“Two dozen short but mighty books to pick up.”
24 Short Books Recommended by Ted Speakers
10 Things Every Creative Person Must Learn
“You can’t stand out from the crowd by just being better. You have to be different.”
How Shifts Happen in Our Lives
“No one is completely focused on one thing forever.”
How to Become a Genius
“Those who claim that IQ is fixed for life are in fact referring to our IQ test scores, which are relatively stable–not to our intelligence levels, which are constantly increasing.”
How to Simplify Your Life
“What registers as anxiety is typically no freakish phenomenon; it is our mind’s logical, enraged plea not to be continuously and exhaustingly overstimulated.”
Ten Ways to Change How You Think and Talk to Succeed at Sales
“Sales, like recruiting, is all about activity and leverage. Activity in equals value out.”
How to Set up a Minimalistic iphone
“Smartphones provide so many stimuli, I want my lock and home screen to be the one place where there’s just nothing.”
How to Use Checklists to Improve Your Work
“Checklists are a smart first step, but their success is limited by the diligence of the people who run them.”
How to Get Press for Your Creative Work
“Write to each person individually. Craft the email to be and sound like it is just for them—a pitch that sounds like a cut-and-paste job just doesn’t catch the eye.”
5 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” — Bruce Lee