Karl Niebuhr 
Today I’ll finally share the gist of Neuro-Associative Conditioning or NAC. NAC is a form of (re) programming habits. I learned about NAC in Tony Robbin’s Personal Power ll which according to Wikipedia “is the best-selling personal improvement program of all time with more than 35 million tapes distributed worldwide.“ The audio program is really … Read more
Have you ever read a book that gave you the impression that the author held nothing back? That she gave her all? That’s how I felt while listening to Tony Robbins’ Personal Power. I listened to his program because I felt that there was something important to learn from Tony for me. My instinct turned … Read more
The first time I encountered Derek was in the Tim Ferris podcast. I loved the common sense and pragmatism he exuded so naturally, his book went straight to my reading list. Here are some of the lessons he taught me. A good way to start a Business Derek wasn’t trying to build a business at … Read more
How did I get to this book? I got interested in it after watching an Tim Ferris interview with Scott. Happy I am that I did pick it up. Not that I agree with everything in the book, far from it, but there are a few gold nuggets which I really liked. After all, that’s … Read more
I picked up this book while reading about the Wim Hof method in the book What doesn’t kill us. This book is a great complement if you are a practitioner, or simply interested in the Wim Hof breathing technique. Patrick McKeown, the author of this book, has investigated breathing and its role in people’s health, … Read more
While reading about self-distancing or self-reflection from a third person perspective I had to think about David Goggins. He’s who many would agree on, one of the bravest and toughest people alive. And he tends to talk about himself in the third person. Coincidence? I don’t think so. I was so freaking excited while reading … Read more
There is a lot of good things I have to say about Scott Adam’s book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. The reason I’m sharing this excerpt is that I feel like I paid too much attention to the importance of being very good at something. What Scott displays here is … Read more
I can say with confidence that this book explains habits in the most concise and clear manner, from the ones I’ve read. James does a clear job of abstracting the core principles from all the information out there. I had read most of the ideas elsewhere before though. But if you only have time to … Read more
A while back, all the craze about productivity seemed to reside on Willpower. There are several good books about that topic. But what if willpower is overrated? I started to think more about the alternative when I saw a video about Optimizing the defaults. But actually, where I learned about this principle for the first … Read more
I read this book because I’m very interested in the Wim Hoff method. The book is but a little longer than it should be. But hey, no problem as we can always skip the parts we don’t need and so I did. I summarized and quoted the most existing lessons, here they are. Humans evolved … Read more
In a recent Tea Time with Tim, he got asked how to find a Mentor. I made some notes because his advice was the best I’ve encountered on this. First, let’s re-frame the question “The question is “How can I encourage people I aspire to be like, who are 10, 20, 30 years ahead of … Read more
Last time we read about Empathetic Imagination, one of the defining characteristics of self-made Billionaires. Another characteristic is Patient Urgency. It means feeling an urgency to have everything in place at the right time and sustaining that urgency during prolonged periods of time. The Self-made Billionaire Effect explains. They always say time changes things, but … Read more
One remark particularly stuck in my head today while reading When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead. Thus, the title of this post. I began to look for work a few months after I started taking classes. The business side of entertainment–that’s where I was heading as far back as the family trip to … Read more
This autobiography did not disappoint. I especially enjoyed the first half of the book. It is where Tony recounts some of his first business ventures. The first one he created in elementary school. The inspiration came from a book he borrowed from his friend, called Free Stuff for Kids. In it, he found a button-making … Read more
The first habit you should form if you have a ratio of positive/negative emotions equal to or lower than 1:1 — that is you feel at least as many negative emotions during the day as positive ones — is exercise. As Tim Ferris noted in one of his interviews with Tony Robbins, at a point … Read more
Es fácil enfocarse sólo en la recompensa monetaria en los laburos. Dependiendo en si estas empezando recién o si tienes experiencia, es decir junior/senior, la remuneración debería tener una importancia diferente. Cuando recién empiezas y después de decidir lo que quieres hacer, deberías enfocarte netamente aprender. Hazte la pregunta: Con cual empresa/organización/emprendimiento aprenderé más? Lo … Read more
The third Door is a very entertaining Autobiography from which you will get a lot of actionable lessons. The thing that struck me most from Alex’s journey is how he looks at his frustrating experiences along the way to success. He doesn’t take his failures too seriously, actually quite the opposite, he makes the most … Read more
I want to share this gold nugget from the Tim Ferris podcast. The episode is about Q&A and the question someone asks Tim is if he has ever felt like he was stagnant. Tim’s response from the transcript:Tim Ferriss: I’ve had that feeling at many points in my life. So the first thing I would … Read more
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose. I started this book because it was mentioned several times in Alex’s book The Third Door. I just felt this very intense intuition that it would turn out to be a great book to read for me at this time, turned out to be right. I … Read more
