What I wish I knew at 20
What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World Tina Seelig—2009. Chapter 1 BUY ONE GET TWO FREE Chapter 2 THE UPSIDE-DOWN CIRCUS Chapter 3 BIKINI OR DIE Chapter 4 PLEASE TAKE OUT YOUR WALLETS Chapter 5 THE SECRET SAUCE OF SILICON VALLEY Chapter 6: […]
Effective Executive
– Peter Drucker Preface Management is largely by example. All the effective ones that have had to warm to be effective and all of them then had to practice effectiveness until it became habit. What made them all effective is that they followed the same practices: the answer to the question “what needs to be […]
Miracle Morning
The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM) Hal Elrod—2014. INTRODUCTION It’s Time To Wake Up To Your FULL Potential The Miracle Morning Origin: Born Out of Desperation The 95% Reality Check Why Did YOU Wake Up This Morning? The 5-Step Snooze-Proof Wake Up Strategy The Life S.A.V.E.R.S. Six Practices […]
Thinking in Bets
Annie Duke Pete Carroll was a victim of our tendency to equate the quality of a decision with the quality of its outcome. When I can with executives, I sometimes start with this exercise. I asked group members to come to our first meeting with a brief description of their best and worst decisions of […]
Tool of Titans
– Tim Ferris Read this first – how to use this book In a surprising number of cases, the power is in the absurd. The more absurd, the more “impossible” question, the more profound answers. Take, for instance, question that serial billionaire Peter Theil likes to ask himself and others: “If you have a 10-year […]
Reinvent Yourself
James Altucher It’s Going to be a Storm, Do You Have an Umbrella? But you also have to look at an important data point: the IRS says the average multi-millionaire has seven different sources of income. Five years and you need to start learning new skills, practicing new efforts, trying on new careers for size. […]
Outliers
Outliers—The Story of Success. Malcolm Gladwell—2008. Part one: opportunity. Chapter 1: the Matthew Effect. Chapter 2: the 10,000 hour rule. Chapter 3: the trouble with geniuses, part one. Chapter 4: the trouble with geniuses, part two. Chapter 5: the three lessons of Joe Flom. Part two: legacy. Chapter 6: Harlan, Kentucky. Chapter 7: the ethnic […]
Mastery
Robert Greene Introduction The Ultimate Power Let us call this sensation mastery – the feeling that we have a greater command of reality, other people, and ourselves. Although it might be something we experience for only a short while, for others – Masters of their field – it becomes their way of life, their […]
Linchpin
Seth Godin—2010 A FIRST LOOK AT LINCHPIN THE NEW WORLD OF WORK THINKING ABOUT YOUR CHOICE INDOCTRINATION: HOW WE GOT HERE BECOMING THE LINCHPIN IS IT POSSIBLE TO DO HARD WORK IN A CUBICLE? THE RESISTANCE THE POWERFUL CULTURE OF GIFTS THERE IS NO MAP MAKING THE CHOICE THE CULTURE OF CONNECTION WHEN IT DOESN’T […]
Turning Pro
Steven Pressfield—2012. BOOK TWO SELF-INFLICTED WOUNDS Qualities of the professional: