User:Conservative/Personal development skill sets etc
Contents
- 1 Christianity related material
- 2 The 7 key life skills and habits
- 3 Personality improvement
- 4 Dan Peña
- 5 Key articles on personal development
- 6 Peak performance and maximum achievement
- 6.1 Peak Performance general tips
- 6.2 Brendon Burchard and peak performance
- 6.3 Peak Performance general principles
- 6.4 Charles Garfield
- 6.5 Peak performance - Dr. Harold Harung
- 6.6 Mental training
- 6.7 Grit, passion, growth mindset and perseverance
- 6.8 Self-sacrifice, self-denial and love
- 6.9 Developing good habits and breaking bad habits
- 6.10 Taking direct action
- 6.11 Mastery
- 6.12 Peak performance training
- 6.13 Growth mindset
- 6.14 Commitment
- 6.15 Science of achievement, Tony Robbins
- 6.16 Reasoning training
- 6.17 Prayer and the brain
- 6.18 Tommy Newberry
- 7 Growth mindset
- 8 Focus
- 9 Goal Setting
- 10 Self-discipline - staying focused on your vision, goals and tasks
- 11 Mental toughness - MTQ48 model
- 12 Resiliency, tough experiences and overcoming obstacles
- 13 Character
- 14 Society, influence, acceptance of negative ideas/fat acceptance, and upgrading the people around you
- 15 Smooth interpersonal relations
- 16 Outworking the competition
- 17 Maintaining a positive/constructive mindset
- 18 Books related to peak performance/Maximum achievement
- 19 Cognitive performance
- 20 Reading comprehension improvement
- 21 Speeding up reading
- 22 Learning a foreign language
- 23 Responsibility and accountability
- 24 Systems to support goals/vision
- 25 Managing personal energy vs. managing time
- 26 Key time management/priority principles
- 27 Task/project/time management system using Trello
- 28 Personal and organizational vision
- 29 Passion/zeal success at endeavors
- 30 Change
- 31 Interpersonal skills
- 32 Planning skills
- 33 Project management skills
- 34 Productivity/efficiency
- 35 Kaizen Principle
- 36 Commitment
- 37 Motivation
- 38 Attitude and mindset
- 39 Important skills to acquire or improve
- 40 Execution skills: Getting things done
- 41 Research and investigative reporter skills
- 42 Critical Thinking skills
- 43 Questioning skills
- 44 Teaching skills
- 45 Persuasion, argumentation and marketing
- 46 How some levels of stress can be good for you
- 47 6 levels of thinking
- 48 General levels of thinking and increasing your level of thinking
- 49 Problem Solving
- 50 Strategic thinking
- 51 Greater reading comprehension
- 52 Talent vs. hard work
- 53 Skill acquisition
- 54 Talent
- 55 Forecasting and developing usable expertise
- 56 Competition
- 57 Increasing cognitive performance
- 58 Profitable activity
- 59 Leadership
- 60 Team work skils
- 61 Risk taking
- 62 Books
- 63 IQ/EQ/AQ/WQ/SQ/BQ/RQ and other forms of intelligence
- 64 Personal branding
- 65 Sales, marketing and promotion
- 66 Principles of getting results plus business tips - various speakers and writers
- 67 Business tips
- 68 Unconventional business tips
- 69 Speakers and Speeches
- 70 Various recommended books and resources
- 71 Christian professional and personal development organizations
- 72 Other Professional development companies
- 73 Audiobook business book summaries
- 74 Learning a language for free
- 75 Learn a programming language for free
- 76 Business books and miscellaneous books
- 77 Pete Williams - best books - Noise reduction report
- 78 100 best business books of all time
- 79 Amazon best business books
- 80 2012 best business books
- 81 2011 best business books
- 82 Miscellaneous business people and books
- 83 Recommended books on writing
- 84 Recommended books - inspirational/motivational
- 85 Personal productivity tools
- 86 Personal productivity tips and apps
- 87 Spell checking and grammar checking software solutions and browser addons
- 88 Self-defense
- 89 Quotes
- 90 Writing and speaking skills
- 91 Learning to play an instrument or new instrument: Benefits
Christianity and related material
The 7 key life skills and habits
- "Gentleman, this is a football." - Vince Lombardi (The importance of knowing foundational/key skills)
Personality improvement
- Personality
- Big Five personality traits
- Neoroplasticity and the ability of individuals to improve their personality
- Conscientiousness
Dan Peña
Dan Pena's 10 habits of success
1. Practice Daily Affirmations - Based on goals. Avoid self-sabotage. Do Positive Affirmations Work? What Experts Say, Cleveland Clinic. How to make self-affirmation work, based on science, Washington Post, 2022. Do Positive Affirmations Work? A Look at the Science by Steve Rose, PhD. Using Affirmations, Mindtools.com. Is There Science Behind Positive Daily Affirmations?. 5 Steps to Make Affirmations Work for You by Ronald Alexander Ph.D. The psychology of change: self-affirmation and social psychological intervention, PubMed. Reinstating the Resourceful Self: When and How Self-Affirmations Improve Executive Performance of the Powerless, PubMed. Self-affirmation activates brain systems associated with self-related processing and reward and is reinforced by future orientation, PubMed. Understanding self-affirmation effects: The moderating role of self-esteem, PubMed. Science/application of self-affirmations - playlist. Positive self-talk recordings
2. Measure What You Do And Improve
5. Conventional Wisdom is Almost Always Wrong
6. Get Out of Your Comfort Zone
8. Don't Care About What People Think About You
9. Surround Yourself with Successful People
10. Take Action
Dan Peña quote
“Never underestimate how wrong you can be!” - Dan Peña
Dan Pena
- Dan Pena - website
- Dan Peña at Michael Pilarczyk's Maximum Potential Business Edition Event 2019 (Day 2)
- Michael Pilarczyk - Maximum Business Potential - Event with Dan Peña - 2018
Some Anthony Viccone core skills
Anthony Viccone's 3 core skills:[2]
1. Focus
2. Learning
3. Discipline
Other important skill is communication (Body language, speaking/tonality, public speaking, persuasion and storytelling)
Key articles on personal development
- Achievement
- Time management
- Procrastination (Humorous by good article: Why Procrastinators Procrastinate).
