You can either commune with James Altucher’s insights, but one thing you have to admit: when reading his book Choose Yourself! (or his blog), one feels like getting the right stimuli, even I could say getting superhuman powers, to become a Superman or a Wonder Woman, ready to save the world. No wonder why he has so many followers/readers on his… View Post
Neil deGrasse, an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator, when asked which books should be read by every single intelligent person on the planet, listed the following eight books: 1.Holy Bible To learn that it’s easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself. 2.The System of the World by Isaac Newton To… View Post
I’ve always thought I wasn’t a quitter till I read The Dip. Seth Godin considers winners those who quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt. Winners, he says, seek The Dip. On the contrary, losers either fail to stick out The Dip or they never even find the rigth dip to conquer. Quit the wrong stuff Stick with the right… View Post
I came across Deepak Chopra’s The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by chance. The first thing I do when I get into a house is to go to the library (if any) and check out the shelves. For me, the books unveil part of the soul of their owner. I am not sure if this transformational book was there waiting for me… View Post
The author of Talent is Overrated discovered that there is this body of scientific research that he (and almost nobody) didn’t really know about, and when he got into it, Geoff Colvin thought it was incredibly interesting and also extremely important. So he wrote about it. Talent is Overrated sheds some light on how even though most people spend a great deal of… View Post
Chip Heath & Dan Heath, authors of Made to Stick, are interested in how effective ideas are constructed—what make some ideas stick and others disappear. In this way, they tell us that what stick is systematic creativity. Highly creative ads are more predictable than uncreative ones. It’s like Tolstoy’s quote: ‘All happy families resemble each other, but each unhappy family is… View Post
The Art of Learning is not about the story of a prodigy, but about how to pursue excellence through a love for the process of learning (or also called deliberate practice). To walk a thorny road, we may cover its every inch with leather or we can make sandals. Approaches to learning The author of The Art of Learning thinks that anybody can… View Post
