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    The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life

    By Bernard Roth

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    The co-founder of the Stanford d.School introduces the power of design thinking to help you achieve goals you never thought possible.

    Achievement can be learned. It’s a muscle, and once you learn how to flex it, you’ll be able to meet life’s challenges and fulfill your goals, Bernard Roth, Academic Director at the Stanford d.school contends.

    In The Achievement Habit, Roth applies the remarkable insights that stem from design thinking—previously used to solve large scale projects—to help us realize the power for positive change we all have within us. Roth leads us through a series of discussions, stories, recommendations, and exercises designed to help us create a different experience in our lives. He shares invaluable insights we can use to gain confidence to do what we’ve always wanted and overcome obstacles that hamper us from reaching our potential, including:

    • Don’t try—DO;
    • Excuses are self-defeating;
    • Believe you are a doer and achiever and you’ll become one;
    • Build resiliency by reinforcing what you do rather than what you accomplish;
    • Learn to ignore distractions that prevent you from achieving your goals;
    • Become open to learning from your own experience and from those around you;
    • And more.

    The brain is complex and is always working with our egos to sabotage our best intentions. But we can be mindful; we can create habits that make our lives better. Thoughtful and powerful The Achievement Habit shows you how.

    Editor's Note

    Make your dreams happen…

    The cofounder of the Stanford d.school reveals how design thinking can get you to stop trying and start doing. Based on his highly successful course at Stanford, Roth reveals how to achieve your dreams by letting go of all the excuses keeping you tied to your current habits.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJul 7, 2015
    ISBN9780062356123
    Author

    Bernard Roth

    Bernard Roth is the Rodney H. Adams Professor of Engineering and the academic director of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the d.school) at Stanford University. He is a leading expert in kinematics, the science of motion, and one of the world's pioneers in the area of robotics. In addition, he has created courses that allow students to directly gain understanding and experience about personal issues that matter to them. Bernie is also the primary developer of the concept of the Creativity Workshop. For more than thirty years this workshop has been a vehicle for him to take the experiential teaching he developed at Stanford to students, faculty, and professionals around the world. He is an in-demand speaker at conferences and workshops globally, has served as a director of several corporations, and has been a leader in professional societies.

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    • 5/5
      it changed my life........so focused on the real issues of life.
    • 5/5
      Great book! Very motivational and real. The author is very relatable.
    • 5/5
      Great book. Nicely described. Great points. Really loved this book
    • 4/5
      I really learnt a lot n changed some bad habit. tnx
    • 5/5
      Its a nice piece and i recommend it to all
    • 5/5
      Practical, insightful and highly influential in achieving more. Thank you
    • 5/5
      "I recently read 'The Achievement Habit' by Bernard Roth and it was a game-changer for me. The book is packed with practical tips and strategies for taking control of your life and achieving your goals. Roth's writing style is engaging and easy to follow, and he uses real-life examples to illustrate his points.

      One thing I particularly appreciated about this book is that it doesn't just offer platitudes or generic advice. Roth acknowledges that changing habits and achieving goals can be difficult, and he provides concrete steps for overcoming obstacles and making progress.

      Overall, I highly recommend 'The Achievement Habit' to anyone who is looking to take their life to the next level. Whether you're struggling with procrastination, lack of motivation, or just feeling stuck, this book will help you break through your barriers and start making meaningful progress towards your goals."
    • 5/5
      Great book to find motivation in doing things and getting you kick-started.
    • 5/5
      Good reading. It gave me insight in how to become more effective person
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    • 5/5
      Interesting and informative. I will revisit some of its points in the future.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      great book for achivments which i reminde to tell u
    • 4/5
      The book gives you a new perspective on problem solving, which everybody would benefit from. It also introduces a new style of thinking, allowing you step into the shoes of a designer. Several problem solving strategies are detailed, especially strategies to overcome a creative block. The notes and bibliography sections are intensive, and provide a great opportunity for further research. The author writes about personal experiences a little too much and I wish the writing style was a little more complicated, which would make it more engaging to read for me. Overall, it’s a great read.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Inspirational words, motivated, encouraging and focused that is why I its.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      first few chapters were interesting and helpful. but other chapters are so lengthy and not that much interesting enough

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Awesome book for those who want to cultivate better habits. I learned a lot by reading it and changed some bad habits that I had. Thanks for sharing!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Insightful and uplifting. Incredible application of engineering to every day life.

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    • 5/5
      It gives you a fresh new way to view things. It changes one's perspective.

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    • 5/5
      After reading the final page I immediately wanted to read it again; this time to go through each practical exercise and give it focused effort. If one is willing I honestly believes this book offers both advice and instruction that can change life forever. This will surely become a staple for me.

      10 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Excellent and insightful book, with practical tools that will allow you to look at your problems and yourself differently.

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    • 2/5
      Estaría bueno si los libros tuvieran la opción de cambiar el idioma.. la mayoría están en ingles.
    • 5/5
      This is the quickest I have read a book in years (even with all the note-taking I did!) Extremely useful on professional and personal levels, thought provoking with real, practical exercises to do and fantastic examples to drive home the points. Also I loved the honest writing style, I wish I had had a teacher like Bernard Roth. Instead I now aspire to be a teacher like him!

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    • 1/5
      Waste of time. Misleading title. It's more about how to act towards people, but not about how to achieve goals specifically. I read to page 185 and skimmed through thereafter, just a disappointment. Should be called "how to interact with people" or equal.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      Some good insights some significant naïvety, but mostly a pretty unfocused, disorganized list of what he supposes to be the wisdom of his life.

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    • 4/5
      I wanted to read this book because I read about his work, and this title was mentioned on his Wiki page. It didn't disappoint.

      Of course, like any other 'self-help' book this one too came with advises that we've all heard before. But the way he describes situations, how he tells the stories is very amusing.
      It made me smile several times.

      I read a lot of bad reviews about this book, but I couldn't relate to it, maybe that's because I didn't expect anything of it, I wasn't looking for any help or whatever, I was just curious about the author, and I like his writing and the way he tells stories and explains things.

    • 3/5
      This was an interesting introduction to "design thinking". It is reasonably well-written but not overly innovative, I felt. Some concepts were dubious and I didn't agree (telling yourself that nothing has any intrinsic meaning) but others were helpful and insightful (getting to the root of a problem by continuing to ask what the problem is; making prototypes of solutions).

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    • 5/5
      This book is worth reading, it provides lots of examples. Very practical and useful!!!

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