- Conscientiousness
- Self-control
- Grit (personality trait)
- Motivation
- Concentration
- Big Five personality traits
Peak performance and maximum achievement
Key points of Charles A. Garfield's video on peak performance:
- 1. Motivation through mission
- 2. Results orientation
- 3. Empowers others through teamwork
- 4. Ability to innovate and change
- 5. Develops himself as a resource
- High performance videos - playlist
- Achievement
- Results orientation
- Goal setting
- Time management
- Teamwork skills
- Change, adaptability and change management
- Peak performance : mental training techniques of the world's greatest athletes : Charles A. Garfield with Hal Zana Bennett - Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
- Maximum achievement - Brian Tracy
- Cost of greatness
- The winningest coach in basketball history John Wooden challenges YOU to compete against yourself…
Maximum achievement podcasts:
Peak Performance general tips
- 5 tips to achieve peak performance
- 3 keys to peak performance
- Keys to peak peformance - Brian Tracy
- 5 keys to peak performance - Bob Choat
- 5 things successful people do before 8am - Forbes
- 16 things you should do at the start of every workday
- Peak performance resources
- Vince Lombardi clips
- High Perfomance People: Vince Lombardi - speaker
- Action Creates Energy
- Focus
Brendon Burchard and peak performance
- High Performance Habits: Excerpts - Brendon Burchard's website
Peak Performance general principles
- Peak performance principles - playlist
- Peak performance techniques
- Peak performance principles
- Andrew Carnegies 10 tips to business people
- Peak Performance Principles
- B. Eugene Griessman's high achievement factors
- B. Eugene Griessman's high achievement factors - hoops
- Navy Seal - David Rutherford
Charles Garfield
- Peak Performers by Charles Garfield
Peak performance - Dr. Harold Harung
- New research looks at brain integration in top athletes and in long-time meditators (Intense prayer similar to meditation)
- Highly developed brains behind top performances, Science Nordic
- Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time, Harvard Business Review, work of Jim Loehr
Mental training
Grit, passion, growth mindset and perseverance
Grit/Persistence:
Importance of Grit:
- Angela Lee Duckworth - Grit/persistence - playlist
- Perseverence/grit is more important for “extremely high-challenge achievement”/"greatness" than talent
- Student Test Scores Show That 'Grit' Is More Important Than IQ
Grit factors:
Relationship between Grit and self-control:
- Relationship between Grit and self-control
- Self-Control and Grit Related but Separable Determinants of Success
Relationship between grit, self-control and engaging in limiting behaviors:
- Relationship between grit, self-control and engaging in limiting behaviors
- Relationship between grit, self-control and engaging in limiting behaviors
Developing Grit:
- Developing grit/perseverence - playlist
- How to foster Grit
- True Grit: The Best Measure of Success and How to Teach It
- Factors that cause Grit
- Grit - character Lab
- Developing grit
- Happiness tip - developing grit
- How to develop true grit
- Grit Trumps Talent and IQ: A Story Every Parent (and Educator) Should Read - plus Grit strategies
- Why Tough Teachers Get Good Results, WSJ, 2013
- Unlocking Grit
- 8 tips to grow Grit
- Grit: The skills for success and how they are grown
- The Science of Developing Mental Toughness in Your Health, Work, and Life by James Clear
- Use the gym to develop true grit
- Entrepreneurial persistence
- Navy SEAL mindset
Growth mindset:
Books related to Grit:
- The Grit Project: Ingredients of Perseverance [Kindle Edition] by Gerry Stoltzfoos
- The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It by Kelly McGonigal Ph.D., 2013
- Willpower: Regain Your Self-Control and Rediscover Your Willpower Instinct (Empowerment Book Series) by Allison Perry, Paperback – March 31, 2014
- Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy F. Baumeister, Paperback – August 28, 2012
Self-sacrifice, self-denial and love
Jesus on self-denial/self-sacrifice: "And He was saying to them all, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me." (Luke 9:23)
Developing good habits and breaking bad habits
Christian articles on habits
Habits - General articles
- One paper published by a Duke University researcher in 2006 found that about 45 percent of the actions people performed each day weren’t the due to decision making, but were habits.[3][4][5]
- A Stanford University psychologist’s elegant three-step method for creating new habits
- Tiny Habits academy
- Habitudes
- Habits - playlist
- Habits
- 7 habits of highly effective people - slides
- 7 Habits of highly effective people - condensed summaries
- 7 habits of highly effective people - summary
- 7 Habits of highly effective people - list and summary
Creating new habits:
- Creating new habits
- How habits work
- Cognitive psychology methods of developing a new habit based on empirical research
- 18 tips to making habits stick
- 10 ways to make habits stick
- How to Build Good Habits (and Make Them Stick)
- Charles Duhigg's habit creation flowchart
Breaking old habits:
- Breaking bad habits- NIH
- Replacing a bad habit with a good habit
- Breaking bad habits - you can do it
- Book: Rewire: Change Your Brain to Break Bad Habits, Overcome Addictions, Conquer Self-Destructive Behavior Hardcover – July 31, 2014 by Richard O'Connor (Author)
- Breaking bad habits - Mindtools
- Breaking bad habits
Neuroscience, habit formation, tactics/strategies:
How long does it take to establish a new habit:
- Cognitive psychology research: It takes 66 days for the average person to develop a new habit so it is automatic.
- Need to Form a New Habit? Give Yourself At Least 66 Days
- Scientists Say It Only Takes 66 Days To Change Your Life, If You're Strong Enough
- How Long Does It Take for a New Behavior to Become Automatic?
- How are habits formed: Modelling habit formation in the real world. In Lally's study, it took anywhere from 18 days to 254 days for people to form a new habit.[6]
- How are habits formed: Modelling habit formation in the real world†, Phillippa Lally*, Cornelia H. M. van Jaarsveld,Henry W. W. Potts and Jane Wardle, European Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 40, Issue 6, pages 998–1009, October 2010: "The time it took participants to reach 95% of their asymptote of automaticity ranged from 18 to 254 days; indicating considerable variation in how long it takes people to reach their limit of automaticity and highlighting that it can take a very long time. Missing one opportunity to perform the behaviour did not materially affect the habit formation process."[7]
Habit related software:
Habits:
Books on habits:
Book:
Taking direct action
Mastery
Five keys to mastery:
1. Surrender to your passion
2, Practice, Practice, Practice
3. Find a good guide
4. Visualize the outcome
5. Play the edge[8]
Mastery - Book:
- Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment by George Leonard
Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment by George Leonard: Book Summary:
Mastery by Robert Greene - Book summary:
Peak performance training
- Mental training - Playlist
- Winning attitude - playlist
- The Art of Mental Training - A Guide to Performance Excellence by DC Gonzalez
Growth mindset
Commitment
Science of achievement, Tony Robbins
Commitment to goals/dream:
Reasoning training
- Reasoning Training Increases Brain Connectivity Associated with High-Level Cognition, Scientific American
Reason training: Brain products/programs
- Center for Brain Health at University at Dallas
"Zientz teaches patients three simple strategies: integration is breaking down and summarizing information, innovation is coming up with solutions to problems and strategic attention means blocking out useless details.
