Book summaries (excerpts)
Instead of summarizing the books in my own words, I gathered the top excerpts. I want the spirit of the books to remain intact and I want you to be able to interpret the crumbs of wisdom on your own.
Date is the date on which I read the book.
Happiness Hypothesis
Author: Jonathan Haidt ISBN: 978-0465028023 The best book on happines I've read so far. Period. EXCERPTS [I've listened to Audible version. These excerpts are thus my selection of favourite excerpts published by Derek Sivers.] Elephant = Unconscious part of the mind Rider = Conscious, reasoning part of the mind We might already have encountered the Greatest Idea, the insight that would have transformed us had we [...]
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
Author: Simon Sinek ISBN: 978-1591848011 Reading the excerpts more than suffices. EXCERPTS A good number of our educational institutions and training programs today are focused not on developing great leaders but on training effective managers. Short-term gains are viewed as the mark of success and long-term organizational growth and viability are simply the bill payers. Marine leaders are expected to eat last because the true price of leadership [...]
This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn To See
Author: Seth Godin ISBN: 978-0241370148 Another great marketing book by Seth Godin. It is a mix of ideas from all of Seth's books until 2018. However, if you only had time to read one of his books I'd recommend the All marketers are storytellers. EXCERPTS Marketing is the generous act of helping someone solve a problem. Their problem. For most of my lifetime, marketing was advertising. And then [...]
Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
Author: Derek Sivers ISBN: 978-0241209042 Great short book packed with advice on business and life. EXCERPTS Business is not about money. It’s about making dreams come true for others and for yourself. When you make a company, you make a utopia. It’s where you design your perfect world. Your business plan is moot. You don’t know what people really want until you start doing it. Make yourself unnecessary [...]
Crossing the Chasm
Author: Geoffrey A Moore ISBN: 978-0062353948 You've built an innovative product or plan to offer an innovative service. Whom do you start marketing it to? Read this book to help you determine the right customers (at each step along the way) and hence improve your chances of success. Even if you're acquainted with the “bell-curve theory”, the book is well worth the read. In fact, this is one [...]
Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss
Author: Brad Pilon ISBN: 978-1775110804 Best book on science behind intermittent fasting and different variations. Period. EXCERPTS Every diet will work if it recommends some form of caloric restriction. And if you follow a calorie-restricted diet you will lose weight, guaranteed. There probably is no “right” way to eat. The best we can hope for is finding the way that works the best for you. There are only [...]
