge. It’s tough for many people to admit that nothing is certain in a society promoting the illusion of certitude. Yet experienced poker players are familiar with the fact that good decisions do not always lead to fantastic results and poor choices do not always end in bad outcomes. You can be less vulnerable to impulsive reactions or biased assumptions in your decision-making by changing your perspective.

With his latest company, U.S. Navy SEAL sniper Brandon Webb earned millions, only to lose it as things spiraled out of his grasp. Webb learned in the aftermath of that loss that successful businessmen want a quality that he had perfected already: total focus. SEAL snipers describe this as the ability to block out external noise and confusion so that under the intense pressures of battle you can make life-or-death decisions. If he would retain full attention when staring at a person who might be an Al Qaeda member, he could surely be able to do the same in the corporate world. Then Webb started, placing full emphasis on a new venture, a news organization called the Hurricane Group. His strategy is so successful that Hurricane expanded to have a workforce of over fifty, an audience of tens of millions, and an revenue of over $100 million in just five years. In this book, Webb encourages how to make good choices under intense stress by emulating his fellow warriors’ behaviors as well as other lessons he learned on the job and from great friends and industry leaders like 16 Handles’ Solomon Choi, BarkBox’s Matt Meeker, and Huffington Post’s Betsy Morgan and TheBlaze. You will seek the peace of mind you need to fulfill your own goal by adopting the strategies and advices from legendary snipers and business leaders.