{"title":"Home page","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"digital-product","title":"The Useful Isms  Thinking Paper No. 1","description":"\u003ch1\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThinking Paper No. 1 — The Useful Isms\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTen practical ideas for thinking more deliberately about everyday life, work and decision-making.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe accumulate rules for living throughout our lives. Some come from experience. Some from work. Some from success—and quite a few from getting things wrong.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Useful Isms\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e takes ten simple principles and gives each one a name.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey are not grand philosophies, rigid rules or prescriptions for how everyone else should live. They are practical ways of looking at effort, judgment, risk, persistence, preparation and everyday decision-making.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe purpose of this Thinking Paper is simple: to make you stop occasionally and ask whether the way you are approaching something actually makes sense.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat You Will Learn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this first Thinking Paper, you will explore ten practical \"isms\" that provide different ways of thinking about ordinary decisions and problems.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYou will consider why additional effort is sometimes valuable—and why more effort is not automatically better. You will look at the difference between persistence and stubbornness, preparation and over-preparation, confidence and recklessness, efficiency and simply doing things faster.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMost importantly, the paper introduces a way of thinking that can be carried into work, projects, relationships, personal challenges and everyday decisions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is not a book telling you how to live.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is a short paper designed to make you think about \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehow you already do\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWho Is This For?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Useful Isms is for readers who enjoy practical ideas, independent thinking and observations drawn from real experience rather than abstract theory alone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is deliberately short enough to read without becoming another unfinished book on the bedside table, but substantial enough to leave you with ideas worth revisiting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Thinking Paper Series\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReserve Power Press Thinking Papers are concise explorations of ideas that deserve more consideration than a social-media post but don't require a 300-page book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEach paper takes one subject, examines it from several angles and leaves room for the reader to decide what to do with the argument.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRead it. Question it. Keep what is useful. Discard what isn't. Think it through on your own terms.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYour Purchase\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYou will receive \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThinking Paper No. 1 — The Useful Isms\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e as a downloadable PDF.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDIGITAL PDF DOWNLOAD — NO PHYSICAL PRODUCT WILL BE SHIPPED.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYour purchase provides an individual personal-use licence. You may download, save and print the publication for your own use. 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