The Power of RAY, The Power of YET
Lesson 1: Add a third metric to your definition of success: thriving. After Arianna’s skull-shattering incident in 2007, the doctor told her she was suffering from burnout after working 18 hours a day for so many years. If that’s not cause to take a good look at your life, I don’t know what is. Determined to put… Continue reading Thrive: 3 things
Lesson 1: Only hold values you control. Mark is a very Stoic guy and it shines through his writing and advice. A common idea in Stoicism is to focus only on the things you can control. This is easy enough to understand and implement when it comes to your actions, but it can be applied to more intangible… Continue reading The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
RAYYET BOOK CLUB Online book exchange schemes have not worked for me, I thought I can give it a honest try for the following #3Reasons We can share books we have already read and save to buy new ones. Building a community of readers would be awesome It is the right thing to do Following… Continue reading RAYYET BOOK CLUB
1-Sentence-Summary: Steal Like An Artist gives you permission to copy your heroes’ work and use it as a springboard to find your own, unique style, all while remembering to have fun, creating the right work environment for your art and letting neither criticism nor praise drive you off track. Read in: 4 minutes How many… Continue reading Steal Like An Artist Summary
Meditations is perhaps the only document of its kind ever made. It is the private thoughts of the world’s most powerful man giving advice to himself on how to make good on the responsibilities and obligations of his positions. Trained in Stoic philosophy, Marcus Aurelius stopped almost every night to practice a series of spiritual… Continue reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
1-Sentence-Summary: Factfulness explains how our worldview has been distorted with the rise of new media, which ten human instincts cause erroneous thinking, and how we can learn to separate fact from fiction when forming our opinions. When I first got into reading blogs, learning about self-improvement, and exploring the startup scene, I was a delusional optimist.… Continue reading Factfulness- Hans Rosling- Book Summary
1-Sentence-Summary: Elon Musk is the first official biography of the creator of SolarCity, SpaceX and Tesla, based on over 30 hours of conversation time between author Ashlee Vance and Musk himself, highlighting his complicated childhood, the way he makes decisions and navigates the world, and how he managed to disrupt multiple industries, all with the goal of… Continue reading Elon Musk Summary
1-Sentence-Summary: Zero To One is an inside look at Peter Thiel’s philosophy and strategy for making your startup a success by looking at the lessons he learned from founding and selling PayPal, investing in Facebook and becoming a billionaire in the process. There are books that give you great strategies for selling, marketing and planning your business. And then there are… Continue reading Zero To One Summary
How to Own The World by Andrew Craig Print | Kindle The Book in Three Sentences Craig defines wealth as the ability to live on the money you make from your money, rather than the money you make from working. If you’re not making money from investing, you’re getting poorer every day. Few people become… Continue reading
Antifragile Summary 1-Sentence-Summary: Antifragile reveals how some systems thrive from shocks, volatility and uncertainty, instead of breaking from them, and how you can adapt more antifragile traits yourself to thrive in an uncertain and chaotic world. Read in: 5 minutes Favorite quote from the author: Most self-help books, when you break them down to their core message,… Continue reading antifragile
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