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1% Better
- Reaching My Full Potential and How You Can Too
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Publisher's summary
What would life look like if you measured your success by improvements instead of victories? Nik Nikic shares the incredible story of his son Chris’ journey to become the first person with Down syndrome to ever complete an IRONMAN® triathlon, inspiring others to achieve their goals by getting one percent better every day.
From the moment Chris Nikic was born, his parents knew he could achieve anything he set his mind to do. So when he became involved in triathlons with the Special Olympics, his dad, Nik, took on the role of coach and encouraged Chris to aim even higher. Together, they set their sights on making history - Chris becoming the first person with Down syndrome to complete an IRONMAN® triathlon.
Written from Chris’s father’s perspective, Nik shares the one percent better mindset that has helped Chris achieve many of his goals - and the underlying principles of the one percent better system can help you pursue and achieve your dreams, too! Through Chris and Nik’s story, learn the benefits of applying the model to your own life and discover how to:
- Overcome the mental hurdles of pain.
- Stay motivated using three irrefutable laws of motivation.
- See failures as opportunities for improvement.
- Form a lifelong habit of success.
You may never be the best. But you can be better than your best when you stop imposing self-limitations and begin the journey to reach your goals - one confident step at a time.
Publisher’s note: 1% Better is written in Nik Nikic’s voice. Chris and his accomplishments are the focus of 1% Better, and Chris is a coauthor of the book as he was interviewed by his father and the writer.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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You have potential, even if it’s hidden. You have talent, even if you’re afraid to use it. Your dreams just might change the world if you only believe the truth: I’m possible. Internationally known celebrity photographer and philanthropist Jeremy Cowart shares his powerful story of transcending the traditional, following his ideas into a life lived in the fullness of possibility.
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A must read for creatives
- By Kindle on 09-14-21
By: Jeremy Cowart
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You Deserve Better
- What Life Has Taught Me About Love, Relationships, and Becoming Your Best Self
- By: Tyler Cameron
- Narrated by: Tyler Cameron
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
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Tyler Cameron impressed fans on The Bachelorette with his ability to discuss difficult topics with a level of emotional intelligence perhaps never seen on reality television. Things like consent and boundaries, respect for women and their decisions, the roots of toxic masculinity in insecurity, and more, he espoused with confidence and genuineness.
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Blah
- By Marilyn Nelson on 04-23-23
By: Tyler Cameron
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Blind Ambition
- How to Go from Victim to Visionary
- By: Chad E. Foster
- Narrated by: Zach Hoffman
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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While most people were preparing for the adventure of adult life, Chad E. Foster was watching the world he grew up with fade to black. But that didn’t stop him from becoming the first blind person to graduate from the Harvard Business School leadership program and climbing the corporate ladder as a successful finance/sales executive. With determination, ambition, and drive, Chad created what Oracle said would be impossible. He gave millions of people the ability to earn a living by becoming the first to create customer relationship software for the visually impaired.
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Clear, concise and inspiring
- By Natalie on 06-29-24
By: Chad E. Foster
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Making It Home
- Life Lessons from a Season of Little League
- By: Teresa Strasser
- Narrated by: Teresa Strasser
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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When her brother dies from cancer, and then her mother just four months later, Teresa Strasser has no one to mourn with but her irresponsible, cantankerous, trailerpark-dwelling father. He claims not to remember her chaotic childhood, but he’s a devoted grandpa, so as her son embarks on his first season pitching in Little League, Teresa and Nelson form a grief group of two in beach chairs lined up behind the first base line.
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Life and Little League Integrated
- By AK on 07-10-24
By: Teresa Strasser
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Ultimate Glory
- Frisbee, Obsession, and My Wild Youth
- By: David Gessner
- Narrated by: David Gessner
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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Before he made a name for himself as an acclaimed essayist and nature writer, David Gessner devoted his 20s to a cultish sport called Ultimate Frisbee. Like his teammates and rivals, he trained for countless hours, sacrificing his body and potential career for a chance at fleeting glory without fortune or fame. His only goal: to win Nationals and go down in Ultimate history as one of the greatest athletes no one has ever heard of.
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Wonderful!
- By JoyHouseDad on 06-30-19
By: David Gessner
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The Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Seen
- Opening Your Eyes to Wonder
- By: Lisa Gungor
- Narrated by: Lisa Gungor
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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Lisa Gungor thought she knew her own story: small-town girl meets boy in college and they blissfully walk down the aisle into happily ever after. Their Christian faith was their lens and foundation for everything - their marriage, their music, their dreams for the future. But as their dreams began to come true, she began to wonder if her religion was really representative of the "good news" she had been taught.
