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1 ‘The Obstacle is the Way' by Ryan Holiday This book is about success and the leading indicator of whether you will be successful or not is how you handle obstacles and hurdles. As an entrepreneur, there will be hurdles from every side: technology, regulation, disruptive competitors. How does one handle these and thrive? Ryan Holiday goes back to history to look at individuals who mastered the art of shining despite deep setbacks and personal challenges. It’s a must read, and I would say every morning you can open a few pages and read this to rise and shine. 2. ‘Deep Work’ by Cal Newport Cal Newport makes a passionate case for ‘Deep  .e. dedicated hours to practicing and improving on the work such that one becomes skillful in it. This involves working with no distractions at a given stretch of time. We are all addicted to our smartphones, and every notification gets our attention. Cal makes the persuasive case that if we focus certain periods of time to Dee...

1. How Not to Die,  Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease By: Michael Greger MD, Gene Stone From the physician behind the wildly popular website NutritionFacts.org, How Not to Die reveals the groundbreaking scientific evidence behind the only diet that can prevent and reverse many of the causes of disease-related death. The vast majority of premature deaths can be prevented through simple changes in diet and lifestyle. In How Not to Die, Dr. Michael Greger, the internationally-renowned nutrition expert, physician, and founder of NutritionFacts.org, examines the fifteen top causes of premature death in America -- heart disease, various cancers, diabetes, Parkinson's, high blood pressure, and more -- and explains how nutritional and lifestyle interventions can sometimes trump prescription pills and other pharmaceutical and surgical approaches, freeing us to live healthier lives. 2. The Obesity Code Unlocking the Secrets of Wei...

1. There are plenty examples of very wealthy (and fulfilled) people that had a goal in mind and stuck to it until they succeeded.  🤓 Having a clear idea of what you want will help you persevere until you achieve it. 2. The first step to any sort of achievement must be conquering your own mind.  😎 You must master your fears, doubts, negativity and procrastination if you intend to accumulate any sort of riches or success. 3. Surround yourself with a group of people that share your vision and will push you toward your goal.   👉 This Master Mind group needs to be in harmony with you and must have a different skill set that complements yours. 4. Master your thoughts; if you feed your subconscious mind negative thoughts and poor thoughts, negativity and poverty will become a part of your reality.  🤠 Whatever you want to achieve in life, you must learn how to think toward that goal. 5. If you want to affect your subconscious, you need to mix your though...

10 Top Lessons From The Book “Ego Is The Enemy” Ego Is The Enemy reveals how a tendency that’s hardwired into our brains – the belief the world revolves around us and us alone  – holds us back from living the life it makes us desire so much -what we can do to overcome it at every turn . 1. Talk, Talk, Talk ❓ What is scarce and rare? Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. 👉 Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong. 2. Become A Student 🟢 The pretence of knowledge is our most dangerous vice, because it prevents us from getting any better. Studious self-assessment is the antidote. ✅ To become great , you must all know what came before, what is going on now, and what comes next. 3. Don’t Be Passionate ⛔Passion typically masks a weakness.  Its breathlessness and impetuousness and franticness are poor substitutes for discipline and purpose and perseverance. 👉What humans require in our...

10 TOP Lessons From the Book “Can’t Hurt Me” 1. The Worst Conditions are the Best Training Conditions 🧠 From then on, I brainwashed myself into craving discomfort. If it was raining, I would go run.  ✅ Whenever it started snowing, my mind would say, Get your running shoes on. 2. Turn Adversity into fuel for your Metamorphosis 🚫 Because when you’re driven, whatever is in front of you, whether it’s racism, injuries, divorce, depression, obesity, tragedy, or poverty, becomes fuel for your metamorphosis. 3. Confidence comes from personal accountability ✍️ The author says : By the time I graduated, I knew that the confidence I’d managed to develop came from personal accountability which brought me self respect, and self respect will always light a way forward. 4. Write Down What makes you Uncomfortable and go do it 👉 Dig out your journal again and write down all the things you don’t like to do or that make you uncomfortable.  ✅ Especially those things you know are go...

