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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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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