The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life
Written by Bernard Roth
Narrated by Sean Pratt
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About this audiobook
The co-founder of the Stanford d.School introduces the power of design thinking to help you achieve goals you never thought possible.
Achievement can be learned. It’s a muscle, and once you learn how to flex it, you’ll be able to meet life’s challenges and fulfill your goals, Bernard Roth, Academic Director at the Stanford d.school contends.
In The Achievement Habit, Roth applies the remarkable insights that stem from design thinking—previously used to solve large scale projects—to help us realize the power for positive change we all have within us. Roth leads us through a series of discussions, stories, recommendations, and exercises designed to help us create a different experience in our lives. He shares invaluable insights we can use to gain confidence to do what we’ve always wanted and overcome obstacles that hamper us from reaching our potential, including:
- Don’t try—DO;
- Excuses are self-defeating;
- Believe you are a doer and achiever and you’ll become one;
- Build resiliency by reinforcing what you do rather than what you accomplish;
- Learn to ignore distractions that prevent you from achieving your goals;
- Become open to learning from your own experience and from those around you;
- And more.
The brain is complex and is always working with our egos to sabotage our best intentions. But we can be mindful; we can create habits that make our lives better. Thoughtful and powerful The Achievement Habit shows you how.
Bernard Roth
Bernard Roth is the Rodney H. Adams Professor of Engineering and the academic director of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the d.school) at Stanford University. He is a leading expert in kinematics, the science of motion, and one of the world's pioneers in the area of robotics. In addition, he has created courses that allow students to directly gain understanding and experience about personal issues that matter to them. Bernie is also the primary developer of the concept of the Creativity Workshop. For more than thirty years this workshop has been a vehicle for him to take the experiential teaching he developed at Stanford to students, faculty, and professionals around the world. He is an in-demand speaker at conferences and workshops globally, has served as a director of several corporations, and has been a leader in professional societies.
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Reviews for The Achievement Habit
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Non sugar coated truth on how to improve your life
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fantastic book full of very useful tools to help improve your life. Definitely a must read.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Really nice material, it helps me to regain my mental strength.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A somewhat entertaining book. It should have been titled “Bernard Roth’s Memoirs”. In my opinion, the title about Achievement is kind of misleading.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Although many of the things in this book were things that I had already applied to my life, it was amazing to see the eloquence in which the author explained these concepts with excellent examples and analogies. I will be able to use the material in this book to not only help myself, but others in my life as well, and I look forward to that.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The utility of the concepts in this book is high.
I’ve listened through it about four times now. At first, I was peeved at how infrequently the phrase “Achievement Habit” is actually mentioned. However, in repeatedly listening I discovered that really the Achievement Habit comes down to just banishing excuses from your thoughts and developing a “bias towards action” paired with the ability to apply design thinking concepts in generating potential solutions to your problems.
The rest of the book is just focused on how to deal with some less obvious aspects of how to put the author’s advice into practice.
This was also my first introduction to the framework of design thinking, and I think that its presentation in this book is clear and practical for a beginner to apply.1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good book. Made me rethink of how I face the challenges that I encounter daily.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lots of substance. I appreciate the thoroughness of the chapters, breaking down the concepts presented & providing examples. I appreciate the balance between self-praise, and evidence. Will definitely recommend to friends. I'll likely give this book a few more listens.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Part design thinking and part self transformation, I find this book to have many credible number of excellent exercises, ways of thinking, ways of behaving, and more. I have listened to the audiobook and I’ve Read the printed version. The audiobook I have listen to all the way through and then again at various parts and I enjoyed. Same in the book. I am matching this with a few other books to help me and my students Think better, behave better, look at our results and what we want them to be, and more. Excellent book!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very informative and practical. 1 of the best books I have ever read. Thank
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Well written book and well narrated. The stories made it feel as if you weren’t listening to a self help book.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It has mind boggling theories that am curious to test
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Valuable insights. A good place to start for sure. Do read if you're tired of your reasons and excuses in life and seriously looking to improve it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It’s the best book I’ve ever read that actually provides you with tools to bring to your real life, I’ve read it (heard it) twice and planning on doing it again because every time I do it I learn something different (also, I need to make some notes) best book ever!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great material to listen to, through and through. Excellent narration!
Unfortunately, the author’s taken it upon himself to ‘decide’ for us what “love” means (that it’s the materialistic sort - understandable given he’s an engineer, ok) - and that “love” does NOT belong in marriage. Perhaps he’d be right if materialistic love didn’t belong in marriage, but just pontificates that LOVE itself is not beneficial/helpful/suitable in a marriage. Disappointing and needless thing for him as engineer to push. - Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5What a bunch of Ivy League garbage. What should I have expected but a runaround? The secret to achievement? Just freaking do it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book has tons of good advices and practical exercises.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Enjoyable narration, grounded advice, with broad subjects covered lightly. Give it a listen if you're looking for insights and methods to develop self efficacy. I'll likely purchase a physical copy to revisit and properly mull over certain ideas the author touched on.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A must read if you're ready to instill in yourself the habit of achievement.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It was okay. Maybe a little bit misleading and I don't agree with some points especially the reason part, but I see where the author is coming from. Still a good read regarding the importance of decisions and your choice to react or response to situations. If you didn't mind this book, I suggest checking out Barking up the wrong Tree. A very good read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Title is a bit mis leading. But the content of the book is really great and worth listening.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Awesome read about common sense and good design thinking and problem solving.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I found Chapter 7 and 9 as having the deepest discourse. Brilliant piece of work. Many thanks to Prof. for sharing invaluable lessons from his life experiences.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I loved everything in this book. I will make it the manual for my life.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very helpful book changed some outlooks that I have and very well thought out exercises
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book presents another way to approach problems and I found that it actually helps. The writing is not exactly riveting but it got the author's points across. Did this book help me? Definitely! Is it mind-blowingly good? No, but you're not reading fiction so I think that's expected.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I liked it. The "your turn" activities were interesting. The title is somewhat misleading, this book doesn't give you habits per say, more like a new way to look at yourself and your understanding of the world. Worthwhile to acknowledge you could change your perception filter
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Some real gems of wisdom in here, although I did have to fast forward a few bits that I personally wasn't so interested in. I do recommend it.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The book is mid. It's just a series of questions to ask yourself and others. And all that is wrapped in between technical jargon.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Muy buen libro es una referencia constante de tus acciones