You can pursue the job you want and succeed in getting it. You can make improvements to the job you now have! Any circumstance you find yourself in can be made to work in your favor. More than 15 million copies of How to Win Friends and Influence People have been sold since its 1936 publication. The first book by Dale Carnegie is a classic bestseller that has helped thousands of now-famous people climb the success ladder in both their personal and professional life. It is jam-packed with sound advice.
Dale Carnegie’s teachings are still applicable today and will aid you in realizing your full potential in the challenging and competitive modern world. Learn the six ways to win people around to your point of view, the twelve ways to convert people, and the nine ways to influence people without offending them.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
“Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
“Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
“Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.”
In the much-awaited, “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, Daniel Kahneman takes us on a revolutionary journey through the mind and elucidates the two systems that govern our thinking. While System 2 is slower, more deliberate, and more rational, System 1 is quick, intuitive, and emotive. Fast thinking has exceptional talents, but it also has flaws and biases, as Kahneman demonstrates, and he also demonstrates the widespread effect of gut perceptions on our thoughts and conduct.
Understanding how the two systems interact to influence our judgments and decisions is essential to understanding the effects of cognitive bias and complacency on corporate strategies, the challenges of forecasting what will make us satisfied in the future, the difficulties of framing risks appropriately at work and at home, and the profound impact of cognitive biases on everything from trading stocks to making travel plans.
In a vibrant discussion of how we think, Kahneman draws the reader in and explains when and how we should trust our intuitions as well as how to take advantage of sluggish thinking. He provides insightful advice on how to make decisions in both our professional and personal lives.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it”
“Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”
“If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.”
“Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.”
According to our “thirty-is-the-new-twenty” mentality, the years spent in your 20s are unimportant. Some people describe them as protracted adolescence. Others refer to them as young adults. The new twenty is not thirty, though. Dr. Meg Jay demonstrates in this insightful book how many twentysomethings have been caught in a whirlwind of hype and disinformation that has trivialized what are truly the most formative years of life. Dr. Jay interweaves the science of the twentysomething years with engrossing, behind-the-scenes experiences from twentysomethings themselves, drawing on more than 10 years of work with hundreds of twenty-something customers and students. She discusses what experts in psychology, sociology, neurology, reproductive science, human resources management, and economics know about the distinctive influence of our twenties and how they affect how our lives change. The end result is a thought-provoking and occasionally moving read that demonstrates why our twenties do matter. The decisions we make in our twenties will have a significant impact on the years and possibly even future generations.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that’s an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“Twentysomethings who don’t feel anxious and incompetent at work are usually overconfident or underemployed.”
“It’s the people we hardly know, and not our closest friends, who will improve our lives most dramatically”
“The future isn’t written in the stars. There are no guarantees. So claim your adulthood. Be intentional. Get to work. Pick your family. Do the math. Make your own certainty. Don’t be defined by what you didn’t know or didn’t do. You are deciding your life right now.”
“I wasn’t scared of losing my past. i was scared of losing my future.”
A famous blogger cuts through the BS in this generation-defining self-help book to teach us how to quit striving to be “positive” all the time so that we may actually improve and be happier. Positive thinking is the secret to leading a happy, fulfilling life, we’ve been told for decades. Mark Manson says, “F**k positivity.” Let’s face it, sh*t is f**ked, and we must accept that. Manson doesn’t mince words or use ambiguity in his enormously well-read Internet blog. He says it like it is, giving today’s world a much-needed dose of unvarnished, energizing honesty.
His response to the coddling, make everyone feel good mentality that has invaded American society and spoilt a generation by giving them gold medals merely for showing up is The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k. Manson makes the case that enhancing our lives depends less on our capacity to convert lemons into lemonade and more on developing a better stomach for lemons, a claim supported by both academic data and well-timed poop humor. Because of their flaws and limitations, humans cannot be perfect; there are victors and losers in society, and sometimes it’s your responsibility. Manson counsels us to recognize and accept our limitations.
