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The Sovereign Individual: Book Review

Read about predictions written 30 years ago and became reality since then (borderless money transfers, the rise of decentralized finance, the knowledge economy). The rest of the book is about the future still awaiting.

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Review and Notes: The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford

What happens to our money when inflation is high? How do public investments affect unemployment? Who prints the money and how does its quantity affect it? What is more important: happiness or money?

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Review & Notes: Range by David Epstein

Not everyone wants to be a top athlete, world-class musician, or scientist. But nowadays, when there are eight sub-disciplines of every field, it is legitimate to ask: When is it worth specializing? And when not?

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How to Make Work That Lasts? Perennial Seller Summary

Why do we buy 500 years old books? How can a music record from the ’60s stay relevant and be popular over time? The secret lies in how they were created and marketed. They are Perennial Sellers.

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Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks: Book Summary & Notes

Exercises of storytelling workshops, concrete and immediately applicable tips, story examples, and a summary of Storyworthy.

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The ROI of Reading

An essay about whether reading books is always worth it, alternatives of books and my experience with crappy literature.

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Serendipity - How To Make Your Own Luck

Serendipity is the phenomenon of accidentally discovering something exhilaratingly good.

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Getting Things Done (GTD): Practical Guide for Stress-free Productivity

The GTD method is a productivity system of capturing, organizing and reflecting on tasks, which increases the efficiency of its users while reducing the stress they experience.

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Who was Benjamin Franklin? The story behind Virtues and Inventions

America's greatest diplomat, inventor, author, and business strategist. A well-known fugire with a lesser-known story.

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The Best Biographies and Autobiographies

Would you like to immerse yourself in another age? Read about the shapers of history, or improve yourself by observing the practices and mistakes of others? After Heraclitus, we know you can't step into the same river twice, but there is so much advice in the lives of others.

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The Evolution of my Digital Note-Taking System

Boring, uncomfortable, and unnecessary. These were the three answers most people gave me when I asked them about their digital note-taking habits. Some asked me bluntly: What the hell is a digital note?

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How to Develop a Growth Mindset?

A question of perspective. Your work, your relationships, and the image you have of yourself. What motivates you? How long is the energy boost from motivational videos enough and when do you give up? Why do you hold on to things?

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Meditation at home - My experiences after 1 year and 3 apps

Are you less and less able to appreciate the little things? Is every day the same? Even if they were different, you don't notice? I felt something like that in the summer of 2018 when I downloaded a meditation app for the first time.

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Pareto Principle: The 80/20 Rule in Practice

The Pareto Principle helps you identify critical activities, and by leaving out less important tasks you can achieve better results in less time.

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Learn Faster with the Feynman Technique

The Feynman Technique is a learning method named after the famous physicist Richard Feynman. It can help you understand any topic faster and more thoroughly.

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Everything about Motivation: Definition, guide, and quotes

Motivation is the general willingness to do something. With this "general willingness," many people have problems from time to time and from activity to activity.

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The Complete Beginner's Guide to Notion

Notion is a hard-to-categorize, all-in-one platform that can be used to create databases, knowledge repositories, to-do lists, productivity systems, and countless other problem-solving interfaces. Notion was a big discovery for me in 2020, it has replaced a lot of the note-taking and project management apps I used to use and

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The Zettelkasten Method: Note-taking the Smart Way

For a long time, I considered note-taking a necessary evil. For me, notes were a sketchy record of lessons, a source of study, and a means to a single end: a grade. These notes ended up in the bin at the end of the semester. I read about subjects that

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Hidden Benefits of Being an Introvert

As early as the first half of the 1900s, Carl Jung described his thoughts on defining personality types, which included the concepts of extraversion and introversion. I'm introverted. For a long time, I saw this as a negative trait, but I had to realize I was wrong. One is not

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Top 8 Banned and Challenged Books

The label “banned book” could also be seen as a good marketing tactic, but unfortunately, this is still not the case. While the promise of forbidden knowledge undeniably has a stimulating effect on reading, throughout history writers have been silenced because of the ideas behind their stories, and today in

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Improving Emotional Intelligence (EQ): Guide and Tips

Emotional intelligence is a wrongly explained, misunderstood concept which is sold as a cure for almost every problem. In reality, EQ is the ability to recognize and act on the signals and feelings of ourselves and others. It is often essential to our success that we have a positive effect

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20 Best Self-Awareness Books

How often do you look inward and reflect on your actions? This is my list of the best self-awareness books which provided me good questions to start with. I have read each book and recommend only the best. > "We go beyond not being important, but not by becoming important, but

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How to Improve Memory: Guide and Exercises

The Library of Congress in Washington has the largest book collection in the world with its 164 million volumes. It is estimated that reading the books currently available would take 6,000 years if we read one book a day. Is it impossible to read so many books, and what

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The Eisenhower Matrix - Simple Tool for Prioritization

Monday mornings [https://www.norberthires.blog/morning-routines-ideas/] are the most chaotic period of the week. There are tasks left from the previous week, new commitments accumulated over the weekend, and an early morning email waiting for you. You know everything doesn't fit into your day. You make a to-do list,

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Cornell Note Taking Method - Introduction and Template

Good notes can make our learning more effective. Lesser-known note-taking techniques and learning methods are also useful when preparing for university exams, or just mastering the curriculum of an online course. Why are we talking about taking notes when others previously jotted down a piece of paper works perfectly. If