About this series
How does a student become a standout in a sea of peers with similar qualifications? What traits contribute to a young person’s success? In the 2014 Living Now Book Award winning teen leadership book, Ingredients of Young Outliers: Achieving Your Most Amazing Future, author John Shufeldt explores the traits that colleges and employers look for in their applicants, identified over nearly three decades of his professional career. While guiding teens and young adults through these leadership characteristics, he introduces them to important traits like communication, Composure (keeping your cool), mentoring, and humility to help them join the ranks of the wildly successful individuals we call “outliers”.
Dr. John Shufeldt, MD, JD, MBA, FACEP, spent 29 years as a student, from elementary school through three graduate degrees. But although he went on to enjoy unusual success in all of his professional endeavors, his life as a young student was rarely easy. His middle school and high school years were marked with barely passing grades, and many seasons warming benches in sports. With a heavy measure of perseverance, determination, and many of the leadership qualities discussed in live fully ingredients of outliers quotethis book, he pressed on to improve his academics in college as a pre-med student, becoming a doctor and eventually a highly successful business entrepreneur, pilot, and attorney. Because of his challenging academic journey, he writes about the many pitfalls he could have avoided along the way, with a little guidance. Today John’s business career is active, but behind it is an underlying passion to help students and professionals through mentoring, speaking, writing, teaching, and consulting.
John’s goal in writing Ingredients of Young Outliers was to serve as a surrogate mentor in this teen and young adults non-fiction, incorporating his most valuable lessons through his amusing misadventures, while also sharing the less highlighted stories of notable individuals who faced challenges on their way to success. Teens and young adults who read this book will not only learn what many business leaders, authors and speakers are most often afraid to tell them about their failures, but most importantly, how to press on to true lasting success, passion, and enjoyment in their endeavors. Don’t miss the opportunity Dr. Shufeldt did while he was a student, to learn the wisdom of history’s greatest mentors!
Read Ingredients of Young Outliers for a humorous, authentic and practical guide to being the kind of student colleges want to recruit and employers want to hire.
Ingredients of Young Outliers is preceded by the professional development book, Ingredients of Outliers: A Recipe for Personal Achievement, published in June 2013. The Outlier Series will include at least 12 other books highlighting various career fields.
For updates on future books in the Outlier Series or to contact Dr. Shufeldt, visit ingredientsofoutliers.com
If you are a middle school or high school teacher/educator, and are interested in using our award winning teen leadership book in 6th-7th grade honors language arts or English, or 9th- 12th grade English classes, view our curriculum store on teacherspayteachers.com
Titles in the series (2)
- Ingredients of Outliers: A Recipe for Personal Achievement
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“Ingredients of Outliers,” by John Shufeldt, is a life-altering guide filled with advice and inspirational stories from his own personal endeavors, as well as those of historical figures and influential acquaintances. Throughout the book, John describes the characteristics that make someone an exceptional individual who stands apart from the crowd, an “outlier.” There is an abundance of humor and enlightenment in this 169-page non-fiction book. Each one of the 16-chapters in the book focuses on a different attribute that an outliers demonstrate. The chapter topics include humility, failure, persistence, preparation, communication, imperturbability, tolerating risk, kindness, learning, optimism, perspective, indefatigability, efficiency, integrity, intuition and being one of a kind. John writes about great outliers from the past, such as Ray Kroc, Dr. Seuss, Fred Astaire, Theodore Roosevelt, Captain Chelsey “Sully” Sullenberger and more. John also incorporates stories of the accomplishments of everyday people who stepped out of their comfort zones and broke the boundaries of the ordinary by demonstrating a specific characteristic of an outlier. Additionally, John provides his own perspective on what makes an individual an outlier and what it takes to become one. As a serial student, an indefatigable change agent and a multidisciplinary entrepreneur, John has studied the traits and qualities of extraordinary individuals for over three decades. “Ingredients of Outliers” is a compilation of thoughts, tips and techniques that will guide you towards discovering the ingredients for the “secret sauce” that will turn an individual from average to extraordinary and will inspire you join the ranks of the outliers.
