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Churchill Decoded

The Psychology of Stubbornness, Vision, and Survival

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Churchill Decoded

By: Craig Beck
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You think you know Winston Churchill? You've seen the statues, heard the quotes, watched the films. You know about the cigars and the brandy and the V-sign and the bulldog jaw. What you don't know is how he worked. What drove him. What broke him. And what he rebuilt himself into, again, across nine decades of failure and triumph and failure again.

Churchill Decoded strips away the bronze and gets into the psychology. This is not another reverential account of a great man's great deeds. It's a forensic examination of how a boy who was written off by his own father, failed his military entrance exams twice, caused a catastrophic military disaster at Gallipoli, and spent a decade being publicly ridiculed as a dangerous anachronism somehow became the most consequential leader the twentieth century produced.

The answer isn't courage. Courage is common enough. The answer is something rarer and considerably more useful, a set of specific psychological patterns that Churchill developed through decades of difficulty and that you can decode, understand, and apply to your own life right now.

You'll discover why the worst periods of Churchill's life were also the most important. Why being right and being believed are two completely different problems. Why the wilderness years that looked like failure were, in fact, the preparation for everything that followed.

Churchill's story is not a comfortable distance from yours. Strip away the palaces and the parliament and the world wars, and what you have is a person who refused to accept other people's verdicts about what was possible.

That refusal is available to anyone.

Including you.
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I got this free as a review copy and have to say this is my favourite of Craig Beck's Decoded series so far. This has given a fascinating insight into the events and life that led to the development of a difficult, stubborn and difficult man who was exactly what was needed at the right time in history.
I also like Craig Beck's delivery which i find both engaging and relaxing.

How he became the right man for the most difficult of times

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So much I didn’t know about Churchill. He did so many things in his early years that I’d never heard of before. Well written and narrated by Craig beck.

Learnt so much about Churchill

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This was a very well written and put together biography of Churchill covering all parts of his life, including many parts that might initially seem unimportant, but in the context of this book are vital to the conclusion.

A great book written from a unique perspective.

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