In conversations with my students, we sometimes talk about good books.
I want to share my list with you. Here are books I’ve read in the last 3 months.
My takeaways are what I still remember from the books, you may get even more out of these!
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
- Put your energy toward things that create the highest contribution.
- Embrace the idea of “less but better” and accept trade-offs as an inherent part of life.
- By focusing on a few essential things and learning to do better by doing less, we can craft a life that is far more productive and fulfilling.
- Stare at who you want to become. Studies show that even a brief connection with a role model can vastly increase unconscious motivation.
- In the talent hotbeds visited, practice was the big game, the center of their world, the main focus of their daily lives.
- Reachfullness: Seek out ways to stretch yourself to the edge of your competence.
- Teach in concrete terms.
- “organic mentorship” is mentorship that just happens naturally. Also seek mentors from overlapping fields.
- Rapid feedback: The shorter and more honest the feedback cycle becomes, the faster you can make incremental adjustments to your approach, process, and skills – and thus the faster you can grow.
- By simplifying the problem that you are trying to solve, you can often make breakthroughs that other people miss because they are over complicating the problem.