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:
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.
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“Tested methods for obtaining the life you really want…Roth pulls together years of experience in teaching students and professionals how to accomplish more out of life and presents those findings in a clear narrative…By presenting situations that show how others have succeeded when using these tactics, Roth makes it easy for readers to follow suit.”
— Kirkus Reviews
“The Achievement Habit is a masterpiece in describing how to think creatively and fulfill your life’s ambitions.”
— Paul Hait, entrepreneur and Olympic gold medalist“Offers an accessible primer to the basic elements of design theory, based on the premise that ‘achievement can be learned’…For those struggling to achieve, it’s certainly a place to start.”
— Publishers Weekly“An inspirational and practical guide on how to fulfill goals despite obstacles and challenges…Case studies throughout focus on how to avoid self-defeating behavior and advance. Verdict: Roth’s excellent advice on how to overcome obstacles and triumph should be of interest to readers college age and up.”
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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.
Hillary Huber, a Los Angeles–based voice talent with hundreds of commercials and promos under her belt, was bitten by the audiobook bug in 2005. She now records books on a regular basis and has been nominated for several Audie Awards and won numerous Earphones Awards.
Lloyd James (a.k.a. Sean Pratt) has been a working professional actor in theater, film, television, and voice-overs for more than thirty years. He has narrated over one thousand audiobooks and won numerous Earphones Awards and nominations for the Audie Award and the Voice Arts Award. He holds a BFA degree in acting from Santa Fe University, New Mexico.