Think Remarkable (eBook)

9 Paths to Transform Your Life and Make a Difference

Guy Kawasaki, Madisun Nuismer (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
279 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9781394245239 (ISBN)

Infos

Make the leap from average to exceptional and start living the remarkable life you were meant to lead

Ever wonder what sets people like Steve Wozniak, Stacey Abrams, Mark Rober, and Jane Goodall apart? Why do some people seem to eat, sleep, and breathe 'awesome?'

In Think Remarkable, tech titan Guy Kawasaki teams up with Madisun Nuismer, producer of the Remarkable People podcast, to share invaluable knowledge from more than 40 years of working with game-changing organizations such as Apple, Canva, Google, Mercedes Benz, and Wikipedia, and delivers insights from a collection of amazing interviews that'll kick you into high gear and get you ready to start showing the world your best, most amazing self. Together the authors show you how to lead a fulfilling life by drawing on insights from working closely with some of the world's most remarkable people. You'll learn:

• How to find your own inner ass-kicker and unlock potential you never knew you were capable of
• Cultivate the resilience, grit, and fearlessness needed to overcome obstacles and setbacks
• Apply the lessons from the world's most innovative companies to your personal growth journey

Make the leap from average to exceptional. Think Remarkable is more than a book-it's a way of life. It is the gotta-read-right-now book you can't afford to miss. So, grab a copy today and start making yourself-and the world-a whole lot more remarkable.

Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva and host of the Remarkable People podcast. He was the chief evangelist of Apple, trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation, and brand ambassador of Mercedes-Benz. Kawasaki has a BA from Stanford University, an MBA from UCLA, and an honorary doctorate from Babson College.

Madisun Nuismer is the producer of the Remarkable People podcast. Nuismer has a BA in public health from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She also attended the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and is a certified holistic health coach.

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A USA TODAY BESTSELLER AND GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLERThe Non-Obvious Book Awards 2024 Longlist SelectionMake the leap from average to exceptional and start living the remarkable life you were meant to lead Ever wonder what sets people like Steve Wozniak, Stacey Abrams, Mark Rober, and Jane Goodall apart? Why do some people seem to eat, sleep, and breathe awesome? In Think Remarkable, tech titan Guy Kawasaki teams up with Madisun Nuismer, producer of the Remarkable People podcast, to share invaluable knowledge from more than 40 years of working with game-changing organizations such as Apple, Canva, Google, Mercedes Benz, and Wikipedia, and delivers insights from a collection of amazing interviews that'll kick you into high gear and get you ready to start showing the world your best, most amazing self. Together the authors show you how to lead a fulfilling life by drawing on insights from working closely with some of the world's most remarkable people. You'll learn: How to find your own inner ass-kicker and unlock potential you never knew you were capable of Cultivate the resilience, grit, and fearlessness needed to overcome obstacles and setbacks Apply the lessons from the world's most innovative companies to your personal growth journey Make the leap from average to exceptional. Think Remarkable is more than a book it's a way of life. It is the gotta-read-right-now book you can't afford to miss. So, grab a copy today and start making yourself and the world a whole lot more remarkable.

Inhalt

Foreword ix

Introduction 1

Stage 1 Growth-- Build a Foundation 7

Chapter 1 Adopt the Growth Mindset 9

Chapter 2 Embrace Vulnerability 27

Chapter 3 Plant Many Seeds 39

Stage 2 Grit-- Activate Your Aspirations 59

Chapter 4 Do Good Shit 61

Chapter 5 Get Beyond Eureka 81

Chapter 6 Sell Your Dream 103

Stage 3 Grace-- Uplift and Inspire 127

Chapter 7 Lead by Example 129

Chapter 8 Take the High Road 151

Chapter 9 Turn and Burn 175

Afterword 181

List of Profiles 183

List of Podcast Guests 197

Mahalo 199

About the Authors 203

Index 205

Rezensionen

"This is not a typical self-help, dare-to-be-great book. It's a well-researched call-to-action for anyone who's ready to embrace their true potential to achieve."
--Forbes

"Kawasaki aims to help individuals reach their full potential and become remarkable themselves by digging deep into stories from activists, authors, adventurers, and everything in between. Kawasaki's insightful discussions with different movers and shakers offer powerful anecdotes and must-have tips on how to pursue, foster, and achieve remarkable results."
--Inc.com

"Pithy, concrete, and upbeat advice for forming connections, staying motivated, and keeping an open mind. His guidance will prove especially valuable for those at the outset of their careers, including the Gen-Z readers to whom the book is dedicated. Aspiring entrepreneurs should take a look."
--Publishers Weekly

