10% Happier — key concepts

Learn how to become happier and more successful through meditation After suffering a panic attack, Dan Harris began a journey to search for a solution. His search eventually led him to meditation. In this book, the author tells how meditation helped him calm down his inner narrator which was the originator of his crisis, and how … Read more

Good to great — Summary

Learn what differentiates Great Companies from Good Companies Jim Collins and his team researched over 6000 press articles and 2000 pages of executive interviews to find out what makes companies go from good to great. Good-to-great companies are those which have been performing below the average stock market performance for at least 15 years before … Read more

Positivity — Summary

Learn how positive emotions lead to more success and a more fulfilled life Many books are written about the power of positivity, but many people don’t know that it is backed up by science. Positive emotions make us smarter and more successful and we can become happier just by being more grateful. Psychologists have shown that … Read more

Creativity Inc. — Summary

Learn how to create a creative working environment In our modern day, creativity is a growing requirement, as other jobs get increasingly outsourced by computers and robots. There is one problem with creativity, though. It implies doing things in a different way. People often fear to do things in unusual ways because they involve risk, how … Read more

The everything store — Summary

Learn from one of the biggest visionaries and entrepreneurs, the mind behind Amazon. Jeff Bezos worked at the hedge fund D.E. Shaw & Co back in the early nineties. He was a remarkable employee. He had the ability for deep analytical thinking since he was a young boy. Upon graduating from Princeton in 1986, Bezos worked … Read more

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ — Summary

Learn to manage your emotions so that you can use them to your benefit Emotions are not only what define our relationships or extreme situations like a fight. They are an integral part of our decision-making process. In this book, you will learn what emotional intelligence (EI) means and how it can be developed. But … Read more

Growth Hacker Marketing — Summary

Learn how to outperform massive traditional marketing budgets with free growth hacker marketing Traditional marketing techniques won’t get you the same results like growth hacker techniques. For example, if you want to create a viral post or product, paying a huge marketing campaign won’t do the job. Your product has to capture new customers by … Read more

Payoff — Summary

Learn how to motivate yourself and others from this “little brother” of the book Drive. What exactly is motivation and are there different types of motivation? We learned the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in the book Drive. In this book, you will learn more about what makes us motivated, spoiler alert * it … Read more

The lean startup — Summary

Learn how to form a successful new business Startups differ from established companies in that they don’t know exactly how to do things. They need to be flexible and make quick adjustments. Traditional management sets goals and oversees the execution of it, something which in Startups won’t work, a startup has insufficient experience to predefine a … Read more

Predictably Irrational — Summary

Learn how to think effectively from one of the best books on the topic Relative value Our mind always tries to compare one thing with another one to try to estimate its value, attractiveness or whatever it tries to identify. This is the relativeness of everything. What’s more, often our brain picks the laziest option possible, something … Read more

Mindware — Summary

Learn to reason more rationally Have you ever wondered why people make stupid mistakes? You might have observed how even a very smart person does an obvious mistake. This book will help you to upgrade your reasoning skills. Correlation is not causation Whenever we encounter two things which correlate (occur together) we tend to assume … Read more