These books have the notion and secret recipe to give us results in our life. Habbitts provide you with books to recover our wrong or limited perceptions and move the needle. I share the best books that changed your perspective on life.
- Rich Dad Poor Dad — Robert Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter
- Who moved my cheese — Dr. spencer Johnson
- Think and Grow Rich — Napoleon Hill
- Millionaire Success Habits — Dean Graziosi
- Zero to One — Blake Masters and Peter Thiel
- So Good They Can’t Ignore You — Cal Newport – Life Transforming Book
- The Compound Effect — Darren Hardy
- Six thinking hats
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- The 48 laws of power by Robert Greene
- THE 4-HOUR WORKWEEK BY TIM FERRISS
- Kahneman’s “Thinking Fast and Slow”
- Frequently Asked Questions
Table of Contents
Rich Dad Poor Dad — Robert Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter
This book taught us financial intelligence and its rule in life. Author Robert Kiyosaki explained the Financial IQ of his 2 Dads (his real dad and his uncle).
The writer discloses the idea that more money does not mean you are rich. If you are rich, you should have money that works for you. Rich people have the financial IQ that enables them to get more money through investment or business.
He is in blood dad was poor in making financial decisions and depended on financial advisors and mutual funds.
Robert Explained his journey from financial struggle to financial freedom. How he became a millionaire and, lost everything before his marriage. Because he wrote his own experiences.
Robert described his success story from scratch to end. Kiyosaki utilized the wisdom of his rich dad and got a net worth of an 80million.
The book covered the idea of financial struggle and achievement from beginner to advance level. The books series described the reason behind well educated poor persons and low educated royal persons.
Who moved my cheese — Dr. spencer Johnson
The book is about dealing with change in your work and life. The author told the story of 4 fantasy characters which are;
The mice: Sniff and scurry
And The little people: Hem and Haw
Every choice of each character detected a consequence.
The mice who understood the need for change according to circumstances and continuous failure got more cheese.
The author categorized the level of change in every human.
Dr Spencer mentioned the stages of fear and how one can overcome fear in the journey of change.
Spencer’s books are especially for children.
The strongest turning point of mind in fear raised a question:
What would you do if you were not afraid?
The cheese is the source of success, and the maze is the choices of life.
He explained the whole wisdom of choice in the single line below;
When you see that you can find and enjoy new cheese, you change course.
Think and Grow Rich — Napoleon Hill
It is a classic self-help book. We can use the power of positive emotions and negative emotions to create a plan in real life.
The book explains the entire method of how to develop a plan that lasts forever. It gives you practical results. Hill improve the book after reading the 700 successful persons’ lives and explaining their primary qualities.
His 13 Golden rules explain the mental stages and mindset of every successful person. The 13 rule formula includes;
Desire, Faith, Autosuggestion, take knowledge, Imagination, Build Planning, Decision, Persistence, mastermind, sexual energy, subconscious mind, The brain and the 6th sense. Not like other life-transforming books, It explains the power of sex for humans.
The 6 Ghosts of fear put you in horror, and the 7th most evil is your negative influence.
The 6 Ghost belongs to our wrong perceptions and bias. The 7th evil is our negative surroundings or environment. Hill believe that our close relations like friends and family have a huge impact on our success.
Millionaire Success Habits — Dean Graziosi
Millionaire success habits will teach us the qualities which make a difference between everyone and a successful person. The theme of this life-changing book belongs to 10 Main lessons.
- Find and stick with your WHY.
- Focus on strengths, not weaknesses.
- Awaken the hero within( High level of confidence).
- Learn how to come back from a huge failure.
- Get effective marketing and selling skills like selling life-changing books.
- Focus on what others desire, not on what you think.
- Managing people’s feelings is far more impactful than words.
- Develop a habit of guided actions.
- Be happy. Put yourself in the gratitide of life.
- Learn and cultivate your productivity with time.
