Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t Rating 4/5 Date Started 2/21/2023 Date Completed 3/4/2023 Five Powerful Quotes from the Book Quote 1 “The emphasis on luck turns out to be part of a pattern that we came to call the window and the mirror. Level 5 leaders look out the window to…
Author: Mitch Peterson
Counterclockwise
Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility Rating 3/5 Date Started 5/9/2023 Date Completed 5/26/2023 Five Powerful Quotes from the Book Quote 1 “Mindful health is not about how we should eat right, exercise, or follow medical recommendations, nor is it about abandoning these things. It is not about New Age medicine nor traditional understandings…
Real Artists Don’t Starve
Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age Rating 4/5 Date Started 3/25/2023 Date Completed 4/6/2023 Five Powerful Quotes from the Book Quote 1 “Here they are, the principles every Thriving Artist lives by — the Rules of the New Renaissance: 1. The Starving Artist believes you must be born an artist. The Thriving…
The Art of Learning
An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance Rating 4/5 Date Started 9/1/2022 Date Completed 9/25/2022 Five Powerful Quotes from the Book Quote 1 “In my experience, successful people shoot for the stars, put their hears on the line in every battle, and ultimately discover that the lessons learned from the pursuit of excellence mean much more…
Start with Why
How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action Rating 5/5 Date Started 11/24/2022 Date Completed 11/29/2022 Five Powerful Quotes from the Book Quote 1 “Great leaders, in contrast, are able to inspire people to act. Those who are able to inspire give people a sense of purpose or belonging that has little to do with…
Flow
The Psychology of Optimal Experience Rating 3/5 Date Started 12-6-2022 Date Completed 4-12-2023 Five Powerful Quotes from the Book Quote 1 “The intent of this book is to use some of the tools of modern psychology to explore this very ancient question: When do people feel most happy? If we can begin to find an…
Deep Work
Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World Rating 4/5 Date Started 11-29-2022 Date Completed 12-10-2022 Five Powerful Quotes from the Book Quote 1 “The Deep Work Hypothesis: The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. As a consequence, the…
Daring Greatly
How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead Rating 3/5 Date Started 10-2-2022 Date Completed 10-9-2022 Five Powerful Quotes from the Book Quote 1 “I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. “Here’s the definition of shame that emerged from my research: ‘Shame is the intensely painful…
Creative Schools
The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education Rating 4/5 Date Started 10-17-2022 Date Completed 10-26-2022 Five Powerful Quotes from the Book Quote 1 “Schools often do things simply because they’ve always done them. The culture of any given school includes habits and systems that people in it act out every day. Many of these habits are…
Boundaries
When to Say Yes, How to Say No, To Take Control of Your Life Rating 3/5 Date Started 11-15-2022 Date Completed 11-23-2022 Five Powerful Quotes from the Book Quote 1 “Establishing boundaries in thinking involves three things: “1. We must own our own thoughts. Many people have not taken ownership of their own thinking processes….