We can start to develop the courage, persistence, honesty, obligation, curiosity, and reconciliation we seek once we embrace our fears, flaws, and doubts, once we stop fleeing from and avoiding hard facts, and instead start facing them head-on. Manson makes it plain that there are only many things we can care about, so we need to decide which ones actually important. Money is good, but it’s preferable to care about what you do with your life because real wealth comes from experience. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a welcome slap for a generation to help them lead happy, grounded lives. It is a much-needed moment of real discussion that will grab you by the shoulders and look you in the eye.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for.”
“You and everyone you know are going to be dead soon. And in the short amount of time between here and there, you have a limited amount of fucks to give. Very few, in fact. And if you go around giving a fuck about everything and everyone without conscious thought or choice—well, then you’re going to get fucked.”
“Unhealthy love is based on two people trying to escape their problems through their emotions for each other—in other words, they’re using each other as an escape. Healthy love is based on two people acknowledging and addressing their own problems with each other’s support.”
“Being wrong opens us up to the possibility of change. Being wrong brings the opportunity for growth.”
“Because when we give too many fucks, when we choose to give a fuck about everything, then we feel as though we are perpetually entitled to feel comfortable and happy at all times, that’s when life fucks us.”
At least six different human species lived on the planet 100,000 years ago. There is only one now. Us. Human species. How did our species prevail in the struggle for supremacy? Why did our nomadic foragers get together to build towns and kingdoms? How did we come to trust money, literature, and laws; to believe in gods, nations, and human rights; and to be ruled by bureaucracy, deadlines, and consumerism? What will the future millennia bring for our world?
Dr. Yuval Noah Harari covers the entirety of human history in Sapiens, from the very first creatures to walk the planet through the revolutionary – and occasionally life-changing – discoveries of the Cognitive, Agricultural, and Scientific Revolutions.
He investigates how the currents of history have influenced our human societies, the plants and animals surrounding us, and even our personalities. He draws on concepts from biology, anthropology, paleontology, and economics. Has history made us happy as a result? Can we ever break away from the influences of our ancestors on how we act? And if anything, what can we do to shape the future of the centuries? Sapiens challenge everything we believed to be true about being human, including our thoughts, deeds, power, and future. It is audacious, all-encompassing, and controversial.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”
“Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition.”
“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.”
“History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.”
Malcolm Gladwell guides us intellectually through the world of “outliers”—the smartest and most accomplished people—in this breathtaking book. What differentiates exceptional achievers, he wonders?
His response is that we focus too much on what successful individuals are like and not enough on where they come from, which includes their culture, family, generation, and unique experiences growing up. Along the way, he explains how software billionaires get their money, what it needs to be a good soccer player, why Asians are brilliant at math, and why the Beatles are the best music band ever. Outliers is a remarkable work that is both brilliant and amusing and will delight and enlighten.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”
“Who we are cannot be separated from where we’re from.”
“Achievement is talent plus preparation”
“In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.”
“Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.”
Composed by Brazilian creator Paulo Coelho in 1988. The story is about a Shepherd kid from Spain whose name is Santiago. He continues to get the very dream about treasures that are covered in the Pyramids of Egypt. He sets out on an excursion to follow his fantasy in the wake of meeting an old lord who offers him enchantment stones and counsel. Santiago crosses the Mediterranean and Sahara to track down his fortunes in Egypt and furthermore achieve his own legend, which is his motivation throughout everyday life. The book subtleties his excursion and the different experiences that he has encountered while following his fantasy. All through the excursion, Santiago meets many new individuals and has a ton of challenges, which at last assist him with learning and developing the whole way.
The Alchemist is a phenomenal book and the narrating is lovely. The selection of words is faultless, brimming with insight and reasoning. I completely cherished it. The story is exceptionally charming and overflows with confidence which I believe is vital in our lives. The book shows that the excursion to your fate is all around as significant as the actual predetermination. I love the way the book underscores the significance of confidence, trust, and otherworldliness through the tale of a conventional kid. I think this book requests to everybody since we as a whole have dreams and once in a while we simply believe somebody should let us know that they might work out. Overall,”The Alchemist” is an exceptionally interesting fiction novel and it merits space on everybody’s shelf.