13 Top Mindset Lessons From The Book “ATTITUDE Is Everything“ 1. Our Thoughts Drive Our Circumstances 🟠  If you think you can do something, then you can. If you think you can’t, then you can’t. You’re right either way, as your attitude will impact your outcomes.  ✅ Try to change your attitude to positive. 2. Your Attitude Is a Mental Filter 🟠 Use a filter of optimism instead of negativity. Instead of saying “I can’t,” you should be saying “I can.”  ✅ Then, when your Attitude is clean, you can finally see the world outside is full of positive opportunities. 3. Positive Thoughts Attract Success 🟠 We become what we think about. If we think about positive things and outcomes, success will follow.  😎 So you must exercise your positive thoughts. Think positive thoughts until it becomes a habit. 🔴 You're your yesterday beliefs. 4. Visualization Skill  🟠 If you are still failing, then you are still holding on to pictures of lower aspiration or failure....

TOP 10 Lessons From the Book “Deep Work” 1. Deep vs Shallow Work ✅ We need to learn how to spend more time doing deep vs. shallow work.  👉 Deep work requires a level of focus that many of us fail to attain due to the endless distractions we now face, but it’s now more important than ever. 2. The New Economy 💪 Cultivating the skill of deep work will help us become a part of these groups. 🔹Those who can work well and creatively with intelligent machines, those who are the best at what they do, and those with access to capital. 3. Business does not equal productivity ⛔ In a business context, if we are not clear on the priorities, we tend to do the easiest activities. 👉 We need to fight this tendency by identifying high-impact, challenging activities that many be harder in the short-term. 4. What you pay attention to matters 📌 Life is more about how we perceive the events that happen to us, rather than the events themselves. You can live a better and more fulfilled lif...

Failing Forward: 7 abilities which a person needs to fail forward 1. Reject Rejection ❌ Here author has shared that people who are achievers they don’t label themselves as failure when they see any problem or any situation instead they learn from mistakes in their judgment or behavior. 2. Don’t point fingers 👉🏻Here author said that whenever failing backward people fail in their life they start blaming others for their lack of success,  but they don’t understand that by pointing finger they get into victim mentality. 3. See failure and Temporary 🔁 Achievers see problems as temporary hence they never stuck to their problems.  You must see failure as a momentary event, shouldn’t see it as a lifetime symptom. 4. Set Realistic expectation 🍀As we all know perfection is a myth. 📍In this world no one can say that they haven’t failed in their life hence expect setbacks because its normal and prepare yourself emotionally and mentally to deal with it. 5. Focus on Strengt...

1. Stop drinking alcohol. 2. Fasted workouts burn 20% more calories 3. 30 minutes is all the time you need to get in shape 4. Sun exposure can boost testosterone levels by as much as 69% 5. Don’t post gym pics for attention 6. Find a woman who loves to cook for you 7. Higher reps/lower weight to lose weight 8. Heavier weight/fewer reps to build mass 9. Never sacrifice form for heavier weight 10. Morning workouts lead to healthier decisions throughout the day 11. 10,000 steps per day is huge for weight loss 12. Increase weight or reps each week to get stronger 13. If you’re not gaining weight, you’re not eating enough 14. Train core 4-5x per week 15. Fasting + black coffee in the morning are great for burning fat 16. If you’re not losing weight, you’re eating too much or not burning enough calories 17. A few sets of dumbbells and a bench are all you need to get shredded 18. Healthy eating is easier than you think. Get a bunch of eggs, ground meat, and fruit 19. Don’t expect ...

1. Hide the gun and move the old man across the street.  Honor family values  Gangsters teach the younger generation from an early age to respect boundaries, hierarchy and age.  Usually the one who gets the most influence is the one who becomes the main breadwinner in the family. 2. Why are the gangsters in the newspapers always so old?  Love what you do and you won't have "work days" in your life  If you look at the members of the mafia, old gangsters are found not only in the mafia top brass, but also among the rank-and-file "workers." And all because they like what they do. You can offer an old thief a billion dollars, but he will refuse, and then try to steal it from you. He lives and breathes the business. 3. Gangsters don't write notes.  Hone your memory. Calls to girls of easy behavior, little black notebooks, e-mail correspondence-all of these things prosecutors can use against a gangster to put him behind...