"So you can save your cognitive capital for thinking about things that really matter," said Zientz.
Sina Aslan, Ph.D., Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Center for Brain Health, studied the brains of people who completed the Smart Training program and noticed more blood flow for those participants.
One person improved blood flow by over 12 percent.
Most of the patients also increased the speed of communications across brain networks by 30 percent.
"Thirty percent faster speed is probably regaining 20 years of brain function," said Dr. Chapman
Researchers can actually see brain changes after just twelve hours of training, but it isn't a permanent fix."[9]
Prayer and the brain
"It has been found that 12 minutes of daily focused prayer over an 8 week period can change the brain to such an extent that it can be measured on a brain scan (How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist– March 23, 2010 by Andrew Newberg M.D, Mark Robert Waldman. P26,27.). This type of prayer seems to increase activity in brain areas associated with social interaction compassion and sensitivity to others. It also increases frontal lobe activity as focus and intentionality increase.
Tommy Newberry
Growth mindset
Growth mindset videos
Focus
- Get Laser Focus On Your Goals In 3 Steps (That Habit Guy Channel)
Miyamoto Musashi:
David Gogan:
Prioritization
Productivity
Organizational skills
Time Management and Prioritization
- Time management skills - playlist
- Lessening procrastination tips
- How to Stop Procrastinating: Top Tricks - Reader's Digest
- Schedule your Day - 1-Page Productivity Tool
- Time management
- Time management and the internet
- Time management tips and tools
- Goals, Prioritization, and Organization
- Randy Pausch Lecture: Time Management - University of VA
- Focus on Key Result Areas
- Time Management - 80/20 rule
- Choosing tasks/goals based on ultimate objectives
Managing emails:
Time orientation:
Reading speed:
Helpful Time Management websites:
- Time Management - Mindtools website
- Time Management - Dartmouth website
- Time Management Guide website
- TimeManagement.com
- Griessman - 29 time saving tactics
- Success magazine articles- time management
Entertainment vs. education/productivity:
- Amusing ourselves to death quotes
- Amusing ourselves to death by Neil Postman - review by Library Point
Being more productive via developing greater concentration/focus
Taking action
Having a sense of urgency
Goal Setting
User: Conservative/Goal setting
- Goals and goal setting by referenceforbusiness.com
- - Goal, action commitments, and weekly reporting study - People with written goals, action commitments and weekly progress reports to a friend saw a 80.95% improvement over control group which had no written goals, no action commitments and no weekly progress reports
- Study Backs up Strategies for Achieving Goals
- Goals: The Difference Between Success And Failure - Dr. Gail Matthews study at Dominican University
Studies related to long term goals:
- Perseverence/grit is more important for “extremely high-challenge achievement”/"greatness" than talent
- Grit - personality trait
- Get motivated and stay motivated: Eight keys for pursuing long-term goals
- True Grit and teachers - study
- Study Links Teacher 'Grit' with Effectiveness, Retention
- Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals
- How to develop long term focus
- Masters of the long haul: Pursuing long-term work goals. Journal of Organizational Behavior Volume 33, Issue 7, pages 984–1006, October 2012Thomas S. Bateman1, and Bruce Barry2
Goals vs. purpose:
Effective goal setting steps/tactics:
Goals and character:
Goal setting forms:
Goal setting - general:
Success magazine - goal setting articles:
Yearly goal setting
Self-discipline - staying focused on your vision, goals and tasks
Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions (MCII)
- The Motivational One-Two Punch for Overcoming Bad Habits The Motivational One-Two Punch for Overcoming Bad Habits
- Mental Contrasting – Effectiveness, Uses, and Precautions
- Stop Being So Positive - HBR
- Gabriele Oettingen - Business Insider
Videos: Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions (MCII)
Self-control article
- 8 EASY WAYS TO INCREASE YOUR SELF-CONTROL
- 5 Proven Methods For Improving Self Discipline
- 10 tips for strengthening self-discipline
- Just Do It: 11 Proven Ways to Increase Your Willpower and Self-Discipline
- Developing greater self-discipline
- 7 self-discipline techniques
- Increasing discipline
- 7 ways to increase discipline
- Developing stronger self-discipline
- Building stronger self-control - Wikihow
- 4 Simple Steps to Building Stronger Self-Discipline
- Self-discipline
- The science of willpower
Daily routines
The creative lives of massively productive people like John Milton, Charles Dickens, Ludwig Beethoven and Edison follow strict daily routines. (i.e., when they would get up, when they would start work, when they would exercise and when they would relax). Peak productivity’s not about luck. It’s about devotion.[10][11]
- Brian Tracy on time management
- 21 Tips to Become the Most Productive Person You Know
- Wakeup productive
- Top 10 Ways to Upgrade Your Daily Routine
- 5 Things Productive Entrepreneurs Do Each Day
- 5 Steps to Create a Daily Routine That Works For You
- Rise and shine: the daily routines of history's most creative minds - Guardian article
- The Daily Routines Of 26 Of History's Most Creative Minds
Increasing inhibition and executive control
- 10 Simple Exercises to Improve Executive Function At Home
- Increasing inhibition practices
- Keeping Your Mind Sharp with CogniFit
Disciplined thinking
Willpower
Willpower Articles
Future self
Defensive pessimism
Surfing the urge/mindfulness
Course
Mental toughness - MTQ48 model
- MTQ48 model - playlist
- 4Cs of mental toughness - video
- Mental Toughness The Four C’s - video
- The 4C's of Mental Strength -video
- MTQ Plus Webinar
- AQR mental toughness product: Mental Toughness Development – Online Programme
- AQR Book: Developing Mental Toughness: Strategies to Improve Performance, Resilience and Wellbeing in Individuals and Organizations by Peter Clough, Doug Strycharczyk and John Perry (Author)
Control
Life control
Emotional control
- Self-awareness - confident, realistic estimation of oneself, humility
- Self-regulation - Trustworthy, comfortable with ambiguity, open to change
- Motivation - Achievement mindset, ambitious mindset, optimism under adversity, commitment to organization/others
- Social skills - Effectiveness at leading change, persuasiveness, expert in leading teams
- Empathy - Service to others/clients, expertise in building and retaining talent, adept at cross-cultural situations
Confidence
Commitment
Conscientiousness
- Conscientiousness is the personality trait of being thorough, careful, consistent and vigilant.