We must leave our intelligent mind and its fabricated self, the ego, behind in order to travel into the Now. We quickly go to a much higher altitude where the air is lighter as soon as we turn the first page of Eckhart Tolle’s wonderful book. The unbreakable core of who we are, “The eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the various life forms that are subject to birth and death,” becomes a part of us. Eckhart Tolle employs straightforward language and a straightforward question-and-answer structure to lead us even when the path is difficult. The Power of Now is one of those uncommon books having the capacity to inspire readers to have an experience that can profoundly alter their life for the better. It has become a word-of-mouth phenomenon since its initial release.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Form is emptiness, emptiness is form” states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.”
“The moment you realize you are not present, you are present. Whenever you are able to observe your mind, you are no longer trapped in it. Another factor has come in, something that is not of the mind: the witnessing presence.”
“The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.”
“You attract and manifest whatever corresponds to your inner state.”
“Emotions arise in the place where your mind and body meet”
This famous work on military strategy by Sun Tzu, based on Chinese battle and military doctrine, was written 250 years ago. Since then, all ranks of the military have applied Sun Tzu’s precepts to battle, and civilization has modified these teachings for application in business, politics, and daily life. One should use The Art of War to their advantage both on the battlefield and in business meetings.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
“Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”
The first non-fiction book by New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner and University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt is titled Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. The book, which was released on April 12 by William Morrow, has been characterized as fusing pop culture and economics.
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime? Freakonomics will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.
Childhood for David Goggins was a nightmare filled with deprivation, discrimination, and physical abuse. However, Goggins changed himself from a hopeless, obese young man into one of the best endurance athletes in the world via self-control, mental fortitude, and hard training. He was the only man in history to successfully complete the rigorous training required to become a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller. He then broke records in a number of endurance competitions, earning him the title of “The Fittest (Real) Man in America” from Outside magazine.
He discusses his incredible life experience in Can’t Hurt Me and demonstrates that most people only use 40% of their potential. This is what Goggins refers to as The 40% Rule, and his life narrative shows how anyone can use it to overcome sorrow, face fear, and realize their full potential.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft, that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.”
“In the military we always say we don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training,”
“No one is going to come help you. No one’s coming to save you.”
“I thought I’d solved a problem when really I was creating new ones by taking the path of least resistance.”
“It’s a lot more than mind over matter. It takes relentless self discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day.”
Your parents, coaches, instructors, friends, and mentors have all encouraged you to rise above your justifications and conquer your fears throughout your life. What if understanding how to push yourself is all it takes to have the bravery and confidence to improve your life and work?
Mel Robbins will illustrate the power of a “push moment” using the science of habits, captivating tales, and unexpected details from some of the most renowned moments in history, art, and business. She will then provide you with one straightforward technique you may utilize to develop into your best self. Using this program only takes five seconds, and each time you do, you’ll have wonderful company. Mel’s TEDx Talk has had more than 8 million views, and executives from the biggest brands in the world are adopting the tool to boost engagement, productivity, and teamwork.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Hesitation is the kiss of death. You might hesitate for a just nanosecond, but that’s all it takes. That one small hesitation triggers a mental system that’s designed to stop you. And it happens in less than—you guessed it—five seconds.”
“Your feelings don’t matter. The only thing that matters is what you DO.”
“You have been assigned this mountain so that you can show others it can be moved.”
“There’s one thing that is guaranteed to increase your feelings of control over your life: a bias toward action.”
“I was the problem and in five seconds, I could push myself and become the solution.”
The classic book on persuasion, Influence, explores the psychology behind why people say “yes” and how to use this knowledge. The father of the rapidly developing science of persuasion and influence is Dr. Robert Cialdini. This widely praised book is the culmination of his 35 years of meticulous, evidence-based research and a three-year program of study on what motivates people to alter behavior.
You’ll discover the six universal rules, how to apply them to become a persuasive speaker, and how to counter them. The Influence concepts are ideal for people from all walks of life and will propel you toward significant personal change and achievement.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.”
“Embarrassment is a villain to be crushed.”
“we all fool ourselves from time to time in order to keep our thoughts and beliefs consistent with what we have already done or decided”
“Often we don’t realize that our attitude toward something has been influenced by the number of times we have been exposed to it in the past.”
