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Books and highlights - Week of 4 December 2017

Books opened week of Monday, 4 December 2017 * Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less * The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues * The Advantage, Enhanced Edition: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business * The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization * The Four Obsessions

Reminiscing a four-year friendship with Sebastian Marshall

I’m rereading Ikigai [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006M9T8NI/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title] which I bought four years ago, in 2013. At that time, it was a major decision to spend $9.77 to buy an ebook on Amazon. I remember buying a Kindle so I could

Book: Never Let Go by Dan John

Philosophical, tactical, and pragmatic fitness wrapped in stories. You’re going to get philosophy — Dan explains why and how to build a body that matters to YOU. You’re going to get tactics — There’s lots of very specific programs in here regardless if your goal is to be better

Book: Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith

Most authors berate us for lack of mental toughness. In my experience, mental toughness is overrated. Steve Pavlina is right: Your environment will eat your goals for breakfast. It’s very, very true, but seldom talked about. That’s what Marshall discusses in this book: the fact that our environment

Review: The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

Best book to kick your ass to action. I bought, read, and reread this in Kindle years ago. But last week, I bought a paperback copy to take with me everywhere. If, like me, you have a “technique and craft, not inspiration/Muse/etc.” approach to art and writing, you

Review: Principles by Ray Dalio

I read this book again because it was recommended to me as the “best book on learning how to be effective.” So far, I agree. Already, I am using an “issues log”, designing experiments, seeing every failure I make and every success I achieve as artifacts to analyze. My biggest

Review: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Do you know that feeling when you’re certain something pivotal just happened to you? You’re sure — you just know — that things will never be the same again… I’ve having one of those moments. The GiveGetWin tour just ended. Persistence. Air planes. Possibilities. There’s so many things

Review: Lincoln's Melancholy by Joshua Wolf Shenk

Read to cope during a very down time in my life. It’s a fact that You can feel bad… And still decide to take action —Stories of Lincoln helped me internalize this, in a way that self-help books couldn’t. This was just 150 years ago, but everything was

Review: The Unpublished David Ogilvy

This is a short (I read most of it on a one-hour flight from Virac to Manila) collection of excerpts from Ogilvy’s private and public memos, letters, speeches, and interviews. Full of useful and insightful gems, Ogilvy felt real to me, like a mentor, not an author. Really enjoyed

Review: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

A stoic man’s reminders to himself. It’s amazing how someone, an emperor, who lived in 2nd century AD would have the same neuroses and issues as us. Read to both change your mindset and develop habits of thinking that will transform your life. Laziness / procrastination / akrasia, ambition, peace