Book gives complete lessons to stay happy and be grateful. Dean explains the way to manage people’s feelings. He teaches working lessons to be more productive in life with consistency and patience.
Dean highlights his achievement and success due to these mini habits that he practices daily. These put away from life insecurities and fleeting problems. This book promotes a new view about habits that is different from other books.
Zero to One — Blake Masters and Peter Thiel
Zero to one explains the new technology’s impact to create monopolies. The next Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos would not create software or the world’s biggest e-store.
Petter Theil raises the awareness to focus on business that creates something new. For success from 0 to 1, you need to build and maintain a monopoly in your field.
Our life is not a lottery ticket to get success. A plan is far better than no plan.
Why monopoly? The book explains a lot of past world-changing examples to understand the success of Capitalism over the competition.
It explains with proof that monopoly in a particular field or area gives remarkable or unstoppable results. Monopolies change over time. The book opens up the thinking in a different creative way to build up a new business model. The success of every business is the skill of leadership and execution.
We should avoid global domination. The 3 Ways to protect monopolies in your field are;
- Network effects. It means the value of your offering.
- Economics of scale. That means production costs.
- Branding. It symbolizes awareness.
So Good They Can’t Ignore You — Cal Newport – Life Transforming Book
Book solves the problem of the selection of career.
Cal Newport explains the difference between a craft mindset and a passion mindset. Other life development books enforce to follow a passion. He explains why a craft mindset is better and follows your passion is dangerous advice. The book elaborates the 4 Rules, which helps to find your lovable work.
Rule1: Don’t Follow Your Passion.
The ugliest advice you ever face is to follow your passion. Most passions cannot be able to translate into a career.
Rule2: Be So Good They Can’t Ignore You (Or, the importance of skills).
Adopt a craft mindset because it explains what value you can give in your job.
A passion mindset put you in trouble, and you try to choose those careers which have no existence in real-world like reading.
Rule #3: The Importance of control
You can Gain control over what you do. It gives you more chances to choose what you love.
Rule4: Think Small, Act Big
Make a clear and achievable plan.
It gives you direction and helps you in bad times.
Your plan needs small concrete plans.
The Compound Effect — Darren Hardy
Darren Hardy focus on long term investment for a successful life. The formula discusses in the book is;
little choices + regularity+ time = prominent results.
It explains the power of consistency. The main topics of the book are;
Personal Choice
Our continuous choices to change ourselves make a difference in ourselves. Track what you do. Take 100% responsibility.
Habit’s power
Our habits shape us. You need to plant new and positive habits. Hardy shares the 5 ways to get rid of bad habits.
5 Plans for Reducing Bad Habits.
- Identify your triggers.
- Get rid of the triggers.
- Choose a healthy choice.
- Get rid slowly.
- Don’t wait.
6 Ways to adopt Good Habits
The book presents new ways like books that changed your perspective on life.
- Set yourself up for success.
- Think Addition, Not Subtraction.
- Make deadlines.
- Find your success partner.
- Create Competition.
- Reward yourself.
Momentum
Develop momentum by building your routine. The 3 Influences which impacts everyone’s life give below;
1. Input -what you feed to yourself.
2. Associations — the people you spend time with.
3. Environment — Your Surrounding.
Six thinking hats
The Books that changed your perspective on life presents a decision-making book.
It is the model to use all the perceptions towards a single problem. The person who wore a particular hat has some feature in the view of his answer. The colour system of hats represents the modes of our personality. We can depict our favourite rule according to the hat.
- White Hat
It’s like an observer. Focus on the details of the information about facts. - Red Hat
It represents Fire, warmth and emotions. Express feelings without any proof. - Black Hat
Focus on the Judgmental approach. Build up negative perceptions. - Blue Hat
It’s the control over all hats represents cool, sky and discipline. - Green Hat
Represent Creative thinking. Identify the ways of possibilities and generate new ideas. - Yellow Hat
Represents the Shiny side. Look at the positive in all with logical justification.
