Chief Master's Book Club

Brené Brown’s game-changing New York Times bestseller, The Gifts of Imperfection, has sold more than 2 million copies in more than 30 different languages and is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in print. Forbes magazine named Gifts one of the "Five Books That Will Actually Change Your Outlook On Life." Through this self-help classic we find courage to overcome paralyzing fear and self-consciousness, strengthening our connection to the world and helping us to believe we are worthy of self-discovery, personal growth, and boundless love. A motivational and inspiring guide to wholehearted living, rather than just the average self-help book, with this groundbreaking work Brené Brown, Ph.D., bolsters the self-esteem and personal development process through her characteristic heartfelt, honest storytelling. With original research and plenty of encouragement, she explores the psychology of releasing our definitions of an “imperfect” life and embracing living authentically. Brown’s “ten guideposts” are benchmarks for authenticity that can help anyone establish a practice for a life of honest beauty—a perfectly imperfect life. Now more than ever, we all need to cultivate feelings of self-worth, as well as acceptance and love for ourselves. In a world where insults, criticisms, and fears are spread too generously alongside messages of unrealistic beauty, attainment, and expectation, we look for ways to “dig deep” and find truth and gratitude in our lives. A new way forward means we can’t hold on too tightly to our own self-defeating thoughts or the displaced pain in our world. Instead, we can embrace the imperfection.

In this rare peak into the personal life of the author of numerous bestselling novels, gain an understanding of David Foster Wallace and how he became the man that he was. Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in This is Water. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend. Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.

Bestselling author Dan Ariely reveals fascinating new insights into motivation—showing that the subject is far more complex than we ever imagined. Every day we work hard to motivate ourselves, the people we live with, the people who work for and do business with us. In this way, much of what we do can be defined as being “motivators.” From the boardroom to the living room, our role as motivators is complex, and the more we try to motivate partners and children, friends and coworkers, the clearer it becomes that the story of motivation is far more intricate and fascinating than we’ve assumed. Payoff investigates the true nature of motivation, our partial blindness to the way it works, and how we can bridge this gap. With studies that range from Intel to a kindergarten classroom, Ariely digs deep to find the root of motivation—how it works and how we can use this knowledge to approach important choices in our own lives. Along the way, he explores intriguing questions such as: Can giving employees bonuses harm productivity? Why is trust so crucial for successful motivation? What are our misconceptions about how to value our work? How does your sense of your mortality impact your motivation?

Why Martial Arts Can Positively Change Your Life is a book is about martial arts and how they can make your life better. It is written by a Master Instructor as a quick read for those seeking martial arts training in their community.

The Go2Karate® Marketing Guide is the single most synoptic source you've been waiting for to revolutionize your martial arts business while “Igniting Your Online Performance” and grow your business. With Google getting more than 5.9 billion search-hits a day in 2013, the need for a compelling online presence cannot be overstated. As more and more consumers take to the Internet to search for your products and services, read reviews and form opinions about you, it has now become necessary for you to not only build on online presence but completely claim it!Your business's online presence will greatly be enhanced with these 12 key elements or puzzle pieces. Businesses around the world need to put together the 12 pieces to claim their online presence and launch their business to greater success. This Go2Karate® workbook will Ignite Your Online Performance and helps you do just that!

Amanda Olson (AKA Master Mom) has brought another essential book to parents everywhere. With 30 years of experience helping children and families work together. This book draws on these lessons to provide very specific, simple, easy to implement actions to help with the top 15 topics she gets asked about including behavior, discipline issues and confidence-building. An example of what her parent's say: Have two kids who trained with Master Mom. The Olson's environment of teamwork, respect of one's self and others, perseverance and healthy attitudes/habits, our kids are now confident but respectful, strong but not bully, successful but not arrogant, young man and little lady. I would definitely recommend involvement in Master Olson's program.Thanks for all you do! Israel and Carmina

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A “landmark book” (Robert J. Sternberg, president of the American Psychological Association) by one of the world's preeminent psychologists that proves human behavior is not “hard-wired” but a function of culture. Everyone knows that while different cultures think about the world differently, they use the same equipment for doing their thinking. But what if everyone is wrong? The Geography of Thought documents Richard Nisbett's groundbreaking international research in cultural psychology and shows that people actually think about—and even see—the world differently because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China. As a result, East Asian thought is “holistic”—drawn to the perceptual field as a whole and to relations among objects and events within that field. By contrast, Westerners focus on salient objects or people, use attributes to assign them to categories, and apply rules of formal logic to understand their behavior. From feng shui to metaphysics, from comparative linguistics to economic history, a gulf separates the children of Aristotle from the descendants of Confucius. At a moment in history when the need for cross-cultural understanding and collaboration have never been more important, The Geography of Thought offers both a map to that gulf and a blueprint for a bridge that will span it.

