Life-Long Learning & Conquering Uncomfortable Goals – #StartTuesday | 5-3-16

#StartTuesday is a series, curated weekly for growth minded professionals and life-long learners

“Our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”

-M. Scott Peck

Reading Habits of Ultra-Successful People

In this article republished by the Huffington Post, Andrew Merle overviews the reading habits of just a few household names and success stories. He goes on to make the point that while there are plenty of stories about people that made it big even though they never attended or finished college, among those stories it is very clear that learning didn’t end when these people left school. Instead, most of these ultra-successful individuals are known readers and life-long learners.

LINK: Reading Habits of Ultra-Successful People

Medium.com

Medium is quickly growing in popularity as a source for news on current issues, technology, culture, and just about anything else you could want to read about. This makes it a great resource to stimulate your professional growth and career success. The big draw is that the focus at Medium is on quality of the content, not the qualifications of authors. Through a system of up-voting by readers and selection by Medium editors you’ll be shown the greatest quality content no matter what you’re interests are.

LINK: www.medium.com

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Making Uncomfortable Goals Your New Normal

In this interview Jesse Elder explains to Geoff Woods of The Mentee Podcast how to overcome scarcity mindsets and other toxic thought patterns in order to accomplish your biggest personal and career goals.

LINK: http://stfi.re/gjwenv