So Good They Can’t Ignore You (Cal Newport)

• Find your passion after you put in hard work and build skills
• Stretch yourself deliberately throughout the learning process to reach your full potential
• Build career capital now to cash out later on freedom and flexibility

Guest: Riley Harro, author of Provincial Pardon - https://goo.gl/SBqBNQ

Creativity, INC (Ed Catmull)

• Creativity is not as similar to spontaneity as you might think
• Your story is king - design products to perform their intention so well that people forget the technology behind it
• Don’t avoid failure - it’s absolutely essential to be truly creative

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Mark Hamilton - Student at Regent University - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-allen-hamilton/

Rise of the Robots (Martin Ford)

• Robots will in the relatively near future pose a sizeable threat to the job landscape
• Industries we thought were immune to robot takeover are at risk - in fact, any routine job is a robot target
• How to stay ahead of the robots: Create systems that eliminate your own job, rise to the next level, and repeat.

Contagious (Jonah Berger)

• Viral ideas aren’t born - they’re made
• Word-of-mouth is the most effective and relevant advertising strategy
• Find a way to make your product stand out to make it a frequent conversation starter

EntreLeadership (Dave Ramsey)

• It’s a significant challenge to walk out solid leadership while also running a business
• Simple success principles: rent until you can pay in cash, keep out of debt, stick to a plan, surround yourself with mentors.
• “Those who never made mistakes work for those who do” - Henry Ford

Guest this episode: Andrew Smith, founder of ProRustics Home & Furnishings

• https://www.facebook.com/prorustics/
• Instagram - @ProRustics

Zero to One (Peter Thiel)

• Progress is both horizontal (scaling from 1 → n) and vertical (going from 0 → 1)
• Home in on the very important truth that very few people agree with you on
• Not all monopolies are harmful - as long as they consistently add value

• Profit rarely just happens to you.  Make a habit of setting it aside consistently (even just 1%)
• Profit is for you.  Not the business.  Don’t always reinvest your profits in the business.
• Prioritizing profit first forces you to find ways to save and escape the debt cycle

Profit First (Mike Michalowicz) - http://amzn.to/2HPXFTy

• Luck can be one of the least understood random forces in our life
• Rare events are always unexpected.  The longer until we see them, the more overconfidence we develop
• Looking long-term helps zoom out of the variabilities and stress of the short-term

Fooled By Randomness (Nassim Taleb) - http://amzn.to/2C4rakD

• Habits are a 3-part cycle: Cue, Routine, and Reward
• Habits emerge without our permission but are able to be changed
• You don’t always have to completely drop bad habits.  Just adapt them for positive purposes.

The Power of Habit (Charles Duhigg) - http://amzn.to/2sAbQIQ

• Planning is always guessing.  Focus on a simplistic short-term plan for huge long-term results
• “Scratch your own itch”.  Build a product that you are motivated to use
• There will always be doubters and haters of your idea.  Stick to non-negotiable absolutes

Andrew Smith: Founder of ProRustics Home & Furnishings

• https://www.facebook.com/prorustics/
• Instagram - @ProRustics

Why Work Doesn’t Happen at Work (TED-Ed Talk) - https://youtu.be/fXdsmvaXx78

Rework (Jason Fried and David Hansson) - http://amzn.to/2EmfTNs