How To Build An Indestructible Mindset That Will Allow You To Achieve Anything

Relentless defines a mental framework that author Tim Grover claims you’ll need to become the best in your field or discipline—a framework he calls relentlessness. This framework involves committing everything you have to overcoming obstacles and finding success.

In this guide, we’ll explain why a relentless mindset helps you succeed, as well as how you can apply this mindset to your own life. We’ll also provide commentary offering psychological research to contextualize Grover’s arguments, practical advice on applying his recommendations, and expansions on some of his arguments for clarity.

Alex Banayan writes that success is like a nightclub with three doors: The first is the main entrance, through which you enter by working hard and playing by the rules. The line to this door is crowded and moves slowly. The second door is reserved for billionaires and celebrities and is off-limits to ordinary people. In The Third Door, he focuses on the last option—the door that allows regular folk to skip the line, find hidden opportunities, and think outside the box. He argues it’s the best—and really, only—route to getting ahead of the crowd.

Banayan interviews successful people from a wide range of fields to discover what insights, tricks, and motivations helped them find their unique paths to success. In this guide, we’ll review major themes he came across in his interviews, and we’ll explore how the insights he gleaned compare to theories of success from other thinkers.

The time between starting a business and success is marked by endless ups and downs. This is normal and necessary for growth, and in The Messy Middle, Scott Belsky argues that you should embrace this often overlooked aspect of entrepreneurship. During the “middle years” of your business, you’ll develop the skills you need to realize your goals. The uphill climb will be uncomfortable, but Belsky insists that it’s worth it.

Belsky is an entrepreneur best known for cofounding Behance, an online platform for creative artists. In this guide, we’ll explore the difficulties he says you’ll encounter once your startup gets going, as well as the skills you’ll need to cultivate. We’ll discuss how to keep your team motivated and how to cope with success if and when it comes. We’ll also cover writings from other business experts who expand on Belsky’s ideas or approach his views from a different perspective.

We are surrounded by people who seem more successful than us and who earn more money than we do. We may think, “What do they have that I haven’t got? Are they just smarter?” In The Magic of Thinking Big, author David J. Schwartz says it’s a matter of mindset. Successful people “think bigger” — they believe in themselves, have a grander scale of imagination, and see bigger possibilities. And they behave accordingly — they have magnetic attitudes, prefer action to waiting, and learn from every setback. Learn the strategies and techniques that successful people use.

Many people think that to accomplish something truly great, you must be one of a few “gifted” geniuses born with extraordinary talent. However, psychologist Adam Grant argues that the world’s top performers weren’t extraordinary geniuses from birth; rather, they built their skills over time using the right techniques. By employing these techniques, you too can become the type of person who achieves wildly ambitious goals.

In this guide, you’ll learn why you have to practice in a way that’s both fun and uncomfortable to maximize your personal growth. Additionally, you’ll discover three ways to tap into your potential by connecting with the right people. In our commentary, we’ll supplement Grant’s advice for how to reach your full potential with ideas from books on personal growth like Peak and The Motivation Myth. We’ll also expand on Grant’s information about the potential of organizations with tips from management books like Rework and No Rules Rules.

Relentless defines a mental framework that author Tim Grover claims you’ll need to become the best in your field or discipline—a framework he calls relentlessness. This framework involves committing everything you have to overcoming obstacles and finding success.

In this guide, we’ll explain why a relentless mindset helps you succeed, as well as how you can apply this mindset to your own life. We’ll also provide commentary offering psychological research to contextualize Grover’s arguments, practical advice on applying his recommendations, and expansions on some of his arguments for clarity.

Have you ever felt anxious about a new social situation, an interview, a performance, or another environment where you lack confidence? In Presence, social psychologist Amy Cuddy explains how to navigate these stressful scenarios by embodying “presence”—a self-assured confidence that’s not arrogant but allows you to comfortably express your true self. She says you can achieve presence by leveraging the body-mind connection to change the way you feel about yourself rather than worrying about what others perceive.

In this guide, we’ll explore Cuddy’s popular research on how “power poses”—like the superwoman stance—and other body language shifts can boost your confidence and improve your performance in high-pressure situations. We’ll also explain how research on this topic has evolved since the book was published and include tips from other experts on how to navigate stressful experiences.

Most people think that happiness comes after success, and that success comes after hard work. But we’ve had the equation all wrong: Happiness isn’t the result of success—it’s the cause of it. In The Happiness Advantage, author Shawn Achor introduces this formula for success, based on research in neuroscience and the relatively new field of positive psychology. Achor offers insight as a leading expert on the connection between happiness and performance and the founder of a research and consulting firm that optimizes people’s achievement through positive psychology.

This book explains the benefits of happiness—from increased creativity to improved health—and how a positive mindset can change your personal and professional life. In addition, Achor provides strategies for adopting a positive mindset, remaining optimistic in the face of adversity, and raising your happiness baseline.

You have powerful beliefs that affect what you want in life and whether you get it. In Mindset, psychologist and researcher Carol S. Dweck argues that the way you think determines the course of your life, starting as early as your preschool years.

You learn one of two mindsets from your parents, teachers, and coaches: that personal qualities such as intelligence and ability are innate and unchangeable (the fixed mindset) or that you and others can change and grow (the growth mindset). Understanding and adjusting your mindset can change your career, relationships, the way you raise your children, and your overall life satisfaction.

In this guide, we explore Dweck’s mindset theory, most notably the nature vs. nurture debate. We connect her ideas with other self-help books to further explore the damage a fixed mindset causes and the benefits of a growth mindset. Finally, we link to practical tools and techniques to help you learn how to overcome a fixed mindset and embrace taking chances and making mistakes.