Conscientiousness is positively correlated to a desire to perform a task well. Conscientious people are highly efficient and organized. They also exhibit: self-discipline; achievement oriented behavior; planning skills; organizational skills; and dependability.
Conscientiousness is one of the Big Five personality traits. Generally speaking, conscientious individuals have a strong work ethic and are reliable.
Challenge
- Risk vs. reward - Risk versus reward and 4 quadrants
- Risk management cycle - Identify risk, risk assessment/analyze, plan of action, implement, measure/monitor
Growth mindset
Change management
Resiliency, tough experiences and overcoming obstacles
Videos:
- Al Siebert - Resiliency
- Resiliency - playlist
- Finding meaning in difficult times (Interview with Dr. Viktor Frankl) - Decision/action/freedom/responsibility; Despair = Suffering - Meaning. Meaning - For what purpose is this happening? Ultimate meaning/theology.
- Overcoming Obstacles by Brian Tracy
- What Makes a Survivor? by Lawrence Gonzalez
General articles:
- Overcoming obstacles - Success magazine articles
- The Resiliency Advantage by Al Siebert, PhD
Dr. Al Siebert who was a former paratrooper wrote the book The Survivor Personality: Why Some People are Stronger, Smarter, and More Skillful at Handling Life’s Difficulties…and How You Can Be, Too. Siebert offers his findings from autobiographies and hundreds of interviews. He interviewed survivors of adversity such as war, cancer, abuse, job loss, and addictions.
A book summary of his book can be found HERE.
Books:
- The Resiliency Advantage by Al Siebert
- Survivor Personality: Why Some People Are Stronger, Smarter, and More Skillful atHandling Life's Diffi culties...and How You Can Be, Too by Al Siebert
- Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales
- Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience by Laurence Gonzales
Mental Toughness
- Pschological resilience
- Having a Plan B and resilience, Time Power: A Proven System for Getting More Done in Less Time Than You Ever Thought Possible By Brian Tracy, 2007, page 128.
- How to have mental toughness
- Mental conditioning and the SEALS
- 6 elements of mental toughness
- 24 Elite Navy Seals & How They Made It Through Hell Week
Therapism
The notion that human beings are fragile and permanently damaged by traumatic experiences.
- Therapism: The obsession with mental health is bad for everyone’, Creates invalidism.. PTSD has some validity, but way overblown. Vietnam War politicized this issue. Threshold for what constitutes a traumatic event has been lowered. Victim culture affected this also.
Books:
Models
Peter Clough and MTQ48:
- Mental Toughness and its connection with related concepts
- 4 Cs of mental toughness
- 4Cs of mental toughness - video
- Mental Toughness The Four C’s - video
- The 4C's of Mental Strength -video
- MTQ Plus Webinar
- Mental toughness slideshow
- How To Use Control To Be Mentally Tough
- MTQ48 reports
- Developing Mental Toughness, With Peter Clough
Dr. Jim Loehr:
Adversity quotient:
- Adversity advantage (harnessing adversity for motivation/character development instead of merely trying to cope with it)
General
- Prime the Pump
- Motivational...Period!
- How To Practice: Building Mental Toughness
- Mental Toughness - 1
- Mental toughness 2
- What's your excuse?
Dealing with adversity:
Coming back after facing adversity:
Dealing with difficult people
Testing via adversity
Beyond mere resilience: Thriving in adversity and being antifragile
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Character
Society, influence, acceptance of negative ideas/fat acceptance, and upgrading the people around you
Videos: Show me your friends and I will show you you're future:
- Bad company corrupts good morals - Playlist
- Bad Company Corrupts Good Morals... - Short video
Social influence:
Fat acceptance:
Manufacturing consent
Negative influence of academia's wrongheaded ideas on society
Academia: Poor performance and often failing to meet the needs of society
Presently, there appears to be a higher education bubble that will burst.[1] In addition, college is clearly not delivering the goods in terms of intellectual development for a large percentage of its students. An American study found that forty-five percent of students achieved no significant improvement in their critical thinking, reasoning or writing skills during their first two years of college. After four years, 36 percent displayed no significant increases in these so-called "higher order" thinking skills.[2] Students, particularly those who made poor curriculum choices, are increasingly angry that college does not adequately prepare them for the marketplace and leaves them with a pile of debt.[3]
Smooth interpersonal relations
- 8 takeaways from Dale Carnagie's book How to Win Friends and Influence People
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie - Book Summary
- How to Win Friends and Influence People - Book Summary
Outworking the competition
Maintaining a positive/constructive mindset
Cognitive performance
Reading comprehension improvement
Reading comprehension strategies
- 6 strategies for greater reading comprehension by Jeffrey D Wilhelm
Visualization:
Strategic reading:
General books/DVDs:
- Strategic Reading: Guiding Students to Lifelong Literacy by Tanya Baker, Julie Dube Hackett, Jeffrey D Wilhelm
Reading comprehension assessment and strategies
Metacognition strategies
- Instruction of Metacognitive Strategies Enhances Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Achievement - Foreign languages, etc.
