Niklas Göke
Writes in Niklas Göke on Medium ∙ Four Minute Books
My name is Nik. I've been writing since 2014.
Somehow, I found my way to 50 million views, 50,000 email subscribers, and 500,000 monthly readers.
My work has been featured in places like Medium, Quora, Business Insider, CNBC, The Next Web, Pocket, Lifehacker, Thought Catalog & The Muse.
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Niklas Göke
Finding Your Element shows you how to find your talents and passions, embrace them, and come up with your own definition of happiness, so you can combine what you love with what you’re good at to live a long, happy life.
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Niklas Göke
This year, instead of setting goals, try a one-word theme. You’ll be surprised how easy and efficient it is. Listen to find out more.
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Nudge shows you how you can unconsciously make better decisions by designing your environment so it nudges you in the right direction every time temptation becomes greatest and thus build your own choice architecture in advance.
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Niklas Göke
The Compound Effect will show you why big, abrupt changes rarely work and how you can change your life over time with the power of small, daily steps, a routine that builds momentum and the courage to break through your limits when you reach them.
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Niklas Göke
When's the time for your mind to take a break? And what does your mind need to truly rest?
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In a world where everyone’s trying to do everything, quitting isn’t just good for your health. It’s a superpower. So, how do you know when it’s time to quit?
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Niklas Göke
Read our free Discipline Is Destiny summary of Ryan Holiday's book to learn how to master your body, mind, and spirit.
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Niklas Göke
The Practicing Mind shows you how to cultivate patience, focus, and discipline for working towards your biggest goals, by going back to the basic principles of practice, embracing a child-like trial-and-error attitude again and thus make working hard towards mastery a fulfilling process in itself.
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Niklas Göke
Protect your routines, not your rituals. Use one as the tool it is to maintain the other — nothing more, nothing less. Stay flexible, replace good with better, and throw out what doesn’t work as soon as it stops working...
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Niklas Göke
There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who love rewatching movies, and those who think it’s a colossal waste of our limited time. If you happen to be the latter, here's a piece of evidence that just might change your mind.
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Niklas Göke
In truth, the only thing that’s toxic is calling things toxic left, right, and center — especially when the “things” you talk about are actually human beings. “Toxic” is a terrible word, and, plainly, not an adjective you should ever use to describe anyone. Why?
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Niklas Göke
Every day, tiny parachutes protect you from falling. You don’t know who made them. You don’t see them on your back. All you know is you’re okay, and that’s the part that matters.
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Niklas Göke
Our summary of The Daily Laws by Robert Greene will teach you 3 lessons from the big topics of the book: mastery, power, and emotions.
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Niklas Göke
Read our summary of Stolen Focus by Johann Hari to discover why your attention is waning, and what you can do to get it back, in 3 lessons.
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Chaos Monkeys is a fun behind-the-scenes look that lifts the veil on some of the weird, mysterious and sometimes questionable practices going on behind closed doors of mega startups in Silicon Valley.
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Advance a “Just Cause”; Build trusting teams; Learn from your “Worthy Rivals”; Practice existential flexibility; Demonstrate the courage to lead.
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Napoleon The Great is the definitive, modern biography of legendary leader, French idol and European visionary Napoleon Bonaparte, detailing his life from his early years as an immigrant, over his rise through the military ranks, all the way to his greatest battles, political achievements and ultimate exile.
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Niklas Göke
If you spend hours looking for tricks, gimmicks, and automations, you may as well do the actual thing. Step up to your role in the small scheme of things, and before you know it, you’ll see: Small roles are not to be feared.
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Every day, you look in the mirror and see a human struggling to carry the world on their shoulders. You see wrinkles of stress etched into your forehead, caused by your unpaid bills. You see tired eyes about to blink a thousand times more until the report for your boss is finished. You see slumped shoulders that used to sit high and mighty, and you wonder: How can those shoulders keep carrying the world?
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Free: The Future Of A Radical Price explains how offering things for free has moved from marketing gimmick to truly sustainable business strategy, thanks to the power of the internet, and how free and freemium models are already changing how we sell stuff.
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