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⁉️ What’s your best investment? ⁉️ ——- For me it must have been a course I took in public speaking. It helped me overcome my fear of speaking in front of a crowd. ——— I decided to I take action and overcome this fear once and for all after reading The Snowball by Alice Schroeder, a biography of the life of legendary investor Warren Buffett, in which he mentions that one of his best investments was a Dale Carnegie course in public speaking. ——- That said, some fine folks who are not afraid to speak their minds are @timonotes and @read_love_live_ who I have the honor host in today’s #3booksin1minute on the theme of Investing. ——- Here are 3 books that will help you make better financial decisions: ——— 📖 Thinking Fast and Slow 📖 By Daniel Kahneman - @poor_bjorns_notes_to_self —— 📖 The Education of a Value Investor 📖 By Guy Spier - @read_love_live_ —— 📖 The Richest Man in Babylon 📖 By George S. Clason - @timosnotes ————————— MORE RECOMMENDATIONS: #3booksin1minute ————————— - - - - - - #guyspier #theeducationofavalueinvestor #georgesclason #therichestmaninbabylon #thinkingfastandslow #danielkahneman #investing #investmentbooks #aliceschroeder #thesnowball #warrenbuffett #personaldevelopmentbooks #makingmoney #financialliteracy #valueinvesting #learningtoinvest #stockmarketeducation #nonfictionbooks #readersareleaders #leadersarereaders #nonfiction #cognitivebiases #igreads #bookrecommendations #lifelonglearning
“Strive for all your one-on-one meetings to get a little awkward. Why? Because the most important and meaningful conversation have that characteristic.“ ——- This quotes puts words on a notion I’ve had for some time. It’s in the slightly uncomfortable situations where growth happens. This is one of the reasons I love the concept of the 1-on-1:s even though I’m not very good at leading them (yet!). ——- I understand the power of open-ended questions, but I sometimes struggle with formulating them in the moment they would be most useful to me. —— If you are like me then you might find value in this “cheat sheet” of open-ended questions in stole from The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhoe: ————- ⭐️ 1. Questions to get the conversation moving: ⭐️ ————- 🔹What’s on top of your mind right now? 🔸What priorities are you thinking about this week? 🔹What’s the best use of our time today? ————- ⭐️ 2. Once the topic is set: ⭐️ ————- 🔹What does the ideal outcome look like? 🔸What’s hard for you in getting that outcome? 🔹What do you really care about? 🔸What do you think is the best course of action? 🔹What’s the worst-case senario you are worried about? ————- ⭐️ 3. Support ⭐️ ————- 🔹How can I help you? 🔸What can I do to make you more successful? 🔹What was the most useful part of our conversation today? ———— - - - - - ⁉️ What’s your favorite management book? ⁉️
Except for a few naturals, most of us hates negotiation at first. We get nervous, our hands sweat and our thinking breaks down. ——- But it’s not really the person across the table that scares us; it’s conflict itself. Humans are made for living in tribes and getting along with the group is a natural priority for most of us. ——- I’m avoid conflict. I avoid negotiation. —— “The first step to achieving a mastery of daily negotiation is to get over your aversion to negotiating.” ——- This book changed my view of negotiation; I’m now in love with it! And a mostly due to the fact that we created Book Club/Implementation Group around this book where really put the tactics into immediate use in real life situation alongside our theoretilcal studies. ——- 📝 The Pinocchio Effect: The number of words grows with lies. When people lie they use more words. ——- 📝 “No, is the start of negotiation, not the end of it.” The truth of this simple statement became clear to me when I payed attention to how I negotiated with my son. Once I had said “no” to one of his request was usually the time when I would opened myself to hearing him out. That’s when I was ready to consider the possibles and we could work something out together. ——- 📝 The real meaning of ‘no’: 🔸I'm not yet ready to agree. 🔹You are making me feel uncomfortable. 🔸I do not understand. 🔹I don’t think I can afford it. 🔸I want something else. 🔹I need more information. 🔸I want to talk it over with someone else. ——- ⭐️ TAKEAWAY: The Accusation Audit is a favorite tool of mine that I used a lot recently (swipe for example). “You make a list of every unreasonable, unfair, crazy, ridiculous accusation your gut instincts are picking up that the other side might say about you.” When we acknowledging negatives they lose their power. ——— ⚖️ VERDICT: If Atomic Habits is the definite book on habit building than this is definite book on negotiation. It can seem a bit manipulative, but if you see past that—and make an effort to use the tools in this book in everyday life with no delay—then it might be the most valuable reading you will do this year. —— 4/5 ——- ⁉️ What are your favorite negotiation tactic?⁉️
Sometimes when our assumptions about books are very wrong, but yet they lead us to interesting places that might otherwise go unexplored. —— I don’t do much research into books before purchase. A person who’s opinions I value recommends a book? I’m adding it to my list. An author I like release a new book? I buy it without even reading tagline—even less the back. I don’t remember the last time I read the back of a book... ——- Sometimes it leads to surprises. —— I assumed this book was an academic study of the hallmark traits of crowd psychology; how “crowd behavior is heavily influenced by the loss of responsibility of the individual and the impression of universality of behavior, both of which increase with crowd size”. ——- That’s not the case. ——- Instead it’s a right wing political commentators examination of our times most divisive questions of sexuality, gender, technology and race. ——- I’m guess this will present views in stark contrast to Reni Eddo-Lodge sentiment in her book #WhyImNoLongerTalkingtoWhitePeopleAboutRace that I read a while back. ——— This could be a real emotional rollercoaster . Bring it on! 💪🏻 🎢 ——- When did you make false assumptions about a book? For better or worse. 🤔⁉️
