I’ve been following Shane Parrish and Farnam Street for a while now. He does a fantastic job of collecting the ideas and lessons from books and thinkers across the world. This book is no exception. Some of these concepts are simple, some are not. Some I’d read about elsewhere, and others I’d never heard of. But what this book absolutely… Read More »10 Lessons from “The Great Mental Models, Volume 1,” By Shane Parrish
I actively avoided this book for 2 years because I was under the impression that High Performance Habits would be a shallow, “life-hack” sort of personal development book. This was a mistake. When I finally gave it a chance last year, I realized almost immediately that there was a depth to the lessons that Brendon teaches. I’ve now read it… Read More »10 Lessons from “High Performance Habits” by Brendon Burchard
I’ve been following Michael Hyatt for about 3 years now and using his planners for just as long, so I’ve been exposed to his ideas and his philosophy (and many of the lessons in this book) for a good chunk of my short life as a professional. It was nice to see the full picture and the reasoning and research… Read More »10 Lessons from “Free to Focus” by Michael Hyatt
This was one book that I didn’t expect to like that much or learn too much from, but it very quickly became one of my favorites and absolutely at the top of my list. Of course, once I started reading it I realized just how entrenched and invisible my ego was…to the point that it was telling me that I didn’t need… Read More »10 Lessons from “Ego is the Enemy” by Ryan Holiday
Hello, and welcome to the first installment of a new series that I’m running (hehe) about what I’m learning from the books I’m reading. This is partly to help give me some accountability on reading, partly to share what I’m reading and learning, but mostly to force me to define what I’ve actually learned from a book, to ensure that… Read More »10 lessons from “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running,” by Haruki Murakami