1. Seventy-nine percent of smartphone owners check their device within fifteen minutes of waking up every morning.1 Perhaps more startling, fully one-third of Americans say they would rather give... | Continue reading
1. The best way to improve your self-control is to see how and why you lose control. Knowing how you are likely to give in doesn’t, as many people fear, set yourself up for failure. It allows you... | Continue reading
1. SAM FELTHAM, A qualified master personal trainer, has worked in the U.K. health-and-fitness industry for more than a decade. Not accepting the caloric-reduction theory, he set out to prove it... | Continue reading
1. All I knew about the techniques we used at the FBI was that they worked. In the twenty years I spent at the Bureau we’d designed a system that had successfully resolved almost every kidnapping... | Continue reading
1. Our programming determines our beliefs which in turn determines our attitudes which determines our feelings that dictates our actions.2. If we desire to change, we need to focus on changing... | Continue reading
1. Studies commissioned by the Department of Defense and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency found that lack of sleep degrades not only the ability of combat soldiers to identify and... | Continue reading
1. Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your... | Continue reading
1. I watched how the people who had reached professional heights unknown to my father and mother helped each other. They found one another jobs, they invested time and money in one another's ideas,... | Continue reading
1. The Culture Code, Daniel Coyle, New York Times bestselling author of The Talent Code, goes inside some of the most effective organisations in the world and reveals their secrets. He not only... | Continue reading
1. I found my first client when I barely knew how to code, so I developed an early appreciation for the fact that people will pay you if you can solve problems for their business (either by making... | Continue reading
1. Let's begin your first mini habit. Read at least two pages of this book every day until you finish it. You may read more than that, but never less. It won’t require much time or effort to read... | Continue reading
1. One paper published by a Duke University researcher in 2006 found that more than 40 percent of the actions people performed each day weren’t actual decisions, but habits.2. Habits, scientists... | Continue reading
What follows are salient extracts from the book Gamify by Brian Burke.1. Gamification engages and motivates people across all kinds of activities using game mechanics such as badges, points,... | Continue reading
1. Our research inside companies revealed that the best way to motivate people, day in and day out, is by facilitating progress—even small wins.2. The negative forms—or absence of—the key three... | Continue reading
1. Einstein said, ‘Compounding is the eighth wonder of the world.’2. You’ve been bamboozled for too long. There is no magic bullet, secret formula, or quick fix.3. Earning success is hard. The... | Continue reading
There is a saying : “If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.” As the President of Antigua and Barbuda Chess Federation and Teacher adviser to Antigua State College's... | Continue reading
1. What is common purpose? To me, it is that rare, almost palpable experience that happens when a leader coalesces a group, team, or community into a creative, dynamic, brave, and nearly invincible... | Continue reading
1. This handbook is different. It starts with the question, ‘How can you learn to lead?’ In our research with over 1,000 leaders at all levels in public, private and voluntary sectors the answer... | Continue reading
1. The experiences of the human race have been recorded, in more or less detail, for some four thousand years. If we attempt to study such a period of time in as many countries as possible, we seem... | Continue reading
1. A solid routine fosters a well-worn groove for one’s mental energies and helps stave off the tyranny of moods.2. “A modern stoic,” he observed, “knows that the surest way to discipline passion... | Continue reading
1. Get more sunlight during the day. It may sound counter-intuitive that getting more sunlight during the day can help you sleep better at night, but science has proven that this is precisely the... | Continue reading
1. The secret to getting people together is this: build your community with people, not for them.2. Amateurs try to manage a community, but great leaders create more leaders. Nearly every... | Continue reading
1.The Vagus nerve is an incredible part of your body. It is long, meandering, and powerful. It is unique and complex. It is truly amazing! Sometimes called CNX, this is the tenth cranial nerve, and... | Continue reading
1. In the 1970s, the philosophers Samuel Gorovitz and Alasdair MacIntyre published a short essay on the nature of human fallibility that I read during my surgical training and haven’t stopped... | Continue reading
1. In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two... | Continue reading