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What Great Problem Solvers Do Differently

By Joseph Folkman — 2018

Most people assume that what it takes to be a great problem solver is simply raw intelligence. However, while intelligence helps, it’s not the only important element.

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College Is Hard, But Nobody Talks About It

Hi, I’m Tiffany and I studied Computer Science and Classics at Stanford. This video was filmed a year before I graduated. Now I look back on this and see how much I’ve grown from the experience!

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My Story of Being Academically Dismissed from College

I’m sharing an experience where I was academically dismissed from college and how I turned it around.

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Relentless Solution Focus: Train Your Mind to Conquer Stress, Pressure, and Underperformance

The most common cause of failing to reach our professional and personal goals is hardwired in us: Humans instinctively focus on problems. Over millennia, our very survival relied on our ability to be alert to any potential dangers that could threaten our existence.

Jason Selk, Ellen Reed

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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking.

Bill Burnett, Dave Evans

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Winning: The Psychology of Competition

This book is designed to explain why winners win, why losers lose―and why everyone else finishes in the same position time after time. Addressing the competitor―whether in sailing, tennis, golf, baseball, or other sport―Stuart H.

Stuart H. Walker

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People’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.

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Learning any new skill involves relatively brief spurts of progress, each of which is followed by a slight decline to a plateau somewhat higher in most cases than that which preceded it . . . the upward spurts vary; the plateaus have their own dips and rises along the way. . . .

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This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor is it merely a question of building on precedent, of standing on the shoulders of giants, in Newton’s famous phrase.

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The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn’t get written because someone knocked on the door.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Learn from Failure: The Key to Successful Decision Making

Failure is an important piece to understanding how to solve problems and make decisions. This book will you guide to understanding patterns that can hinder you, but can also be used for growth. Learn From Failure is written by a seasoned executive, entrepreneur consultant and educator.

Robert V. Sicina

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Problem Solving