“persons who go through a great deal of trouble or pain to attain something tend to value it more highly than persons who attain the same thing with a minimum of effort.”
We consistently get the answers wrong when given simple questions regarding global trends, such as what percentage of the world’s population lives in poverty, why the world’s population is expanding, and how many girls complete high school. So incorrect that a monkey answering questions at random will routinely outperform professors, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.
In Factfulness, Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon, and his two long-time partners, Anna and Ola, give a startling new explanation for why this occurs. They expose the ten inclinations that distort our perspective, ranging from our proclivity to divide the world into two camps (typically some form of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear reigns supreme) to how we perceive progress.
Our issue is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and our best predictions are influenced by unconscious and foreseeable biases. Factfulness is an urgent and necessary book that will alter the way you can see the world and equip you to respond to future crises and opportunities. It is inspiring and revelatory, full of entertaining anecdotes and emotional stories.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“There’s no room for facts when our minds are occupied by fear.”
“Forming your worldview by relying on the media would be like forming your view about me by looking only at a picture of my foot.”
“The world cannot be understood without numbers. But the world cannot be understood with numbers alone.”
“Remember: things can be bad, and getting better.”
“Look for systems, not heroes.”
Matthew Walker, a neuroscientist and sleep specialist, offers a ground-breaking analysis of sleep, looking at how it impacts every facet of our mental and physical well-being. Walker explains how we can use sleep to improve learning, mood, and energy levels, restrict hormones, prevent cancer, Alzheimer’s, and diabetes, slow the effects of aging, and lengthen our lives by outlining the most recent scientific advances and drawing on his decades of research and clinical experience. Additionally, he offers doable suggestions for improving each night’s sleep.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.”
“Practice does not make perfect. It is practice, followed by a night of sleep, that leads to perfection.”
“Inadequate sleep—even moderate reductions for just one week—disrupts blood sugar levels so profoundly that you would be classified as pre-diabetic.”
“Humans are not sleeping the way nature intended. The number of sleep bouts, the duration of sleep, and when sleep occurs have all been comprehensively distorted by modernity.”
“Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day — Mother Nature’s best effort yet at contra-death.”
A recognized tie-in to the well-known television program Criminal Minds The FBI profilers for the program identify the kind of criminal they’re looking for and present some instances in the briefing that is featured in the majority of Criminal Minds episodes. These examples are detailed in this book. Organized by criminal type, it includes information on solo serial killers, sexual predators, and assassins who claimed notoriety for their victims. It also includes information on numerous infamous murders, such as David Berkowitz, Jeffrey Dahmer, Mark David Chapman, and the Zodiac killer.
The book Criminal Minds: Sociopaths, Serial Killers, and Other Deviants explores the criminal minds that exist among us in an engrossing and horrifying way.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Common early indicators of serial murder are bed-wetting, fire-starting, and animal torture, sometimes called the McDonald Triad”
You must trust in secrets if you want to create a better future. There are still unknown territories to discover and novel inventions to develop, which is our era’s great secret. Peter Thiel, a renowned investor, and entrepreneur demonstrates in his book Zero to One how we might come up with unique strategies to produce those new items.
Thiel starts off with the contrarian notion that, despite being preoccupied with flashy mobile devices, we are living in a time of technological stasis. Although information technology has advanced quickly, Silicon Valley and computers are by no means the only areas of development. In any sector of business or industry, advancement is possible.
It stems from the most crucial ability that each and every leader must develop: the capacity for independent thought. The world goes from 1 to n when we do what someone else currently knows how to do, adding more of what is familiar. However, when you take a new action, you go from 0 to 1. Operating systems won’t be created by the next Bill Gates. A search engine won’t be created by the next Larry Page or Sergey Brin. The winners of tomorrow will not be those who engage in fierce competition in today’s market. They will completely avoid competition because their companies are special.
A new perspective about innovation is presented in Zero to One, which begins by teaching readers how to ask the questions that lead to the discovery of value in unexpected places. It simultaneously offers an upbeat outlook on the future of progress in America.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“ZERO TO ONE EVERY MOMENT IN BUSINESS happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.”
