The Five Keys to High Performance
Juggle Your Way to Success
Published on 9. October 2018
148 pages
978-1-7225-2108-0 (ISBN)
Description
The ability to learn is life's most important skill. Now, Michael Gelb, a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, accelerated learning, and innovative leadership, and the world's leading authority on the application of genius thinking to personal and organizational development, teaches you the five keys to high performance:
Activate Your Brain's Success Mechanism
Transform Your Attitude about Mistakes and Failure
Play! Your Genius Birthright
Cultivate Relaxed Concentration.
Coach to Learn
This dynamic, and inspiring book will guide you to improve your learning ability as you age, embrace change, and discover resilience in the face of adversity as you learn how to juggle!
Activate Your Brain's Success Mechanism
Transform Your Attitude about Mistakes and Failure
Play! Your Genius Birthright
Cultivate Relaxed Concentration.
Coach to Learn
This dynamic, and inspiring book will guide you to improve your learning ability as you age, embrace change, and discover resilience in the face of adversity as you learn how to juggle!
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Person
Michael J. Gelb has pioneered the fields of creative thinking, embodied learning, and innovative leadership. He leads seminars for organizations such as DuPont, Merck, Microsoft, Nike, YPO, and the London Business School.
Content
- Intro
- Copyright
- Praise for The 5 Keys to High Performance
- Preface: Bouncing Back
- Foreword to the Previous Edition by Tony Schwartz
- From the Tip of Mick Jagger's Tongue to the Learning Organization
- The Juggling Metaphor
- Become an Ambidextrous Learner
- Improve Your Learning Ability as You Age
- Embrace Change
- Overview: The 5 Keys to High Performance
- Chapter 1: Activate Your Brain's Success Mechanism
- Modeling Excellence
- Internalizing your model of excellence
- The Mind-Body Connection
- "90% of the game is half mental"
- Practicing Creative Visualization
- Embracing Reality
- Perfect Practice
- Accelerating Learning Agility
- CHAPTER 2: Transform Your Attitude to Mistakes and Failure
- Mistakes: A New Attitude
- Investing in Loss
- Higher Level Mistakes
- Trial and Error: Confidence and Success
- "Fix Your Course to a Star"
- CHAPTER 3: Play: Your Genius Birthright
- Who can learn faster, you or a baby?
- CHAPTER 4: Cultivate Relaxed Concentration
- You've Got Rhythm
- The Startle Pattern
- The Alexander Technique
- The Balanced Resting State
- CHAPTER 5: Coach to Learn
- The "Expert" Fallacy
- Having a Ball! Bringing it all together
- Part III: The Art of Juggling: Expanding Your Influence with Spheres
- Holding Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand
- Juggling with colleagues, friends and family
- Afterword: It's all about balance
- Milestones to Infinity: The Master Juggler Grid
- About the Author
- Bibliography/ Recommended Reading:
- Acknowledgments:
