Description

What’s Stopping You?: Why Smart People Don’t Always Reach Their Potential and How You Can

A practical guide to attacking the most common of phobias: fear of failure

PUBLISHER’S SUMMARY

Do fear and doubt hinder your progress in life? Are you paralyzed at key moments by your insecurities? Millions of smart people are held back from achieving their potential by a fear of failure. Many of them don’t even realize that this recognized condition is limiting their progress. Based on extensive research, recognized science, and stark reality, this book will help listeners navigate the barriers that hold them back: at work, with people, and in life.

By finally understanding what’s stopping you, you can calculate your true goals and take small, practical, and sustainable steps towards a more positive future.

Included is a foreword by Financial Times columnist and serial entrepreneur Luke Johnson and a conclusion from the London Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy.

CONTENTS

Part One – What is Stopping You?
01. Fear
02. External Responses
03. Failure as a Positive Experience
04. Producing Better Responses

Part Two – Goals
05. Act
06. Visualization
07. Language and Behaviour
08. Appropriate Goal Setting for Recovering High-FFs

Part Three – Execution
09. Strategy and Tactics
10. Judgement and Ideas
11. Managing the Process

Part Four – People
12. Self-esteem
13. Dealing with the Boss
14. Progress as an Employee
15. Networking and Interviews
16. Leadership

Part Five – Me Inc.
17. The High-FF Entrepreneur
18. Alternative Paths for the High-FF

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Robert Kelsey is a best-selling author, founder and CEO of a successful London PR agency, and co-founder and deputy chairman of a leading entrepreneurs’ think tank: The Centre for Entrepreneurs. Yet he left school with one O’level and struggled to fit in – his early careers usually ending in failure. He was always the outsider – whether from his upbringing (as a townie “marooned” in the countryside) or from being the deep-thinker among the deal-junkies of investment banking. Yet Kelsey found redemption in entrepreneurship – giving his life meaning and offering him the philosophical insight that underpins his writing.

His books on the insecurities that made him such an ineffective young adult, What’s Stopping You? What’s Stopping You Being More Confident? and Get Things Done, have become best sellers translated into 10 languages. His latest book, The Outside Edge: How Outsiders Can Succeed in a World Made by Insiders adopts the same alchemy of deep research, strong insight (including personal struggles) and practical guidance to help tackle the insecurities that blunt our potential for achievement.

Visit Robert’s website and blog at http://www.robert-kelsey.co.uk

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