The Ultimate High Level Business, Management, and Marketing Manual for Professional Martial Arts School Owners. Applies Equally to MMA, BJJ, Krav Maga, Kick Boxing, and Traditional Schools. Mile High Maverick is compiled from over 40 years experience in the Industry and is targeted at the professionals operating Martial Arts Schools. If you want to be in the top 10% of the industry and Earn a SOLID Six Figure Income while developing Quality Students and a Quality Life-Style for yourself this is what you need. Stephen Oliver is the "Hidden Genius" behind the top 1% - the most successful MMA Schools, traditional schools, Transported after-school care programs and everything in between. This is NOT a curriculum manual. It's not about what to teach or even how to teach it. It's THE manifesto for those who are ready to really be financially successful running a professional martial arts school. Whether you are a 30-year veteran or a relatively new but highly motivated professional, you'll find new ideas, hidden secrets, and ideas and concepts that will change your view of how your business should operate. Some Reviews: An absolute must read for anyone interested in starting a martial arts school or wanting to improve the functioning and/or profitability and/or effectiveness of their current school. Learn how to take your passion for the martial arts and use it to make a positive difference for others while also creating greater freedom for yourself. Grandmaster Oliver knows the industry inside and out and is very clear and effective in conveying what works and what doesn't work for creating a martial arts school that becomes a community leader. - Master Instructor Joseph Preira If you own a school pick this book up and read it right away. When it comes to business in the martial arts industry Grand Master Oliver knows what he's talking about - Lloyd Irvin Grand Master Oliver really knows his stuff. I highly recommend this book to any martial art school owner. I have followed his advice for years and it has brought myself and my students much success. - Master Jan Lappin

In this ground-breaking book on the children of affluence, a well-known clinical psychologist exposes the epidemic of emotional problems that are disabling America’s privileged youth, thanks, in large part, to normalized, intrusive parenting that stunts the crucial development of the self. In recent years, numerous studies have shown that bright, charming, seemingly confident and socially skilled teenagers from affluent, loving families are experiencing epidemic rates of depression, substance abuse, and anxiety disorders—rates higher than in any other socioeconomic group of American adolescents. Materialism, pressure to achieve, perfectionism, and disconnection are combining to create a perfect storm that is devastating children of privilege and their parents alike. In this eye-opening, provocative, and essential book, clinical psychologist Madeline Levine explodes one child-rearing myth after another. With empathy and candor, she identifies toxic cultural influences and well-intentioned, but misguided, parenting practices that are detrimental to a child's healthy self-development. Her thoughtful, practical advice provides solutions that will enable parents to help their emotionally troubled "star" child cultivate an authentic sense of self.

Firstly, I want to say congratulations! You have become the caregiver and role model to a child. This may be as a parent, grandparent, foster parent or other significant person in a child’s life. …Now, what next? What do you really do after that? You have been given the arduous task of never making a mistake from this moment on and for the rest of your life. Don’t feed them the wrong things, don’t let them watch the wrong things, make sure they are the smartest, most advanced or most athletic child in everything they do and by all means, make sure they are always perfect little angels whenever any other human being, from the mail man to the school headmaster, is within earshot of you and your children. If you can at least do all of that, you will have mastered parenting! A little daunting isn’t it? All parents have been embarrassed, appalled and shocked at things their children have done in public. When your child throws up all over your boss, or your eight-year-old blurts out to your best friend, “You smell funny!” Or, your child starts belching loudly at a restaurant, or disrespects you in front of other parents, or sticks her tongue out at the teacher, or tells the pastor that church is boring, or writes about the time you had too much to drink and how funny it was in an essay contest at school and on and on! See, you are so, not alone! YouTube videos of other people’s children are funny until moments like these actually happen to you! Which trust me, they will. So how do we handle that? How do we teach them manners, good behavior, common sense without losing our minds? How do we teach them to be well disciplined, friendly and thoughtful? That is where I come in, Master Mom, to help save the day and help you become a true master of parenting! Let’s get started!

“One of the most important books I’ve ever read―an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates “Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.” ―Melinda Gates "Factfulness by Hans Rosling, an outstanding international public health expert, is a hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases." - Former U.S. President Barack Obama Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends―what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school―we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective―from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse). Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future. --- “This book is my last battle in my life-long mission to fight devastating ignorance…Previously I armed myself with huge data sets, eye-opening software, an energetic learning style and a Swedish bayonet for sword-swallowing. It wasn’t enough. But I hope this book will be.” Hans Rosling, February 2017.