Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries
Finite and Infinite Games: Carse, James
If you set a goal of becoming and expert in your business, you would immediately start doing all kinds of things you don't do now.
Talent is Overrated: What Separates Performers
The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to the limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
The questions so many people ask are the wrong questions because they imply that motivation is something that gets done to people rather than something that people do.
Understanding Self-Motivation
Concrete steps for moving from a fixed to a growth mindset.
Amazon.com: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
A cautionary tale for the demoralizing effects of Type X workplace.
Then We Came to the End: A Novel
What do you do if you wake up in the morning and dread going to work, because the daily routine no longer satisfies your standards?
Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet
High achievers are often the products of hidden advantages of culture, timing, demographics, and luck that helped them become masters in their fields.
Outliers: The Story of Success: Gladwell, Malcolm
Abraham Lincoln developed a leadership style rooted in a higher purpose.
Team of Rivals: Political Genius of Lincoln
A book that offers a glimpse into the fires of intrinsic motivation.
The Amateurs: Four Young Men's Quest
Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely! They motivate people to get rewards.
Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Incentives
We see the toll that mastery can take--and the thrill it can produce when realized.
Once a Runner: A Novel by John L. Parker Jr.
The truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
The War of Art | Steven Pressfield
A story about an autonomy freak in business.
Maverick: The Success Story Behind Unusual...
People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them by becoming committed to the own lifelong learning.
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