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[Jill]

The Flinch

 

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[Silverhawk851]

Psycho-Cybernetics by Dr. Maxwell Maltz.

Highly Recommended.

What am Amazing piece of work. Dr.Maltz was a Plastic Surgeon who realized that changing people faces often changed personalities and often did not. Devoting himself to finding an answer, he realized many things and in the book Teaches you the concept of the self-image and how to achieve the goals you set for yourself.

For once, it's a way to beat the fluctuating motivation levels that so many of us entrepreneurs see. Teaches you to master them and keep it at a constant. Very Powerful stuff.


I really get the tinge that Tony Robbins and others have derived a lot from this man.

Cheers.

 

[RBefort]

Tony Robbins Awaken the Giant, I believe....from MJ's list Very long book and a lot of concepts to remember, but I find myself going back to them and rehearsing them throughout the day.

 

[EastWind]

I have found the greatest delight reading about philosophy lately more so than any financial and technical book.

i just finished reading "the education of the will" by jules payot, it's free, google it.
i'm currently reading meditation of marcus aurelius.
i also have another general intro to philosophy book and the dialogues of platos.

 

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[Likwid24]

Reading "The Definitive Book of Body Language" by Alan and Barbara Pease. I want to learn how to read people better. Good book so far.

 

[cashflow3000]

The Secret Life of Lobsters by Revor Corson.

nothing to do with business really, I enjoy reading non-fiction and this book is a very good read!

 

[Astute]

Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence by Tim Parks.

 

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[CEBenz]

Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence by Tim Parks.

That sounds interesting. I'll add it it to my to read list. Waiting on Ca$hvertising to arrive along with Style:Lessons in clarity and grace

 

[GoldRider]

Tony Robbins Awaken the Giant, I believe....from MJ's list Very long book and a lot of concepts to remember, but I find myself going back to them and rehearsing them throughout the day.

What have you got out of it? I hear a lot about Tony robbins that he is a feel good person only. I want to know if there is something practical in his book.

 

[GoldRider]

I read about this one here (can't recall who recommended it) and I bought it a couple of days ago.
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business: Charles Duhigg: Amazon.com: Kindle Store

Reviews say that it only explains how habits are formed but doesn't give any practical step to delete and form new habits. Can you kindly post your own review. I believe there must be a review section on this forum related to books.

 

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[andviv]

There are steps. Very clear to me. No magic pill, you have to follow the steps and they are challenging at a very personal level. Or that's what I got out of it.

Following this advice I switched diets and lost 11 lbs in 3 weeks. And still working on it.

Bad food habits were tough to break for me but I followed this advice and it worked.

 

[Ginger]

The Personal MBA: Master The Art Of Business by Josh Kaufman

 

[CEBenz]

The Personal MBA: Master The Art Of Business by Josh Kaufman

How is it?

 

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[Michael Ten]

Pretty much read A Course In Miracles and books by Thomas Szasz non-stop. I am also reading the book that this forum is based on, and others.

 

[Ginger]

How is it?

I think it's great...It talks about Value creation & delivery, the difference between marketing & sales, the human mind, creating prototypes, a lot of things. The author basically wants you to start with his book, and he directs you to like 19 other books that he insists that if you read all of them that you will have the knowledge of a MBA graduate. He doesn't have a MBA, but he did go to business school, and worked on major campaigns at Proctor & Gamble.

 

[RalphQ]

I'm on a 3-Book Diet this year! This is an interesting concept that I learned about this from Chris Brogan. Rather than read a ton of books and get just a little out of all of them. I am going to read, and re-read 3 books all year, master the concepts and apply them to my business.

Here's my list:

- Start With Why? How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action by Simon Sinek
- Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- This Might Not Work by Seth Godin (aka - Watcha Gonna Do With That Duck?)

 

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[CEBenz]

I think it's great...It talks about Value creation & delivery, the difference between marketing & sales, the human mind, creating prototypes, a lot of things. The author basically wants you to start with his book, and he's directs you to like 19 other books that he insists that if you read all of them that you will have the knowledge of a MBA graduate. He doesn't have a MBA, but he did go to business school, and worked on major campaigns at Proctor & Gamble.

