Quotes and ideas from The Other 90% By Robert K Cooper

Just finished The Other 90%: How to Unlock Your Vast Untapped Potential for Leadership and Life. It is by Robert K. Cooper. It was pretty good. Maybe a bit too "touchy feely" for me, and a quite a bit of it is common sense, but still it does offer quite a bit of good advice and is interesting enough to hold my attention to the finish.

It did have some really cool quotes/ideas:

• "Deep within humans dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish them"--Orison Marden
• Don't Compete, Excel (p 31)
  
• In excelling you save time and energy that would have been spent comparing yourself to others and fighting others, and you apply that time to being your best. (p 33)
• Take strategic pauses and Essential Breaks (p 73)
• "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself"--Ralph Waldo Emerson (p 122)
• Die young as late as possible (p 172)
  
• Champion Lost Causes (Chapter 18, p 180)
• "Nearly everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. A few do not." Join them--Arthur Schopenhauer (p 187)
• Don't take things personally; someone's always going to be mad at you, and that's ok. (p 235)
• Care more than you have to (p 258)
  

Well after looking back over the book to make this entry, I guess I liked it better than I thought :) That said, I still maintain most of it is common sense, but just ask any good coach, it is always good to practice the basic fundamentals.


If I had to categorize it, it is sort of a cross between Anthony Roberts and Stephen Covey with some yoga breathing thrown in.