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Book Summaries
Below you’ll find a list of book summaries and notes I’ve taken on some of my favorite self-help books. You'll also find lists of book recommendations, and my thoughts on specific big ideas gleaned from various personal development books.
10 Books on Increasing Your Creativity
Increasing your creativity—or developing any sense of creativity in the first place—seems to be hardest when you need it most. Personally, I’d always thought “creativity” was sort of elusive. I …
Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending
Did you know that Virgin Galactic, the world’s first commercial spaceline, is currently pre-selling tickets for flights into outer space? No joke.[1] Right now, today, you can log on to Virgin …
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Stressed Out? Remember Your Core Values
“The kind of self-affirmation I’m talking about—the kind whose effects [researchers] have studied—doesn’t have anything to do with reciting generic one-liners in the mirror, nor does it involve …
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The ONE Thing – Book Summary
The One Thing : The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller, Jay Papasan “Success is sequential, not simultaneous” “Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re …
Leaders Eat Last : Book Summary
Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't by Simon Sinek The main message of Leaders Eat Last is simple -- the buck stops at the leader’s desk. In other words, those of us that lead may not …
Book Summary : Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the author of Flow, is sorta like the Godfather of positive psychology … Hailed by researchers and positive psychologists from every corner of the globe — “Mr. C” as I’m sure …
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