There is a popular saying in Japan that goes, “Tada yori takai mono wa nai." mean-ing: "Nothing is more costly than something given free of charge."

The UNSPOKEN 

The key to success in Japan is a thorough understanding of the workings of haragei - an idea affecting language, social interaction, and business dealings in particular. This volume examines the idea of haragei.

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The Unspoken Way

In other words, risk and effort are two things that might reveal your inadequacies and show that you were not up to the task. In fact, it’s startling to see the degree to which people with the fixed mindset do not believe in putting in effort or getting help.

Ignorance do not necessarily discredit one's ability to become great. It requires a process of learning the unknown and familiarizing oneself of hidden potentials to become good at one point. Receiving criticisms are good ways of pointing out what needs further attention. Opinions do not always matter but with the right comprehension, it can be used as an outline to improve on one's weaknesses and build up strength.

You Do Not Know Everything

An assessment at one point in time has little value for understanding someone’s ability, let alone their potential to succeed in the future.

Fixed mindset is contentment with a touch of entitlement. Growth mindset aims for more and unleashing one's potential while providing the right satisfaction.

Fixed VS Growth Mindset

Failure is part of success and a sibling of experience. Facing failure is hard, for failing is one thing we don't want. Hence, failure is never wrong and will never be wrong unless it turns into a person. Measuring one's value by defining their capacity based on one metric is a blindsided move. We are a product of diverse experiences, both good and bad. It is having the mindset of turning failures into lessons, which is a way of failing forward.

Fail Forward

World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea-the power of our mindset. Dweck explains why it's not just our abilities and talent that bring us success-but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn't foster self-esteem and lead to accomplishment, but may actually jeopardize success. With the right mindset, we can motivate our kids and help them to raise their grades, as well as reach our own goals-personal and professional. Dweck reveals what all great parents, teachers, CEOs, and athletes already know: how a simple idea about the brain can create a love of learning and a resilience that is the basis of great accomplishment in every area.

Mindset - Updated Edition

"A special talent for identifying their own strengths and weaknesses.”

Fifteen years ago, psychologist and educator Howard Gardner introduced the idea of multiple intelligences, challenging the presumption that intelligence consists of verbal or analytic abilities only -- those intelligences that schools tend to measure. He argued for a broader understanding of the intelligent mind, one that embraces creation in the arts and music, spatial reasoning, and the ability to understand ourselves and others. Today, Gardner's ideas have become widely accepted -- indeed, they have changed how we think about intelligence, genius, creativity, and even leadership, and he is widely regarded as one of the most important voices writing on these subjects. Now, in Extraordinary Minds , a book as riveting as it is new, Gardner poses an important question: Is there a set of traits shared by all truly great achievers -- those we deem extraordinary -- no matter their field or the time period within which they did their important work? In an attempt to answer this question, Gardner first examines how most of us mature into more or less competent adults. He then examines closely four persons who lived unquestionably extraordinary lives -- Mozart, Freud, Woolf, and Gandhi -- using each as an exemplar of a different kind of extraordinariness: Mozart as the master of a discipline, Freud as the innovative founder of a new discipline, Woolf as the great introspect or, and Gandhi as the influencer. What can we learn about ourselves from the experiences of the extraordinary? Interestingly, Gardner finds that an excess of raw power is not the most impressive characteristic shared by superachievers; rather, these extraordinary individuals all have had a special talent for identifying their own strengths and weaknesses, for accurately analyzing the events of their own lives, and for converting into future successes those inevitable setbacks that mark every life. Gardner provides answers to a number of provocative questions, among them: How do we explain extraordinary times -- Athens in the fifth century B.C., the T'ang Dynasty in the eighth century, Islamic Society in the late Middle Ages, and New York at the middle of the century? What is the relation among genius, creativity, fame, success, and moral extraordinariness? Does extraordinariness make for a happier, more fulfilling life, or does it simply create a special onus?

The Unspoken Way

Mindset - Updated Edition

Extraordinary Minds

Karylle Arcangel