Breakthrough A Sure-Fire Guide to Realizing Your Potential, Pushing Through Limitations, and Achieving Things You Didn't Know Were Possible
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
DAVID NURSE is an NBA life and optimization coach, bestselling author, speaker, and internationally recognized leader. David has developed more than 150 NBA players both on court and off, coached with the Brooklyn Nets, hosts a top podcast, delivers keynotes all over the world, and has personally helped some of the top NBA players/coaches, Hollywood actors, powerful CEOs, and entrepreneurs live in the Breakthrough mode.
David also leads a personal coaching group of leaders from all over the world—both established and hungry-to-learn—at davidnurse.com. David resides in Marina del Rey, CA with his stunning wife, actress Taylor Kalupa.
Deliver innovative results like clockwork with this repeatable formula for creativity-on-demand
Have you ever sat down at your desk with an impossible deadline or an insurmountable obstacle staring you directly in the face and an expectation that you’ll come up with a groundbreaking idea and solution? In Breakthrough, you’ll find a powerful framework for bringing innovation and creativity to the surface not just once, but on a regular, daily basis.
In Breakthrough, bestselling author, acclaimed speaker, and life optimization coach David Nurse provides an actionable and clearly organized structure for maximizing your breakthrough ideas. Breakthrough outlines easy-to-follow steps for outperforming your potential:
- An accessible blueprint—backed by scientific data and years of case studies with the top athletes, entrepreneurial minds, and leaders throughout the world—to unlocking your creative potential
- Conclusive proof that busts the myths of the lone genius, unpredictable ‘a-ha’ lightbulb moments, and little happy accidents
- Ways to promote an environment and mindset in which groundbreaking new ideas can flow and occur naturally and seamlessly based on a repeatable formula
A must-read for any athlete, manager, executive, or parent tasked with delivering dynamic results in a flash, Breakthrough also belongs on the bookshelves of product design professionals, marketers, and other creative types who seek to consistently exceed expectations. Breakthrough is not about going from good to great; it’s about going from great to outstanding!
Foreword: Jon Gordon ix
Foreword: Taylor Kalupa xiii
Introduction xxi
Chapter 1 Warm Up: The Breakthrough Formula 1
Stop Solving Problems 4
Eliminate Goals 4
Navigate the How 5
Seize the Formula 6
Embrace the Clock 7
Warm-Up Tool: SNAP 9
Chapter 2 Q1: Hearing Who: Breakthrough Confidence 11
Who Are You Hiding? 13
Who Are You Fooling? 21
Who Can Eat You Alive? 27
Whose Opportunity Is This? 37
Breakthrough Confidence Keys 44
Breakthrough Confidence Tool:
Hear It from the Source 44
Chapter 3 Q2: Smelling What: Breakthrough Cooperation 47
What Are Your Heroes Doing? 52
What Do You Value Most in Your Team? 60
What Are You Hating On? 71
What Did You Forget? 79
Breakthrough Cooperation Keys 86
Breakthrough Cooperation Tool: Cultural Compass 86
Chapter 4 Halftime! 91
Halftime Tool: Choose Your Second 92
Chapter 5 Q3: Seeing Where: Breakthrough Service 95
Where Is the Challenge? 97
Where Does Asking Get Anyone? 103
Where Should You Show Up? 115
Where’s the Connection? 120
Breakthrough Service Keys 129
Breakthrough Service Tool:
Connection Calculator 130
Chapter 6 Q4: Tasting Why: Breakthrough Purpose 133
Why Drive? 134
Why Process? 139
Why Commit? 145
Why Love? 152
Breakthrough Purpose Keys 157
Breakthrough Purpose Tool:
The First Bite 157
Chapter 7 Conclusion: Full-Court Press 161
Acknowledgments 167
Index 169
DON’T LEAVE BREAKTHROUGHS TO CHANCE
“David is one of the most infectiously positive people with impact I have met. If you implement his guide in this book, you WILL see powerful change in your life!”
—ED MYLETT, Impact Entrepreneur, bestselling author, global speaker
“Reading Breakthrough is a lot like being on the court with David. He’s got the system and he makes you love the process, so you’re going to have a great time getting your breakthrough results.”
KELLY OLYNYK, NBA Superstar
“David Nurse has an explosive enthusiasm for charting success and fulfillment. When I read Pivot & Go, I found critical tools to help me solve problems and adapt to challenges. Breakthrough takes us to the next level. With the tools Nurse gives us, there is nothing that can hold us back! What really makes these lessons stick the landing is that they are rooted, like David, in positivity, generosity, and love of humankind. David Nurse shows us that every high-performance leader, athlete, and entrepreneur can achieve the highest levels of success and accomplishment without compromising their humanity. Breakthrough is the blueprint for a successful path forward.”
—JENNIFER SCULLY-LERNER, VP, Goldman Sachs
“If you want a different result, you must do something different first. Unfortunately, most books fall short at enabling you to sustain meaningful changes to your behavior. Breakthrough is transformative in that it will enable you to close the gap between learning and actually living what you learn.”
—HAL ELROD, bestselling author of The Miracle Morning and The Miracle Equation
“I have had the privilege of watching David both develop his breakthrough blueprint over many years and use it adroitly to deliver breakthrough results for himself. The process works! It’s a gift that he’s willing to share his approach with the world.”
—JEFF JORDAN, Managing Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Internally, we are all searching for a breakthrough. In some capacity of our lives, big or small, personal or professional,nif we are being honest with ourselves, a breakthrough is exactly what we want, no... NEED! More than ever before, life’s demands are like a snowball that never stops amassing. We must keep improving, continue growing, and constantly out perform our yesterday. But what if we had a tried-and-true formula to create breakthroughs on a daily basis?
In Breakthrough, internationally recognized leader David Nurse delivers an inspiring, eye-opening, and practical discussion of how to change the way you think about breakthroughs and innovation to transform how you achieve results for your team, organization, and family. You’ll say goodbye to the lone genius myth, elusive light bulb ‘a-ha’ moments, and happy accidents you formally considered to be breakthroughs.
The author offers an actionable and clearly organized structure for maximizing breakthrough ideas. You’ll learn how to create the mindset and environments for generating groundbreaking new ideas, overcoming insurmountable obstacles, and exceeding your potential by following the book’s actionable formula.
Backed by years of intense study and daily interaction on how the top athletes, elite minds, and highest performers throughout the world achieve eminence, Breakthrough is a direct handbook for readers in any industry about how to take control of their future and not leave it up to random chance. Breakthrough isn’t about just going from good to great; it’s about going from great to outstanding.
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
DAVID NURSE is an NBA life and optimization coach, bestselling author, speaker, and internationally recognized leader. David has developed more than 150 NBA players both on court and off, coached with the Brooklyn Nets, hosts a top podcast, delivers keynotes all over the world, and has personally helped some of the top NBA players/coaches, Hollywood actors, powerful CEOs, and entrepreneurs live in the Breakthrough mode.
David also leads a personal coaching group of leaders from all over the world—both established and hungry-to-learn—at davidnurse.com. David resides in Marina del Rey, CA with his stunning wife, actress Taylor Kalupa.