Speeding up reading
Learning a foreign language
Learning Spanish
Responsibility and accountability
Locus of Control:
Grow model:
Related essays:
Systems to support goals/vision
Managing personal energy vs. managing time
Key time management/priority principles
Cutting down on time wasters
Excess internet usage
Excess news watching
Excess news watching: Average American spends 70 minutes a day paying attention to the news. See: Why not to watch the news: WikiHow - Stopping watching the news too much and Psychology Today - Effects of news and Psychological effects of news
“Studies have shown that 60-75% of what is shown on the news is negative and further perpetuates the notion of you not being able to do anything about it.” - Logic of Success, Antonio , page 110
Task/project/time management system using Trello
- Get Things Done with Trello: Your Quick Access to Productivity and Success includes a Step-by-Step Guide to Set Up and Implement Trello by Dominic Wolff, July 1, 2014
Personal and organizational vision
Purpose:
Personal vision:
- Creating a personal vision statement
- Creating your personal vision statement - if you can see it, you can do it
- Building a personal vision statement
Passion/Commitment/Persistence (GRIT) to personal vision and growth:
- GRIT - Angela Duckworth
- Keys to progress in reaching vision
- Your Concentration Training Program: 11 Exercises That Will Strengthen Your Attention
- Keys to focus
- Improving focus
Organizational vision:
- Organizational shared vision - playlist
- Mission Statements and Vision Statements - Mindtools
- 8 steps to creating organizational vision - Inc. Magazine
- 3 steps to creating an organizational statement
- Developing organizational and mission statements
Passion/zeal success at endeavors
Change
- Logic vs. human emotions and decisions to change course. Computers beat human chess masters because humans are more reluctant to do a retreat when an attack is ineffective.[12]
- Personal change management - playlist
- Resistance to change - playlist
Quantum thinking by creativity, innovation and motivational speaker James Mapes:
- Quantum leap thinking resource
- Quantum thinking by creativity, innovation and motivational speaker James Mapes
- James Mapes - playlist
You Squared: A High Velocity Formula for Multiplying Your Personal Effectiveness in Quantum Leaps:
Flexibility: Changing purpose/identity and goals:
Resistance to change:
- Ten Reasons People Resist Change -Harvard Business Review
- People don’t hate change…they hate ambiguity (transcript)
- 3 reasons why people hate change
- Why we hate change and branding
- Why we need change - Why we hate change
Resistance to change = Fear; Loss of face/control - pride; Challenge - Self-control (Overcoming cost and delayed gratification vs. laziness and comfort); Pack mentality
Change management
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- Kotter's 8 step change management
- Key to managing change
- Change management
- Systems and tools for managing change
- Change management tips
- Change management tools and HR management
- Managing people's fears during change
- 10 principles to managing change in an organization
- Leading and managing change - Graziadio Business Review - Pepperdine University
Interpersonal skills
Interpersonal skills videos:
Verbal Communication skills:
Non-verbal communication:
Listening skills:
Negotiation skills:
Dealing with anger:
Conflict resolution:
Teamwork:
Articles
Mind maps
Planning skills
- Planning skills - playlist
- Planning skils - University of Strathclyde, Glasgrow
- Basic planning skills
- Various planning skills
- A description of planning skills
Planning your day:
Planning your week:
Planning your month:
Quarterly planning:
Planning your year:
Project management skills
- Project management skills
- Basic project management
- Project planning phase
- Project management skills - Mindtools
- Key project management goals
Project execution:
- 10 ways to bulletproof your project execution
- Project execution and control
- Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy
Free project management software:
- The Top 6 Free and Open Source Project Management Software for Your Small Business/Non-profit
- Trello
- Bitrix24 Social network and project management - 12 users
Paid project management software tools:
Productivity/efficiency
- The psychology of getting more done (in less time) by Gregory Ciotti
Productivity and income:
Breaks and stretching at a workstation
- Breaks and stretching at a workstation - Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) (breaks every 5- 10 minutes at a computer workstation)
- Safe computer use (break every hour - recommends breaks every 20 - 30 minutes for a few minutes)
- OSHA guidelines to breaks and stretching, etc. (Every hour, take a five-minute break from computer tasks)
- Work Breaks, Exercises and Stretches (Microbreaks of 30-60 seconds every 10 minutes for upper and lower extremities, back, neck, and eyes; 2 minutes every hour for repetitive tasks like typing) - Stanford University
- Sitting at a computer - WikiHow (1 to 2 minutes every 30 minutes, 5-10 break or change tasks every hour)
Pomodoro technique
- Pomodoro Tecnique
- Tips on using the pomodoro technique
- Pomodoro website
- How I use the Pomodoro technique
- Pomodoro technique - review of it
- Is the pomodoro technique effective
Breaks:
Book:
- Pomodoro Technique by Francesco Cirillo
- Pomodoro Technique by Staffan Nöteberg and Francesco Cirillo
Apps:
- Pomodoro apps
- Microsoft Windows Store - Free and for pay Pomodoro apps
- 9 free Pomodoro Timers
- Free project/task management and pomodoro timer
- 3 of the best free pomodoro apps
- 5 great apps for working the pomodoro technique
Working in 90 minutes increments:
Benefits of regular breaks and adequate sleep:
Kaizen Principle
Commitment
Motivation
Critical thinking and emotional intelligence:
Other:
- Navy SEAL Training - Self Confidence - Froglogic Motivational Training
- Leadership and Motivation
- Jim Rohn Quotes
Rudy Ruettiger story:
Attitude and mindset
Important skills to acquire or improve
Execution skills: Getting things done
- Execution - getting things done - playlist
- Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done By Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan
Business relationships and networking
Better business relationships:
Business networking:
Mastermind groups and importance of mentors:
Asking for what you want and optimizing your chance of getting it through selling/negotiation
Research and investigative reporter skills
Research skills
Specific skills:
Online search tips:
List of search engines:
Google search tips:
Advanced Google search:
Books:
Critical Thinking skills
- Critical thinking
- Critical thinking skills
- Responsible thinking - outline
- Critical Thinking
- Inductive vs. deductive reasoning
- Socratic method
- Strategic Decision making
Avoiding errant thinking:
Books:
- Superthinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg (founder of DuckDuckGo search engine)
Cognitive bias mitigation:
- 12 of the most common cognitive biases
- Cognitive biases are bad for business and ways to mitigate them
- Ways to avoid cognitive biases in decision making
- Avoiding cognitive biases in decision making
- Avoiding groupthink
- The Big Idea: Before You Make That Big Decision...
