Inspirational
Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be
Are you being defeated by a tendency to procrastinate, self-doubt, fear, distraction, and perfectionism? Are you self-sabotaging your loftiest artistic entrepreneurial dreams?The antidote is nine words: PUT YOUR ASS WHERE YOUR HEART WANTS TO BE.
That headline Immediately got me.
Procrastination, self-doubt, fear, distraction, and perfectionism? I have all of this when I want to start my own projects.
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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
A succinct, engaging, and practical guide for succeeding in any creative sphere, The War of Art is nothing less than Sun-Tzu for the soul.What keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do?Why is there a naysayer within? How can we avoid the roadblocks of any creative endeavor—starting up a dream business venture, writing a novel, or painting a masterpiece?
Again, another book from the same author, Steven Pressfield, captured me with the headline. Is it perhaps that I want to start something, and I don’t know how to convince myself to do it?
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Psychology
Range
Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you dabble or delay, you’ll never catch up to the people who got a head start. But a closer look at research on the world’s top performers, from professional athletes to Nobel laureates, shows that early specialization is the exception, not the rule.
I consider myself a generalist, and this book feels like it is talking to me.
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The Psychology of Money
Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people.Money—investing, personal finance, and business decisions—is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together.
I want to go deeper into the money topic. I think it is one of those topics you should learn at school but never did.
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