<ol><li>Observe the characteristics of the moment and think deeply in how to make the most of them.</li><li>Before doing anything predict the results both positive and negative, in the short, medium and long term.</li><li>Prepare for possible storms, always have countermeasures for worst-case scenarios.</li><li>Never let your guard down, be alert to possible changes in circumstances and if necessary abandon your current stance and change your strategy.</li></ol>KEY INSIGHT: Plan all the way to the end. Be prepared for changes and worst scenarios.

4 Steps To Increase the chances of success in any area of ​​life

How to understand the hidden rules of the world, to manipulate and not be manipuladed. 32 lessons and 18 quotes, fulled of ancient wisdom, extracted from The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli.

The most famous book on politics ever written, The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more recently been defended as the first scientific treatment of politics as it is practiced rather than as it ought to be practiced. Harvey C. Mansfield's brilliant translation of this classic work, along with the new materials added for this edition, make it the definitive version of The Prince, indispensable to scholars, students, and those interested in the dark art of politics. This revised edition of Mansfield's acclaimed translation features an updated bibliography, a substantial glossary, an analytic introduction, a chronology of Machiavelli's life, and a map of Italy in Machiavelli's time. "Of the other available [translations], that of Harvey C. Mansfield makes the necessary compromises between exactness and readability, as well as providing an excellent introduction and notes."—Clifford Orwin, The Wall Street Journal "Mansfield's work . . . is worth acquiring as the best combination of accuracy and readability."—Choice "There is good reason to assert that Machiavelli has met his match in Mansfield. . . . [He] is ready to read Machiavelli as he demands to be read—plainly and boldly, but also cautiously."—John Gueguen, The Sixteenth Century Journal

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Leadership & Management

Niccolò Machiavelli

The Prince

When you start investing time, energy and resources into your future self, no matter how small, it builds commitment and momentum. The more you invest, the more those investments compound to accelerate your growth.Make a tiny investment today with your future self in mind. Then go a little bigger tomorrow. Investing pays either your current or future self. Choose the latter for exponential returns.

Small Investments Lead to Bigger Ones 

Many people seek external validation like fame, wealth and prestige as success. But true success is living and working in alignment with your aims and highest future self, whatever that looks like for you.<ul><li>Even if it means giving up public acclaim to have a small, simple life doing what you love.</li><li>Fame doesn't equal success if it steers you from your purpose.</li><li>Define success based on your vision, not others' narrow perceptions.</li></ul>

True Success Means Alignment

Relentlessly evaluate if activities align with your clarified priorities. Lesser goals waste precious time and resources. Ask if they are taking you toward your objective and if they are the most impactful actions you could do.With finite energy, continually refocus on your north star.

Eliminate Lesser Goals 



Don't limit your asks based on current perceptions. When you ask boldly, doors open. Persistently ask for what your highest future self desires.As you clarify your future self, continuously refine requests to align with your expanding vision. You receive at the level you believe is possible, so elevate your asking.

Ask for What You Want

Define your future self and determine the 3 most essential priorities to fulfill your purpose. Your priorities should align with and excite your future self vision.Contextualizing your purpose makes it vivid and personal. With clarity, you can eliminate distractions and focus on the vital few goals to actualize your purpose.Know the essential priorities fueling your future self.

Clarify Your Purpose


Like God, you have inherent capacity to evolve into an elevated version of yourself.This life is one phase in your infinite evolution. While God gives freedom to choose your path, you can commit to move towards your highest potential future self.<ul><li>Make the choice to progress along your unique trajectory.</li><li>Small steps compound into great leaps over time.</li><li>Have faith in your capacity to gradually become your future self.</li></ul>

You Can Choose to Evolve

Upgrade from needing your goal to knowing it's already yours. Act from the identity of your future self who has already achieved the goal. Knowing accelerates your purpose more powerfully than needing.When your identity stems from your future commitments rather than present ones, you operate at a higher level.Be, then do, then have.

