- 200+ great tips from 200+ all-time great books on business and self improvement
One idea per great book - that's the idea behind this huge post. The content has been sourced from The Sucecss Manual, the popular compilation of business and career skills advice.
1. Outliers: The Story of Success
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- Three main career ideas from The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
Reid Hoffman (co-founder of LinkedIn), and Ben Casnocha (famous for being a very young Silicon Valley Entrepreneur) wrote this book, where the main idea is a little stale: 'manage your career as if it were a start-up bus…
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- 3 important lessons for bloggers from Freedom Is Blogging In Your Underwear
Hugh Macloed, who wrote Freedom Is Blogging In Your Underwear is a blogging/creative hero. He showed that if you cared about your innovative ideas (and had some talent), you should stick to it, and ultimately you will ma…
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- Memory techniques from Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Joshua Foer's reportedly uses lessons from cutting-edge research, a history of memory, as well as tricks of the mentalist's trade to come up with some more useful techniques of remembering.
The two or three technique…
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- Main idea from Heroes for My Daughter
Brad Meltzer's book is a lot like Jim Roger's (the famous investor) 'A Gift to my children' book. The only difference being that instead of pithy advice, Meltzer summarizes life stories of fifty-five remarkable people, f…
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- Main idea from Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven
T.D. Jakes\'s book covers the idea of unforgiveness, which he says is a \'cancer of the soul that metastasizes if gone unchecked.\' Jakes idea is that each of us perform an "emotional self-examination" to prevent unresol…
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- Main ideas from The Lean: A Revolutionary (and Simple!) 30-Day Plan for Healthy, Lasting Weight Loss
Kathy Freston's book on , known for her books on Vegan diets, has written one of those 'day/month' diet books, which are onloy useful if you follow them for at least an year or two.
The book also has lots of lists of…
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- Main ideas from The 17 Day Diet: A Doctor's Plan Designed for Rapid Results
Mike Moreno's book does a (yet another!) take on low carb diets, with the added innovation of the arbitrarily chosen 17 day figure.
Main ideas from the book:
1. For the first 4 days, eat a lot of chicken, turkey, f…
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- Main ideas from The Blood Sugar Solution: The UltraHealthy Program for Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Feeling Great Now!
Mark Hyman's book is different from other books on diebetic life as it also focuses on environmental factors such as pollution, pesticides, hormones and antibiotics in our food.
Main ideas from the book:
1. It is …
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- Main ideas from Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection
A. J. Jacobs's hugely entertaining book is about his experiences and lessons after he consulted an army of experts, from sleep consultants and sex clinicians to nutritionists and dermatologists. That's not all. Jacob als…
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- Main ideas from Emotional Intelligence 2.0
Travis Bradberry's book is an update on Daniel Goleman's 'Emotional Intelligence' idea, and gives you a step-by-step program for increasing your Emotional Quotient using four core EQ skills. The book gives you 66 strateg…
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- Main ideas from The Checklist Manifesto
Atul Gawande\'s Checklist manifesto is like Malcolm Gladwell\'s \'Tipping Point\' - in the sense that the idea was already there, until somebody came up and packaged it in a nice book.
Checklists for all kinds of act…
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- Main ideas from Meditation for Beginners
Jack Kornfield's book is about practicing mindfulness, which you can describe as having a caring and respectful attention. One big idea about meditation is that you can be very still in the midst of hectic activity.
M…
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- Eleven habits of effective programmers: Main ideas from The Passionate Programmer
Chad Fowler's book is sort of 'Eleven effective habits of great programmers'. Although, many ideas in the book apply to any profession as well.
Main ideas from the book:
1. Have a mentor
A mentor is someone you c…
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- Main ideas from The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg's book is about how companies use the science of habit formation to study, and influence, what we buy - think timely coupons.
The main idea from this book:
1. Habits make up 40% of our daily routine.
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- Main ideas from Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain's book is a better book on creativity than Lehrer's Gladwell-style 'Imagine: How Creativity Works'. The main idea of 'Quiet' is that there is nothing wrong with being an introvert - nothing wrong about choosi…
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- Main ideas from Imagine: How Creativity Works
Jonah Lehrer's new book offers nothing you didn't already know about how to be creative. He uses examples of well-known successes like Bob Dylan and then repackages existing ideas of being creative into what he has smart…
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- Main ideas from Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
Rachel Maddow's new book Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power examines the inexorable rise of American 'military bloat' - she starts with Reagan's secret wars and the Iran-Contra scandal in the late 1980s, the…
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- The Success Manual has been updated!
The updated version of The Success Manual has more content and is easier to use. The book has 600+ pages of compiled wisdom on 125 important traits, skills and activities, helping you grasp instantly great ideas from …
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- Introducing Rules for Writers: Collection of useful writing advice from great writers and books
Rules for Writers is a nifty collections of 200+ Big Ideas about writing from Great Writers and some useful books about writing. The advice is arranged across fiction writing, non-fiction writing, business writing, an…
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