Each hat has its pros and cons. His books provide a model properly and develop decision ability as fast and comprehensive as possible. You can use the combination of more than 1 hat at a time.
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Dale explains that we need to consider that humans are emotional creations filled with bias and emotions. It’s one of the books that changed your perspective on life social experiences.
For fundamental techniques
- Don’t too much criticize others’ values.
- Appreciate others for their work.
- Try to fill the desire of people.
- To Allow people to like you.
- Avoid the argument state.
- Show respect to others.
- Remember the name of others.
- Listen to what others say.
- Talk in terms of another person’s interest.
Make people think from your point of view
- It covers the idea of people understanding;
- Never argue with others.
- Never hesitate to admit your mistakes.
- Talk in a friendly style.
- To make discussion open-ended, say yes mostly.
- Talk with discussion way.
- Make your ideas seem for others.
- Show sympathy in other interests.
- Attract good intentions in others.
- Spice up your talk with drama and challenges.
Be other’s leader
- Appreciate it with honesty.
- Make a Good way to find other mistakes.
- Talk about your own mistakes before highlighting others.
- Add the encouragement.
The 48 laws of power by Robert Greene
Robert Greene famous book about that helps us to get Power in our life. Robert highlights the 48 rules that can make you a master of control over others.
The book presents the strategies about self or emotional control that allows us to make far effective decisions. Book explain the ways to master yourself and recreate your self-image again irrespective of society.
“Person who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself, and is unworthy of respect.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power
Robert’s book relates human with emotional creature and explains why we are so emotional and judgmental in decisions. Book rejoice with the phycology of human for getting Power.
These laws protect and build your reputation at the same time. A far different from the general life-changing book, The book gives a clear message to follow your wisdom instead of following the crowd blindly.
The problem of facing problems in all fields of life like getting the job, relationship and personal self-image, every element of life needs a
strategy for Power.
THE 4-HOUR WORKWEEK BY TIM FERRISS
The book highlights that people wait their entire life to get the reward of their work after retirement.
People don’t want to put the label of a millionaire. At the same time, they want to live in luxury. The writer points out the self liberty concept and lives a free travel full life.
The DEAL formula that highlights the importance of creating a system and lives free relaxed life is;
D is Definition(motive): It explains the role of new rules and objectives that change your life practically.
E is Elimination(unproductive): It is about eliminating all unproductive things to get more free time and space for effective effort.
A is for Automation: Once you create to provide you with money, Put yourself out of the system(Autopilot).
L is Liberation(mini-retirements): It is about living a life free from office issues. Work least and free more.
It covers that The path to living an entire life with less work is different and challenging.
Kahneman’s “Thinking Fast and Slow”
The book covers the issue of our sudden decisions and later on thinking decision. It points out the bias of human nature by introducing the concept of 2 Minds;
- Fast intuitions.
- Slow analysis approach.
The fast brain gives a sudden answer with the give data. Our slow Brain promotes the reasoning ability to analyse every aspect of correct answers.
The brain has the desire to chose the simple as a possible way to solve the problem.
Cognitive ease makes our brain to choose the most familiar thing for us.
Our mind can substitute hard questions into simple and easy ones.
The mind creates a limited perception that generates action due to the limited supply of knowledge.
Framing of our talk makes the different scenario about what other reaction. Make your worlds less objective.
Our mind takes knowledge from our feelings to perceive our decisions.
We hate thinking about the wastage of what we created.
The book fills with practical examples of How people change their opinions so fast or with slow thinking.
Frequently Asked Questions
These are; Rich Dad Poor Dad, Who moved my cheese, Think and Grow Rich, Millionaire Success Habits, Zero to One, So Good They Can’t Ignore You, The Compound Effect, Six thinking hats, Thinking Fast and Slow and The 48 laws of power.
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