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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... forces caught in a business merger, to the dispirited employees of large, established companies, and to successful entrepreneurs who wanted to take their businesses to the next level. I've shared it with working mothers, freelancers ...
... forces caught in a business merger, to the dispirited employees of large, established companies, and to successful entrepreneurs who wanted to take their businesses to the next level. I've shared it with working mothers, freelancers ...
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... force worthy of respect, not domination. Stressful life events, whether routine or cataclysmic, can be managed in ways that promote health and personal effectiveness, rather than harm. It is possible to turn stress into strength and to ...
... force worthy of respect, not domination. Stressful life events, whether routine or cataclysmic, can be managed in ways that promote health and personal effectiveness, rather than harm. It is possible to turn stress into strength and to ...
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... forces that barrage us. Only after we have fully understood the importance of both sides can we mine the beneficial aspects of each opposing force, blend them, and ultimately shape a positive future for ourselves. When we don't know how ...
... forces that barrage us. Only after we have fully understood the importance of both sides can we mine the beneficial aspects of each opposing force, blend them, and ultimately shape a positive future for ourselves. When we don't know how ...
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... force you to sacrifice long-term goals to meet short-term obligations. It will give you the creative edge you need to be effective, and it will help you build strong alliances with others. Although each of us is responsible for the life ...
... force you to sacrifice long-term goals to meet short-term obligations. It will give you the creative edge you need to be effective, and it will help you build strong alliances with others. Although each of us is responsible for the life ...
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... forces that suggest an uncertain possibly dangerous future. They have no unifying agenda, so theyjust wing it. High-achieving Reactors don't worry as much because they can always pull a rabbit out of a hat if they need to. While it's ...
... forces that suggest an uncertain possibly dangerous future. They have no unifying agenda, so theyjust wing it. High-achieving Reactors don't worry as much because they can always pull a rabbit out of a hat if they need to. While it's ...
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.