This book is a guide for anyone wanting to enhance their social skills and become more likeable.
Takeaways: - People are interested in themselves - TreatThis book is a guide for anyone wanting to enhance their social skills and become more likeable.
Takeaways: - People are interested in themselves - Treat people as you want to be treated - Accept people as they are - Formula for people magnet: Accept, Approve, Appreciate - You can't expect others to believe in you if you don't believe in yourself. - If somebody is rude, it's their problem, not yours. - When we look for something, we see it everywhere. This is called "Selective Perception". Use it to see goodness in people, you will see good. - Dealing with people - Praise in public, criticize in private (not the opposite) - Feedback sandwich method - Praise, Feedback, Praise/Believe - Look back at the problems you had in life - didn't each one of them have something positive?
Spend time with people who motivate you, believe in you, and bring out the best in you. Be around people who empower you! ...more
The book gives you a different perspective on the world of medicine.
Uncertainties, Complexities within medicine, and biases from research to treatmenThe book gives you a different perspective on the world of medicine.
Uncertainties, Complexities within medicine, and biases from research to treatment make medicine a young science, unlike physics and chemistry where results are almost certain.
Takeaways: - Placebo, Palliation, and Plumping constitute the treatment ranges in medicine. - Three laws: 1) A strong intuition is much more powerful than a weak test, 2) Normals teach us rules; outliers teach us laws 3) For every perfect medical experiment, there is a perfect human bias
Essentially, "The Laws of Medicine" argues that medicine is not a precise science but rather a field navigating probabilities and uncertainties. It emphasizes the need for doctors to combine scientific knowledge with intuition, learn from individual cases, and be aware of their own biases to provide the best possible care. ...more
The book is a collection of different stories to reinforce your brain to show the benefits of compound effect.
"Do small improvements over time and youThe book is a collection of different stories to reinforce your brain to show the benefits of compound effect.
"Do small improvements over time and you will definitely be successful"
Few takeaways from the book - You + Choice(decision) + Behaviour(action) + Habit(repeated action) + Compounded(time) = Goals. - I don’t like to gamble, but if there is one thing I’m willing to bet on. It’s myself. - Defining your core values - Eg. Growth, Excellence, and Impact. - Forget about willpower. It’s time for why-power. - Hang out with 5 positive people & create a board of advisers in your personal life. - Make sure you’re not spending three hours with a three-minute person. - My goal is always to significantly surpass what they expect, and I do this through tireless preparations. - Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better....more
This book is a simple guide to organising your digital life. It teaches you how to save and sort notes, ideas, and information so you don’t have to reThis book is a simple guide to organising your digital life. It teaches you how to save and sort notes, ideas, and information so you don’t have to remember everything.
Using a method called PARA (Projects, Areas, Resources, Archives), you create a system that helps you think clearly, stay organised, and get more done with less stress.
Fav Lines: - 'mise en place' � Organise as you go, there is no time that magically going to become available for you to stop everything and completely reorganise your digital world. - Self-expression is a fundamental human need. - We must be able to share stories of our lives - from small moments to what life is about. - Run after your obsessions with everything you have, chase what excites you, just make sure to take notes along the way.
It’s great for anyone who wants to be more productive and creative without feeling overwhelmed by maintaining notes....more
The book suggests a method "Coffee Can Investing" to invest in the stock market and back that investing method with data points and 2 sample persons wThe book suggests a method "Coffee Can Investing" to invest in the stock market and back that investing method with data points and 2 sample persons who have different lifestyles and portfolios.
Key Takeaways - Create a financial plan which helps you deliver on your life goals. Unless you do so, you will be shooting in the dark. - Understand the power of expenses - Understand the power of high-quality investing and patience. - Calculate when are you planning to retire and whether will you meet your financial goals and survive the last years with enough money for the lifestyle and inflation-adjusted. - Free cash flow is more important than the earnings of the company. - Don’t ignore the inflation and taxes. Most people look at only the absolute returns instead of real returns.
Goal Pyramid Create your goal pyramid. - Base - Security (Children education) - Mid - Stability (Children's wedding) - Top - Ambition (Buying a holiday home, International travel, Buying a car, etc.,)
Favorite quotes from the book - A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake � Confucius - I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature � Paulo Coelho...more
Short and thought provoking questions at the start and transition into asking the right questions to lead you to your success path. I’m yet to add my Short and thought provoking questions at the start and transition into asking the right questions to lead you to your success path. I’m yet to add my answers to the 55 questions.