- Cognitive bias mitigation - general and examples
Recognizing the tactics of those engaged in disinformation:
Questioning skills
Lines of questioning:
- 3 basic questions of Why, How and Which
- Various lines of questioning
- 7 Lines of questioning
- Various questioning templates
- Questioning techniques
- Questioning strategies
Strategic questioning:
Questions for business:
Teaching skills
Persuasion, argumentation and marketing
- How to create effective arguments by Professor David H. Zarefsky
Aristotle's rhetoric
How some levels of stress can be good for you
6 levels of thinking
General levels of thinking and increasing your level of thinking
- Understanding Your Level of Thinking/Consciousness
- Raising your level of thinking
- Tony Robbins on mindset
- Mindset - Jim Rohn
videos:
- Transforming your thinking
- Renewing your mind by R.C Spoule
Jim Rohn Books:
- The day that turns your life around
- 7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness
- Take charge of your life
- The art of exceptional living
- Get serious
- Cultivating an Unshakable Character
- Personal development. Have a Solid Plan
- Seasons of life
- Five major pieces to the life puzzle
- Jim Rohn's Philosophy for Successful Living
Problem Solving
Ray Dalios 5 steps to success (problem solving included):
Articles:
- Problem solving skills
- Non-linear problem solving
- Systems thinking
- Overview of systems thinking
- Problem Solving With Six Sigma Root Cause Analysis
- Systems Thinking and Systems Tools
- Enhancing the Six Sigma problem-solving methodology using the systems thinking methodologies
- Systems and complexity thinking
- From “solution” to “contextualized solution systems”
- Systems thinking applied to business
- TRIZ
- Lateral thinking
Systems thinking:
George Polya's 4 steps to problem solving:
- How to solve it - overview by George Polya
VUCA:
Problem solving Videos
General problem solving:
- Problem Solving Ideas That Work
- How to become a better problem solver
- Problem Solving Using the Why Tree By Creative Safety Supply
Mind mapping:
- Freemind documentation
- Mindmeister
- Mindmeister - Chrome store - Works with Google drive
- Mind mapping - Tony Buzan
- How to make a mind map - version 1
- How to make a mind map - version 2
- How to make a mind map the basics
- FreeMind - Free mind mapping software
- Mind mapping by Tony Buzan
- FreeMind tutorial
Lateral thinking:
- Dr. Edward de Bono discusses Lateral Thinking
- Lateral thinking
- Linear vs. Lateral Thinking - Team 49 Lateral thinking
Creative problem solving:
Vuca:
Forecasting:
Multiple strategies
Creativity / Innovation
- Creativity - playlist
- What is creativity - Brian Tracy
- Guide to creative thinking by Brian Tracy
- Unlocking creativity by Brian Tracy
- Creativity - Buffalo State College lectures (International Center for Studies in Creativity) - Playlist 1
- Buffalo State College- (International Center for Studies in Creativity) - Playlist 2
- Buffalo State College- (International Center for Studies in Creativity) - Playlist 3
- SUNY Buffalo State Selects SparcIt’s Automated Creativity Assessment Tool for its Upcoming MOOC on Creativity
- Ignite your creativity
- Creative thinking skills - slides
- What kind of creative thinker are you? - a test
- Creative thinking - Tony Yoo slides
- Bono - 6 thinking hats
- Lateral thinking - Bono
International Center for Studies in Creativity:
- International Center for Studies in Creativity - videos
- International Center for Studies in Creativity - History
- Creativity 101
- Disecting creativity
- Alumni videos
- Founder talks
Now here:
CNN - Next, innovation:
Innovation articles:
Ray Dalio: Be radically open-minded:
- Ray Dalio: Open-Mindedness And The Power of Not Knowing
- Principles for Success “Be Radically Open-Minded”
Books on creativity:
Strategic thinking
Personal strategic plan
General:
- Personal strategic plan - slideshare overview
Creating a personal strategic plan:
Personal balance assessment:
Personal strategic plan: workbooks, checklists, etc.:
Strategic and tactical thinking
- Principles of war
- Principles of warfare
- How to respond to opposition's tactics
- A History of Strategy: From Sun Tzu to William S. Lind
- Strategic thinking quotes
- Strategic thinking playlist
- Strategy and tactics
- The 33 Strategies of War
- 33 war strategies
- 4rth generation warfare
- War strategies and tactics - playlist
- 10 battlefield tactics
- Defense in depth
- Maneuver warfare
- Indirect approach
- The Indirect Approach by B. H. Liddell Hart
- List of military strategies and concepts
- List of military tactics
- Logistics
Sun Tzu:
- Sun Tzu quotes
- Sun Tzu quotes
- Offensive Strategy - Sun Tzu's Art of War #3 - Revisited
- The best lessons from 'Art of War
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Complete Audiobook, Unabridged)
- Art of War, Sun Tzu - audiobook
- Art of War - video
- Art of War
- 6 principles of Sun Tzu
- Favorite Sun Tzu quotes
- Choosing tasks/goals based on ultimate objectives
George Washington:
"Washington’s true genius as a military leader was his refusal to give up. He was also very much inclined as a leader to listen to the other military leaders around him. Invariably, he adopted the consensus of opinion reached by his military advisers in making his decisions. Unlike flashier generals, Washington was always able to maintain a steady demeanor and, most importantly, keep his army in being. A lesser general would have risked all for a spectacular but non-decisive victory against the British. As a leader who valued winning the war more than winning individual battles, Washington knew well that time was on his side given the realities of geography and the larger geopolitical situation." - Command and Control, Great Military Leaders from Washington to the 21st Century by Mark R. Polelle
"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all." - George Washington
Sun Tzu and marketing:
- Sun Tzu principles applied to marketing
- Sun Tzu and digital marketing
- Sun Tzu and digital marketing - part 2
Sun Tzu and business:
Communication, marketing and PR
- NST
- Communication O
- Defeating the Enemy’s Will: The Psychological Foundations of Maneuver Warfare
- How Propaganda Works by Truth in News
Greater reading comprehension
- How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book) by Mortimer Adler
- Reading Comprehension: The Best Reading Comprehension Techniques to Read Faster, Learn More, Enhance Intellect, and Process Information Faster! (reading ... learning, improve memory, reading)
- 10 steps to improve college reading skills
- 10 steps to improving college reading skills
- Reading skills for college students
Increasing ability to memorize
- Mnemonist
- Bible memorization
- 10 Best Memory Techniques: Understanding How You Can Memorize Anything You Want (Memory Improvement, Memory Book, Memory Enhancement, Brain Power, Memorization, Brain Education, Memorize
- Remember Everything You Want and Manage the Rest: Improve Your Memory and Learning, Organize Your Brain, and Effectively Manage Your Knowledge
- Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer (Author)
- To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test
Other tips to improve mental performance:
Talent vs. hard work
- The Secret to Raising Smart Kids
- Hard Work Beats Talent (but Only If Talent Doesn’t Work Hard)
- Does Talent Exist? Is Talent Just Hard Work? (animated)
- Grit: Psychologist, author Angela Duckworth explains the science behind success
- Does Success Come Mostly from Talent, Hard Work—or Luck?
