The Seductive Illusion of Hard Work.

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1 Principles of Shaping a Meaningful Career -- Chapter 1 Don't Follow Your Passion -- Chapter 2 Why 'Be Yourself' Is Bad Career Advice -- Chapter 3 Bubbles of Competence -- Chapter 4 Art of Being a Deep Generalist -- Chapter 5 How Confusion Leads to Personal and Professional Growth -- Chapter 6 Why Early Failures in Our Career Set Us Up for Long-term Success -- Chapter 7 Why AQ Matters More than IQ and EQ -- Chapter 8 What Grandmothers Teach Us about Reinventing Oneself -- Chapter 9 Transforming Your Adversity into Competitive Edge -- Chapter 10 An Ode to Mediocrity -- Chapter 11 It Is Time for Passion Economy -- Chapter 12 When Should You Quit Your Job? -- Part 2 Building a Tribe of Mentors -- Chapter 13 The Mentoring Paradox: Necessary but Insufficient -- Chapter 14 Learn to Network the Paul Erdos Way -- Chapter 15 Why You Need a Coach and a Mentor -- Chapter 16 Why Weak Ties Make a Strong Network -- Chapter 17 Paradox of Trust: Talking to Strangers -- Part 3 Navigating the Modern Workplace: Millennial Matters -- Chapter 18 Millennial's Search for Meaning -- Chapter 19 Tyranny of Job Descriptions -- Chapter 20 The Puzzle of Great Expectations -- Chapter 21 Why Moonshots Matter -- Chapter 22 What Social Movements and Workplaces Can Learn from Each Other -- Chapter 23 The IKEA Effect -- Chapter 24 An Ode to Envy -- Chapter 25 Negotiating the Non-negotiable -- Chapter 26 Why Wage Transparency Matters -- Chapter 27 How Frustration Leads to Innovation -- Chapter 28 Millennials Have a Subscription Powered Future -- Chapter 29 What You Do Is Who You Are -- Chapter 30 Groups that Sing Together Stay Together -- Chapter 31 The Avengers and Diversity Quotient -- Chapter 32 What Start-ups Can Learn from Flea Markets -- Chapter 33 Why the Modern Workplace Needs More Rebels.

Chapter 34 Let's Stop Talking about Generation Gaps -- Chapter 35 The Art of Making a Compelling Argument -- Chapter 36 Look Outside Your Building -- Chapter 37 Should You Discuss Politics at Work? -- Chapter 38 The Art and Science of Gatherings -- Chapter 39 Why It Is Hard to Make Friends at Work -- Chapter 40 Modern Love: Couples That Work -- Part 4 Augmenting Personal Productivity -- Chapter 41 The Power of Compounding -- Chapter 42 Overcoming FOBO and FOMO -- Chapter 43 Why Too Much Self-reflection Can be Bad for You -- Chapter 44 When Do Millennials Work? -- Chapter 45 The Hard Work Delusion -- Part 5 Learning from the Best -- Chapter 46 The Pomodoro Technique -- Chapter 47 Paul Graham -- Chapter 48 Haruki Murakami -- Chapter 49 Maya Angelou -- Chapter 50 Yuval Noah Harari -- Chapter 51 Richard Feynman -- Chapter 52 Naval Ravikant -- Chapter 53 Susan Cain -- Chapter 54 Brené Brown -- Chapter 55 Elizabeth Gilbert -- Chapter 56 Nassim Nicholas Taleb -- Chapter 57 Charlie Munger -- Part 6 Clarity Is Power: Mental Models and the Art of Deep Thinking -- Chapter 58 Our Quest for Clarity -- Chapter 59 Mirages -- Chapter 60 Illusions and Biases -- Chapter 61 Maxims and Cautionary Tales -- Chapter 62 Precision of Thoughts, Common Pitfalls -- Chapter 63 Thinking Thoroughly -- Chapter 64 The Art of Fooling Oneself -- Chapter 65 Sharpening How We Think -- Chapter 66 The Last Lap -- Conclusion -- About the Author.

The Seductive Illusion of Hard Work is a first-of-its-kind book, and highlights that hard work is necessary but insufficient for success.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.