Success Tools E-Book

Leopoldo Fu

• Herausgeber: Leopoldo Fu
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Tired of getting general career advice and advice from your well-meaning manager that are abstract and not actionable? Wish you had more knowledge that empowered you to improve every day? Tired of trying to apply general advice by just trying a bunch of stuff without any solid idea on how to make it actually work in the real world? Wish you had practical ideas that were vetted and well-reasoned by an experienced peer that understands how to create techniques that are effective and practical and useful immediately? How about clear examples of realistic situations to showcase how they can used in the real world?

This book answers all those questions. Written by a software engineer with a decade of experience, respected and trusted by peers and bosses as both a mentor and individual contributor, and has a keen interest in continuously improving individuals, teams, and organizations through open collaboration, agile thinking and executing, and empowering everyone.

In today's competitive, globalized knowledge-based economy with an ever increasing population of well-connected humans, robots, and artificial intelligence, it can seem daunting to just keep ourselves up-to-date enough to not become obsolete, let alone become a high performer or become an exceptional thinker and executor like Elon Musk or Warren Buffett. Yet, that is precisely what you will get out of this book: a set of effective mental tools and essential knowledge to upgrade yourself into a high performer. Clear examples of how to use each tool are provided, as well as examples of how you can utilize several mental tools together to maximize your performance in common situations that knowledge workers encounter on a regular basis.

Leseprobe

Leopoldo Fu

Success Tools

Upgrade Yourself into a High Performer for Lifelong Career Success

Copyright © 2020 by Leopoldo Fu

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Contents

Introduction

Why Learn These Concepts?

How to Best Read this Book

The Three Perspectives

How to Learn

Phases of Learning

Get Started

Get Better

Get Faster

Use it or Lose it

The Enemy of Practice

Have a plan

Focus on process instead of output

The Curse of Expertise

Critical Reasoning

Reading Comprehension

Continuous Lifelong Learning

Learn By Connections

Identifying Opportunities to Learn

Reasoning Techniques to Expand Learning

Comparison

Apply Recently Learned Knowledge

Presence in the Moment

Explain What You Learn

How to Change Thinking and Behavior

Awareness

Changing Assumptions

Commitment to Deliberate Action

Foundational Wisdom

Health

Sleep

Sleep Inertia

Forced Wakening

Sleep Deprivation

Circadian Rhythm Mismatch

Poor Sleep Quality

Mind-body Connection

Meditation

Gut-brain Connection

Self-Compassion

Understand Yourself and Others

Introvert vs Extrovert

Helping Introverts

Helping Extroverts

Fluid vs Crystallized intelligence

Growth vs Fixed Mindset

Biases

Recency Bias

Confirmation Bias

Personal Experience Bias

Simple Google Search Bias

Tradition and Old Data Bias

My Methodology

Learn about the topic

Willpower is Not Infinite

The Self-fulfilling Prophecy

The Placebo Effect

Performance Tools

Mental Models

Circle of Competence

First Principles Thinking

View From All Perspectives

Spectrums

Gap analysis

Potential Outcomes Analysis

Analyzing Past Perceived End States

Apply Concept to Itself

Explore through Multiple Levels of Abstraction

Value to Cost Analysis

System Organization - Flat Vs Hierarchy

Hierarchy

Flat

Inversion

Techniques

The Pause

The Reset

Reframing

Visualization

Performance Recall

Best Practices

Single-tasking instead of multitasking

Surround Yourself with Those Better than You

Skill Stacking

Ensure Time is on Your Side

Iteration

Ownership – Business Owner

Example Applications

Negotiation

Challenge

Opportunity

Public Speaking Fear

Challenge

Opportunity

Worker Drone in Large Organization

Challenge

Opportunity

Notes

Introduction

This book is a practical career success framework. The framework’s first goal is to obtain useful, fundamental, knowledge of how people work individually and together as a group. This fundamental knowledge will form the basis for informed rational thought that will guide you to think, behave, and interact with others effectively. You will look inwardly to understand yourself, train yourself to think critically, to examine, learn, and act with reason. With knowledge and earnest, rational thinking, you will be able to truly understand others. This understanding will allow you to perform at your best, multiplying your value several times over as you increase the performance of everyone around you.

The framework’s second goal is to provide you with a multitude of powerful mental tools to quickly expand your arsenal of techniques from thinkers and doers. As you learn these techniques, you will enjoy additional benefits from thinking critically about each technique to understand when it applies, learning even more by practicing them, and continuously improving to build out your own personal set of thinking tools.

The framework’s third goal is to showcase the usage of multiple mental models to navigate real types of scenarios effectively to produce highly positive outcomes while learning and improving yourself along the way. These example guides for real-world scenarios will provide a useful blueprint for that specific scenario and also act as illustrative mental fodder to allow you to have an idea of how to apply multiple mental tools in practice.

Throughout this book are concepts, techniques, and principles that are widely applicable in various aspects of life and career. Many of these principles can be applied in practice on an ongoing basis, which is why this framework is appealing and effective; the user of the framework will continuously accumulate what they have learned and will build momentum from small wins.

The structure and approach of this framework are:

Learn how to learn effectivelyIntimately understand and learn how to improve the fundamental inner workings of peopleLearn mental tools to apply to various situations in order to perform at a high levelExample usage of multiple techniques to deal effectively with real scenarios

Included throughout this book are links to (mostly) free articles and resources that complement the material in this book and can give more in-depth knowledge about particular terms or topics. I highly encourage you to follow these links and absorb the knowledge contained therein to expand your knowledge and take full advantage of this book.

Why Learn These Concepts?

By learning the concepts in this book and applying them regularly, you can retain an edge compared to the competition. You may ask, what are we competing with? The answer is twofold: other people from an increasing population that is getting ever more educated and provided with increasingly easier access to knowledge; and ever advancing technology in the form of automation and artificial intelligence that will replace many tasks currently performed by humans.

In the rush to learn and try to keep up with advances in technology, it can be easy to forget that what makes us invaluable are the things that set us apart from AI. The ability to learn and form connections between seemingly unlike concepts. The creativity to create something new. To effectively interact with and understand other human beings. The ability to adapt in both the short-term and the long-term to changing circumstances. And with these inherent abilities, we are able to continuously improve upon these abilities to achieve ever greater feats.

How to Best Read this Book

This book can be read fully sequentially, but in tune with online content ingestion, I highly encourage you to follow links provided in this book, to other sections in the book and information outside this book, and seek additional information for every topic or idea in this book as you read through the book. You will get a lot more out of this book if you actively engage with the ideas and concepts presented by:

Identifying where you have seen or experienced these ideas or similar ideas before.