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Name: The Achievement Habit
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Author: Bernard Roth

Bernard Roth

Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life

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The Achievement Habit by Bernard Roth is a self-help book that emphasizes taking action to achieve your goals. It provides practical advice for overcoming mental barriers and developing a problem-solving mindset, ultimately leading to success.

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What’s in it for me? Discover the key to becoming a true achiever.

Some people seem to have an almost eerie ability to get things done and reach their goals in life. What is their secret? Are they aliens?

Nope, and they don’t have achievement written in their genes, either. Anyone can learn to be an achiever. These blinks are about learning to see that the obstacles to achievement are often just excuses and reasons we make up in our heads.

These reasons and excuses get in the way of changing the actual problem: our behavior. As a result we end up making the same mistakes over and over again. Luckily, as these blinks will show you, by learning to see these reasons for the illusions they really are, you can truly start changing your behavior and take the first step to becoming an achiever. But what are the next steps? These blinks will show you.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

what Oprah learned from losing her first job;
that failure is just a word; and
why networking is overrated.

The Achievement Habit is about closing the gap between what you want and what you do.

Anyone can become an achiever. But first, you have to learn how to just do things.

Think about how many people dream of starting their own company, but end up working for someone else. Well, you can learn to close the gap between what you want to do and what actually gets done.

Look at it this way: there’s a fundamental difference between trying and doing.

Imagine you want to take something from someone’s hand: merely trying gets you bupkis – the other person sees you reaching and strengthens their grip. In this case, you didn’t use enough force and you didn’t act quickly. If, instead of trying, you had simply done, the other person wouldn’t have had the time to resist you.

The point is, the only obstacle is you. Everything else is just an excuse or a mental limit. If you’re not happy with some aspect of your life, you can change it.

Because here’s the thing: life is basically an exercise in problem-solving – and that’s not a bad thing. Problems are opportunities to learn and move forward. And learning how to use problems to your advantage is exactly what the Achievement Habit is all about.

One important aspect of the Achievement Habit comes from Design Thinking, a set of practices designers often use in their work, namely an openness to failure.

Failure defines pretty much every success story. Even Oprah was fired from her first job as a television anchor. But failure didn’t stop her, it motivated her!

Of course for most of us, motivation is the hard part. School trains us to work in order to earn high grades and degrees, but there are no report cards in life. So in adulthood, most of us have to train ourselves to be self-motivated.

To become an achiever, stop assigning a fixed meaning to everything in your life.

We assign meaning to everything. Whether we’re thinking about an incompetent boss or home ownership, we tend to forget the fact that our perception is subjective. Meaning isn’t fixed; it’s a matter of perspective.

For instance, your incompetent boss might wow you tomorrow with some breakthrough idea. And you yourself are similarly capable of reinvention. You might want to say it out loud: no one is just one thing, not you, your boss, your spouse, your children or your parents.

Reasons are just excuses to avoid making decisions and changing your behavior.

We always seem to have reasons for everything. Imagine you held the door open for an old lady in the morning. Then later in the day, you win the lottery. You might tell yourself that you were rewarded for doing a good deed. But really, your behavior had nothing to do with it. The relationship between those two incidents is correlative, not causal.

You might understand that fact on a rational level. And yet, chances are, whenever you’re late to a meeting, you probably hunt for some external reason – like traffic on the interstate. But in reality, you knew there would be heavy traffic on your route. You’re late simply because you didn’t make the meeting a priority.

The best way to solve a problem is by reframing it.

We often think the road toward some desirable destination is blocked by lack of money, other people, or something else. But as we’ve suggested, the best way to overcome a perceived obstacle is by reframing our perspective on it.

Of course, for this to work, you have to be dealing with the actual problem and not something else. Let’s say you think you’re looking for a spouse. But is it possible that what you’re actually looking for is companionship, and that finding a spouse seems like the easiest way?

Achievement is rarely solitary: Find ways to learn from others and share your own knowledge.

Chances are you won’t be able to achieve anything on your own. You’ll need help, so seek out people whose accomplishments match your goals.

You don’t have to follow their path, but you can learn from them. And don’t just focus on the positive attributes: paying attention to negative qualities is also productive.

If you want to achieve great things, start identifying as an achiever.

What do you think of yourself? Are you an achiever? Well, you should start calling yourself one. Because ultimately, achievement is a matter of self-image. Meaning, if you start identifying as an achiever, chances are you’ll start achieving great things pronto.

As children, we construct our self-image based on what our parents and teachers tell us. But as adults, it’s important for us to truly own our self-image.

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Worum geht es in The Achievement Habit?

Big dreams that never come true? Long list of things to do but you spent half the morning on Facebook? The Achievement Habit (2015) is all you need to light a metaphorical rocket under your desk chair. With its down-to-earth revelations and simple instructions, it’s easy to apply to the life you already have, and bound to get you closer to the life you want.

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[Achievement] is a muscle, and once you learn to flex it, theres no end to what you can accomplish in life.

—Bernard Roth

Wer The Achievement Habit lesen sollte

Anyone who feels stuck
People with a life goal but no plan
Chronic procrastinators

Über den Autor

Bernard Roth is a professor of engineering and the academic director of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University. He is one of the world’s pioneers in robotics and an expert in kinematics, the science of motion.

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