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The outside edge : how outsiders can succeed in a world made by insiders /
"The brand new book from the international bestsellingself-help author Robert Kelsey's internationally bestselling self-help bookshave helped tens of thousands of people overcome fear of failureand under confidence. Now Robert is back and is here to debunk theever pervasive myths around th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Capstone,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Outside Edge: How Outsiders Can Succeed in a World Made By Insiders; Contents; Introduction: Debunking the Outsider Myth; Salinger's False Promise; Gladwell's Myth Exposed; The Soundtrack of Corking-Class Rebellion; Can Disadvantaged Outsiders Prosper?; Making Rebellion Count; Part One: The Making of an Outsider; 1. The Misfits; The Lost Tribe; Divorced From Our Surroundings; Are You an Outsider?; Are we More intelligent, or less?; 2. The Crisis of Identity; The Rejected Changeling; The Battles of Identity; Role Confusion; The Identity Journey; The One in the ABC1 Demographic.
- Highly-Structured Youth Movements3. Adolescence, Family and Opportunity; The Timing of Puberty; The Disadvantaged Outsider; The Impact of Self-Esteem; Girls Change Friends, Boys Retreat; Family Scripts; The Dilemma of Choice; Rousseau's Discourse of the Vanities; 4. Existentialism and the Need for a Purpose; Hegel's Contradictions; Kierkegaard Adds a Moral Dimension; 'We are all too Human, ' Says Nietzsche; Rise of the Superman; We Must Define Ourselves; Condemned to be Free; Indifference and Meaninglessness; 10 Things Existentialists Teach Outsiders; Part Two: The Rebel with a Cause.
- 5. Finding MeaningFearing Failure Within Conformity; The Danger of Downward Mobility; The Personal Notion of Suffering; Finding Our Unique Insight; Believing We're Gifted for Something; Setting the Compass; Overly Critical Parents, Siblings and Teachers; 10 Signposts Towards Finding Meaning; 6. The Pursuit of Excellence; That One Thing; Required: a Growth Mindset; Aristotle's Pursuit of the 'Good Life'; Excellence Within a Community; What Should We do with Our Lives?; The Key Need: Be Incremental; From Little Acorns; 7. The Entrepreneurial Spirit; What is an Entrepreneur?
- A Selfish EnterpriseWhat Entrepreneurs are Not; Excellence Doesn't Mean Expertise; Not so Youthful; Timing Matters? Probably Not; Positives to Entrepreneurship; Distilling the Spirit; Part Three: Edge Ahead; 8. Developing Our Creativity; An Outsider Looking Out; The Creative Edge; Being Open to Uncertainty; The Art of Thought; A Technique for Producing Ideas; Drowning Creativity: Our Education System; A Hopeful Message for Outsiders; Make Your Creativity Profitable; 9. Learning to Pitch; Life's a Pitch; The Principles of Pitching; Principle One: It's Theatre; Principle Two: Content is Key.
- Principle Three: Spend Time ThinkingPrinciple Four: Focus on the Audience; Principle Five: Follow a Structure; Principle Six: Make Simplicity an Obsession; Principle Seven: Perfection's Not What They're After; Principle Eight: Delivery and Body Language Matters; Principle Nine: Remember They're Buying You, Not the Solution/product; Principle Ten: Welcome the Questions; 10. Getting Strategic; The False Breakthrough; What is a Strategy?; Good Strategy; The War Analogy; Developing the Right Strategy; Desperate Self-Defeating Behaviour; Helping You 'Think Different'; 11. Using Judgement.