“The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator.”
“What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
“Tolstoy opens Anna Karenina by observing: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Business is the opposite. All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.”
“Elite students climb confidently until they reach a level of competition sufficiently intense to beat their dreams out of them. Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking. For the privilege of being turned into conformists, students (or their families) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in skyrocketing tuition that continues to outpace inflation. Why are we doing this to ourselves?”
Dr. Richard Shepherd has dedicated his life to learning about the mysteries of the dead as the foremost forensic pathologist in the UK. Shepherd is responsible for determining the cause of sudden or unexpected deaths. Shepherd has conducted over 23,000 post-mortems, and each one is a unique detective narrative. Dr. Shepherd solves the problem to respond to our most important question: How did this individual die? with his skill, commitment, and understanding.
Shepherd doesn’t take anything for granted in his quest for the truth, be it a serial killer, a natural calamity, a “perfect murder,” or a freak accident. And although he has been a part of some of the most well-known cases in recent memory, the most puzzling, intriguing, and even weird encounters are frequently those that are less well-known. His proof has been used to convict murderers, let innocent people free, and overturn closed cases whether they were in or out of public view. But living in death and witnessing some of humanity’s most repulsive aspects comes with a cost, and Shepherd is unafraid to calculate what it will cost him and his family.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I am no stranger to joy. I know that joy can be truly experienced only by those who have known adversity. And adversity is an inevitability.”
― Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes
“one of the greatest skills I have learned is not to feel a moral repulsion which others might think is not only justified but required.”
― Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes
“It was hard to imagine that the slender young man who lay naked on the post-mortem table had just finished a killing spree. Everyone in the room – police officers, mortuary staff, even Pam – stared at him with incomprehension. He looked as vulnerable as any victim of crime, as any of his own victims.”
― Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes
“The meeting introduced me- or, perhaps no introduction was necessary- to the awful collision between the silent, unfeeling dead and the immensity of feeling they generate in the living. I left the room with relief, making a mental note to avoid the bereaved at all costs and stick to the safe world inhabited by the dead, with its facts, its measurements, its certainties. In their universe, there was a complete absence of emotion. Not to mention its ugly sister, pain.”
― Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain’s Top Forensic Pathologist
Zodiac: Who was he? The serial killer claimed 37 victims. a sexual sadist who sent mocking notes to the police. a psychopath who eluded capture. This is the first thorough account of Zodiac’s terror campaign. Is he still present?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Just because you can’t prove it doesn’t mean it isn’t true”
― Robert Graysmith, Zodiac
Rich Dad Poor Dad is Robert’s account of growing up with two fathers – his biological father and his best friend’s father, his “rich dad,” and how both men affected his views on money and investing. The book debunks the notion that you need a high income to be wealthy, and it discusses the distinction between working for a living and letting your money work for you.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“In school, we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.”
“Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”
“You’re only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You’ve done something.”
“If you’re the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you’re that kind of person, you’ll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, and saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man.”
“The love of money is the root of all evil.”
The majority of startups fail. However, many of these failures are avoidable. The Lean Startup is a revolutionary method that is transforming the way companies are developed and new products are introduced around the world. A startup, according to Eric Ries, is an organization dedicated to producing something new in the face of severe uncertainty. This is true for a single person in a garage as it is for a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they all have in common is a desire to break through the shroud of uncertainty in order to find a viable path to a long-term business.
The Lean Startup methodology creates organizations that are both more capital efficient and more successful at leveraging human innovation. It is based on “validated learning,” quick scientific experimentation, and a number of counter-intuitive approaches that shorten product development cycles, assess actual progress without turning to vanity metrics and discover what customers truly want. It enables a corporation to change course quickly, changing plans inch by inch, minute by minute.
Rather than wasting time developing extensive business plans, The Lean Startup provides entrepreneurs of all sizes with a mechanism to continuously test their vision, adapt, and adjust before it’s too late. In an age when companies need to innovate more than ever, Ries offers a scientific approach to building and managing successful firms.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.”
“We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.”
“Reading is good, action is better.”
“if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.”
