Kendel Christensen | A Passionate Learner

Kendel is a passionate and vivacious learner!  Below this biography are extensive show notes from his interview. A native of Herriman, UT and the founder of Learned Empowerment (www.learnedempowerment.com), a company that helps individuals become confident and capable, and take control of their future. As an educator, speaker, and author, Kendel is known for his unbounded enthusiasm for uncovering and conveying life-changing truths in hyper-real ways. From living in the Middle East to teaching in an inner-city high school, Kendel has dedicated his life to exploring all that the world has to offer and then distilling the best wisdom from those experiences. Kendel earned a Masters of Education from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Sociology from Brigham Young University. Ask him about his progress on memorizing 100 books, growing his personal database of 15,000+ inspiring quotes, or achieving his 140 life goals. He knows the two secrets for getting almost any kid to like you, and can perfectly imitate the sound of a cougar's roar. *biography used with Kendel's permission

Purchase his books, Life Simplified & Come Closer here: 

https://www.amazon.com/Kendel-Christensen/e/B01FSYYOPE%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share 

Show notes: 

If you'd like to reach out to Kendel, Twitter: @kendelc Websites: 

http://www.kendelc.com/

learnedempowerment.com 

email:

learnedempowerment@gmail.com 

Kendel’s GoodReads, 

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11225979.Kendel_Christensen 

Show Notes: 

Top Five Books

1. How to Read a Book? By Mortimer Jay Adler 
2. The Five Elements of Effective Thinking  Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird
3. Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton & Sheila Heen
4. Be Unreasonable by Paul Lemberg
5. The Mansion by Henry VanDyke 

Other books he mentioned: 

1. Mindset by Carol Dweck
2. Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer 
3. How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes (Mastermind)  
4. The Book With No Pictures (children’s book)

Tracy’s recommendation

1. The Gift of Nothing (children’s book)

Coursera course on parenting by Alan Kasdin 

https://www.coursera.org/learn/everyday-parenting 

Referenced materials: 

Four Stages of Competence

Erik Erikson’s Eight Stages of Development 

Curve of Forgetting 

Fundamental Attribution Error
Taylor Hartman’s Color Code Personality Test 

The Myers Briggs Personality Test 

Unconditional Positive Regard *Kendel isn’t a fan

Tool for memorization: 

Anki 

Heroes: 

Albert Schwitzer 

Talk by Eliot Butler on BYU Speeches

Everybody is Ignorant, Only on Different Subjects

Quotes: 

“Reasonable people conform themselves to the world, unreasonable people demand that the world conform to their ideals, therefore all progress in the world depends upon unreasonable people.”  -Paul Lemberg

1. Edmonds Demming, “It is not enough to do your best, you must know what to do and then do your best.” 

“You have not increased in intelligence until that knowledge has become part of your being.”  Elder David A. Bednar

“My life is my argument.” -Alber Schwitzer 

assertive: Acting on the belief that we are on the same level or equal to others and deserve the same amount of respect and communication as the next person.

tact: is the ability to teach, critique, criticize or correct someone else without them being offended