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So sad. Too sad.
- By hellotheremombo on 06-09-20
By: Lisa Gungor
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I'm Possible
- Jumping into Fear and Discovering a Life of Purpose
- By: Jeremy Cowart
- Narrated by: Jeremy Cowart
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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You have potential, even if it’s hidden. You have talent, even if you’re afraid to use it. Your dreams just might change the world if you only believe the truth: I’m possible. Internationally known celebrity photographer and philanthropist Jeremy Cowart shares his powerful story of transcending the traditional, following his ideas into a life lived in the fullness of possibility.
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A must read for creatives
- By Kindle on 09-14-21
By: Jeremy Cowart
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You Deserve Better
- What Life Has Taught Me About Love, Relationships, and Becoming Your Best Self
- By: Tyler Cameron
- Narrated by: Tyler Cameron
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
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Tyler Cameron impressed fans on The Bachelorette with his ability to discuss difficult topics with a level of emotional intelligence perhaps never seen on reality television. Things like consent and boundaries, respect for women and their decisions, the roots of toxic masculinity in insecurity, and more, he espoused with confidence and genuineness.
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Blah
- By Marilyn Nelson on 04-23-23
By: Tyler Cameron
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Letters to the Sons of Society
- A Father's Invitation to Love, Honesty, and Freedom
- By: Shaka Senghor
- Narrated by: Shaka Senghor
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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Shaka Senghor has lived the life of two fathers. With his first son, Jay, born shortly after Senghor was incarcerated for second-degree murder, he experienced the regret of his own mistakes and the disconnection caused by a society that sees Black lives as disposable. With his second, Sekou, born after Senghor's release, he has experienced healing, transformation, intimacy, and the possibilities of a world where men and boys can openly show one another affection, support, and love.
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Vulnerable and Profound
- By Anonymous User on 01-19-22
By: Shaka Senghor
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The Watermen
- The Birth of American Swimming and One Young Man's Fight to Capture Olympic Gold
- By: Michael Loynd
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
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On the surface, young Charles had it all: high-society parents, a place at an exclusive New York City prep school, summer vacations in the Adirondacks. But the scrawny teenager suffered from extreme anxiety thanks to a sadistic father who mired the family in bankruptcy and scandal before abandoning Charles and his mother altogether. Charles’s only source of joy was swimming. But with no one to teach him, he struggled with technique—until he caught the eye of two immigrant coaches.
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It threw me in the deep end
- By Stephen P. on 09-23-22
By: Michael Loynd
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An Onion in My Pocket
- My Life with Vegetables
- By: Deborah Madison
- Narrated by: Deborah Madison
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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Madison’s “insightful memoir” (The Wall Street Journal) is “a true delight to read as she uncovers her love for all real foods, peeling off layer by layer like an onion, recounting her own personal, culinary, and gardening experiences” (Lidia Bastianich). Thanks to her beloved cookbooks and groundbreaking work as the chef at Greens Restaurant in San Francisco, Deborah Madison, though not a vegetarian herself, has long been revered as this country's leading authority on vegetables.
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Excellent story about food and nourishment
- By Susan on 10-20-22
By: Deborah Madison
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Walk This Way
- Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song That Changed American Music Forever
- By: Geoff Edgers
- Narrated by: Geoff Edgers
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Washington Post staff writer Geoff Edgers takes a deep dive into the story behind "Walk This Way", Aerosmith and Run-DMC's legendary, groundbreaking mashup that forever changed music.
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A MUST LISTEN/READ
- By Aron Teo Lee on 05-17-19
By: Geoff Edgers
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Nerves of Steel
- How I Followed My Dreams, Earned My Wings, and Faced My Greatest Challenge
- By: Captain Tammie Jo Shults
- Narrated by: Tammie Jo Shults - introduction, Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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Nerves of Steel is the captivating true story of Tammie Jo Shults’ remarkable life—from growing up the daughter of a humble rancher, to breaking through gender barriers as one of the Navy’s first female F/A-18 Hornet pilots, to safely landing the severely crippled Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 and helping save the lives of 148 people.
