New Episode: Chris Bailey: Hyperfocus - How to Work Less to Achieve More

New Episode: Chris Bailey: Hyperfocus - How to Work Less to Achieve More

Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey is a practical guide to managing your attention – the most powerful resource you have to become more creative, get stuff done, and live a more meaningful life.

In Hyperfocus, Chris Bailey provides profound insights into how we can best manage our attention. He reveals how the brain switches between two mental modes – hyperfocus, our deep concentration mode, and scatter focus, our creative, reflective mode – and how the surest path to being our most creative and efficient selves at work is to combine them both.

New Episode: David Allen: Getting Things Done: The art of stress-free productivity

New Episode: David Allen: Getting Things Done: The art of stress-free productivity

Discover David Allen's powerful methods for stress-free performance at work and in life. Allen's premise is simple - our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective results and unleash our creative potential. From core principles to proven tricks.

Getting Things Done will teach you to - Apply the 'do it, delegate it, defer it, drop it' rule to get your in-box empty Reassess goals and stay focused in changing situations Plan and unstick projects Overcome feelings of confusion, anxiety, and being overwhelmed Feel fine about what you're not doing.

Rapid Prototyping Your Product Before You Build It

Rapid Prototyping Your Product Before You Build It

New Episode: Stephen R Covey: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Part Two: Listener Favourite

New Episode: Stephen R Covey: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Part Two: Listener Favourite

Part Two: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey, we look at how we must value and celebrate the differences in another’s perspective and commit to creating Win-Win situations that are mutually beneficial and satisfying to each party. How do we make these habits and ideas real? Teach, share and learn with others.

"To go for Win-Win, you not only have to be nice, you have to be courageous." -Stephen Covey

New Episode: Ken Robinson: The Element

New Episode: Ken Robinson: The Element

The Element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. When people arrive at the Element, they feel most themselves and most inspired and achieve at their highest levels. With a wry sense of humor, Ken Robinson looks at the conditions that enable us to find ourselves in the Element and those that stifle that possibility.

Drawing on the stories of a wide range of people, including Paul McCartney, Matt Groening, Richard Branson, Arianna Huffington, and Bart Conner, he shows that age and occupation are no barrier and that this is the essential strategy for transform­ing education, business, and communities in the twenty-first century.

"The Element offers life-altering insights about the discovery of your true best self." --Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

New Episode: Jim Carrey: Memoirs and Misinformation

New Episode: Jim Carrey: Memoirs and Misinformation

Jim Carrey, Film Star, Survivor, Inspiration. From humble beginnings to superstardom, he joins an elite group of comedians who have spanned the acting chasm to achieve phenomenal success. His book; Memoirs and Misinformation is a fearless semi-autobiographical novel, a deconstruction of persona. In it, Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon have fashioned a story about acting, Hollywood, agents, celebrity, privilege, friendship, romance, addiction to relevance, fear of personal erasure, our "one big soul," Canada, and a cataclysmic ending of the world-apocalypses within and without.

"None of this is real and all of it is true." - Jim Carrey

New Episode: Elon Musk: Habits of Success

New Episode: Elon Musk: Habits of Success

Elon Musk is unstoppable! He's the most prolific and productive CEO of our times - he's even a bit cheeky. That's why we love him at the Moonshots Podcast. With his recent purchase of Twitter, he is now involved in over five revolutionary companies. So, we ask, 'how does Elon do it?'.

New Episode: Walt Disney: The Disney Strategy

New Episode: Walt Disney: The Disney Strategy

Walt Disney is famous for his ability to transform incredibly creative ideas into profitable realities. The process he used to brainstorm and develop theme parks and movies, has turned into a replicable process called “Disney’s Creative Strategy” by NLP expert Robert Dilts in 1994.

Disney’s Creative Strategy can be used to create new products or to solve problems. Its simple to use as an individual, as a team, or even as an organization. The strategy includes three roles or mindsets that each have a specific goal.

Managing People

Managing People

New Episode: Stephen R Covey: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Part One: Listener Favourite

New Episode: Stephen R Covey: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Part One: Listener Favourite

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey is written on Covey's belief that the way we see the world is entirely based on our own perceptions. In order to change a given situation, we must change ourselves, and in order to change ourselves, we must be able to change our perceptions.

We all want to succeed. And one path to success is identifying the habits that can help us on our journey.

New Episode: Jen Sincero: You Are a Badass

New Episode: Jen Sincero: You Are a Badass

You are a badass is a self-help book for people who desperately want to improve their lives but don’t want to get busted doing it.

In this entertaining how-to guide, bestselling author and success coach, Jen Sincero, serves up 27 bitesize chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, sage advice, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word, helping you to Identify and change the self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviors that stop you from getting what you want and create a life you totally love.

