Brain Rules
ALlow me to add my voice to the chorus of praise for John Medina's Brain Rules. I'm only halfway through it, but already see all sorts of problems with my training classes.

I know he spends some time debunking left right brain personality theory, but I haven't gotten that far yet, so maybe I should reserve my judgement. I still seem to be stumbling across a ton of evidence for the fundamental idea of the Nurtured Chaos program:

Creative people tend to have a gift, or a knack for a particular thing.
They assume that everything else will come just as easily.
They form a pattern of early abandonment of tasks and learning of skills that does not come as easily to them as their gift does.
As a result, some of the most creative, and gifted people in our society, can't even acheive the most basic of their goals.
They lack a fundamental persistence, that is the product of how their gift taught them to learn.
In other words, their creative talent is both their biggest blessing, and their biggest curse.
I am seeing this everywhere - and left/right discussion notwithstanding, it seems to be a dominant theme among people who end up in ... sales of all professions.
Check out my other project where I attempt to address this.