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I picked up Shoe Dog on a recent trip through Hong Kong airport. I'd first heard about it on Bill Gates' excellent blog. I read this in less than a week. It's that good a page turner. It's the story of how Phil Knight went from selling shoes in Oregon to building a $30bn empire. What stands out about this book is its raw honesty. Knight …
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This TED Talk by Amy Cuddy on how deeply your body language affects you is one of the most viewed TED Talks of all time. Summary Professor Cuddy demonstrates just how closely linked the physical is with the psychological. We heard of psychosomatic, where your mind can influence your body, eg when anxiety affects your bodily …
This video by Simon Sinek will change how you see the world. In this TED talk, Sinek says most of the time we fail to start with the Why. Instead, he argues in general that, we start with the What, then the How, then the Why. To resonate with people, however, we need to start with the Why. This is the part that appeals to the 'feeling' …
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I read I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi before I read The Richest Man in Babylon (see previous post). However, I Will Teach You To Be Rich (IWT) can be taken as building on many of the principles in The Richest Man in Babylon (RMB). IWT is RMB for the 21st century. Summary IWT is split into 6 sections: Get out of debt Don't …
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I first heard of The Richest Man in Babylon from Fighting Mediocrity who made a fantastic animated video review of it. (Check it out here.) I bought it on Kindle for next to nothing: £1.99! It's a short book and reads like an allegory similar in style to The Alchemist. Synopsis In ancient Babylon, an ordinary family man is struck one day …
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