Elevate Your Identity



Don't put pressure on your current self to be perfect. Have grace knowing you will evolve. Your future self will have abilities, knowledge and skills you can't fathom now.<ul><li>You may think your future self will be a certain way, but it will likely be very different once you reach that level.</li><li>You'll adapt in ways you can't predict.</li><li>Give space for mistakes and growth.</li><li>Change is coming if you're committed to evolving.</li><li>Your current self is fleeting.</li></ul>

Your Future Self Will Be Different

<ul><li>To effectively make progress, you need a vivid vision of your specific future self, clear metrics and milestones.</li><li>Without visualizing in rich detail where you're going, people wander aimlessly.</li><li>Paint a picture of your future abilities, lifestyle, impact and more.</li><li>Defining the specifics makes the future tangible so you can identify the stepping stones to get there.</li><li>Milestones mark the path.</li></ul>

Vivid Future Self Vision Enables Progress

<ul><li>Rather than playing it safe within your comfort zone, fail at the level of your future abilities.</li><li>Push past what you can already do easily. Commit to your future self's greatness, even if it means stumbling in the short term.</li><li>Experience momentary failure now to rapidly gain skills of your future self. Staying comfortable limits necessary growth.</li></ul>Embrace failure on the journey to actualizing your potential.

Fail at the Level of Future Self 

Goals create the constraints that guide us. Flow most easily occurs as you break big goals down to their smallest chunk.Like a football team focuses on the individual play versus winning the championship. Or a writer focuses on the paragraph rather than the whole book.Achieving small milestones creates momentum and constraints that guide you to the ultimate goal.

Your Future Drives Your Present

Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation by Dr. Benjamin Hardy was published in 2022. The book is focused on how to imagine and become the person you want to be by working on your future self. It explores the science behind intentional transformation and offers practical advice and tools for achieving your goals. It has received positive reviews and is recommended for anyone looking to make positive changes in their life.

This isn’t a book about BECOMING it’s about BEING: noted psychologist Dr. Benjamin Hardy shows how to imagine the person you want to be, then BE that person now. When you do this, your imagined FUTURE directs your behavior, rather than your past. Who is your Future-Self? That question may seem trite. But it’s literally the answer to all of your life’s questions. It’s the answer to what you’re going to do today. It’s the answer to how motivated you are, and how you feel about yourself. It’s the answer to whether you’ll distract yourself on social media for hours, whether you’ll eat junk food, and what time you get up in the morning. Your imagined Future-Self is the driver of your current reality. It is up to you to develop the ability to imagine better and more expansive visions of your Future-Self. Your current view of your Future-Self is very limited. If you seek learning, growth, and new experiences, you’ll be able to imagine a different and better Future-Self than you currently can. It’s not only useful to see your Future-Self as a different person from who you are today, but it is also completely accurate. Your Future-Self will not be the same person you are today. They will see the world differently. They’ll have had experiences, challenges, and growth you currently don’t have. They’ll have different goals and priorities. They’ll have different habits. They’ll also be in a different world—a world with different cultural values, different technologies, and different challenges.

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Personal Development

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Time Management

Dr. Benjamin Hardy is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Dr. Benjamin Hardy has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Dr. Benjamin Hardy's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Be Your Future Self Now

<ul><li> Adults need a reason to learn something.</li><li>They are involved in planning as well as evaluation, more interested in subjects having immediate relevance, more interested in problem-oriented (as opposed to content-oriented).</li><li>They also prefer more self-directed education (as opposed to classroom instruction).</li></ul>

Investing for Success: Learning as an Adult

<ul><li>Raw ideas and determined execution matter far more than degrees or credentials in the real world</li><li>Many highly credentialed people plateau in the middle of their careers</li><li>Don't rely on pedigree alone - develop skills and hustle</li></ul>

Ideas and Execution Matter More Than Degrees

People don’t talk about the best-writing author; they talk about the best-selling author.

