Karl Niebuhr Explore the incredible hidden side effects of interactions with complex systems Incentives affect peoples behavior Incentives are a way of influencing the behavior of people. Lawmakers, for example, can create incentives which bring people to smoke less by simply raising the taxes on cigarettes. There are a lot of people using incentives to affect your behavior, the … Read more
Learn how to automate your income and live a Rich Lifestyle In this book, you will learn how to automate your income and optimize your workflow so that you can cut back your working time and eventually break free entirely from your day job. When you free yourself from the burden of work you can … Read more
Learn from the Bible of business and personal productivity The GTD system focuses on a simple yet effective philosophy by asking the question: “What’s the next concrete action which brings me closer to my goal?” By keeping every task small enough so that it can be done in a short amount of time, you can just … Read more
This book will teach you the basics of personal finance Why are so many people stuck in the “rat race.” Are we working for ourselves or others? Most of our society are trapped in a race against themselves. A race where they constantly have to work hard to catch up with the bills and taxes. Once they get … Read more
This is one of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” ~ Albert Einstein Change comes from the inside out You can’t take shortcuts for real personal growth. You could master some outside skills like communication … Read more
Explore this principle of nature to improve your life You have probably observed that often the majority of output stem from the minority of input. It could happen in your business when the majority of sales come from a little subset of your products. Often this ratio is around, but not limited to 20% and 80%. That’s … Read more
Myelin, neural pathways, and skills Everything we think, feel and do is a result of electrical impulses traveling through our nerve fibers. We call this connected fibers “circuits.” Each circuit is responsible for a certain action, for example, thought or feeling. When we move a part of our body, it is the result of electrical impulses … Read more
This book will teach you how to maximize your mental resources Our mental resources are limited, don’t multitask! Our brain’s ability to perform is limited. And modern technology, despite making our lives easier, represents a significant problem when it comes to our concentration. One study showed that constant distraction of, for example, emails and phone … Read more
Bounce looks at the science of attaining high performance, and how to get there Training can take you much farther than talent. Many people overrate the importance of talent. Mozart, one of the greatest composers, for example, would be assumed to possess incredible talent. But studies have discovered that practice time, not talent, is the deciding factor … Read more
“Survival machines that can simulate the future are one jump ahead of survival machines who can only learn on the basis of overt trial and error. The trouble with overt trial is that it takes time and energy. The trouble with overt error is that it is often fatal. Simulation is both safer and faster. … Read more
Become a powerful negotiator in all areas of your life We all negotiate on a daily basis. Whether it is with our family, friends, business partners, or tax officials. Negotiations are ubiquitous, though. So you’d better start to developing your skills in negotiations, it will serve you well in life. Know whom to talk to The first thing … Read more
This book will teach you the six universal principles of persuasion, how to use them and how to defend yourself against them. Nature is full of strange behavior. For example, turkeys care for their chicks only when they emit their distinctive “chep-chep” sound. Scientists can exploit this simplistic drive of the mother turkey with a stuffed … Read more
This book identifies the key patterns behind genuine innovation Innovation depends on the adjacent possible Innovations don’t just happen at random. In the primordial soup of atoms four billion years ago, life didn’t just develop from a rearrangement of carbon atoms. First simpler structures like molecules, proteins, polymers, cells, and so on had to build the basic … Read more
Zero to One presents a new way of thinking about innovation Intensive and extensive progress What do we really mean by thinking about the future? Surely we mean things which will be different from today. And for things to be different there has to be change or progress. There are two types of progress, horizontal … Read more
People with a fixed mindset — those who believe that abilities are fixed — are far less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset. Mindset There are some things over which we have little control like the body features we are born with. But there are many more over which we do have control, for example physical and … Read more
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.” — Mark Twain En informática hay un término “garbage in, garbage out”. Basura entra, basura sale. Lastimosamente al consumir cualquier noticia en las redes sociales, exponemos a nuestro cerebro al mismo principio. Hace años dejé de mirar a la tele y fue una … Read more
Mental strength isn’t about acting tough; it’s about feeling empowered to overcome life’s challenges. Here is a list of things Mentally strong people don’t do. Waste time feeling sorry for themselves Give away their power Shy away from change Focus on things they can’t control Worry about pleasing everyone Fear taking calculated risks Dwell on the past Make the same mistakes … Read more
This book shows how we can deal with the complexity in our lives Human knowledge has become highly complex Thanks to the accumulative progress of human knowledge, we have increasingly detailed information about nearly every problem. Take for example medicine, over 13.000 diseases, injuries and syndromes are defined according to the World Health Organization. For many of … Read more
In this book you will learn that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a special blend of passion and persistence. We tend to self-deceive us about the key to success When people are asked about what they think is more important for success, hard work or natural talent, they tend to choose hard-work. … Read more
In this book Malcolm Gladwell asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? The myth of talent Our culture tends to attribute an individual’s success to his or her talent and abilities, a so-called “self-made” individual. It turns out that the “self-made man” is a myth. There are many hidden factors which play an important role in every … Read more