The everything store — Summary

Learn from one of the biggest visionaries and entrepreneurs, the mind behind Amazon. Jeff Bezos worked at the hedge fund D.E. Shaw & Co back in the early nineties. He was a remarkable employee. He had the ability for deep analytical thinking since he was a young boy. Upon graduating from Princeton in 1986, Bezos worked … Read more

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ — Summary

Learn to manage your emotions so that you can use them to your benefit Emotions are not only what define our relationships or extreme situations like a fight. They are an integral part of our decision-making process. In this book, you will learn what emotional intelligence (EI) means and how it can be developed. But … Read more

Growth Hacker Marketing — Summary

Learn how to outperform massive traditional marketing budgets with free growth hacker marketing Traditional marketing techniques won’t get you the same results like growth hacker techniques. For example, if you want to create a viral post or product, paying a huge marketing campaign won’t do the job. Your product has to capture new customers by … Read more

Payoff — Summary

Learn how to motivate yourself and others from this “little brother” of the book Drive. What exactly is motivation and are there different types of motivation? We learned the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in the book Drive. In this book, you will learn more about what makes us motivated, spoiler alert * it … Read more

A whole new mind — Summary

Learn why big picture-holistic thinking is, and will become even more important in the future. People have assumed from ancient times about a division in our brain. Namely, a left and a right hemisphere. Modern science has supported a neurological divide although we know that in every activity we engage in both hemispheres cooperate. While there … Read more

Drive — Summary

Extrinsic motivation Extrinsic motivation is motivation which comes from outside ourselves. It comes in two flavors, pain, and pleasure or punishment and reward, aka. “The stick and the carrot.” Once, some 50.000 years ago, man’s main driver was his own survival. Later in the age of industrialization, things started to become more complex. New extrinsic … Read more

The compound effect — Summary

This book will teach you how to build up momentum for success gradually. Initially, change is hard because of our past negative habits, but once we built up momentum at the desired direction, our results will start to compound. Steady improvement Most people want immediate results and if they can’t get them the become discouraged … Read more

Manage Yourself — Summary

This book will teach you how to become the CEO of your life. There was a time when people didn’t have that many options. They just had to do what they were told or what the circumstances they lived in dictated, working on the field for example. Nowadays we live in a knowledge society, however, … Read more

Mistakes were made, how we justify bad decisions — Summary

Learn why it is important and in our best interest to admit our mistakes People tend to justify their mistakes Cognitive dissonance is the term used to describe the uneasiness people feel when they have two conflicting ideas or views. After making a mistake people tend to justify their decisions which lead to the mistake even if they … Read more

Think and grow rich — Summary

Learn from the classic book of Success “One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another.” — Napoleon Hill Desire Desire/Passion is crucial if you want to accomplish your dreams. Thomas Edison went through years, and … Read more

An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth — Summary

Learn about preparation from one of the people who are the best at preparation, an astronaut The author explains in an entertaining way and great detail the arduous but fascinating path to becoming an astronaut. If you want to become an astronaut the odds are stacked against you from the beginning. You have to complete … Read more

Never eat alone — Summary

Learn how to network from the modern day “How to win friends and influence people.” The book Getting a Job outlines a classic study where 282 men are asked how they found their jobs. 56% had found their jobs through personal contacts, 19% through job advertisements and only 10% had found their job through applications … Read more

The ONE thing — Summary

This book explains with amazing clarity the process of accomplishing big goals Thought precedes actions. And extraordinary thought precedes extraordinary actions. Prioritize the important things Apply the 80/20 principle to your to-do lists. The Pareto principle or 80/20 principle applies to nearly everything. One example is given by Joseph M. Juran, a quality-control management pioneer at … Read more

The magic of thinking big — Summary

This book will teach you how to adopt a Success Mindset Believe in yourself The start to success happens in a change of your mindset. You have to let limiting beliefs go and start thinking BIG. Belief is very important, feel 100% capable of accomplishing your dreams. The more you will believe that you can do what you … Read more

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — Summary

This is one of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” ~ Albert Einstein Change comes from the inside out You can’t take shortcuts for real personal growth. You could master some outside skills like communication … Read more