When Faster Harder Smarter Is Not EnoughWhen Faster-Harder-Smarter Is Not Enough draws upon Dr. Kathryn Cramer's quarter century of research into how people thrive under pressure. She explains that the real keys to professional and personal success in today's rapid-fire world are found in readers' deep, untapped reservoirs of creativity and intuition and describes a revolutionary six-step approach to tapping into those latent powers and turning stress into success. |
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... challenges and attempt to reach our goals, but today's rapidfire world calls for more— more stamina and strategies ... challenge and bring them one step closer to fruition. When Faster-Harder-Smarter Is Not Enough will show you how to ...
... challenges and attempt to reach our goals, but today's rapidfire world calls for more— more stamina and strategies ... challenge and bring them one step closer to fruition. When Faster-Harder-Smarter Is Not Enough will show you how to ...
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... challenges of a rapid-fire world. What we need most is to enlarge our capacity to be creative under fire. This requires that we engage pressure as if it were a force worthy of respect, not domination. Stressful life events, whether ...
... challenges of a rapid-fire world. What we need most is to enlarge our capacity to be creative under fire. This requires that we engage pressure as if it were a force worthy of respect, not domination. Stressful life events, whether ...
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... challenges and demands. I have gained an inside look at the minds and hearts of leaders in business and science, in medicine and government; of athletes and entrepreneurs, mothers and mystics. Through my research and my professional ...
... challenges and demands. I have gained an inside look at the minds and hearts of leaders in business and science, in medicine and government; of athletes and entrepreneurs, mothers and mystics. Through my research and my professional ...
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... than the intelligence quotient. challenges that must be Eugene S. Wilson STEP ONE: Take Your Blinders Off How to See What 8 When Faster-Harder-Smarter Is Not Enough How would you like to take your agenda to the next level?
... than the intelligence quotient. challenges that must be Eugene S. Wilson STEP ONE: Take Your Blinders Off How to See What 8 When Faster-Harder-Smarter Is Not Enough How would you like to take your agenda to the next level?
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... challenge is your friend. Ifthere isn't, then it is not a priority for now. The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed. Helen Keller Being vigilant like this makes you better able ...
... challenge is your friend. Ifthere isn't, then it is not a priority for now. The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed. Helen Keller Being vigilant like this makes you better able ...
Contents
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STEP TWO Be Outrageously Optimistic | 75 |
STEP THREE Make the Future Happen Inside You | 115 |
STEP FOUR Get Others on Board | 155 |
STEP FIVE Stack the Odds in Your Favor | 201 |
STEP SIX Celebrate Every Victory Large and Small | 247 |
Bibliography | 265 |
INDEX | 271 |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR | 278 |
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Page 266 - To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to...
Page 266 - To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; This is to have succeeded.
Page 92 - I wanted you to see something about her — I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
Page 29 - The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives
Page 158 - I found that the more I worked -with them the bigger and bigger [they] got, and when I was really working with them I wasn't outside, I -was down there. I -was part of the system. I was right down there with them, and everything got big.
Page 158 - As you look at these things, they become part of you. And you forget yourself.
Page 120 - A vision without a task is but a dream, a task without a vision is drudgery, a vision and a task is the hope of the world.
Page 12 - Composing a life involves a continual reimagining of the future and reinterpretation of the past to give meaning to the present.
Page 118 - The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The psychical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images which can be 'voluntarily
Page 249 - The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.