High Performance

The books, in order

1. 1

   Career and Work · 15 min

   Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

   Angela Duckworth

   Practicing for years without ever correcting your own mistakes pays off far less than a few months of training that gets closely reviewed.

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2. 2

   Personal Development · 16 min

   Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

   Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool

   Doing the same task for twenty years without changing anything about it only teaches you to repeat it, not to improve.

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3. 3

   Career and Work · 15 min

   Tools of Titans

   Timothy Ferriss

   The detail that shows up most often among successful people isn't rare talent, it's a handful of small habits kept up every single day.

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4. 4

   Career and Work · 16 min

   Outliers: The Story of Success

   Malcolm Gladwell

   Two people with the same talent and the same dedication can end up with very different fates if one was born in the right window of opportunity and the other wasn't.

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5. 5

   Psychology · 16 min

   David and Goliath

   Malcolm Gladwell

   According to Gladwell, more resources help up to a point; after that, more can bring new problems.

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6. 6

   Habits and Discipline · 16 min

   The Compound Effect

   Darren Hardy

   Big results almost never come from one decisive day; they come from the sum of small choices that nobody applauds at the moment they happen.

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7. 7

   Personal Development · 17 min

   Unlimited Power

   Anthony Robbins

   Copying the step-by-step of someone who has already made it saves you years of trial and error, but it only works if you copy that person's whole behavior, not just the catchphrase they repeat on stage.

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8. 8

   Leadership · 13 min

   The Book of Five Rings

   Miyamoto Musashi

   According to the book, whoever is in charge needs to know every resource on the team the way a general contractor knows every material, and should not depend on a single way of doing things.

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