New Episode: Jim Kwik: Limitless

New Episode: Jim Kwik: Limitless

For the last 25 years, Jim Kwik has helped everyone from celebrities to CEOs to students improve their memory, increase their decision-making skills, learn to speed-read, and unleash their superbrains.

In Limitless, readers will learn Jim's revolutionary strategies and shortcuts to break free from their perceived limitations. They'll learn how to supercharge their brains with simple, actionable tools to sharpen the mind, enhance focus, and fast-track their fullest potential.

New Episode: Robert Sharma: The 5 AM Club

New Episode: Robert Sharma: The 5 AM Club

Legendary leadership and elite performance expert Robin Sharma introduced The 5am Club concept over twenty years ago, based on a revolutionary morning routine that has helped his clients maximize their productivity, activate their best health, and bulletproof their serenity in this age of overwhelming complexity.

Part manifesto for mastery, part playbook for genius-grade productivity and part companion for a life lived beautifully, The 5am Club is a work that will transform your life. Forever.

Second Order Thinking

Second Order Thinking

Hello members and subscribers! The ninth Moonshots Master episode is here and we are diving into Critical Thinking and SECOND ORDER THINKING!

Helping set the scene for Second Order Thinking we think it only right to start with Howard Marks, who explains why if you think the same as everyone else you're not going to be a superior investor. We then have breakdowns, courtesy Yanis from Time Management and Productivity, of both Second Order Thinking and how it influences future actions, as well as Second Order Consequences and how every action has a consequence.

Now it’s time to truly understand the concept of Second Order Thinking, so we break down some thinking from Roman Krznaric of Big Think, who tells us that it is possible to utilise long term thinking and imagine the future if you retrain your brain. Swedish Investor then breaks down Howard Marks’ 3 chapters on risk, and how understand, recognize, and control it. Lastly, we have Taylor Benterud, who creates a great example of second order consequences for us, demonstrating some long-term thinking as a mental model with an agency model example.

Helping us adopt the practice and techniques of Second Order Thinking we get introduced to the concept of critical thinking with the TED-Ed channel which help us find the most useful information. We then have Jordan Peterson teaching us how critical thinking and writing are so interconnected. And finally, we have classic Moonshotter Adam Grant who emphasises the power of procrastination, and how it’s essential to leave yourself enough time to really think and grow.

Plus our reading list is full of tips, tricks and tools to help you harness your thinking, decision making and Second Order Thinking.

New Episode: Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends and Influence People: Listener’s Favourite

New Episode: Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends and Influence People: Listener’s Favourite

The most successful leaders all have one thing in common: They've read How to Win Friends and Influence People. As a salesman at one point in his life, author Dale Carnegie made his sales territory the national leader for the firm he worked for.

Carnegie eventually ended his sales career and taught public speaking. Even Warren Buffet, one of the most successful investors of the 20th century, took Carnegie's course at age 20.

Fortunately for us, all the same lessons were packaged into the now-famous book, How to Win Friends and Influence People.

New Episode: Daniel H. Pink: The Power of Regret

New Episode: Daniel H. Pink: The Power of Regret

Episode 170: Daniel H. Pink: 'Regret is not dangerous or abnormal, it is healthy and universal, an integral part of being human', Daniel H. Pink writes in his provocative and eye-opening new book. The Power Of Regret. 'Done right, it needn't bring us down; it can lift us up.'

Drawing from research in social psychology, neuroscience, biology, and more, as well as from more than 10,000 people in 35 countries around the world who responded to his World Regret Survey - the largest of its kind ever conducted - Pink challenges the idea of regret being a drag on our self-esteem and outlook. In fact, understanding how regret actually works and using those insights to reframe our perspective of it will help us reclaim regret and bring greater meaning to our lives.

New Episode: Chris Voss: Never Split the Difference

New Episode: Chris Voss: Never Split the Difference

Chris Voss's definitive playbook for any negotiation situation, by the FBI's former lead hostage negotiator.

After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a kidnapping negotiator brought him face-to-face with bank robbers, gang leaders, and terrorists. Never Split the Difference takes you inside his world of high-stakes negotiations, revealing the nine key principles that helped Voss and his colleagues succeed when it mattered the most - when people's lives were at stake.

New Episode: Robert Greene: The 48 Laws Of Power

New Episode: Robert Greene: The 48 Laws Of Power

Robert Greene is an American author who has written best-selling books on Strategy, Power & Seduction. In his bestseller, The 48 Laws of Power, he illustrates the tactics, triumphs, and failures of great figures from the past who have wielded - or been victimized by - power.

The perfect book for taking back your power, in work, in relationships, the 48 Laws apply everywhere. For anyone with an interest in conquest, self-defense, wealth, power or simply being an educated spectator. The distilled wisdom of the masters - illustrated through the tactics, triumphs and failures from Elizabeth I to Henry Kissinger on how to get to the top and stay there.

Wry, ironic and clever, this is an indispensable and witty guide to power.