“As you consider building your own minimum viable product, let this simple rule suffice: remove any feature, process, or effort that does not contribute directly to the learning you seek.”
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s SEAL task unit were dispatched to the bloodiest battlefield in Iraq with the almost impossible objective of assisting American forces in securing Ramadi, a city that was considered to be “all but lost.” They discovered that leadership—at every level—is the most crucial element in determining whether a team succeeds or fails via dramatic first-person narratives of bravery, heartbreaking loss, and hard-won wins in SEAL Team Three’s Task Unit Bruiser. After their deployment, Willink and Babin established SEAL leadership training, which assisted in developing the next generation of SEAL leaders. They founded Echelon Front, a business that teaches these similar leadership concepts to corporations and organizations, after leaving the SEAL Teams.
Babin and Willink have assisted numerous clients across a wide range of industries in building their own elevated teams and dominating their battlefields, from momentum going to Fortune 500 organizations.
Now, Extreme Ownership explains the mindset and values that allow SEAL units to successfully complete the most challenging missions in warfare and demonstrates how to apply them to any team, family, or organization. Each chapter is devoted to a particular subject, such as Cover and Move, Decentralized Command, and Leading Up the Chain, and explains what it is, why it is significant, and how to use it in any leadership setting.
Extreme Ownership revolutionizes business management and pushes leaders everywhere to realize their true objective: lead and win. It does this through a gripping narrative with effective instruction and direct application.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Discipline equals freedom.”
“It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.”
“The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win—you pass the test. If you are mentally weak for that moment and you let that weakness keep you in bed, you fail. Though it seems small, that weakness translates to more significant decisions. But if you exercise discipline, that too translates to more substantial elements of your life.”
“Implementing Extreme Ownership requires checking your ego and operating with a high degree of humility. Admitting mistakes, taking ownership, and developing a plan to overcome challenges are integral to any successful team.”
“the most fundamental and important truths at the heart of Extreme Ownership: there are no bad teams, only bad leaders.”
The grand enigma of the cosmos was disclosed in 2006 by the ground-breaking feature film The Secret, and Rhonda Byrne soon after published a book that has become a global blockbuster. Over the years, fragments of a Great Secret have been discovered in literature, oral traditions, religions, and philosophical systems. The Secret’s components finally come together in an amazing revelation that will change everyone who experiences it for the better.
You’ll discover how to apply The Secret to every area of your life in this book, including finances, well-being, interpersonal relationships, happiness, and all of your interactions with other people. Your realization of the innate, untapped power you possess will help you live more joyfully in all areas of your life.
Modern teachers who have used it to gain wellness, wealth, and happiness have shared their knowledge in The Secret. By putting The Secret’s principles to use, they share inspiring tales of eliminating disease, amassing an enormous fortune, surmounting challenges, and accomplishing things that most people would consider impossible.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstances of your life can change! ”
“There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer.”
“Your power is in your thoughts, so stay awake. In other words, remember to remember.”
“Your thoughts become things!”
“If you are feeling good , it is because you are thinking good thoughts .”
The Greatest Salesman in the World is a book that tells the tale of Hafid, an impoverished camel boy who leads an abundant life and acts as a manual for a salesmanship and success philosophy. To read the book in Mandino’s recommended reading order would take roughly ten months.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.”
“No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.”
“Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.”
“Only a habit can subdue another habit.”
“I will greet this day with love in my heart.”
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson gives the unbelievable events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair such drama that readers may discover themselves checking the book’s classification to make sure it isn’t actually a highly imaginative novel. Larson presents the tales of two men: H.H. Holmes, a serial killer who pretended to be a charming doctor, and Daniel H. Burnham, the architect who designed the fair.
Burnham faced a formidable obstacle. He was compelled to overcome his partner’s passing and a number of other challenges in a short amount of time in order to build the renowned “White City” around which the show was created.
Thomas Edison, Susan B. Anthony, Buffalo Bill Cody, and other prominent figures make entertaining appearances as he describes their struggles to complete the project and the fair’s extraordinary success. The evil Dr. Holmes activities, who is thought to be accountable for a number of killings at the fair, are similarly extraordinary. He designed and built the World’s Fair Hotel beside the fairgrounds, complete with cremation and a gas chamber, and utilized the occasion and his own magnetic personality to entice victims.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.”
