Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip & Dan Heath

– The Four Villains of Decision Making.1: Narrow Framing2: Confirmation Bias3: Short Term Emotion4: Over confidence – Four ways to make better decisions, WRAP it. The four strategies described in Decisive can be easily recalled using the mnemonic device, “WRAP”.Widen your options when framing the problemReality check your assumptions to avoid confirmation biasAttain distance from … Read more

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

You need to know the Dracula story before this. Well not really but it’ll help… A LOT. Basically this guy is a historian on Dracula. The story is mostly from two people… the historians letters or the historians daughter. They go to lots of countries and … look it felt like a Scooby story most … Read more

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley

I was going to bitch about how the book keeps going in circles and mostly about animals until past half way. Then it gets into some decent juice about human psychology, gender differences and soooo much more. – This concept, that all progress is relative, has come to be known in biology by the name … Read more

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Swami Satchidananda

Free PDF version – Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Interpretive Translation Presented by Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati www.SwamiJ.com Intro from the book: There are almost 200 sutras, traditionally divided into four sections. – The first is the Portion of Contemplation (Samadhi Pada) which gives the theory of Yoga and a description of the most advanced stages of … Read more

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