I tried to explain this book to a colleague before christmas break; how it utterly fashinated me, even though I feel I only understood it partly, and how it had provided me with a new lens with which to see the world. — It must have caught his interest, cuz when I got back to work we had lunch and he told me he had devoured the book and was working his way through another work by the same authors, Digital Libido, and was enthusiastically urging me to do the same. — The book, written in 2000, talks about a new paradigm. The transition from capitalism to informationalism in the wake of the internet era and how, like any genuine revolution means that the whole Darwinian system of punishment and rewards are restructured, introducing a new over and underclass. — The idea of this new system, the Netocracy, was invented in the 90:s is re-invented in this book by contemporary Internet philosophers Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist. ——— 📝 Before we ran away from strangers that looked strong. Now we engage them and gain mutual benefits. —— 📝 The Consumtariat: Consumption rather than production is the role of the new underclass. —— 📝 Politicians are selected based on their value as entertainment and what narrative they can fit into. They are elected to to feed the headlines. —— 📝 Money will follow attention, not vice versa. The only hard currency on the net is attention. ——- 📝 Knowledge, contacts and exclusive information replaces capital for the netocrat. ——- 📝 “Technology plays its own hand” Take the clock: innocent enough of an artifact. But this infernal little machine, with its introduction of second and minutes, have retrospectively given a whole new meaning to our perception of time. ——— 📝 "Giving birth is simply not fashionable anymore." ——- ⭐️ TAKEAWAY: Great book to read before reflecting on how to navigate the 3rd decade of the 21st century. Is what you do professionally raising in value or is it losing its value in this new paradigm? —— ⚖️ VERDICT: A must-read and total mindf*ck. Being outdated is one of the strengths of this book. Because now, 20 years after the books release, we can see its predictions manifest in everyday life. — 5/5
I wanted to take the opportunity to share some of the accounts that has been giving me the most value during the last 12 months. These are my favorite Non Fiction Bookstagramers at the moment! ————————- ⭐️ Legends ⭐️ @bookmattic @bookssavedmyass @bookthinkers @wordswithjennifer @booksoftitans ———————— ⭐️ Raising Stars ⭐️ @read_love_live_ @pickyourhabits @libroreview @paulaghete ————————- Who’s on your list? Who should I keep my eyes on in 2020? TAG!
Outside of people from Instagram I have a few people who's book recommendations I pay extra attention to: ———————— ⭐️ Charlie Munger ⭐️ - ❓Billionaire investor and side kick to Warren Buffett. - 📚 Got me to read: Influence (5/5), Deep Simplicity (4/5), The Third Chimpanzee (5/5) ———————— ⭐️ Jordan Peterson ⭐️ - ❓Professor of Psychology and clinical psychologist. - 📚Got me to read: The Road to Wigan Pier (?/5), The Denial of Death (5/5) ———————— ⭐️ Owen Cook (aka @rsdtyler ) ⭐️ - ❓Who? Professor in Pimpin’ and voracious reader. - 📚 Got to read: A New Earth (4/5), In the realm of Hungry Ghosts (4/5), Levels of Energy (5/5), The Shallows (5/5), The Denial of Death (5/5). ———————— The Road to Wigan Pier is from Jordan Peterson’s ‘Great Books’-list and—only 30 pages into it—I think I might already have a contender for book of the year! — The book documents the bleak living and working condition of the middle class in England in the 1930:s. - - - ⁉️ Who do you take recommendations from? 🤔 on Instagram and elsewhere?
We know we are going to die someday. This is the unique problem of the conscious animal. We know it but we don’t feel it because we need to repress this truth in order to function. ——- So what to do? It’s really hard to accept that we are just worms in the dirt. Especially when our nature is so paradoxical; the body being so animalistic and limited yet our minds so godlike and boundless. We are gods with anuses. ——- What we need is a lie. A vital and grand one that we can always rely on. We need something that transcends us, some system of ideas and powers that embed us, whether it’s a flag, the proletariat, a guru or religion. ——- Kierkegaard, Freud, Jung, Maslow and Fromm are some of the characters you’ll get to familiarize with during this journey. I felt like each chapter demanded a following period of reflection. I was absolutely taken aback by this book. ——— Some notes: —— 📝 “I believe that those who speculate that a full apprehension of man’s condition would drive him insane are right, quite literally right.” Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. 😨 —— 📝 Man is beaten down by life and the world; “beaten because he fails to face up to the existential truth of his situation— the truth that he is an inner symbolic self, which signifies a certain freedom, and that he is bound by a finite body, which limits that freedom.” —— 📝 How much of experience do we let in?The schizophrenic allow for too much; the depressed too little. ——- 📝 Anxiety is the possibility of freedom. ——- 📝 Ideally man is “...fully in the world on its terms and wholly beyond the world in his trust in the invisible dimension.” —— ⭐️ TAKEAWAY: If life is an insurmountable problem, and we can’t live with the truth of our situation then the question is on what level of illusion to live our lives —— This book really checks all the boxes for me: ✅It’s complex and nuanced - yet I don’t feel totally lost (expect that fu*king castration complex.. I just do get it...🤷‍♂️ ✂️ ) ✅ I started the book being one person, came out of it as another. ✅ Checked ONE book of my reading list— and added a DOZEN new ones! —— Loved it! —— 5/5

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