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Book Reviews

Change Made Simple – Direct the Rider

by Stephen Mills March 4, 2010

In this article we discuss the first of the three main components of the process – Direct the Rider. Directing the rider is all about providing clarity to yourself or others. It’s about solving specific problems and taking specific actions instead of trying to boil the whole ocean.

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Change Made Simple – Overview

by Stephen Mills March 2, 2010

Switch is an excellent book with very practical advice that is made as easy to follow as you can imagine for such a broad and complex topic. I really loved this book. I bought the book at a Barnes and Noble. When I was checking out, the sales clerk said “The whole world needs to read this book”.

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Doing Great Work

by Stephen Mills February 27, 2010

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” — Steve Jobs

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Some More Books You Might Enjoy

by Stephen Mills February 6, 2010
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Please check out my Some Books You Might Enjoy article from October as well.
Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives This is a really interesting book.  Everyone has probably heard of the six degrees of separation theory.  It’s basically that everyone is connected to everyone else by an [...]

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Linchpin – A Review

by Stephen Mills January 28, 2010

“My goal is to persuade you that there is an opportunity available to you, a chance to significantly change your life for the better. Not by doing something that is easy or that you’ve been trained to do, but by understanding how the rules of our world have fundamentally changed and by taking advantage of this moment to become something the world believes is indispensable.”

–Seth Godin, from the Introduction

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The Science of Fear – Part I

by Stephen Mills January 10, 2010
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Fear is an important emotion that had extremely important survival value in the world in which our brains developed. Much of that value is now being misdirected. The emotional makeup of fear is now a big part of what leads to our miscalculation of risk. Further, those with economic or political value to be gained, use the emotion of fear to influence us. It’s easy to motivate people by scaring them. So to truly understand and react to risk in a reasonable manner, we must approach it in a cold and calculating way.

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Using Your Whole Mind – Book Review

by Stephen Mills December 22, 2009

Daniel Pink’s book A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future offers an interesting, and I think valid, perspective on what it is going to take to succeed or to continue to succeed in the world in which we currently find ourselves.
The thesis of the book is basically the following:

Due to abundance, reasonably [...]

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Hugh Macleod and Creativity

by Stephen Mills December 5, 2009

I just finished a quick read of Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh Macleod.  If you are or aspire to be a creative type, there is a lot of wisdom in that little book.  His cartoons aren’t for everyone as some of them contain a generous helping of 4-letter words and [...]

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How To Be Rich and Happy

by Stephen Mills November 14, 2009

I do think the book provides an excellent toolset to give you a lot more of what you want a lot more often than you are getting now. I read the book all the way through in one sitting even doing the exercises.

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Some Books You Might Enjoy

by Stephen Mills October 29, 2009

I thought I would list some of the books I’ve read recently and found interesting or enjoyable recently.  I won’t write a lot about them because they are Amazon links that you can follow and get a lot more information than I can provide here.
Heart Warming
I love animals and this book just made me feel [...]

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