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21 Lessons for the 21st century

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  I bring the book summary of 21 lessons for the 21st century.          Chapter 1 : disk in movement stories on the topic of information overwhelm hurry makes the point that humans think in stories rather than in facts numbers or equations which spy the communists fascists and liberal stories of the 20th century were so powerful the simple mother story he says the better and listen not only for those of you to clear in political war which is fair to say few of you are but also for those of you in the business and entrepreneurship game it's imperative that you make your stories simple well the 20th century was all about three political systems the 21st century introduces new stories and classes that of humans super humans and artificial intelligence artificial intelligence as AI gets more sophisticated it will create classes of humans super humans who are augmented by technology as any one must be pointed out on a recent episode on the Joe Rogan experience w...

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MONEY (BY MORGAN HOUSEL)

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 Have you heard the story about Ronald Read, the janitor that had 8 million dollars in savings when he died in 2014? Yes, you heard that right. Janitor. $8 million. And he didn´t win the lottery or inherit the money either. He just saved consistently throughout his life, while letting the wonders of compounding do their thing. The moral is that your behavior with money is oftentimes more important than how intelligent you are. Even if you don´t have a diploma from Harvard or work on Wall Street, you can become rich by just behaving soundly.  As Morgan Housel puts it: “Financial success is not hard science. It’s a soft skill, where how you behave is more important than what you know.            Takeaway number 1 : Pay the price let's say you want a new, nice, watch. You go to the store to check out the offerings. You are really after something that will impress your friends and the lovely lady you are dating. You now have a choice: either pay for t...

Man,s Search For Meaning (Book Summary)

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  I've recently read man's search for meaning by author Viktor Frankl the meaning of life is to make life meaningful since meaning varies from day to day and hour to hour it's up to you and me to constantly search for meaning in our lives and generate a feeling of meaning this takes work but if we succeed we activate the single greatest source of productive energy human beings possess if we fail however we'll slowly fall into darkness and lose the will to live.             Viktor Frankl a survivor of four Nazi concentration camps saw this firsthand when a prisoner in the concentration camp would lose hope and refuse to get out of bed for another day of forced labor he would pull out a cigarette he'd been hiding in his jacket and start smoking Frankl says their meaning orientation had subsided and consequently the seeking of immediate pleasure had taken over at that moment we knew that for the next 48 hours or so we would watch them die after spending ...