In 'Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart', Dr. Gordon Livingston shares thirty bedrock truths about human behavior, relationships, and personal growth. Drawing from his experiences as a psychiatrist and his personal struggles with loss, Livingston offers guidance on moving beyond regret and finding hope in life's challenges. His essays emphasize the importance of self-awareness, forgiveness, and the capacity to change.
In 'Willpower Doesn't Work,' Benjamin Hardy argues that willpower is not a reliable tool for achieving success. Instead, he advocates for the power of environment in shaping behavior and outcomes. The book provides strategies on how to create an environment that supports your goals, such as removing distractions, investing in personal growth, and using 'forcing functions' to ensure desired behaviors become automatic. Hardy draws on psychological theories and the experiences of successful individuals to illustrate how adapting to and designing one's environment is crucial for personal and professional success.
In 'Personality Isn’t Permanent', Dr. Benjamin Hardy draws on psychological research to challenge the popular belief that personality is fixed. He provides strategies for intentional self-transformation, including how to design your current identity based on your desired future self, reframe traumatic experiences, enhance your subconscious, and redesign your environment to support future goals. The book includes true stories of self-transformation and emphasizes the importance of action in kindling confidence, motivation, and passion.
The Growth Mindset provides a roadmap for financial professionals to navigate the changing landscape of wealth management. The book emphasizes the importance of leadership, client-centric approaches, and adapting to change. It outlines critical characteristics and practices of exceptional leadership, including building strong relationships, aligning company culture, and retaining top talent. The book is divided into sections that cover leadership skills, growing the business, and insights for high net worth clients, offering practical advice on delivering integrated wealth management solutions and maintaining a competitive edge in a rapidly changing industry.
In this book, David Epstein examines the success of generalists in various fields, including sports, arts, music, invention, forecasting, and science. He argues that generalists, who often find their path late and juggle multiple interests, are more creative, agile, and able to make connections that specialists cannot. Epstein uses stories and research studies to show that wide sampling and late specialization can be more valuable than early specialization, especially in complex and unpredictable environments. He also discusses the distinction between 'kind' and 'wicked' learning environments and the importance of balancing specialization with range for long-term success[2][4][5].
In today’s episode, Ryan and Ben Hardy, the author and organizational psychologist, talk about the path of self-improvement, being a parent to foster children, and how to make permanent positive change.
Ben Hardy is an organizational psychologist who has written multiple books and articles on the power of changing your personality to achieve success. From 2015 to 2018, he was the most popular author on Medium with over a million people reading each one of his posts. Ben also speaks at multiple leadership and entrepreneurial events each year. Ben and his wife have fostered three children; together with their new twins, they live in Orlando, FL.
Get Ben’s latest book, Personality Isn’t Permanent: https://geni.us/AjG8
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