What You Will Learn

The book breaks down effective management through the tale of the 'One Minute Manager' through 3 simple secrets. The First Secret - One Minute Goals The Second Secret - One Minute Praisings The Third Secret - The One Minute Reprimands

Ego Is The Enemy - by Ryan Holiday 'The fight to master our greatest opponent' All of us, at every stage of life, are the victims of our own ego. The aim of the book is simple: to help you suppress ego early before bad habits take hold, to replace the temptations of ego with humility and discipline, when we experience success, and cultivate strength when you go through failure.

Our third annual pilgrimage to Sydney took us right back to Dr Karl's office. His brand new book, Dr Karl's Random Road Trip Through Science, features an Augmented Reality app with Dr Karl popping out of the book to share his wealth of wisdom. We talk about a bunch of random scientific things Karl learnt this year, as well an injecting a nice amount of conspiracy theory too. 

There is never enough time to do everything you have to do. You are literally swamped with work and personal responsibilities, endless emails, social media, projects, side projects, stacks of newspapers to read, a pile of books you want to get to 'some day' as soon as you get caught up on everything else. But the fact is that you are NEVER going to get caught up. You will never get 'on top' of your tasks.

Revealed how painfully burdened they feel by a sense of not being good enough. We don't have to wait until we are on our deathbed to realize what a waste of our precious lives it is to carry the belief that something is wrong with us. Yet because our habits of feeling so insufficient are so strong, awakening from the trance involves not only inner resolve, but also an active training of the heart and mind

After first speaking with Neil Pasricha 12 months ago about his book The Happiness Equation, he's back to chat about his brand new book You Are Awesome. It's all about building resilience, shifting from fragile to antifragile, and thickening up your skin a little. Check out everything Neil is doing at his site: https://www.neil.blog/

'Why passion and resilience are the keys to success' Angela Duckworth studied successful people and found that the mega-successful weren't the smartest, the fittest or the most talented, but the ones who had the most grit. Grit, this combination of passion and perseverance, turned out to be the strongest indicator and predicator of eventual success.

In this episode we'll explore the collapse of Easter Island, the Great Maya Civilisation and The Vikings, and the risk of collapse of modern-day Australia and China through the 5 point framework.

MJ DeMarco writes some of the most eye-opening books we've read - The Millionaire Fastlane and Unscripted. If you haven't realised it yet, the world is ran by numerous scripts that aren't designed for you to live your best life. Want a free 7 day trial with Blinkist?  https://www.blinkist.com/whatyouwilllearn

Unscripted - by MJ DeMarco 'Life Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship' Has life regressed into paying bills and living for a weekend? You weren't born to slave 9 - 5, Monday through Friday, paying the bills and then die. UNSCRIPTED: is your pen to rewrite a future that's already been written, don't wait for life's twilight to dream about time machines, it exists in the moment. The opportunity to resurrect your dreams and change history awaits.

This book will show you how to "get past no" via a 5 step process: - Step 1: Don't React (Go to the Balcony)  - Step 2: Disarm Them (step to their side) - Step 3: Change the Game (don't reject... reframe) - Step 4: Build he Golden Bridge (make it easy to say yes) - Step 5: Don't Escalate - Use Power to Educate (make it hard to say no)

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big - by Scott Adams Scott Adams is the creator of the 'Dilbert' cartoons. This book provides some important ideas and approaches for achieving (eventual) success. In this episode, we'll talk about: the downside of passion, goals VS systems, managing your attitude and energy, prioritising and making decisions, and 'skill stacking'. 

Everything is F*cked - by Mark Manson 'A book about hope'

Meditations - by Marcus Aurelius Originally written as a diary almost 2000 years ago, the struggles people faced then are almost identical to the ones we are facing today. This is one of the core books on stoic philosophy. We recap some of the vital passages of the book and pull out the key themes.

Talking to Strangers - by Malcolm Gladwell 'What we should know about the people we don't know' We think we can understand people. We think that by meeting someone, shaking their hand, looking into their eyes, we can get a grasp on who they are, how they feel, and what their motives or intentions are. We think that a little bit of personal knowledge gives us a big insight into their character. We're wrong. Strangers are complex.