Hmmm I'll have to take a look.

 

[CEBenz]

I'm on a 3-Book Diet this year! This is an interesting concept that I learned about this from Chris Brogan. Rather than read a ton of books and get just a little out of all of them. I am going to read, and re-read 3 books all year, master the concepts and apply them to my business.

Here's my list:

- Start With Why? How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action by Simon Sinek
- Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- This Might Not Work by Seth Godin (aka - Watcha Gonna Do With That Duck?)

Think and Grow Rich is a tough one. Pretty dry.

 

[CEBenz]

oops. dbl post

 

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[RalphQ]

Think and Grow Rich is a tough one. Pretty dry.

CEBenz, agreed, but the message has been key to my success as an entrepreneur.

 

[CEBenz]

CEBenz, agreed, but the message has been key to my success as an entrepreneur.

I suspect you're not the only one it's helped RalphQ

 

[stranger]

Adrift by Tristan Jones. But this is not for you guys. I mean, not for fastlaners.

 

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[CEBenz]

I'll be reading Ca$hvertising when it shows when it shows up *waiting*

 

[buckmajor]

Reading the books that was recommended from The FL-Forum:
- One Simple Idea by Stephen Key
- Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh
So far, both books are exciting. Loving Delivering Happiness. However, One Simple Idea talks about Ideas, royalty, and licensing. Anyone read this book before? It sounds like Stephen rented some of his ideas out and made money. Still reading it so will know by the end of it. Been watching Shark Tank so I kind of know a little bit how licensing or royalty works lol. Anyone here have a different feedback?

 

[brob742]

Re-reading some chapters of Mark Cuban's book. It's very practical and he's a very straight-forward dude, as I'm sure most of you know. Love his analogy of business being the ultimate game/competition that is going on 24/7/365.

Also, very interesting to see the process that eventually resulted in many, many events.

 

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[Vick]

Blue Ocean Strategy

 

[Big Daddyhoo]

Just finished reading The Wizard of Ads: Turning Words into Magic And Dreamers into Millionaires.

It circles around 3 themes: 1. Advertising psychology (how customers mind works when reading an ad) 2. Good service and customer experience and 3. Personal qualities, success and motivational stuff.

It's 101 chapters 0.5-2 pages long. Quick read. Heavily theoretical. Not really organized, so expect to read all of it and take notes.

Probably a 4-star book. Not bad, not awesome. I expect to come back to the first part for some advertising insights.

If interested, it's available for free on the author's website with 2 other books in the series (havent read those yet). PDFs and audiobooks.

Next to-read: Ogilvy on Advertising

 

[sambreaker20]

What have you got out of it? I hear a lot about Tony robbins that he is a feel good person only. I want to know if there is something practical in his book.

You have to read and watch his stuff to know he's not just about feel good. He has some really good stuff.

Anyways, trying to finish

Secrets of Question Based Selling: How the Most Powerful Tool in Business Can Double Your Sales Results - Tom Freese
trying to start a new earth by eckhart tolle
and waiting for 4 Hour Body - Tim Ferris and The money code to arrive.

 

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[andviv]

I agree about Tony Robbins. He is just not feel good stuff. I have found great ideas of things to do daily to improve. For example, establish a numeric value of how you feel right now and then ask yourself, what would it take for me to feel better? And them go do that. Simple but effective.

Problem is, lots of us read it, think iti s either too stupid or too obvious, don't follow the recommended action, and then disregard the book as not practical.

 

[Ginger]

Fiction: Atlas Shrugged - can't believe I've never read this book before. It's like reading the newspaper nowadays!

And I usually have a non-fiction book running at the same time, but not this time. Atlas Shrugged is real enough!

When I first got into reading, Atlas Shrugged was my first book...Unfortunately, I only read like 200 pages lol But I enjoyed it...I just ran across it yesterday, I think I'm a crack it open again...Hey, there was an essay contest for Atlas Shrugged...If I remember correctly, the 1st place prize was like $10,000...