- Ingredients of Young Outliers: Achieving Your Most Amazing Future
How does a student become a standout in a sea of peers with similar qualifications? What traits contribute to a young person’s success? In the 2014 Living Now Book Award winning teen leadership book, Ingredients of Young Outliers: Achieving Your Most Amazing Future, author John Shufeldt explores the traits that colleges and employers look for in their applicants, identified over nearly three decades of his professional career. While guiding teens and young adults through these leadership characteristics, he introduces them to important traits like communication, Composure (keeping your cool), mentoring, and humility to help them join the ranks of the wildly successful individuals we call “outliers”. Dr. John Shufeldt, MD, JD, MBA, FACEP, spent 29 years as a student, from elementary school through three graduate degrees. But although he went on to enjoy unusual success in all of his professional endeavors, his life as a young student was rarely easy. His middle school and high school years were marked with barely passing grades, and many seasons warming benches in sports. With a heavy measure of perseverance, determination, and many of the leadership qualities discussed in live fully ingredients of outliers quotethis book, he pressed on to improve his academics in college as a pre-med student, becoming a doctor and eventually a highly successful business entrepreneur, pilot, and attorney. Because of his challenging academic journey, he writes about the many pitfalls he could have avoided along the way, with a little guidance. Today John’s business career is active, but behind it is an underlying passion to help students and professionals through mentoring, speaking, writing, teaching, and consulting. John’s goal in writing Ingredients of Young Outliers was to serve as a surrogate mentor in this teen and young adults non-fiction, incorporating his most valuable lessons through his amusing misadventures, while also sharing the less highlighted stories of notable individuals who faced challenges on their way to success. Teens and young adults who read this book will not only learn what many business leaders, authors and speakers are most often afraid to tell them about their failures, but most importantly, how to press on to true lasting success, passion, and enjoyment in their endeavors. Don’t miss the opportunity Dr. Shufeldt did while he was a student, to learn the wisdom of history’s greatest mentors! Read Ingredients of Young Outliers for a humorous, authentic and practical guide to being the kind of student colleges want to recruit and employers want to hire. Ingredients of Young Outliers is preceded by the professional development book, Ingredients of Outliers: A Recipe for Personal Achievement, published in June 2013. The Outlier Series will include at least 12 other books highlighting various career fields. For updates on future books in the Outlier Series or to contact Dr. Shufeldt, visit ingredientsofoutliers.com If you are a middle school or high school teacher/educator, and are interested in using our award winning teen leadership book in 6th-7th grade honors language arts or English, or 9th- 12th grade English classes, view our curriculum store on teacherspayteachers.com
John Shufeldt
John Shufeldt is a serial student, an indefatigable change agent and a multidisciplinary entrepreneur who has studied the traits and qualities of extraordinary individuals for over three decades. In Ingredients of Outliers John guides us through a number of traits common to outliers and inspires us leave our comfort zones to join their ranks.John received his BA from Drake University in 1982 and his MD from the University of Health Sciences/ The Chicago Medical School in 1986. He completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at Christ Hospital and Medical Center in 1989 where he spent his final year as Chief Resident. John received his MBA in 1995, and his Juris Doctorate in 2005, both from Arizona State University. He is admitted to the State Bar in Arizona, the Federal District Court, and Supreme Court of the United States.He has started numerous health and non-health care businesses and continues to practice emergency medicine and law. He writes and lectures on a variety of subject matters to graduate medical, business and law students. He is an adjunct professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of law where he teaches a clinic on Health Law Entrepreneurism. He serves on the Drake University Board of Trustees and the Sandra Day O’Conner College of Law Alumni Board.You can find more information out about John and his work at www.ingredientsofoutliers.com
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