"Think Remarkable is not just a typical self-help narrative: it challenges us not only to improve our own individual lives but also to create a positive impact on the world around us."
--Jane Goodall, from the foreword

"Think Remarkable does something never before achieved: It provides a beautifully written, clear roadmap for building, optimizing, and sustaining personal and professional growth. I would have avoided so many missteps if, when starting out, I'd had this book."
--Robert Cialdini, author of Influence and Pre-Suasion

"Think Remarkable is a powerful call-to-action that deeply resonates with the ethos of my work. It is a book for those ready to embrace their potential, achieve remarkable growth, and make their mark on the world."
--Carol Dweck, author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

"This book is a roadmap, showing by example what true leadership looks like. Grounded in the stories of remarkable people, it tackles the many obstacles to success, and guides the reader in crafting an action plan uniquely sculpted to match a personal vision."
--Julia Cameron, bestselling author of The Artist's Way

"I wish we had this book when we started Apple."
--Steve "Woz" Wozniak, Tech Entrepreneur and Co-Founder, Apple

"Guy Kawasaki is a wonder. I don't know anyone as relentlessly enthusiastic about helping other people be their best. Think Remarkable is an expression of that ebullience, and I recommend it to anyone who is hoping to make themselves--and the world--better than they are today."
--Angela Duckworth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Grit: The Power of Passsion and Perseverance

"This book will help people accomplish many worthwhile things."
--Temple Grandin, New York Times bestselling author of Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions

"Guy is back, better than ever. No one has stayed 'ahead of the curve' more effectively. READ IT!"
--Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence

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Adopt the Growth Mindset

Replace “Why is this happening to me?” with “What is this trying to teach me?”

—Nate Kawasaki

Embrace the Growth Mindset

• ∠ You want to overcome being told you can't accomplish something.
• ∠ You want to stop telling yourself  you can't accomplish something.
• ∠ You're tired of worrying about jeopardizing your reputation and self‐image.

I am not a remarkable hockey player or surfer. I took up these sports at the ages of forty‐four and sixty, respectively. This means that I started thirty‐four and fifty years too late, respectively.

My sons wanted to play hockey after we attended a San Jose Sharks game, so I started playing hockey even though I was old and from Hawaii. The closest thing to pond hockey where I grew up is shave ice. (Several people have pointed out that the correct term is “shaved ice.” I grew up in Hawaii and have eaten more shave ice than all of them put together. The correct term is “shave ice,” brah.)

In 2015, I started surfing because of my daughter. She was fourteen, and I was sixty. Despite growing up in Hawaii, I didn't have enough of a growth mindset to try something outside of studying and organized team sports, so surfing was new to me.

I embraced these new sports because Brenda Ueland and Carol Dweck profoundly impacted my mindset. Ueland was a teacher of writing at the University of Minnesota and authored a book called If You Want to Write.

My wife gave me Ueland's book in 1989 because I thought I wanted to write a book. However, my mindset at the time was that I was not a “writer” because I didn't have a degree in English, nor any formal training for the task. Ueland's book made me realize that maybe I could write a book because it contained these lessons:

• Don't worry about special training or anyone's permission and blessing to write. Just write.
• Write from the heart about what you know and love—not about what you think people expect from “writers.” Just write.
• Shove aside judgments and criticisms of your writing—from both you and from others. Just write.

In short, I wrote my first book, The Macintosh Way, because of Ueland's book. Now fast‐forward to 2006. Carol Dweck, a professor of psychology at Stanford University, releases her book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Her insights were like Ueland's but on steroids.

Her book convinced me that growth can happen along any path that you let it. At the time, I was fat, dumb, and happy concentrating on what worked for me in the past. I certainly wasn't taking up any new sports.

Dweck didn't just dent my universe; she expanded it. I had written a few books, but I was afraid of failure and embarrassment in other fields. Here is how Carol explains the fixed and growth mindsets:

The fixed mindset is the belief that your qualities are carved in stone. But your qualities can be cultivated through effort, good strategies, and lots of help, support, and mentorship from others.

People with a fixed mindset make statements such as “I'm too old to learn a new skill,” or “I'm good at programming, but I could never learn marketing.” People with a growth mindset, by contrast, are willing, if not eager, to explore and experiment.

Undoubtedly, the growth mindset is necessary to be remarkable, and you hold the power to change and elevate yourself. Full stop. Not negotiable. Let this sink in: if you want to be remarkable, you have to grow.

