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Today I’m launching something I’m very excited about. It’s called The School of Greatness. I’m constantly connecting with inspiring individuals such as creative entrepreneurs, world class athletes, and interesting celebrities.  I love hearing their story about how they’ve achieved greatness and wanted to share their message to a broader audience.  For that, I’ve created this […]

Robert Greene: How to Master Anything and Achieve Greatness

Podcast 385: So Good They Can’t Ignore You with Cal Newport

I talk to Cal Newport, author of the book So Good They Can't Ignore Ignore You. In his book Cal makes that case that "following your passion" is terrible career advice and can actually cause people needless anxiety and problems in their lives because they're constantly jumping from one career to the next.  Instead of "following your passion",  he argues that you should instead focus on developing mastery in a skill that will allow you to build up career capital,  which in turns opens up more opportunities for control of you work, which in turn allows you to cultivate a job that you're passionate about. Fulfilling work comes from cultivating your passion, not following it.  This is a must listen to podcast for our college-aged listeners as well as for folks who've felt a twinge of anxiety about whether they're in the right job. 

#78: The Myth of Following Your Passion With Cal Newport

Georgetown University professor Cal Newport argues that the ability to apply sustained attention to a valuable task---to engage in what he terms "deep work"---is the new key to achieving real success and true meaning in one's professional life.

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Georgetown University professor and popular blogger Cal Newport reveals the new key to achieving success and true meaning in one's professional life.

In 2012, Cal Newport coined the term "deep work" on his popular blog, Study Hacks, and began exploring the methods and mindset that foster a deep work practice. The concept quickly hit a nerve. Newport's articles on the topic have been read hundreds of thousands of times and were picked up and promoted by other bloggers and traditional media. 

Now, in DEEP WORK, Newport explains how to systematically train the mind to focus and reorganize our work lives so that deep work is at the core. He argues why this shift is crucial to stay ahead in a complex information economy. Put simply: developing and cultivating a deep work practice is one of the best decisions we can make in an increasingly distracted world.

Available Now from Hachette Audio as a digital download, Ebook, CD and Hardcover from Grand Central Publishing.

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DEEP WORK by Cal NewPort, Read by Jeff Bottoms- Audiobook Excerpt

New York Times bestselling author Lilith Saintcrow returns to dark fantasy with the second novel in her Gallow & Ragged series where the faery world inhabits diners, dive bars and trailer parks.

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Robin Ragged has revenge to wreak and redemption to steal. As for Jeremy Gallow, the poison in his wound is slowly killing him, while old friends turn traitor and long-lost enemies return to haunt him. 

In the dive bars and trailer parks, the sidhe are hunting. War looms, and on a rooftop in the heart of the city, the most dangerous sidhe of all is given new life. He has only one thought, this new hunter: Where is the Ragged?



Gallow and Ragged
Trailer Park Fae
Roadside Magic


For more from Lilith Saintcrow, check out: 

Blood Call (coming August 2015)

Bannon and Clare
The Iron Wyrm Affair
The Red Plague Affair
The Ripper Affair
The Damnation Affair (e-only)

Dante Valentine Novels
Working for the Devil
Dead Man Rising
Devil's Right Hand
Saint City Sinners
To Hell and Back

Dante Valentine (omnibus)

Jill Kismet Novels
Night Shift
Hunter's Prayer
Redemption Alley
Flesh Circus
Heaven's Spite
Angel Town

Jill Kismet (omnibus)

A Romance of Arquitaine Novels
The Hedgewitch Queen
The Bandit King

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Available January 26 from Hachette Audio as a digital download and in print and Ebook from Orbit.

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Roadside Magic by Lilith Saintcrow, Read by Joe Knezevich

The second terrifying tale in the Spook's spin-off series from bestselling author Joseph Delaney.

Thomas Ward was working as the new County Spook, fighting the Dark with his own apprentice. But a new enemy stirred in the north, and Tom’s calling required him to leave his home and lead an uprising against a legion of beasts: creatures of the dark intent on locking the whole earth in a never-ending winter.

Then something went horribly wrong, and now Tom lies cold in a grave, while those who remain are in despair.

Who can now take up the battle? And how much time remains before the dark army brings the fight back to the County, and the world is changed for ever?

Spook's The Dark Army by Joseph Delaney (Audiobook Extract)

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Daring Greatly by Brené Brown, read by Karen White.

Every time we are introduced to someone new, try to be creative, or start a difficult conversation, we take a risk. We feel uncertain and exposed. We feel vulnerable. Most of us try to fight those feelings - we strive to appear perfect. 

In a powerful new vision Dr. Brené Brown challenges everything we think we know about vulnerability, and dispels the widely accepted myth that it's a weakness. She argues that, in truth, vulnerability is strength and when we shut ourselves off from vulnerability - fromrevealing our true selves - we distance ourselves from the experiences that bring purpose and meaning to our lives.

Daring Greatly is the culmination of 12 years of groundbreaking social research, across every area of our lives including home, relationships, work, and parenting. It is an invitation to be courageous; to show up and let ourselves be seen, even when there are no guarantees.

This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly.

Daring Greatly by Brené Brown (audiobook extract) read by Karen White

Listen to an except from AND AGAIN by Jessica Chiarella, read by Julia Whelan, Joy Osmanski,  Rebekkah Ross and Corey Brill


AND AGAIN Audiobook Excerpt

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