Highlights from the book – The Almanack of Naval Ravikant Seek Long-Term Happiness: Naval emphasizes the importance of seeking long-term happiness over short-term pleasures. This involves aligning one’s values and actions with a sense of purpose and fulfillment. The Power of Knowledge: The value of acquiring knowledge and developing a diverse set of skills. He […]
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10 Rules of Ikigai Stay active; don’t retire: Those who give up the things they love doing and do well lose their purpose in life. That’s why it’s so important to keep doing things of value, making progress, bringing beauty or utility to others, helping out, and shaping the world around you, even after your
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This book by Dale Carneige, gives us good insignts on how to win friends and more importantly talks about how to be a likeable person.
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The crux of Management: It is the belief that a team of people can achieve more than a single person going at it alone. It is the realization that you don’t have to do everything yourself, be the best at everything yourself, or even know how to do everything yourself. Your job, as a manager, is to get better outcomes from a group of people working together. It’s from this simple definition that everything else flows.
THE ONE THING YOU SHOULDN’T TOLERATE ON YOUR TEAM: Stanford professor Robert I. Sutton described this phenomenon in his now-famous book The No Asshole Rule. He defines an asshole as someone who makes other people feel worse about themselves or who specifically targets people less powerful than him or her.
GIVING PEOPLE BIG PROBLEMS IS A SIGN OF TRUST – It’s an error in assuming that nobody wants to take on hard problems. In fact, the most talented employees aren’t looking for special treatment or “easy” projects. They want to be challenged. There is no greater sign of trust than handing your report an intricately tangled knot that you believe she can pull apart, even if you’re not sure how.
There are only 3 Goals: To want nothing. That’s contentment. To do anything. That’s freedom. To have everything. That’s happiness.
Whenever you are starting a new goal or habit do not use external motivators. You must be doing it for yourself and not for others. It’s hard to compete endlessly because there’s always more to compete with someone or something and there is always someone or something better out there.
How to make every decision at twice the speed? Remove choice, What’s the counterintuitive way to having more time? Remove time, How to add an hour to the day with only one small change? Remove access.
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We don’t really need huge events to happen in our lives to tell a great story. The simplest stories are about the smallest moments in our lives and are often the most compelling.The book was highly engaging and has made me capture the tiny moments in life which would otherwise pass by without acknowledging them. Just by applying few techniques I was able to notice better engagement from the audience during meetings and presentations.
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Gaur gopal das compares our journey in this world to 4 wheels of the car that need to be aligned to keep the car’s balance. These 4 wheels are Personal life, Relationship, Work life & Social contributions
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This book extensively talks about “Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate, and how one can learn to master it in their life.
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This book gave me a good idea of objectivism on how human knowledge and values are objective and the purpose we strive .. I am sure my way of think about certain subjects like purpose and job is in someway impacted due to this book.
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I liked this book because it helped me reaffirm some of my beliefs around why savings is important and how to be content with your earnings. Also, it is important to be patient when it comes to growing money and we should always be prepared for any financial adversities that may occur. Progress happens too slowly to notice, but setbacks happen too quickly to ignore. Finally, have enough money so that it gives you the ability to do what you want, when you want, with whom you want, for as long as you want to.
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