Books
The Last Skill
The science of achieving success and a fulfilling life with skills that matter
by Sajeev Vijayan
In a world obsessed with natural talent, this book shows that anyone can achieve greatness. It shatters widely held assumptions about the route to happiness and success. Drawing from cutting-edge research in cognitive psychology, organizational psychology, sociology, behavioral economics, and neuroscience, this book reveals surprising, counterintuitive, and powerful tools for achieving goals and leading a fulfilling life.
We can improve and achieve excellence using simple, research-backed tools in almost everything- including loving, parenting, communicating with peers and bosses, learning, thinking, creativity, leading others, regulating our emotions, fine-tuning our intuitions, enriching our relations, and living a meaningful life. These tools are surprisingly easy to learn and implement.
Introducing an array of powerful skills for thinking and creativity and for excelling in a volatile and uncertain world dominated by Artificial Intelligence, such as game thinking, story thinking, design thinking, exponential thinking, empathy, motivational interviewing, appreciative inquiry, somatic experiencing, expressive writing, and a few core skills that create multiplier effects, this book shows that greatness and world-class performance are within everyone’s reach.
​In a world that celebrates rare talent and toughness, this book shows that you can convert your failures, traumas, and vulnerabilities into success by rewriting your life stories better. We can rewire our brains, create unstoppable momentum, and embrace an exponential mindset even when life seems increasingly difficult in an uncertain world that is not designed to help you grow. Greatness and world-class performance are within everyone’s reach. As you move along the pages of the ‘Last Skill’ to finally reach the last skill, your fundamental understanding of why we succeed and achieve greatness will have profoundly changed.