Learning hockey and surfing were difficult at my advanced age, but embracing these sports provided some of the most satisfying moments of my life. My moderate success in both sports showed me the benefits of a growth mindset and, more importantly, set my expectations to be able to learn new skills in general.

Find Support

• ∠ You want to learn how to identify people who can help you embrace the growth mindset.
• ∠ You're wondering how to assess whether an organization supports and implements the growth mindset.
• ∠ You want to search for a career with promising potential, yet be free of the traditional “nine to five” career.

If adopting the growth mindset was a personal decision and transition, life would be simple. However, growing requires both supportive people and a supportive environment. According to Carol:

It's not just growth mindset people, it's growth mindset environments that allow you to use that mindset effectively.

It's not like you have your growth mindset and you take it with you, and you are challenge seeking and resilient. The environment you're in matters.

The way to find people who foster the growth mindset is to look at their track records. Struggle and change are good things because they mean the people had to grow:

• Have they overcome hardship and setbacks, or have they lived on Easy Street their whole lives?
• Did they major in one academic area and end up working in a seemingly unrelated role or industry?
• Once in the workforce, did they change industries and functions?
• Do they interact with a diverse selection of people? Their social media accounts are probably a window into their soul.
• Are they busy? Jane Goodall, who lives in the United Kingdom, spoke in Denver, Chicago, Madison, and Tampa Bay in March 2023. There's a reason busy people are busy.

However, you may be working inside existing organizations for most of your career, so the ability to find individuals with the growth mindset isn't enough. You also need to find environments that support a growth mindset.

Here are ways to do this:

• Study the organization's “public face” in the form of press releases, blog posts, social media, and speeches by executives as well as reviews on sites where people rate places to work.
• Understand that few large, established organizations have a growth mindset (or for that matter a fixed mindset) from top to bottom. You want to work on a team within the organization that supports growth, so look for pockets of growth.
• Ask the people who work there what their team is like, as well as the organization in general. People with growth mindsets usually work in teams with growth mindsets too.
• Look for formal learning, development, diversity, and social‐responsibility programs. While they might be “window dressing,” at least it shows the organization is trying.

My recommendation is to avoid organizations where a fixed mindset is already institutionalized. The people there may have good intentions—perhaps to avoid failure from risky actions—but that also stifles innovation and change.

Focus instead on finding organizations and individuals with a growth mindset who can foster your own growth mindset. Go to the light—and then become the light for others.

Embrace Change

• ∠ You're wondering if you should do just a few things well or go where you have not gone before.
• ∠ You want to use what you've learned in your career and apply it to other issues.
• ∠ You want to learn to break away from stereotypical constraints to expand your knowledge and skill set.

Your mindset can only grow to the extent that you expose it to new experiences, domains of knowledge, and skill sets. You can accomplish this in several ways:

• Study subjects that you've never considered—or that you failed at in the past.
• Explore areas you've kept putting off because you didn't think you'd excel at them.
• Adopt the interests of your family, friends, and followers instead of making them embrace yours.
• Experiment with new tools and technologies and see where they take you.

My earlier stories of embracing hockey and surfing pale in comparison to the growth of two NASA rocket scientists: Mark Rober and Wanda Harding. Here are their stories.

Mark began his career at NASA, where he worked on the design of the Curiosity rover that went to Mars. On the side, he tinkered with a Halloween costume that used two iPads to simulate seeing through his clothes and flesh. A YouTube video of this costume went viral.

After NASA, he took a job at Apple working on virtual reality in cars to prevent motion sickness. He continued making videos that attracted millions of followers and the scrutiny of Apple management. Ask any Gen Zer about his videos showing thieves getting sprayed with glitter and fart gas when they opened stolen packages as well as his “Squirrelympics.”

He continues to create YouTube videos to interest people in physics, math, and science. He's added a line of scientific toys under the CrunchLabs label. He hopes to be a high school physics teacher someday. His mindset has grown from engineer to evangelist to educator, while always being a prankster.

At the end of our interview, he told me this:

I want to teach in a class. This is what I love about teachers: they're the ultimate investors in human capital. I am the product of some amazing teachers who are then themselves products of teachers before them.

With the teachers,...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.2.2024
• Vorwort: Jane Goodall
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: Be a Better Person • Becoming Extraordinary • becoming remarkable • being extraordinary • Business & Management • Business Self-Help • can I be extraordinary • can I be remarkable • change my life • change your life • changing my life • Inspiration • inspirational self-help • Motivational • Ratgeber • Ratgeber Motivation • Ratgeber Wirtschaft • Self-Help • Wirtschaft /Ratgeber • Wirtschaft u. Management
• ISBN-13: 9781394245239 / 9781394245239