“I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.”
“I was born with the devil in me,’ [Holmes] wrote. ‘I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.”
“His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.”
“Beside his own person and his own interests, nothing is sacred to the psychopath.”
Generations of readers have been intrigued by Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s memoir because of its tales of life in Nazi death camps and its teachings for spiritual survival. Frankl contends that while we cannot avoid suffering, we can choose how to deal with it, interpret information in it, and push forward with fresh purpose. He bases this claim on his own experience as well as the accounts of his patients. His logotherapy idea is based on the conviction that the quest for meaning rather than pleasure is what drives people most. One of the most well-known novels in America is Man’s Search for Meaning, which continues to motivate us all to discover meaning in life itself.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
“Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.”
“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
The O’Reilly Factor anchor vividly describes how John Fitzgerald Kennedy was brutally murdered, and how a series of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved leader but also plunged the country into the cataclysmic split of Vietnam War and its culturally transformative aftermath. John F. Kennedy learns about the challenges, isolation, and temptations of being president of the United States in January 1961 as the Cold War intensifies. He also strives to stem the spread of Communism. Along the way, he makes a number of ruthless foes, including Central Intelligence Agency director Allen Dulles, Fidel Castro of Cuba, and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
In addition, the president and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, have come under threat from influential members of organized crime. Kennedy is assassinated in Texas in the middle of a 1963 campaign trip by the unstable young wanderer Lee Harvey Oswald. The former Marine Corps sharpshooter flees the scene only to be apprehended by police and killed while being held. Nearly as terrible as the murder itself are the circumstances that led to the most infamous crime of the 20th century.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Don’t let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.”
“The crisis isn’t over. The prospect of nuclear war has never been greater. The United States is so close to invading Cuba that one bad joke in the nonstop series of ExComm meetings is that Bobby Kennedy will soon be mayor of Havana.”
“Ask not what your country can do for you,” he commands, his voice rising to deliver the defining sentence, “but what you can do for your country.”
“that the decision to use force should not be determined by men whose careers depend upon its use.”
“But not in Mississippi. Though police”
A Tale of Bloody Faith, A multifaceted, terrifying tale of polygamy, horrific bloodshed, messianic hallucination, and unwavering faith. This is classic Krakauer, an absolutely engrossing nonfiction piece that sheds light on a typically perplexing area of human behavior. About 40,000 Mormon Fundamentalists live in remote enclaves in the American West, Canada, and Mexico, and Krakauer brings readers there. They hold the opinion that the mainstream Mormon Church erred horribly when it rejected polygamy. The leaders of these renegade cults are extremists who serve only God, defying both civil authorities and the Salt Lake City Mormon hierarchy.
Fundamentalist prophets exercise complete control over the lives of their followers by marrying copiously and with near impunity (the head of the largest fundamentalist church took seventy-five “plural wives,” some of whom were married to him when they were fourteen or fifteen and he was in his eighties). They also preach that the world will soon be completely destroyed in a hurricane of fire, sparing only their most obedient adherents.
In his exploration of the Lafferty brothers and their fanatical brethren’s tale and the violent history of Mormonism, Krakauer uncovers a uniquely American form of religious extremism while probing the dark underbelly of the most prosperous indigenous religion in the country. The end product is classic Krakauer: a completely captivating nonfiction piece that sheds light on an often perplexing area of human behavior.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Common sense is no match for the voice of God.”
― Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
“As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion.”
― Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
“But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.”
― Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
“Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among those inclined by temperament or upbringing toward religious pursuits. Faith is the very antithesis of reason, injudiciousness a crucial component of spiritual devotion. And when religious fanaticism supplants ratiocination, all bets are suddenly off.”
― Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
“Neither Emma’s tears nor her rage were enough to make Joseph monogamous, however; nor were the prevailing mores of the day. He kept falling rapturously in love with women not his wife. And because that rapture was so wholly consuming, and felt so good, it struck him as impossible that God might possibly frown on such a thing.”
― Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith