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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.
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport About Most people have totally lost the ability to go “deep”—spending their days instead in an erratic blur of e-mail …
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“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 : 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 …
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 …
How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie About: It’s not about “winning friends” or manipulating people like the title suggests. But rather, it’s about loving people and …
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About Imagine what it would feel like to be seized like an animal and thrown into a Nazi concentration camp. What would be going through your mind? Would you lose all hope? Or manage to find hope and …
[Read more...] about Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl : Book Summary
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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