Essentialism by Greg McKeown advocates for focusing on what truly matters by eliminating non-essential tasks and commitments. While its core message of intentional simplicity is valuable, I found the book redundant, as it often reiterates the same points without adding sufficient new insights. Long story short, “What is essential?” Eliminate everything else. RATING: 3/5 CHECK … Continue reading Essentialism By Greg Mckeown
Never Finished by David Goggins is a raw, intense follow-up to Can’t Hurt Me, diving deeper into his mental strategies and ultra-endurance feats. While packed with motivational insights, it sometimes feels like a collection of leftover stories from the first book. Overall a decent read, but start with Can’t Hurt Me if you want an … Continue reading Never Finished By David Goggins
In Don’t Believe Everything You Think, Joseph Nguyen argues that overthinking is the root cause of psychological and emotional suffering, advocating for a state of non-thinking to achieve inner peace and happiness. The book offers very little insights and lacks practical tools to implement its ideas. RATING: 2/5 CHECK IT OUT: GOODREADS | AMAZON KEY … Continue reading Don’t Believe Everything You Think By Nguyen, Joseph
The courage to be dislike is a conversation between a young man and a philosopher, the young man plays devils advocate to the Adler psychology. It’s really digestible in this conversation format. RATING: 3.5/5 CHECK IT OUT: GOODREADS | AMAZON KEY TAKEAWAYS: • The courage to be happy also includes the courage to be disliked. … Continue reading The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
The authors answer to everything is humility. Every other sentence says humble or humility or cites a study that doesn’t even complete a point. You can skip reading this book. RATING: 2/5 CHECK IT OUT: GOODREADS | AMAZON KEY TAKEAWAYS: • “If you are humble, nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you … Continue reading Humble By Daryl Van Tongeren
Short post this week. Tom Segura is a comedian and podcaster. This book is mostly entertainment and stories so not many takeaways, hilarious nonetheless. RATING: 3.8/5 CHECK IT OUT: GOODREADS | AMAZON KEY TAKEAWAYS: • What happens when someone dies. “The world goes on.” • If you’re a comedian, writer, actor, painter, director, dancer, or … Continue reading I’d Like To Play Alone, Please By Tom Segura
Actually really enjoyed this one. Some fresh new perspectives on how to achieve your dreams. Definitely worth checking out. RATING: 4.2/5 CHECK IT OUT: GOODREADS |AMAZON KEY TAKEAWAYS: • In a crowded and competitive world, “good enough” is generally not good enough. • Be like water. No matter what you set in its way, water … Continue reading No One Succeeds Alone By Robert Reffkin
Happy Labor Day everyone! Hope you’re enjoying your free time😉 Free Time is filled with tips and tricks for small business owners on how to create a healthy work life balance. It’s about creating strategies to automate your work so that you have more free time in your personal life. RATING: 3.3/5 CHECK IT OUT: … Continue reading Free Time By Jenny Blake
Be open and ready to change, because you may be forced into it. That is the main idea of this basic 92 page book. The cheese is a metaphor for what we want to have in life, whether it is a job, a relationship, money, freedom or health. RATING: 2.5/5 CHECK IT OUT: GOODREADS | … Continue reading Who Moved My Cheese? By Spencer Johnson, M.D
For a book with running in the title, it’s barely about running. Instead, it’s a weirdly arranged memoir that flip flops between an ultra marathon, the authors time in a psychiatric hospital and strange, borderline delusional life stories. CHECK IT OUT: GOODREADS | AMAZON KEY TAKEAWAYS: • Sometimes I think the point of all my … Continue reading Running Is A Kind Of Dreaming By J.M Thompson
Certain stories are more contagious, and certain rumors are more infectious. Some products get a good deal of word of mouth, while others go unmentioned. What causes certain products, ideas, and behaviors to be talked about more? This book provides cutting-edge science about how word of mouth and social transmission work. And how you can … Continue reading Contagious By Jonah Berger
Four Thousand Weeks is yet another book about making the best use of time. But it is written in the belief that time management as we know it has failed miserably, and that we need to stop pretending otherwise. The rest of the book is an exploration of a saner way of relating to time … Continue reading Four Thousand Weeks By Oliver Burkeman
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