- The curse of intelligence
Skill acquisition
Learning new skill:
- Learning new skills quickly - playlist
- Skill mastery - playlist
- How to learn a new skill fast
- How to master a new skill - Harvard Business review
Deryfus model of skill acquisition:
Foundational skills/aptitudes for learning or related to success:
- 7 cognitive aptitudes/skills to develop
- Reading comprehension - How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book) by Mortimer J. Adler (Author), Charles Van Doren (Author) - Considered a classic
- Critical/core skills
Expertise
- "The amount of money or good you receive is going to be in direct ratio to: the need for what you do, your ability to do it and the difficulty there will be in replacing you." - Earl Nightengale
Talent vs. practice:
Talent matters a lot and Gladwell's deliberate practice claim overrated: Practice Does Not Make Perfect: We are not all created equal where our genes and abilities are concerned
Outliers:
Talent is overrated:
- Talent is overrated
- Talent is overrated
- Talent Is Overrated What Really Separates World-Class Performers by Geoff Colvin
- Geoff Colvin on "Talent is Overrated" - Part 1
- Geoff Colvin on "Talent is Overrated" - Part 2
- Geoff Colvin on "Talent is Overrated" - Part 3
Deliberate practice:
- Deliberate Practice: The Absolute Best Way to Learn
- Deliberate Practice Essential to Top Performers
- Criticism of deliberate practice and sports
The Talent Code:
Personality types/tests:
- The Big Five of Personality
- The Big Five of Personality traits doc
- Myers Briggs - Extraversion & Introversion (Part 1 of 2)
- Myers Briggs - Extraversion & Introversion (Part 2 of 2)
- Tony Alessandra - Plantinum rule
- Tony Alexandra - The Platinum Rule
- Discovering Personalities (Mixed bag and maybe dated)
Book:
- Mastery by Robert Greene
Mastery
Miscellaneous
Dunning-Kruger effect
Talent
Talented geniuses
- Superhuman Geniuses (Extraordinary People Documentary)
- Child Prodigy Is a Self-Made Millionaire from Selling Her Incredible Paintings | SuperHuman Geniuses
- 10 Year Old Plays Piano Better Than Professionals | SuperHuman: Geniuses
Forecasting and developing usable expertise
Avoiding common pitfalls of forecasting
- The Peculiar Blindness of Experts, The Atlantic, 2019
- Why Experts are Almost Always Wrong, Smithsonian
- Why Experts Always Seem To Get It Wrong Forbes, 2014
- Why Experts Get It Wrong, The Atlantic
- When Forecasters Get It Wrong: Always, New York Times, 2017
- Be Wary of the Experts: Predictions Are Usually Wrong, The Blaze, 2016
- Why experts are usually wrong, NY Post, 2010
Academic and highly educated/intelligent people, political elitism and pride/blindsidedness
"Yet the cognitive and behavioral science literature suggests that those who are highly educated, intelligent or rhetorically skilled tend to be significantly less likely than most to revise their beliefs or adjust their positions when confronted with evidence or arguments that contradict their priors. This is because, in virtue of knowing more about the world, or being better at arguing, they are better equipped to punch holes in data or arguments that contradict their prior views or to otherwise make excuses for “sticking to their guns” regardless. And so, they do...
Indeed, research suggests that people with highly refined critical capacities often deploy them to scrutinize others. Hence, those with higher education levels and academic aptitude (college GPA) tend to be less attuned than most to ambiguity, complexity, uncertainty and limitations in their own knowledge -- and less prone to innovative or creative thinking.
That is perhaps because studies show that, compared to the general public, highly educated or intelligent people tend to be more ideological in their thinking, more ideologically rigid and more extreme in their ideological leanings. Highly educated and intelligent people are also more likely to grow obsessed with some moral or political cause. Research suggests that they are more likely to overreact to small shocks, challenges or slights. Other studies have found that, while they are less likely to be prejudiced against others on the basis of things like race, they tend to be more prejudiced than most against those who seem to think differently than they do -- and often look down on those with less education.
In short, many of the biases and distortions to which all people are susceptible seem to be even more pronounced among those who are highly educated or intelligent."[13]
Competition
Increasing cognitive performance
Profitable activity
Personal finance
Income:
- Income in the US and percentiles
- Household incomes in the US
- What it takes to be a one percenter
- Affluence in the US
- 15 most surprising 6 figure jobs
Wealth inequality:
Savings and investment:
- Master Your Money - Ron Blue
- Crown Financial Ministries
- Thomas J. Stanley website
- Thomas J. Stanley blog
- Survive the meltdown
Sources of income for the wealthy:
Taxes:
Leadership
- Leadership - playlist
- 7 shifts from manager to leader - originally in HBR
- 7 shifts from manager to leader - ZDNet
- Managers to leaders - HBR
- Leadership - Success Magazine article
- The hidden side of coaching
Leadership and managing virtual teams
Decentralized organizations and decision making
Mentorship program
Team work skils
Risk taking
Videos:
Articles:
- Risk aversion and risk taking
- Not taking risks is risky
- Leadership and risk taking
- Innovation and risk taking
- Risk taking and innovation
- How poor leaders destroy risk taking
Avoiding complacency and moving out of your comfort zone
Negotiations and conflict resolution
- Conflict resolution and negotiations - playlist
- William Ury: The walk from "no" to "yes"
- Tips For Resolving Conflicts/Negotiating
- Negotiation and conflict resolution
- Negotiation and conflict resolution
- Negotiation and conflict resolution
- Negotiation and conflict resolution
- Conflict resolution
Books
- Essentials of Negotiation - Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4
- Options and Choice for Conflict Resolution in the Workplace by Mary Rowe
- The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes: Naming, Blaming, Claiming in Law and Society Review 15, no. 3-4, 1980-81, pp. 631-654, by Felstiner, William L. F., Richard L. Abel, and Austin Sarat.
- Business Dispute Resolution: Best Practices in System Design and Case Management. South-Western College Pub, 1999 by Cavanagh, Thomas D.
