FIND YOUR Y FACTORSY Space Accelerator Book Club #1GrowthMaster of the Month: Zilong (Z) Zhao
April 2018
Y SPACE ACCELERATOR BOOK CLUBKNOWLEDGE + ACTION = POWER
• Knowledge:
• Monthly workshops
• Actions:
• Weekly challenges + biweekly reflection
• Daily tracker
30 BOOKS = 12-MONTH CURRICULUM
I. WHY? Motivation: II. HOW? Process:
Projects Books: Projects Books Projects Books
1. Find Your Y Factor:
Explore & Discover
Your Calling
-Designing Your Life
-Find Your Why
-Managing Oneself
3. Create Feedback Loop: Build Yourself
Like a Startup
-Lean Startup
-Principles
-Algorithms to Live By
8. Build Strong
Interpersonal Relations: Build
Lasting Relationships
-How to Win Friends
and Influence
People
-Crucial
Conversations
2. Goal-setting & Mind-setting: Lay the
Foundation for
Success
-Seven Habits
-How Will You
Measure Your Life
-The Secret
-Think and Grow Rich
-Mindset
4. Develop Habit,
Discipline, and Health: Achieve
Long-term Success
-Power of Habits
-5 Seconds Rule
-The Miracle Morning
-What Doesn’t Kill Us
-Manage Your Day-
to-Day
9. Leverage the
Strength of Weak Ties: Build up Social
Capital through
Networking
-Never Eat Alone
-How to Talk to
Anyone
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ACCELERATOR BOOK CLUB
5. Accelerate Your
Growth through Meta-learning:
Become a Learning
Machine
-The Talent Code
-Art of Learning
-Moonwalking with
Einstein
10. Speak with Authority: Essential
Public Speaking Skills
-Speak and Be You
-Roger Love's Vocal
Power: Speaking with
Authority, Clarity and
Conviction
-Talk Like TED
6. Become Efficient & Effective at work:
Work Smarter
-Getting Things Done
-Procrastination on
Purpose
-Productivity Project
11. Real-life Leadership: Achieve
More through
Collective Success
-Start with Why
-Lead with a Story
-Pre-Suasion
-Tribes
7. I am Rejection Proof: Courage to
Act
-Rejection Proof
-Four Hour Work
Week
12. Rich vs. wealthy:
Build Assets that
Grow
-Rich Dad, Poor Dad
-Money Master the
Game
WHY THIS TOPIC?FIND YOUR Y FACTORS
• The problem with the brilliant advice:
Follow you passion!!
Don’t know their
passions
PRE-WATCH
BOOKS OF THE MONTH
Designing Your LifeBy Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
Managing OneselfBy Peter Drucker
Find Your WhyBy Simon Sinek
DESIGNER MINDSET
“Designers don’t think their way forward. Designers build their way forward.”
1. Be curious
2. Try stuff
3. Reframe problems
4. Know it’s a process
5. Ask for help
Dysfunctional Belief:Work is not supposed to be enjoyable; that’s why they call it work.
Reframe:Enjoyment is a guide to finding the right work for you.
HOW’S IT GOING?
• Health
• Body, mind, and spirit
(Physical, emotional, and mental health)
• Wok
• Including your non-profit work
• Play
• What brings you joy purely in the doing?
(Not to win/advance/achieve)
• Love
COHERENT LIFE
Who You Are
What You Do
What You Believe
ACTIVITY 1
• Love-play-work-heath Balance (5 min)
• My Compass • Workview (5 min)
• Lifeview (5 min)
• Coherence (5 min)
Three versions of you:1. Idea you already have/do
2. Thing you’d do if #1 were suddenly gone
3. Thing you’d do if money/image were no object
Odyssey Planning (20 min):• Visual timeline
• 6-word headline
• Questions/things you want to test in this life
• Dashboard
ACTIVITY 2
POROTYPE YOUR LIFE
• Prototype conversations
• Information interviews
• Prototype experiences
• Job shadowing
• One-week unpaid project
• Internship
DISCOVER YOUR STRENGTHS
• “The only way to discover your strength is through feedback analysis.”
Key decision/action What I expect to happen Actual results
(9-12 months later)
DISCOVER HOW YOU PERFORM
WEEK 1 CHALLENGEGOOD TIME JOURNAL
For 7 days, track activities and your:
• Engagement
• Total engagement: flow
• Energy
• Sustain vs. drain
For 7 days, zoom in on your activity log:
• Activities
• What? Structured vs. unstructured? Role?
• Environments
• Interactions
• With people vs. machines? New vs. old? Formal vs. informal?
• Objects
• What were you holding/using?
• Users
• Who else was there? Their roles?
WEEK 2 CHALLENGEADV. GOOD TIME JOURNAL
WEEK 3 CHALLENGEFAILURE LOG
Build failure immunity:
1. Log your failures
2. Categorize your failures• Screwup: simple mistakes that you normally
get right• Weakness: abiding failings• Growth opportunity: preventable failures
3. Identify growth insights• Failure factors: what went wrong• Success factors: what could be done
differently
WEEK 4 CHALLENGEDRAFT A WHY STATEMENT
Why Statement: To _____ so that ______.• 1st blank: contribution you make to the lives of others
• 2nd blank: impact of your contribution
Draft the statement
Identify theme
Share your
stories
Gather your
stories
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