Books. Motivation. Wisdom
You can notice from productivity experts’ videos that they actually don’t do a lot in a day. They don’t finish one book from scratch in a day nor do they create a Leonardo da Vinci-esque painting within a month. They just don’t and yet, they have so much accomplished that you find yourself wanting to mirror them …
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In my opinion, Robert Greene’s Mastery deserves a place at the summit of the self-help literature mountain. It’s easy to compartmentalize Green’s book into self-help genre, however, those who have read it would vouch that it’s more than that. Unlike loads of personal development literature out there, Mastery steers clear of fluff and high-falutin’ tripe. …
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A phenomenal book. A tour de force that will help you find your True North
I am trying something new through this post. I recently read Marcus Aurelius’ “Meditations” and wanted to write something about it. However, instead of writing a 1000-word-article around the legendary Roman emperor’s book, I have rather created a small 1-minuter. The video succinctly explains what I thought were 10 great lessons from the book. More …
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★★★★ Entertaining, Arresting, and Challenging throughout Eric Barker’s book “Barking up the Wrong Tree” is about success, its different nuances and what people often make of it. He lifts off the shroud around the factors that we (mistakenly) believe result in success. He tantalizes readers with intriguing questions such as, “Why are the number ones …
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There comes a point in life when you begin to feel stuck. It feels like no matter what you do, you can’t get to where you want to be… But, are you really doing enough? Are you really working hard enough for what you want to achieve? Changing your life around to get to your …
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Self-improvement or self-help genre as it is popularly called, has been around for centuries and now serves as one of the basic pillars in business literature. Sometimes, it gets the rap from higher moral authorities. They say self-improvement books don’t have the intended influence and most of them are plain fluff. There is no doubt …
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I think you’ll agree with me when I say this: waking up early is cool. Waking up early is a bugbear for many. However, let’s get one thing out of the way: not many people even try to do it. If you could sleep until 10AM without having to worry about a single thing, I …
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This is my first post in my mental calculations self-challenge. I wanted to document it here so that I have a sense of accountability and this had better be a challenge than a passing fancy. The fact is that if we set our mind to something we only get better. The problem is that in life, half the things we do we don’t have any interest in –