#book-summaries

It amazing book and I can even say one of the most important book to read. In fact, basic book for life. Surprisingly, this book I have never seen this in recommendation lists, as top 100 books to read,

Harvey Mackay is quickly becoming an author and thinker that will be on my most formative books list (shameless plug, you can get my list of the ten most formative books in my life, culled from hundreds

The first thing about this book that I think you should not worry about is that although this book is about retirement advice, it is widely applicable to everyone in all part of their lives. Of course,

There comes a moment in everyone's lives where we experience a pivotal moment. We get married and start a family. We have a particularly difficult time at work. Our family needs us and we drop everything

As I was reading The 100 best business books of all time by Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten, I went down a number of rabbit holes as is the case when I get recommendations to read other books. This was

You're not listening was recommended by many people that I follow as one of the books that I should read for 2020. I was glad that I picked up this book, because I had always thought that I was a good

I am terribly surprised that I am just reading this book now. I guess that's the feeling that people that read a lot get when they encounter a book that surprises and delights them with insights and changes

If you follow Tim Ferriss, Ryan Holiday or other successful individuals, you will know that all of them have some meditation or silent practice. Hal Elrod, in his book, The Miracle Morning, has 'silence'

A new year and new books to read! I thought that it would be smart to use the first month of the year to make the next 11 months even better, so one of the skills I wanted to learn was how to read faster

Last month, I decided to re-organize by bookshelf. Previously, I had my bookshelf organized by colour (I know, I know, I thought it would be fun to organize that way though it has no utility whatsoever

Edward de Bono is a name that I recognized from when I was younger. When I was younger, I was extremely interested in these book of puzzles called 'lateral thinking puzzles' - essentially they are puzzles

The Choose Yourself Guide to Wealth was book written by James after his great success from Choose Yourself. He ended up getting a lot of feedback from his first book from readers who were interested in

What's happiness to you? How do you define happiness? The definition that I like is one I heard from a podcast somewhere but I can't recall who it was from (if you know, please let me know in the comments)

I remember how I purchased this book - it was from app sumo and it was one of those promotions of getting the book for free if you pay shipping and handling (which I later learned is actually a marketing

I was at Chapters a few weeks ago looking for a book for a co-worker and as I was looking through the shelves, saw this book on the shelf. The Chapters was a smaller store so there weren't multiple copies

I picked up this gem of a book from a recent book sale and while it's a short read (about 70 pages), it features quite a few interesting lessons, examples, case studies and actionable takeaways that I

Seth Godin, one of my all time favourite authors, podcasters and marketers wrote a book called The Dip which inspired my friend (Shawn) and I to create our own podcast, called by the same name. Before

I can't remember how I discovered lateral thinking puzzles but I do remember why I became fascinated with them - often the puzzles revealed an underlying assumption that was made without us knowing about

Adam Grant is amazing. I listen to his podcast and read all of his books and I am completely enthralled by all of the content and writing that he produces. Whether it's Originals and his story about passing

One of my favourite kinds of novels are parables. There's of course something to be said about storytelling - it's one of the best ways to transfer messages and information and it's extremely memorable.