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Mar 29, 2024 | 
readbyexample.substack.com | Matt Renwick |Dan Sullivan |Benjamin Hardy |Tananarive Due
I read more books outside of education than within the profession. In fact, some of the best ideas I have encountered and applied to my practice have some from other genres, including fiction. And some books I read simply to enjoy beyond my work. Here are five you might also find useful and/or appreciate right now.
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
corridorbusiness.com | Alexandra Olsen |Dan Sullivan |Benjamin Hardy |Andre Norman
At the end of 2023, the Corridor Business Journal asked 250 business and community leaders, “what was the best book you read this year? Why?”From business advice to pure entertainment, here you will find ten books recommended by some of the Corridor’s most influential leaders. Visit your local library to get to reading.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
medium.com | Benjamin Hardy
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” — Napoleon HillWriting in your journal every single day will change your life. Writing in your journal every day is the difference between being transformed and being confused. Writing in your journal every day is the difference between being proactive and seizing life in your own hands, or being a mere observer to life’s possibilities.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
medium.com | Benjamin Hardy
50 Questions Happy And Confident People Ask Themselves Regularly “The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.” — Thomas Berger Your progress in life is directly tied to the depth of the questions you’re willing to ask yourself, and the honesty with which you answer those questions. As Tony Robbins said in Awaken the Giant Within, “Quality questions create a quality life.” Pull out your journal. Write notes, ideas and impressions. Really think through these questions.
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Jan 20, 2024 | 
medium.com | Benjamin Hardy
This Simple Goal-Setting Method Will Give You Courage, Power, and Clarity You’re willing to work hard, but you’re frustrated. You wish someone could show you what to do instead of wondering. You’re willing to set big goals, but you’re afraid. You’re worried you’ll spend the next few years chasing a goal only to discover that it didn’t bring you the “success” you thought. You’re excited by the possibilities but overwhelmed by all of them at the same time.
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Jan 14, 2024 | 
medium.com | Benjamin Hardy
He wasn’t always that way. In his book Can’t Hurt Me, he shares how he went through a painful, traumatizing, and abusive childhood. At one particular low point he was failing every class in school, and he was miserable and depressed about his life. “[One] night, after taking a shower, I wiped the steam away from our corroded bathroom mirror and took a good look. I didn’t like who I saw staring back. I was a low-budget thug with no purpose and no future.
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
medium.com | Benjamin Hardy
Fear Is Keeping You Stuck. Here’s How To Destroy It. The most cited academic paper in all of academics is the discovery of “prospect theory.” Prospect theory, pioneered by famed economist and psychologist Daniel Kahneman is the discovery that that as humans we fear loss far more than we appreciate gains. We’re so afraid of losing what we have that we don’t chase bigger and better things. We’re like kids in a scavenger hunt who sit on their treasure in fear of it getting stolen.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
medium.com | Benjamin Hardy
How To Become World-Class Much Sooner Than You Thought Possible You can get what you want very fast. Much faster than you think. It could be millions of dollars. It could be being top of your class or field. It could be becoming a professional, an entrepreneur, an author, or whatever else you desire. It’s closer than you think. The reason most people take forever to get what they want is that they’re repeating mistakes.
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Dec 28, 2023 | 
medium.com | Benjamin Hardy
How do you spend the last few hours of your day? For years, I would completely sabotage and ruin those hours. I’d wake up and have extremely productive mornings. But then, I would waste the second half of my day completely. How you spend the last few hours of your day determines how successful you will be. Getting my evenings right changed EVERYTHING. Most goal-oriented people spend the first half of their day pretty well. The second half is usually pure self-sabotage.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
medium.com | Benjamin Hardy
Success is the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Extrinsic motivation comes from seeking a reward, praise, or validation. It withers when there is no external source to provide those things. Intrinsic motivation is the only path to ridiculous success, because ridiculously successful people literally do things nobody has done before. They also do them without anyone telling them when, where, how, or why to do it. Success has to be defined completely by you.