Some of the smartest, most successful people in the country didn’t finish college. None of them learned their most critical skills at an institution of higher education. And like them, most of what you’ll need to learn to be successful you’ll have to learn on your own, outside of school.Michael Ellsberg set out to fill in the missing pieces by interviewing a wide range of millionaires and billionaires who don’t have college de­grees, including fashion magnate Russell Simmons and Facebook found­ing president Sean Parker.This book is your guide to developing practical success skills in the real world: how to find great mentors, build a world-class network, make your work meaningful (and your meaning work), build the brand of you, and more. Learning these skills is a necessary addition to any education, whether you’re a high school dropout or graduate of Harvard Law School.

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Money & Investments

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Entrepreneurship

Michael Ellsberg

The Education of Millionaires

Only 14% of US workers are passionate about learning that relates to their work. However, we all have the potential for this form of passion.
Young children have all the elements required: curiosity, imagination, creativity, and a willingness to take risks and connect with others. But adults have been discouraged from pursuing this kind of learning because traditional institutions require them to be cogs in a machine, following the process manual to the letter without deviation.

Dampening passion in employees

The rapid pace of technological and strategic change reveal the need for workers to engage in lifelong learning.
However, most executives and talent management professionals trying to get their people to learn aren't thinking about what drives real learning, meaning the creation of new knowledge, not just sharing existing knowledge that quickly becomes obsolete. This cause companies to miss opportunities for employees to engage in learning that will help them innovate and keep pace with customers' changing needs.

Broaden the definition of learning

Research found that passion is a very powerful motivator for learning rather than fear.
The passion of the explorer has three elements:
<ul>
<li>Explorers have a long-term commitment to excel in a specific domain that excites them.</li>
<li>They are excited even when they face unexpected challenges. They see these problems as opportunities to learn.</li>
<li>When faced with new challenges, explorers long to connect with others who can help them get better answers quickly.</li>
</ul>

The passion of the explorer

Simply having employees participate in upskilling programs is not sufficient. These training programs are primarily focused on sharing existing knowledge, whereas developing new knowledge requires greater effort and on-the-job risk-taking. Thus learners need to be more deeply motivated to explore.
But the motivation for learning is often based on fear - fear of losing your job if you don't.

Motivation to develop new knowledge

In a rapidly changing world, scalable efficiency is becoming increasingly inefficient. It is essential to move from scalable efficiency to scalable learning, where the focus turns from doing routine tasks to helping everyone learn faster.
To do this, we need to redesign our business practices to encourage the passion of the explorer in all our workers. One way is to identify a part of the business with performance issues and encourage employees to address the novel problems.

Focus on scalable learning

What you need to know in order to start building a culture of learning

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Teamwork

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Career

Creating A Culture Of Learning 

Many leaders think it’s the fear of losing your job. They’re wrong.

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Learning & Education

What Motivates Lifelong Learners

First, write down every single task you need to accomplish. Then go through and mark each task with a letter ranging from A to E. 
<ul>
<li>“A” tasks are very important. If they aren’t done, you and/or your business will experience serious consequences.</li>
<li>“B” stands for important tasks. They are things you should do, but will only result in minor consequences if they are left undone.</li>
<li>“C” tasks are those you’d like to accomplish, but don’t represent any negative consequences when left incomplete.</li>
<li>“D” stands for delegate. These are assignments that should be completed, just not by you. Send them to someone else.</li>
<li>“E” tasks should be eliminated. The more jobs you cross off your to-do list immediately, the more time you have for the most important assignments.</li></ul>

The ABCDE Method

Properly setting priorities is an essential skill for business success. The ability to hone in on what's most important to achieving your goals will take you far in life. But how are you supposed to know which tasks to focus on? Are there ways to identify which jobs and assignments are most crucial?

The Prince

Be Your Future Self Now

The Education of Millionaires

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Read like a Pro.

What Motivates Lifelong Learners

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The Prince

Be Your Future Self Now

The Education of Millionaires

It's time to Read like a Pro.

What Motivates Lifelong Learners

CURATED BY

It's time to
Read like a Pro.