A Book Club for Problem Solvers: Let’s Learn How to Become Better Problem Solvers Together and Start off 2023 with Some Intentional Reading!

Care to join us on a problem solving journey? Let’s read some books and learn together! It could be an audiobook so you can listen while you drive. Or, bust out a highlighter and get a paperback. Either way, let’s start off 2023 with a strategy that starts with our mindset.

For the book club we will take 2-6 weeks between books depending on the size of the book, the level of the material, and the time of year (breaks for holidays, etc).

We will finish one and go onto the next. Join in whenever you can.

Are you in?

We believe that if we change our mindsets we can change everything. So if you are with us, then let’s start here. The book we chose for book number one is - ironically -Mindset by Carol Dweck.

This book teaches us how to learn.  The principles in this book are like the foundation of a building.  All other concepts get built on top of it. It is a book that helps parents, coaches, teachers, and ourselves set and achieve the highest expectations for humanity.

Isn't that what a good, healthy community should be doing? Setting high expectations for each other?

The concepts in this book can change the results we are getting in a very tangible and quantifiable way. What that means is that if you take the time to understand these concepts better - especially if you are unfamiliar with them at all - you should see results in your life almost immediately after implementing them.

If you have been with us for any length of time you know that results matter most to us. Everything else falls under results - including love, peace, opportunity, government, education, health, relationships, family, society, science, trust, and more. (Those are all results).

Results are exactly what this first book teaches us. (To borrow a technique from Balaji Srinivasan), we will summarize our understanding of the book “Mindset” in one short paragraph. Summary:

Our mindset directly leads to results.
Our potential is unknown.
Don’t hide from our deficiencies; instead overcome them.
Have a positive relationship with failure.
Make ourselves vulnerable to failure in order to grow and learn.
Choose a growth mindset over a fixed one.

Everything starts with Mindset.

Book Club Rules:
1. All are welcome who are on a quest to be better problem solvers.
2. Tell anyone you want, invite anyone you want as long as they strive to be problem solvers.
3. People not aligned with being problem solvers (so naysayers, haters, etc) will be asked to leave the group if they are retracting from the main goal of the group. This is a book club for the highly aligned. Discussions and arguments are welcome over topics, as long as the spirit is to find solutions. In the event of someone not being highly aligned with our objective, people may be removed from the book club group, (but it will be done in a transparent way).
4. We will be taking suggestions for new books that could make us all better problem solvers. Please make suggestions!
5. We will try to use comments and feedback and member reviews to enhance the learning experience.

A reminder: Our substack will always be free. This book club will always be free. And everything we work on will always be transparent.

Let’s make 2023 the year we learn to collaborate together better. Make community, better. Make trust between each other, better.

Join the bookclub Facebook Group here. It is titled the “BJJ Bookclub” because it was started by a group of jiu jitsu practitioners first. (Jiu Jitsu, by nature, is problem solving).
LINK:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1009614859933508

Thanks for reading and Happy New Year!

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