Thanks so much for including IRRESISTIBLE in your The Guardian list, Aneesa Ahmed!

Really enjoyed this!

SUPERCOMMUNICATORS, the new book by Charles Duhigg, one of my favorite business/non-fiction writers, is out today. I loved it from the first sentence of the prologue--it's beautifully written and insightful, and a lot of fun to read. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/677212/s…

Next Big Idea Club Curators Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Adam Grant, and Daniel Pink have hand-picked their favorite nonfiction reads of the season. Congratulations to Adam Alter and Amy Edmondson!
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Thanks for having me on the show!

A new meta-analysis on the impact of goal setting on performance found:

1. Process goals had a large effect on performance
2. Performance goals had a moderate effect
3. Outcome goals had a negligible effect

Really enjoyed speaking to Taylor Bledsoe again, this time about ANATOMY OF A BREAKTHROUGH!

Excited to unbox this season's Next Big Idea Club delivery, which included a familiar book. Thanks Adam Grant, Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink for including ANATOMY OF A BREAKTHROUGH in the Season 22 lineup! HT Panio Gianopoulos

Today on the Next Big Idea Daily, Adam Alter shares insights from his latest book 'Anatomy of a Breakthrough' that will guide you to break free from what's preventing you from achieving your full potential.

Listen now:
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Your Friday insight: “Everything is a remix of something else.”

In this excerpt from his recent book, Adam Alter invokes Bob Dylan, Olivia Rodrigo, and Dave Grohl to illustrate how originality can mean recombining the familiar.

behavioralscientist.org/on-the-quest-f…

My yearly meditation on how the hell tennis players who aren’t generationally gifted keep their heads up: popcorntennis.com/2023/09/01/lev…

In “Anatomy of a Breakthrough,” NYU Stern professor Adam Alter *09 explains why people get stuck and offers a roadmap for how they can overcome that inertia, move forward, and thrive.

PAW asked Alter to recommend three more books — see what he chose:
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How can you get unstuck on a project?

Listen to this great conversation about how to get unstuck with Adam Alter for Hidden Brain: play.stitcher.com/episode/306081…

He explains a few key skills for success in creative domains that I find myself using a lot as a scientist. These are

“Everyone essentially, in at least one respect, is stuck. But they also say that it feels very lonely and they imagine that they're the only ones in that position.”
– psychologist Adam Alter (1/2)

Excited to see this interview with Hidden Brain go live. Shankar and I talked George R R Martin, why being stuck feels so lonely, and the paralysis that comes from seeking radical originality in creative pursuits. Cc Annie Murphy Paul

Throwback to the 80s—Pepsi trying an old trick that worked pretty well 40 years ago…

How can we create #breakthroughs and get unstuck when it matters most? Adam Alter asked himself that question. Check out his book 'Anatomy of a Breakthrough' & the latest episode of the Sparkr Podcast: sparkr.ch/creating-break…

#innovation #careerdevelopment #Leadership #goals

Loved speaking to Mitch Joel, as always, about ANATOMY OF A BREAKTHROUGH on his Six Pixels podcast: sixpixels.com/podcast/archiv…