Book Titles

Character is often confused with personality, but they’re not the same. Personality is your predisposition – your basic instincts for how to think, feel, and act. Character is your capacity to prioritize your values over your instincts.

Personality is not your destiny – it’s your tendency. Character skills enable you to transcend that tendency to be true to your principles. It’s not about the traits you have – it’s what you decide to do with them.

With technological advances placing a premium on interactions and relationships, the skills that make us human are increasingly important to master.

Becoming a creature of discomfort can unlock hidden potential in many different types of learning.

The best way to accelerate growth is to embrace, seek, and amplify discomfort.

Procrastination is a common problem whenever you’re pushing yourself beyond your comfort zone.

Many people associate procrastination with laziness. But psychologists find that procrastination is not a time management problem – it’s an emotion management problem.

When you procrastinate, you’re not avoiding effort. You’re avoiding the unpleasant feelings that the activity stirs up. Sooner or later, though, you realize that you’re also avoiding getting where you want to go.

…if we avoid the discomfort of learning techniques that don’t come easily to us, we limit our own growth.

Although listening is often more fun, reading improves comprehension and recall. Whereas listening promotes intuitive thinking, reading activates more analytical processing.