Black Privilege is an amusing biography to read. I won’t go into detail about the many anecdotes, you have to read them in context to really enjoy them. But I’ll share some of the little lessons I got out of this book. Don’t be afraid to tell the truth With fifteen years Charlamagne took a … Read more
My high expectations for this book turned out to be accurate. What it takes is a must read if you are interested in the reasoning process one of the biggest investors uses to make good decisions. The Blackstone Way After messing up an investment he himself approved, Schwarzman implemented a method in which ideas are … Read more
It’s been two years since I read Becoming Steve Jobs. That’s about the time I wanted to get to the official biography written by Walter Isaacson. Happily, I did, here are some gold nuggets from this great piece of work. A clever kid The chip industry gave the region a new name when Don Hoefler, … Read more
I have been wanting to read biographies about Bill Gates for a while. Searching for them brought me to this book which he wrote himself. An opportunity I wouldn’t let escape. Sure, a lot of what Bill talks about in this book is no longer something new, most of the things he predicted in 1999 … Read more
One remark particularly stuck in my head today while reading When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead. Thus, the title of this post. I began to look for work a few months after I started taking classes. The business side of entertainment–that’s where I was heading as far back as the family trip to … Read more
The third Door is a very entertaining Autobiography from which you will get a lot of actionable lessons. The thing that struck me most from Alex’s journey is how he looks at his frustrating experiences along the way to success. He doesn’t take his failures too seriously, actually quite the opposite, he makes the most … Read more
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose. I started this book because it was mentioned several times in Alex’s book The Third Door. I just felt this very intense intuition that it would turn out to be a great book to read for me at this time, turned out to be right. I … Read more
Lately, I’m reading more and more biographies and this one was certainly great not just because I love bodybuilding and have seen Arnold as an idol since I was a little kid, but also because this book gave me a deep insight into all his incredible achievements and the things he learned along the way. … Read more
“Working with these kids taught me a lot about myself. Until then I thought I was the poster boy for the American dream. I came to the United States virtually broke, worked hard, kept focused on my goal, and made it. This really was the land of opportunity, I thought. If a kid like me … Read more
In this excerpt from the book Total Recall, Arnold made me think with a brilliant statement. He exemplifies with his own experience that we feel bad after failure, not due to the failure, but because we haven’t done everything we could to get a successful outcome. “That afternoon at the gym, I thought more about my loss … Read more
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