- Getting Past No: Negotiating with Difficult People by Ury
- Moore, How Mediation Works (Chapter 2), pp. 41-77, and Designing a Plan for Mediation (Chapter 6) and Building Trust and Cooperation (Chapter 7), pp. 141-192
- Halliburton Dispute Resolution Program
IQ/EQ/AQ/WQ/SQ/BQ/RQ and other forms of intelligence
Comprehensive:
- IQ (Intelligence Quotient)
- EQ (Emotional Intelligence Quotient)
- HQ (Health Intelligence Quotient)
- MQ (Moral Intelligence Quotient)
- DQ (Daring Intelligence Quotient)
- AQ (Adversity IntelligenceQuotient)
- FQ (Financial Intelligence Quotient)
- MQ (Mental Intelligence Quotient)
- WQ (Will Intelligence Quotient)
- SQ (Spiritual Intelligence Quotient)
- PQ: Practical Intelligence Quotient (PSP)
Personal branding
Personal brand:
Dan Schawbel:
Sales, marketing and promotion
Memorable:
Viral:
Video:
Principles of getting results plus business tips - various speakers and writers
Jim Rohn:
Earl Nightengale:
Brian Tracy:
Omar Periu:
Business tips
Marketing/public relations:
Unconventional business tips
Speakers and Speeches
Jim Rohn:
Various recommended books and resources
3 Books recommended by Inc.:
- Imagine how to improve creativity by Jonah Lehrer
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- Moonwalking With Einstein by Joshua Foer - memory
Excellent business/ performance related books:
- Power of Focus
- The Achievement Factors: Candid Interviews With Some of the Most Successful People of Our Time by B. Eugene Griessman
Glenn Beck recommended books:
- Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown
- Aftershock website
- The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It - Joshua Cooper
- The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life (Paperback) - Ben Sherwood
- Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End (turnarounds)
- Instant Income
Human events interview and interesting book:
Seth Godin
Christian professional and personal development organizations
Other Professional development companies
Audiobook business book summaries
Learning a language for free
Learn a programming language for free
Business books and miscellaneous books
Business books and miscellaneous books
Pete Williams - best books - Noise reduction report
100 best business books of all time
Amazon best business books
2012 best business books
- All business is local Why Place Matters More Than Ever in a Global, Virtual World by John A. Quelch and Katherine E. Jocz
2011 best business books
- Best business books 2011 - Financial Times
Miscellaneous business people and books
Resiliency:
Recommended books on writing
- The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr. (Author), E. B. White (Author),
- On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser
- The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need: A One-Stop Source for Every Writing Assignment by Susan Sommers
- Ticket to Write: Writing Skills for Success by Susan Sommers
Recommended books - inspirational/motivational
- Mastery by Robert Greene (Has some good material, but don't agree with all of the book)
- We Die Alone: A WWII Epic Of Escape And Endurance by David Howarth
Personal productivity tools
Calendar software
Free:
Paid:
One note
Videos:
Project management
Trello:
Other
Mindmapping (visual outline)
- Five best mind mapping tools
- Freemind documentation
- Mindmeister
- XMind
- The Brain (Indivisual, collaborative and cloud]
Collaborative mindmaps"
Thought office software - innovation software:
Others:
- Personal productivity tools library
- Big list of online productivity tools
- 50 productivity tools
- 5 Free personal productivity tools
- 18 online productivity tools
- 5 free productivity tools
- Personal productivity software - CNET
Additional:
- 6 Personal Productivity Tools Guaranteed to Up Your Game
- Personal dashboards
- Personal productivity toolbox for web activity
Free reports:
Personal productivity tips and apps
- Best Windows apps - 2013- LifeHacker
- 10 best apps for entrepeneurs
- 55 apps to boost productivity = PC Magazine
- Personal productivity tips
- Personal productivity tips, tools and Ipad apps
- Excel tips
Spell checking and grammar checking software solutions and browser addons
Self-defense
Karate vs. Aikido
Close combat classes
Front Sight
Handguns
Hollow-point bullets: Gold dots, Corbon and Rangers. Jacketed hollow-points from a major manufacturer. Fire 100 rounds to ensure it feeds 100%.
Shotguns
Quotes
Writing and speaking skills
See also: Writing and speaking skills
Writing
See also: Books on writing, grammar and usage
- The Hodges Harbrace Handbook, 18th Edition 18th Edition by Cheryl Glenn and Loretta Gray
- *The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White
- On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser
- The New Oxford Guide to Writing by Thomas S. Kane
- Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams and Gregory G. Colomb
- An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style: Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer
- Grammar for a Full Life: How the Ways We Shape a Sentence Can Limit or Enlarge Us by Lawrence Weinstein
- Spunk & Bite: A Writer's Guide to Punchier, More Engaging Language & Style by Arthur Plotnik
- The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation: An Easy-to-Use Guide with Clear Rules, Real-World Examples, and Reproducible Quizzes by Lester Kaufman and Jane Straus
- Garner's Modern English Usage 4th Edition, by Bryan Garner, 2016
- The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker
- Write Right!: A Desktop Digest of Punctuation, Grammar, and Style by Jan Venolia
- Best Punctuation Book, Period: A Comprehensive Guide for Every Writer, Editor, Student, and Businessperson by June Casagrande
- The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase by Mark Forsyth
Hodges Harbrace Handbook:
The 70th-anniversary version of the Hodges Harbrace Handbook is the 18th edition of this fine work.[14] This grammar book has the longest history of any grammar handbook on the market. The Hodges Harbrace Handbook was produced by John C. Hodges in 1941. In 2012, it was one of the most widely used grammar textbooks and at the time it was estimated that 15 million students had used it.[15]
“Hodges created a clear taxonomy, with a simple numbering system for writing concepts and standardized usage,” said Cheryl Glenn, co-author of the eighteenth edition of The Hodges Harbrace Handbook. She is a liberal arts research professor of English... at Penn State. “As students’ needs have changed, both in the way they learn and receive information, so has the handbook, all while remaining true to the original template.
“Every successful handbook in America has copied the Harbrace Handbook. It may not have been the first English grammar handbook, but it became the first continuously published one.”
The entire family of Harbrace handbooks has evolved to reflect important cultural developments, including the digital age.
Grammar testing:
Copyediting
- Copyediting 101: Grammar, Style & Practice by Ashan R. Hampton
- The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications Fourth Edition by Amy Einsohn
Speaking skills
- How to be Heard: Secrets for Powerful Speaking and Listening (Communication Skills Book)
- instant Voice Training: How to Train Your Voice Instantly!
- Vocal Leadership: 7 Minutes a Day to Communication Mastery by Arthur Samuel Joseph, with a foreword by Roger Goodell
- Speak and Be Heard: 101 Vocal Exercises for Professionals, Public Speakers and Voice Actors by Richard Di Britannia
- It's the Way You Say It by Carol A Fleming PhD
- The Sound of Your Voice by Carol A Fleming PhD
- Set Your Voice Free: How to Get the Singing or Speaking Voice You Want by Roger Love and Donna Frazier
- Voice for Performance: Training the Actor's Voice by Linda Gates
- Executive Presence: The Missing Link between Merit and Success by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Rosalind Ashford
Learning to play an instrument or new instrument: Benefits
How long does it take to learn the piano?
Earning money as a piano teacher
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