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Psychologist and best-selling author Benjamin Hardy, PhD, debunks the pervasive myths about personality that prevent us from learning - and provides bold strategies for personal transformation.

Discover how to become the best version of you and develop healthy habits, find inspiring new perspectives and live a motivated, joy-filled life! Who is your Future Self? That question is the answer to all your life's questions. When you know who you want to be then you know what you're going to do today. That answer directly impacts how motivated you are, and how you feel about yourself. It's the answer to whether you'll distract yourself on social media for hours, whether you'll eat junk food and what time you get up in the morning.

Dan Sullivan, the world's leading coach for highly successful entrepreneurs, wants you to know that achieving 10X growth is exponentially easier than striving for 2X growth. Most find this idea confusing at first because simply imagining 10X growth causes them to think they need to do 10X more work to achieve it. However, being a 10X entrepreneur is nothing like what most people think.

As he did in Who Not How, Dr. Benjamin Hardy shares one of Dan Sullivan's simple yet profound teachings that until now has been known only to his Strategic Coach clients: unsuccessful people focus on "The Gap", but successful people focus on "The Gain".

Warum es sich lohnt, auch mal auf das Erreichte zurückzuschauen, statt stets neue Ziel zu setzen. Wenn man das Beste aus sich herausholen möchte, ist es sinnvoll, sich Ziele zu setzen – diese sind schließlich der Schlüssel zu lang anhaltender Motivation. Doch wenn man immer nur auf die noch zu bewältigende Strecke, den Gap, schaut, führt dies irgendwann unweigerlich zu Unzufriedenheit. Wie soll man auch die eigene Leistung würdigen, wenn man immer hinterherläuft?