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This year I got to read 36 books. 40 books less than what I read last year. Looking back, it was mostly because I tried to read longer books, and I had less reading time. Still, not a bad year for learning. I got to read 26 non-fiction books and 10 fiction books. 11 psychology/self-help…
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“Welcome Home, sailor.”“I wish I had a dollar for every time you’ve said that.”“You’d be a rich man,” […] “I hear you all had a big adventure.” I remember reading these brief exchange of lines. Dirk Pitt would come home, and his wife would be waiting at the airport to greet him. On succeeding books,…
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“No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story”, said a dejected Daniel Kahneman who once gave up on ‘Decision Analysis’ after presenting findings to a director-general. Daniel Kahneman, in case you didn’t know, is a Nobel Prize winner in Economics, famous for his work on the psychology of judgment,…
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This year, I got to read 76 books. And I was surprised. This is the most I’ve ever done in a year. I didn’t set any specific reading goals. When 2019 started, I thought I’d read a couple books and write a little bit about them. So far, it has been fun making these. I…
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“We confuse excitement with fulfillment. We confuse the big wins, with the money we make, with being fulfilled. It’s not. It’s just exciting” -Simon Sinek What is fulfillment then? People have argued about what it means to have a fulfilling life. Philosophers have their maxims. Psychologists have their say. Your next door neighbor, they probably…
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