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The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

Friggen insane. It was such a transformative time in America. From the creation of the first steamboats, the first railroad, the Federal Reserve, the stock market and the civil war.

Crazy book. Highly recommend!
 

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I missed this thread.

Reading is a waste of time unless you do something with it, as I found out.
My reading has been pushed into my sun-tan breaks or right before I go to sleep. Since I'm doing WfH, haven't been listening to as many audiobooks, but I think I prefer it that way. I get to work through some of these books and take copious notes as I work through them.

Start from zero was very interesting and surprisingly light, ignore the upsells, and you have valuable knowledge in there for the 9$ or you'd spend. Just a matter of having the testicular fortitude to make connections or call businesses, which I think one of the INSIDERS did himself back in 2016.

Edit: If you haven't read AtGW yet, what are you doing? Don't be me, and buy the book and sit on it and "flip through it" for 3 years. AtGW is a powerful tool to use to take back control of your values, rules, beliefs, and re-engineer and re-build your life from the ground up.
Anything can be hard in the beginning, that's called friction. But if you recall, it just takes a split second of effort to break that friction, and get rolling. So do yourself favor, sit down, and start today.
 
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The Book on Negotiating Real Estate

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Getting to Yes


Anybody wanna weigh in? The critical path for me right now is reaching out my existing network trying to get my biz off the ground.
 

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[List of decent good books]

Help me pick one

What is it you're trying to do over the next two months?

Compound effect is good, extremely fluffy and honestly it's common sense, but reading it will pound it back into your head harder and hopefully soak into your internal machinery.
 

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What is it you're trying to do over the next two months?

Compound effect is good, extremely fluffy and honestly it's common sense, but reading it will pound it back into your head harder and hopefully soak into your internal machinery.
In the next two months, I want to get my first 10 local service providers to pay me a monthly subscription fee to run their google ad campaigns and ultimately formulate some sort of systemized business cycle.
 
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Hey guys, I'm looking to order a couple new books but before doing so, thought i'd post this question here rather than starting a new thread, do you guys prefer Kindle or having the physical book to read?
 

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Loving this book...

Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models: Weinberg, Gabriel, McCann, Lauren: 9780525533580: Amazon.com: Books

While it has a lot of info I already knew, it really hammers it home.

Written by the founder of DuckDuckGo and his wife who is a statistician.

It will be a Giveaway at the Summit as well.

If anyone missed this previously, WOW is this book ever worth your time.

Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models (use MJ's link above)
 
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I have finished reading The Productivity Project, and I am starting to read Tiny Habits. Good book the first one, I changed a couple of things in my routine to stay more motivate while I make myself more efficient.
About the second, I cannot say much because I have just started, but I read the intro and it sounds interesting at least.
 

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Anybody wanna weigh in? The critical path for me right now is reaching out my existing network trying to get my biz off the ground.
If your business is real estate, then the first one. I learned a lot from reading it.
 

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I'm reading The Future is Faster than You Think by Diamandis. Seriously mindblowing. It's basically about what the future (10 - 20 years from now) will look like given the convergence of new technologies across a range of fields. Well worth a read.
 
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Just finished reading this. Very interesting book.

Going forward I will start reading Bezos's letters to shareholders.
 
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I have just finished Matthew Walker's "Why we sleep". I don't say that often, but this book has PROFOUNDLY transformed the way I view sleep, and easily makes it into my personal top 5 life-changing book. Can only recommend!!
 

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I have just finished Matthew Walker's "Why we sleep". I don't say that often, but this book has PROFOUNDLY transformed the way I view sleep, and easily makes it into my personal top 5 life-changing book. Can only recommend!!
You should read this then -
 

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Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries by Safi Bahcall

Halfway through it.

Some random points:

-The difference between product and strategy innovation
-Why some of the greatest companies in the world saw their demise, despite having excellent innovative products, and how to prevent it
-The critical balance between innovation and "franchises" that pay the bills-- both are necessary, but the way they are structured is crucial
-Artists and soldiers must be separate but equal, and the entrepreneur needs to be the gardener, not necessarily the developer, of innovative ideas.
-The power of incentives and employee fit.
-Analyze success and failures, but go one step deeper--look at the process behind your decisionmaking. It is possible, by sheer luck, to succeed, having made the wrong decisions , or fail having made the right decisions. False fails and false successes can be very dangerous to the health of a company.
-It often takes 3 fails or more for something to succeed.
-Individual behaviors are difficult to predict, collective behavior is highly predictable.


This book is not geared for solo entrepreneurs, but those with a team that can take on various roles, although there are lessons for all.

Highly recommended.

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Serotonin: Depressing in the most offensively cerebral way. I'm glad I'm not 40, glad I'm working on living a life opposite of the protag.

A Rebours: Still working on.

TSZ: Listening via audiobook, I will probably have to read a physical/e-copy before I make good distinctions.

The Inner Game Of Tennis: Relatively mind-blowing. Do you ever write off visualization or the amount of work your sub-conscious and base conscious do for you?
I did.
Imagine my surprise when a Tennis coach recognized and capitalized on the very same parts of consciousness that master-hypnotists and therapists did back in the 1970s.
He 80/20'd peoples results and created powerful change in his clients and elite-level trainees through a very simple method that doesn't even involve critiquing or yelling.

Want a taste of the secret? It comes down to non-judgement, and as I read through this book, I value non-judgement and objectivity more and more.
When it comes to focus and discipline, I'm still searching for how to apply this in my own life, but I can already tell this is going to be amazing once I get back to Jiu-jitsu when quarantine is over.

Take it easy guys
 
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Want a taste of the secret? It comes down to non-judgement, and as I read through this book, I value non-judgement and objectivity more and more.
When it comes to focus and discipline, I'm still searching for how to apply this in my own life, but I can already tell this is going to be amazing once I get back to Jiu-jitsu


You bite my interest! Thx :)
 

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Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries by Safi Bahcall

Halfway through it.

Some random points:

-The difference between product and strategy innovation
-Why some of the greatest companies in the world saw their demise, despite having excellent innovative products, and how to prevent it
-The critical balance between innovation and "franchises" that pay the bills-- both are necessary, but the way they are structured is crucial
-Artists and soldiers must be separate but equal, and the entrepreneur needs to be the gardener, not necessarily the developer, of innovative ideas.
-The power of incentives and employee fit.
-Analyze success and failures, but go one step deeper--look at the process behind your decisionmaking. It is possible, by sheer luck, to succeed, having made the wrong decisions , or fail having made the right decisions. False fails and false successes can be very dangerous to the health of a company.
-It often takes 3 fails or more for something to succeed.
-Individual behaviors are difficult to predict, collective behavior is highly predictable.


This book is not geared for solo entrepreneurs, but those with a team that can take on various roles, although there are lessons for all.

Highly recommended.

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Sounds good, ordered. Thanks for the recommendation
 

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Currently reading the NO BS Guide to Marketing to the Affluent, by Dan S. Kennedy. Finished reading a bunch of his other books, including his new one, Renegade Millionaire.
 

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