Think for Success: How to Escape the Crowd and Achieve More
Shane Parrish shares 5 key insights from his NYT bestseller Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Outcomes.
How much of your thinking is actually useful? How much of it is steering you toward generating ideas, achieving goals, and finding happiness, and how much is just rote and automated — mindless reactions programmed into you by evolution and your social milieu? Here to help put you back in the driver’s seat of your own brain are some key insights from the instant NYT bestseller Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results by Shane Parrish. Shane is an entrepreneur and author behind the Farnam Street website, the popular Brain Food newsletter and The Knowledge Project podcast. Our curator says his book is “an actionable guide to using your mind more effectively, and a lucid manual for overcoming cognitive biases and making better decisions.” Scroll down to hear Shane share some of his key insights.
The 5 Key Insights:
1. Your position determines your future.
2. Turn desired behavior into default behavior.
3. If you do what everyone else does, you will get the same results everyone else gets.
4. Outcome over ego.
5. It might not be your fault, but it’s your responsibility.
Hear Shane’s top tips for clear thinking:
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