What You Will Learn

Becoming Indistractable by reclaiming your time and attention Nir writes gives us individuals a four-step methods to get UNHOOKED in his brand new book Indistractable. This book is all about reclaiming our time and attention by adding more focus and traction to our lives - becoming "Indistractable".

'How to build habit-forming products' Nir Eyal takes us through the 'Hook Model' which teaches business what they need to build into their offering to get consumers hooked: 1. Triggers (external & internal) 2. Action 3. Variable Reward 4. Investment

We've all heard of 'climate change' and we hear dystopian ideas about the horrors we may face if we don't take appropriate action, but what will life on the planet ACTUALLY look like if our planet heats up too much? Get a free 7-day trial of Blinkist: http://blinkist.com/whatyouwilllearn

This book is the bible of behavioural economics. After introducing 'System 1' and 'System 2', the 'fast' and 'slow' thinking from the title, this episode dives into more of the applications of this discovery. THIS episode:  Over confidence:  - Narrative fallacy  - Hindsight/outcome bias Choices:  - Intuitions vs formulas  - Planning fallacy  - Loss aversion  - Sunk cost fallacy Two selves:  - Experiencing vs the remembering self

This book is the bible of human behavioural psychology. Author Daniel Kahneman won the 2002 Nobel Prize due to his work on Prospect Theory, a big part of this book. The book is so dense we'll need to cover it over two episodes. This week we will learn about: System 1 - which operates automatically and efficiently, System 2 - which allocates attention to effortful activities, and that

Turning Pro - by Steven Pressfield 'Tap your inner power and create your life's work' Pressfield book 'The War of Art' told us all about the REAL challenge of creating important work: confront (and beating) the Resistance. In that book, he showed us that the beat way to beat it was by Turning Pro. This follow-up book dives deeper into the difference between and amateur and a professional, and shows us exactly what is required of us if we are to become the best version of ourselves.

Kevin Rudd came from humble beginnings in country Queensland to become the 26th Prime Minister of Australia in 2007. He is author of the books 'Kevin Rudd - The PM Years' and 'Not for the Faint Hearted'. In this episode we talk about: - why young people (including us) are disengaged with politics - the rising super-powers in of the developing world - rectification of Australia's non-diverse economy Learn more about Kevin Rudd on his website: http://kevinrudd.com/ 

Dare to Lead - by Brene Brown 'Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts' Brene Brown boldly calls for braver bolder leaders to pass on a better world for our children. But typically cultures are held back by an inability to lean into vulnerability - we avoid tough conversations, lack connection and empathy and avoid risks. Daring Leadership is the antidote to these issues. In this episode we discuss: - the call to courage - avoidance of the armoury, and - shame and empathy

Austin Kleon is the author of three books that we've review on the podcast: Steal Like An Artist, Show Your Work and Keep Going. We spoke with him about about who is a 'creative', the false dichotomies we've set up between 'work' and 'art', and how everyone can harness the power of creativity to make things better by making better things. Check out Austin's site and sign up to his free weekly newsletter: https://austinkleon.com/ 

'10 ways to share your creativity and get discovered' After the runaway success of 'Steal Like an Artist', Kleon was always asked the same questions: how do I actually get my stuff out there? how do i get found? how do i get an audience for my work? This book stresses the importance of maintain the mindset of an 'amateur', thinking about the process (not just the products), telling good stories, and building a regular process of 'sharing' into your creativity routine.

'Notes on Startups, or, How to Build the Future' - The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. - The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. - And the next Mark Zuckerberg won't create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them. Zero to One is about how to create companies that build new things, because every innovation is unique and new, no authority can prescribe in concrete terms how to innovate.

For thousands of years the top of our list of concerns were famine, plague and war. While this haven't been completely solved, we're pretty close and they have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges.  Having secured unprecedented levels of prosperity, health and harmony, and given our past record and current values, YNH predicts that humanity's next targets are likely to be: Immortality, Happiness and Divinity.

'Things that gain from disorder' Wind extinguishes a candle but energises fire. Likewise with randomness/uncertainty/chaos, you want to be able to use them, not to hide from them. You want to be the fire and wish for the wind. Most people think the opposite of fragile is robust, resilient or solid. But the resilient and robust are items that neither break nor improve. The opposite of fragility should be negative fragility - there is not yet a word for it, so Taleb terms it Antifragility.

'The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking' The world today seems to value confident, outgoing, bubbly personalities who are comfortable in all social settings and aren't afraid to speak up. But Cain reveals that those with the loudest voice don't necessarily have the best ideas. This book is both a call to organisations to foster the power of introverts, as well as an appeal to introverts to best step outside of their comfort zones and play the role required of them.

This may look like a kids book (and it is) but we've dug out some serious life lessons that link up with a whole bunch of other ideas we've read in other 'real' books. This one is a must-read, it'll take you less than 10 minutes.  We pulled out our top 5 lessons, and we'd love to hear yours too - email us any time at podcast@whatyouwilllearn.com to tell us what you thought. Buy the book here: https://www.bookdepository.com/Oh--The-Places-You-ll-Go-/9780007413577/?a_aid=adamsbooks