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Impressive
- By Jean on 10-29-19
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Amateur Hour
- Motherhood in Essays and Swear Words
- By: Kimberly Harrington
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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Welcome to essayist Kimberly Harrington’s poetic and funny world of motherhood, womanhood, and humanhood, not necessarily in that order. It’s a place of loud parenting, fierce loving, too much social media, and occasional inner monologues where timeless debates are resolved such as Pro/Con: Caving to PTO Bake Sale Pressure (“Pro: Skim the crappiest brownies for myself. Con: They’re really crappy.”) With accessibility and wit, she captures the emotions around parenthood in artful and earnest ways.
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Hilarious, relatable, and a great plane listen
- By Amazon Customer on 09-14-18
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Love Unknown
- The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop
- By: Thomas Travisano
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
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Elizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that "Elizabeth had more talent for life - and for poetry - than anyone else I've known." This new biography reveals just how she learned to marry her talent for life with her talent for writing in order to create a brilliant array of poems, prose, and letters - a remarkable body of work that would make her one of America's most beloved and celebrated poets. In Love Unknown, Thomas Travisano, founding president of the Elizabeth Bishop Society, tells the story of the famous poet and traveler's life.
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Good writing, bad narration
- By Chris Wilson-Simpkins on 03-07-21
By: Thomas Travisano
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Once Upon a Farm
- By: Rory Feek
- Narrated by: Rory Feek
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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Now raising their four-year-old daughter, Indiana, alone, after Joey’s passing, Rory Feek digs deeper into the soil of his life and the unusual choices he and his wife, Joey, made together and the ones he’s making now to lead his family into the future. When Feek and his older daughters moved into a run-down farmhouse almost 20 years ago, he had no idea of the almost fairy-tale love story that was going to unfold on that small piece of Tennessee land. He takes listeners on his incredible journey from heartbreak to hope and, ultimately, the kind of healing that comes only through faith.
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Touching
- By Kristin on 06-20-18
By: Rory Feek
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Stranger Care
- A Memoir of Loving What Isn't Ours
- By: Sarah Sentilles
- Narrated by: Sarah Sentilles
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The moving story of what one woman learned from fostering a newborn - about injustice, about making mistakes, about how to better love and protect people beyond our immediate kin.
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That’s it?
- By Blaine M. on 05-07-22
By: Sarah Sentilles
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To Siri with Love
- A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines
- By: Judith Newman
- Narrated by: Cris Dukehart
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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When Judith Newman shared the story of how Apple's electronic personal assistant, Siri, helped Gus, her son who has autism, she received widespread media attention and an outpouring of affection from listeners around the world. Basking in the afterglow of media attention, Gus told anyone who would listen, "I'm a movie star". Judith's story of her son and his bond with Siri was an unusual tribute to technology. While many worry that our electronic gadgets are dumbing us down, she revealed how they can give voice to others.
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Good book if you are new to ASD
- By gail on 10-04-17
By: Judith Newman
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The Blueprint
- LeBron James, Cleveland's Deliverance, and the Making of the Modern NBA
- By: Jason Lloyd
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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June 19, 2016: the greatest moment in Cleveland sports history, when the Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA Finals and broke the Cleveland Curse. It was the triumph fans had been waiting 52 years for, and it wasn't easy to get there - but thanks to LeBron James, an audacious plan to build a winning team, a couple of maverick GMs, and an incredible community of fans, it happened, and 2016 saw the birth of a new Cavaliers dynasty.
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Windy book is better
- By Lauren on 06-11-20
By: Jason Lloyd
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Scream
- A Memoir of Glamour and Dysfunction
- By: Tama Janowitz
- Narrated by: Tama Janowitz
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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In this darkly funny, surprising memoir, the original "Lit Girl" and author of the era-defining Slaves of New York considers her life in and outside of New York City, from the heyday of the 1980s to her life today in a tiny upstate town that proves that fact is always stranger than fiction.
By: Tama Janowitz
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- Anonymous User
- 02-19-23
Chris is a rockstar!! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
I have had the pleasure to meet Chris and his father a couple times. We also had Chris come to our Holiday party and share some of his amazing story with us!! I loved learning how Chris’ father grew up and their journey raising Chris. I have an eight year old niece with DS and Chris is an amazing role model for her and all of us!! I recommend 1% Better 💯!!
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- Katie Williams
- 03-09-23
Great athlete and great person
I absolutely love this story Chris is amazing I hope he’ll continue to write books what a brilliant young man congratulations Chris you are amazing.
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