The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life Audiobook, by Bernard Roth Play Audiobook Sample

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

The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life Audiobook, by Bernard Roth Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Lloyd James Publisher: HarperAudio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 4.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.63 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: November 2015 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780062456649

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

11

Longest Chapter Length:

73:51 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

13:57 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

40:13 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

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.

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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 

Quotes

  • “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.”

    — Library Journal

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About 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.

About Lloyd James

Lloyd James (a.k.a. Sean Pratt) has been narrating since 1996 and has recorded over six hundred audiobooks. He is a seven-time winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award and has twice been a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award. His critically acclaimed performances include Elvis in the Morning by William F. Buckley Jr. and Searching for Bobby Fischer by Fred Waitzkin, among others.