What You Will Learn

We're awful at making decisions. In order to overcome the four villains of decision making, we need to "WRAP" our decisions: Widen our options, Reality-test our assumptions, Attain distance before deciding, Prepare to be wrong. Grab a copy of the book here: https://www.bookdepository.com/Decisive-Chip-Heath/9781847940865?/a_aid=adamsbooks Get a free 7-day trial of Blinkist here: https://www.blinkist.com/whatyouwilllearn 

Diamond shows us how “History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves” 

Adam Ashton interviewed Derek Sivers, the author of the book that was our FIRST EVER episode of the What You Will Learn podcast, 'Anything You Want'.  Derek has three new books coming out soon. Keep an eye out for 'How To Live'. Check out all of Derek's books notes and book ratings at: https://sivers.org/book If you want to contact Derek, you can find that on his website too.

A Whack on the Side of the Head - by Roger van Oech "How You Can Be More Creative" Creative thinking is absolute vital to success. The author even says that creative thinking is just like sex for the mind (not sure what his sex life is like, but each to his own...). But we all have a bunch of 'mental locks' that trap us in our current ways of thinking. As much as we try, we can't break free from these mental locks. Some times we just need a 'whack' to snap us out of it.

Malcolm Turnbull was the 29th Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 2015 to 2018. His career also spanned through Journalism, Law and Investment Banking. In this episode we spoke to Malcolm about books, the Murdoch Media influence and the world post-corona.  Watch the video version here: https://youtu.be/kwiqyMizH0E  This episode is sponsored by Blinkist. For your free 7 day trial, head to: https://www.blinkist.com/whatyouwilllearn

Malcolm Turnbull was the 29th Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 2015 to 2018. In this episode, we look at how Malcolm Turnbull was able to achieve everything he achieved. From his early success in journalism, to jumping across to becoming a barrister, fighting in (and winning) some of Australia's biggest legal cases, to investment banking, doing billion-dollar deals and amassing a fortune for his client (and himself), then finally rising the ranks in politics.

With all of the chaos going on in the world around us, it's hard for us to find the time and mental focus we need to get things done. We're always reachable, the news constantly has something new we need to read, there's always another podcast to listen to, our to-do list keeps getting longer and longer. In order to do more and achieve me, we must cultivate Stillness.

Mastering the Market Cycle, by Howard Marks will help you understand when is the optimal time to invest given a market's conditions. In this episode we look at: - The economics of the cycle - Governments and central banks - Credit and debt in the world economy - Real Estate - Investor Psychology

The Slight Edge shows you that you could go down either of two life paths: millionaire or beach bum. The small decisions you make every single day seem like they won't have any impact on your in the future, but every decision you make compounds over time to take you to a completely different destination.

It isn't the big events in our lives that take us down. It is usually the small nagging little worries that have the ability to eat us from the inside out. In this episode we talk about how to stop these nagging little worries, change our perceptions about the world and make the most of bad situations.

We spoke with David Epstein, author of 'Range' and 'The Sports Gene'.  Range is AA's favourite book of 2020 so far, and we only got to scratch the surface in our book summary episode. In this interview with the author, we go a lot deeper into the research and the stories. See more from David Epstein on his website: https://davidepstein.com/ 

There are two paths to success. One is 'specialisation': committing to a field early, getting a head start on your peers, rigorous deliberate practice, refining a narrow focus on specific skills. But the other approach is 'generalisation'. This means going wide not deep, going through an early 'sampling period' where you test a lot of different potential paths forward.

We chat with Simon Sinek (author of Start With Why and The Infinite Game) about how individuals, businesses and leaders can get through the health and financial implications of COVID-19. "It is just reality that many businesses will fail, they will go bankrupt... The ones who will survive are the ones that don't try and double down on their old business models, but attempt to reinvent their business models."

There are two types of games: finite and infinite. Finite games have clearly defined rules and boundaries, and all players know what the objectives are and what they need to do to win. Infinite games have no clear rules and there is no winning or losing - the only objective is to keep playing. Business is an infinite game, but too many companies are playing with a finite mindset. Interview with Simon Sinek coming soon!

7 Habits of Highly Effective People - by Stephen Covey The seven habits are grouped: the first three habits for them 'private victory' (the things that relate to you as an individual – personal effectiveness), the next three are the 'public victory' (how you interact with others and the world – interpersonal effectiveness), and the final is an overarching call to be constantly learning, growing and improving.