Personal Development

Redefining Success

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Learn how to reframe success for yourself and go for it
By The Blinkist Curators

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Personal DevelopmentCareer & Success

Success is more than high salaries, awards, and material possessions. This collection is here to give you ideas about how you can reframe and redefine what success means for you, so you can make it happen!

Redefining Success

Learn how to reframe success for yourself and go for it
Big Potential
Big Potential
Shawn Achor
How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises Our Achievement, Happiness, and Well-Being
18 min
4.4
Outliers
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
The Story of Success
15 min
4.2
How Successful People Think
How Successful People Think
John C. Maxwell
Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
16 min
4.3
You Do You
You Do You
Sarah Knight
How to Be Who You Are and Use What You’ve Got to Get What You Want
20 min
4.0
Sharmadean Reid: Create Your Own Terms
Sharmadean Reid: Create Your Own Terms
Beauty and tech entrepreneur Sharmadean Reid rose to fame in 2009 when her side project WAH Nails became a global business. Despite the global scale of her success, Sharmadean is still an advocate for loosening the shackles keeping you pinned to your desk and for getting out in the world. According to her, the key to success is better understanding yourself and your own working needs. In this episode, she offers simple hacks and exercises that will help you arrive at a personal definition of productivity and success that's perfectly tailored to you and your life.
5 min
4.5
Designing Your Work Life
Designing Your Work Life
Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness at Work
22 min
4.2
The Buddha and the Badass
The Buddha and the Badass
Vishen Lakhiani
The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Work
29 min
4.4
The Happiness Track
The Happiness Track
Emma Seppälä
How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success
19 min
4.4
The Squiggly Career
The Squiggly Career
Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis
Ditch the Ladder, Embrace Opportunity and Carve Your Own Path Through the Squiggly World of Work
22 min
4.5
Make Your Own Luck
Make Your Own Luck
Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome's success wasn’t pre-ordained. His story is a textbook example of how you can make your own luck. In this episode, Chris shares how with determination and willingness to take risks, you can capitalize on every opportunity that presents itself and start to build conditions that better guarantee success.
8 min
4.6
The Happiness Equation
The Happiness Equation
Neil Pasricha
Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything
17 min
4.4
Status Anxiety
Status Anxiety
Alain de Botton
How social isolation and meritocracy cause fear of underachievement and how to solve this
26 min
4.5
The Power of Nunchi
The Power of Nunchi
Euny Hong
The Korean Secret to Happiness and Success
21 min
4.3
Transcend
Transcend
Scott Barry Kaufman
The New Science of Self-Actualization
28 min
4.5
Brooke Castillo: Thinking for Abundance and Success
Brooke Castillo: Thinking for Abundance and Success
Did you ever hear the saying, ""Think it, be it,""? What if that applied to business success too? In this episode, life coach Brooke Castillo shares some strategies for creating success and managing your mind to get what you want. You'll learn more about how you can work with the unconscious power of your thoughts to reach your goals—and be comfortable with it, too.
11 min
4.1
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