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| Introduction | |
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| The Three Levels of Thinking | |
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| The Three Levels of Thinking | |
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| East Versus West in the Pursuit of Happiness | |
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| Beyond East and West to the Three Levels of Thinking | |
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| The Story of Ed and Fred: Tuning in to What Other People Care About Most | |
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| The Story of Marty Edelston: How Second-Level Pride Hobbles the Critics of Successful People | |
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| The Central Questions of the Three Levels | |
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| Getting Beyond Level Two-Finding the Freedom to Fail, or Why Michael Jordan Was the Best Player in the NBA | |
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| Living Large at the Third Level of Thinking | |
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| Lessons from Quintilian: Even the Poorest Parents See Greatness in Their Children | |
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| Ambition: The Foundation for Success, and the Engine to Get You Where You Want to Go | |
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| Ambition Does Not Have to Be Selfish | |
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| What Mother Teresa Had That the Other Nuns Didn't | |
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| Four Lessons from Aristotle: Virtue Is Meaningless Unless You Use It to Achieve | |
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| Emerson's Struggle | |
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| The Difference Between Ambition and Greed | |
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| Ambition on a Global Scale: Owning What We Build Drives Us to Build Great Things | |
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| Against Greed: A Conversation with Michael Milken | |
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| Spiritual Ambition and Gimpel the Fool | |
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| Insight: Knowing What Games Other People Are Playing, and Using That Knowledge to Win | |
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| Winning the War | |
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| Always Focus on the War, Not the Battles | |
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| Sad Ice Cream: Missing Out on the Joy | |
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| A Lesson from Augustine: Fight for What You Love, Not Against What You Hate | |
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| Clarify Your Goals | |
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| Knowing the Real Thing When You See It | |
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| The Art of Reframing the Game | |
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| Know When You've Lost, and Turn a Battle into a War | |
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| Knowing the Real Thing When You See It | |
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| Lessons from Hannah Arendt: Thinking Critically About Yourself | |
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| Third-Level Questions for the Real Thing | |
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| Real Problems | |
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| The Power of Purpose | |
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| Be at the Center and at the Fringe | |
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| Case Study: The Rise of the Internet | |
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| The Deal That Got Away: Understanding the Stronger and the Weaker | |
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| Case Study: The Hundred-Billion-Dollar Deal That Got Away | |
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| A Lesson from Plato: The Power of Purpose | |
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| The Leap of Faith: Connecting Insight to Relationships | |
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| The Greatest Prayer | |
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| Relationships: Without Relationships with Others, Nothing Else Is Possible | |
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| The Three Critical Relationship Skills | |
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| Share Every Gain | |
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| Giving and Taking | |
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| No Secrets | |
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| Secrets That Break Apart Teams | |
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| Finding New Glue for New Teams: If You Can't Sell Together, Sail Together | |
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| The Power of Poetry | |
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| From "Always Be Closing" to Always Build Teams | |
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| The Work Team | |
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| The Power of Teams | |
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| The Home Team | |
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| The Home Team Part Two: Showing Up | |
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| The Heart of One Community | |
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| Stanley Milgram: The Importance of Staying Close | |
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| Keeping Close: Pay Attention to the People Who Matter Most | |
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| The Three Elements of Successful Teams | |
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| Shared Commitments and Shared Interests | |
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| The Third Ingredient for Teams-What Is Shared Work? | |
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| Why Teams Fail | |
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| How to Be a Truth Teller | |
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| Lessons from Abraham Lincoln: Respect Your Opponent's Positions | |
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| Plato's Allegory of the Cave: How (Not) to Be a Truth Teller | |
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| Rehearsal Versus Real Understanding | |
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| Keeping It Real | |
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| A Lesson from Professor Brown | |
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| Positive Impact: The Most Worthy Goal of Any High Achiever | |
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| Giving | |
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| Why Give Your Time? To Help Others | |
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| The Trap of Looking Like a Hero (to Yourself) | |
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| Ideas: Sometimes the Most Valuable Help You Can Offer | |
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| Giving by Teaching | |
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| Money | |
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| Give to This School or Give to That One? | |
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| A Cautionary Tale: The Curse of $100 Million | |
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| The Gift of a Common Culture | |
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| Where Does Purpose Come From? | |
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| The Days Are Long, But the Years Are Short | |
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| Purpose Steers You Straight | |
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| Where Does Purpose Come From? | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Making the Power of Purpose Work in Your Life | |
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| Making It Work at Home: Family | |
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| Making It Work on the Job: Selling | |
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| Making It Work on the Job: Managing | |
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| Making It Work at Home: Community | |
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| Afterword: A Dream for My Children | |