It’s a good set of questions you could revisit every year to stay on a defined journey....more
If you don't know about Devar, you can start with this book. It gives high-level coverage of his life events.If you don't know about Devar, you can start with this book. It gives high-level coverage of his life events....more
The Book in 3 Sentences The author explains in a clear and short way "how attitude change can change your life for the good" The book is divided into 3The Book in 3 Sentences The author explains in a clear and short way "how attitude change can change your life for the good" The book is divided into 3 parts a) Success begins in the Mind, b) What your words, and c) Heaven helps those who act. Those parts are then explained with example stories.
Impressions Always keep a positive attitude in any given situation. Everything happens for a reason. Take learning even from your worst situations.
Thoughts > Words > Beliefs > Actions > Results
How the Book Changed Me - Turning problems into opportunities, Stop complaining, and Network with people. - If you want to be successful, you must be willing to be uncomfortable.
My Top 3 Quotes - Whether you think you can � or think you can't � you're right! � Henry Ford - Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you. � Tom Hopkins - Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. � Winston Churchill...more
Golden rule: Life is not a problem to be solved. Just remember to have something that keeps you busy doing wAn amazing short book on how to live long.
Golden rule: Life is not a problem to be solved. Just remember to have something that keeps you busy doing what you love while being surrounded by the people who love you.
What is ikigai in my thought process after reading: - You lose time when you work inflow (a state of mind you don't think about the past or future and immerse yourself completely in the activity) - Finding your flow is nothing but finding your passion / ikigai. - Once you find your ikigai - do it till you die (you don't retire)
Ten rules of ikigai 1. Stay active; don't retire 2. Take it slow 3. Don't fill your stomach 4. Surround yourself with good friends 5. Get in shape for your next birthday 6. Smile 7. Reconnect with nature 8. Give thanks 9. Live in the moment 10. Follow your ikigai
If you don't know what your ikigai is yet, your mission is to discover it.
Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years � Japanese proverb...more
1. The book is divided into two sections a) Finding usability problems b)Fixing usability problems 2. First section chapters havThe Book in 3 Sentences
1. The book is divided into two sections a) Finding usability problems b)Fixing usability problems 2. First section chapters have information related to why, how, and what we need to do for identifying usability problems and the second section chapters tells you how to identify main problems and how to perform small tweaks instead of big redesign. 3. Book helped me acquire knowledge on how to run user recruitment, conduct user testing in-person and remote, how to identify key issues in the application, and how to effectively fix it.
How the Book Changed Me
- Thought: UX is least considered for startup products because the core focus of management is to ship the working features first and then fix usability issues. So try to ship minor tweaks or improvements instead of a complete redesign.
My Top 3 Quotes
- Participants should leave the room in no worse shape than they entered. - You can observe a lot by watching. � LAWRENCE "YOGI" BERRA - The best is the enemy of the good.
PS. The book also has sample of "Test Script", and "Recording consent form" for conducting user interviews...more
Book in 3 sentence The book has series of chapters explaining different scenarios where money is involved. Also points about what is the best behavior/Book in 3 sentence The book has series of chapters explaining different scenarios where money is involved. Also points about what is the best behavior/thought process one can do; to have a good relationship with money.
The highest form of wealth is the ability to wake up every morning and say, "I can do whatever I want today." More than your salary. More than the size of your house. More than the prestige of your job. Control over doing what you want, when you want to, with the people you want to, is the broadest lifestyle variable that makes people happy.
Astrophysics is a field of precession. Business, economics, and investing, are fields of uncertainty, overwhelmingly driven by decisions that can't easily be explained with clean formulas, like a trip to Pluto can.
Financial success is not hard science, It's a soft skill where how you behave is more important than what you know. That soft skill is the Psychology of Money.
How the Book Changed Me - Thought: Finance is a field that is constantly evolving and there are no correct or wrong things. Embrace the surprises, settle for less than your means, plan on financial goals, save money without a reason, and let compounding do the work. - Behaviour: Try to reduce the living style, delay your gratification
My Top 3 Quotes - A genius is a man who can do the average thing when everyone else around him is losing his mind. � Napoleon - Buffett's skill is investing, but his secret is time. That's how compounding works. - Two topics impact everyone, whether you are interested in them or not: health and money. ...more
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