Tony Schwartz

Six Ingredients for a Good Life

Tony Schwartz | Posted 11.17.2011

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Tony Schwartz

Gratifying our most immediate needs and desires provides bursts of pleasure, but they're usually short-lived. We derive the most enduring sense of meaning and satisfaction in our lives when we serve something larger than ourselves.

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6 Keys to Being Excellent at Anything

Tony Schwartz | Posted 11.17.2011

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Tony Schwartz

In work with thousands of people, we've found that it's possible to build any given skill or capacity in the same systematic way you do a muscle: push past your comfort zone, and then rest.

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6 Invisible Secrets to Fostering Your Creativity

Tony Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tony Schwartz

Fortunately, even if our work environments are not as accommodating as they could be, we as individuals have the power to train our own creativity, the same way we would any muscle.

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Who Are You And What Do You Really Want?

Tony Schwartz | Posted 11.17.2011

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Tony Schwartz

It's our higher motivations that prompt us to ask ourselves "What's the right thing to do?" in any given situation, rather than simply doing what's most expedient, or what other people are doing.

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The Death of Depth: Less and Less of More and More

Tony Schwartz | Posted 11.17.2011

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Tony Schwartz

There is a profound difference between pleasure and satisfaction. We can derive pleasure without much effort, but it typically doesn't run very deep. Satisfaction requires an investment of effort and attention.

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'The Way We're Working Isn't Working'

The Wall Street Journal | SIMON CONSTABLE | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mr. Schwartz's book might also have been titled "Better Working Through Better Living." It takes a look at self-destructive behaviors that are common ...

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The 90-Minute Solution: How Building in Periods of Renewal Can Change Your Work and Your Life (POLL) (VIDEO)

Tony Schwartz | Posted 11.17.2011

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Tony Schwartz

Our bodies operate by the same 90 minute rhythm during the day. When we're awake, the movement is from higher to lower alertness. Researchers have called this our "ultradian rhythm."

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The World Is Changing, Are You?: Why The Way We're Working Isn't Working Is This Month's HuffPost Book Pick

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Arianna Huffington

There is no mistaking that the way we're working isn't working. Figuring out why this is so -- and what we can do about it -- is the animating idea behind The Way We're Working Isn't Working.

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I Am a Big Fat Jerk

James M. Lynch | Posted 11.17.2011

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James M. Lynch

I was gathering evidence that people were stupid, they were selfish and that I was the only right thinking person in the world and my anger was justified. In short; I was being a big fat jerk.

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This Week's Other Important Political Obituary

William Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

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William Klein

Tony Schwartz, best known for making the famous "daisy spot" used in Lyndon Johnson's campaign against Barry Goldwater, died last Saturday at the home he rarely left in New York.

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