13 Golden Life Lesson From The Book: "ALCHEMIST" by Paulo Coelho 1. The secret of life, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times. 2. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. 3. When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed. 4. The most simple things in life are the most extraordinary. 5. When you want something the whole universe conspires in helping you achieve it. 6. The treasure that we seek elsewhere, we find it at our doorstep. 7. The closer one gets to realising his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being, thought the boy. 8. There is only one way to learn. It's through action. 9. If you can always concentrate on the present, you'll be a happy. 10. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too. 11. See the world in terms of what you would like to see happen, not what actually does...

1: Information is beautiful Information is beautiful distills data, information, and knowledge into beautiful, useful graphics & diagrams.  The site is dedicated to helping you make clearer, more informed decisions about the world.  2: Kialo   Kialo allows you to see arguments on both sides of any debate in the world.  As Charlie Munger said, “I never let myself hold an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do.” Kialo helps you do that.  3: System System is a free, open, and living public resource that aims to explain how anything in the world is related to everything else. It comprises thousands of relationships between hundreds of topics, and counting.  4: Class Central  Find the best online courses in the world, all in one place.  Class Central aggregates courses from: • 1000 Universities (Harvard, Stanford, etc.) • 70 Providers (Coursera, Udemy, etc.) • 600 Inst...

Hard skills get you hired. But soft skills get you promoted. These are the 11 soft skills you will need to accelerate your career 1. Communication : • Listen without interrupting. • Speak with a positive tone. • Pay attention to your body language. 2. Persuasion : • Identify what other people care about. • Create stories that resonate with them. • Communicate those stories with brevity and emotion. 3. Negotiation: • Listen carefully. • Understand what the other side wants. • Know your worth. • Then propose solutions that benefit both sides. 4. Relationship building: • Help others unconditionally. • Look for common interests. • Always add value before asking for something in return. 5. Empathy: • Take a genuine interest in other people. • Look at things from their perspective. • Acknowledge their feelings. • Never judge and always be supportive. • Be generous with your time and attention. 6. Positive attitude: • Never gossip. • Never complain. • Criticize sparingly. • Always...

I've successfully increased my productivity in the last 3 months and so can you.  What I've Learned: Busy ≠ Productive The ability to narrow your focus is a superpower saving you time, effort, and money. Here are 10 ways you can stop being busy and more productive: 1. Lists : Everyone has them, let's make them better. First : -Separate items into two groups -Immediate = Take action now -Passive = Not time sensitive Second : -Focus on "Immediate" items first   -These are items that move the needle -Push towards the end goal -Highest ROI 2. Inversion Thinking: Work through problems backward. -Avoid rather than achieve -Most problems are caused by something we are already doing, not something we need to do -Most people = How do I lose weight? -Inversion Thinkers = What am I doing to not lose weight? 3. Decrease Activation Energy : Energy required to start = Probability of starting. -Walk before you run -Stuck on a large complex task? -Break it down into ...

The 5 AM Club by Robin Sharma is a parable about genuine success. The kind of success that will turn you into a hero.  Heroism may sound romantic, but it is possible for anyone to achieve it by embracing discomfort and working on daily habits for self-improvement.           1. Natural talent   Natural talent is not what defines great individuals.  It is the extent of that potential that they capitalize on through consistency and relentlessness. 2. Freedom from Distraction An addiction to distraction is the death of your creative production. Concentrate on only a few projects, so you can make them exceptional. Prioritize quality over quantity.  3. Personal Mastery Practice All your actions within your environment are a result of what’s happening within you. External always expresses internal. If you can master your inner world, you will master the external world too.  4. Day Stacking  Each day is equally important in...