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For both adults and kids, there is an epidemic going around. And no, I’m not talking about COVID. I’m talking about ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). All across the world, we are losing the ability to focus and pay attention. From 1997 to 2016, schoolchildren diagnosed with ADHD went from three percent to over 10 percent, and it is still rising fast. From March 9th to March 30th of 2020, the proportion of teens diagnosed with ADHD rose 67 percent!

Fortunately, more people are getting help for ADHD. Unfortunately, the most common form of treatment is to prescribe powerful, highly addictive stimulants with potentially serious side effects and even death. ADHD medications are Schedule II drugs, in the same category as cocaine, crystal meth, and OxyContin. Worse yet, these drugs act as a crutch, robbing a person from developing their innate ability to pay attention and focus naturally. In this book, you’ll learn how meditation can help children and adults focus and concentrate, calm their body and mind, and live happier and more peaceful lives. Hopefully, after learning the techniques in this book, we can turn that attention deficit into an attention surplus.]]> 2 Todd Perelmuter Chantal 5 4.54 2021
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Don’t just reduce or manage your stress. Release it completely and transform the way you view stressful situations so that you stop creating new stress in your mind and body once and for all.

Stress is one of the greatest killers in modern society. It weakens our immune system, it damages our cardiovascular system, it creates intense mental suffering, and it leads to chronic pain in our neck, back, shoulders, and joints, which makes us more prone to injuries. Stress even leads to addictive behaviors, poor productivity, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, anger, high blood pressure, sleep and sex problems, headaches, and stomach aches, skin and hair problems, and in some cases, heart attacks and strokes. In this book, you’ll learn how meditation can help you eliminate stress once and for all, how to get started, and how you can apply it to your daily life.]]> 1 Todd Perelmuter Chantal 4 4.83
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I found a deep well of understanding in Todd Perelmuter's book - so profound. I usually pass on good books to other readers, but I'm going to keep this one within daily reach so I can savor it, take occasional bites from it, and devour it slowly; and when I've gone through all the pages, I'll go back through it again and again over scores of time to find new truths being revealed with every read. A must-have for all searching for wholeness, healing truth, and spirit.....and more - because this book definitely offers more and leads us to believe that we can imagine something beyond our wildest dreams - our truest, best selves ... and then some.
]]> 78983 592 Jeffrey Archer 0312995059 Chantal 5 4.31 1979
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This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy...and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed by an enraged society against a great creator. As fresh today as it was then, Rand’s provocative novel presents one of the most challenging ideas in all of fiction—that man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress...

“A writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly...This is the only novel of ideas written by an American woman that I can recall.”—The New York Times]]> 704 Ayn Rand Chantal 5 3.87 1943
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]]> 10127019 Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a successful path to a sustainable business.



The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on "validated learning," rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute.

Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans, The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs - in companies of all sizes - a way to test their vision continuously, to adapt and adjust before it's too late. Ries provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in a age when companies need to innovate more than ever.]]> 299 Eric Ries 0307887898 Chantal 3 4.11 2011
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In The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, draws on his own story of founding, running, selling, buying, managing, and investing in technology companies to offer essential advice and practical wisdom for navigating the toughest problems business schools don't cover. His blog has garnered a devoted following of millions of readers who have come to rely on him to help them run their businesses. A lifelong rap fan, Horowitz amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs and tells it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, from cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in.

His advice is grounded in anecdotes from his own hard-earned rise—from cofounding the early cloud service provider Loudcloud to building the phenomenally successful Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm, both with fellow tech superstar Marc Andreessen (inventor of Mosaic, the Internet's first popular Web browser). This is no polished victory lap; he analyzes issues with no easy answers through his trials, including demoting (or firing) a loyal friend;
whether you should incorporate titles and promotions, and how to handle them;
if it's OK to hire people from your friend's company; how to manage your own psychology, while the whole company is relying on you; what to do when smart people are bad employees; why Andreessen Horowitz prefers founder CEOs, and how to become one; whether you should sell your company, and how to do it.

Filled with Horowitz's trademark humor and straight talk, and drawing from his personal and often humbling experiences, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures.]]> 304 Ben Horowitz 0062273205 Chantal 5 4.20 2014
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]]> 56990341 254 Pooja Agnihotri Chantal 5
Ten golden morsels:

~ "Take a few minutes out of your schedule every now and then and remind yourself why you can achieve your goals. Make sure that your brain is getting enough training in seeing you and your business as a success and as a winner and not as a failure.”
~ “When you promise but don’t deliver, you start competing against yourself, against the image that you have built of your brand for your customers.”
~ “You are not selling products. You are selling value to your customers. The more value your customers see, the more they will like your business.”
~ “When you’re ready to enter the battlefield of business, make sure you are armed with the two most important tools for business survival: industry experience and business knowledge.”
~ “A business will require you to wear many hats. You have to be a leader with a mission, vision, and direction.”
~ “A failed entrepreneur has just passion but a successful one knows how to plan to keep that passion alive.”
~ “Great things take time. Your business idea is one of those things. If it’s taking time, it means your idea is trying to bring a big societal and cultural change.”
~ “Vision and mission metaphorically represent the address that I’d forgot to add in my “invitation.” Alternatively, they represent the final destination of your business.”
~ “Sometimes the right business decision is to let it go - to let go of an underperforming employee, to let go of an unprofitable branch, to let go of a weak advertising campaign, and to let go of an idea that fails to create the hype you wanted it to be.”
~ “We have to start listening to what our ideal customers have to say about our product with an open mind.”

Loads of lessons on running a company and avoiding failure. Lessons that could be applied to business and life. Glad I picked it up!]]> 4.46
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This book has really great practical advice for an entrepreneur. I think an easy way to review this book would be to tell you that I highlighted almost 60% of this book's text because it has so much good content.

Ten golden morsels:

~ "Take a few minutes out of your schedule every now and then and remind yourself why you can achieve your goals. Make sure that your brain is getting enough training in seeing you and your business as a success and as a winner and not as a failure.”
~ “When you promise but don’t deliver, you start competing against yourself, against the image that you have built of your brand for your customers.”
~ “You are not selling products. You are selling value to your customers. The more value your customers see, the more they will like your business.”
~ “When you’re ready to enter the battlefield of business, make sure you are armed with the two most important tools for business survival: industry experience and business knowledge.”
~ “A business will require you to wear many hats. You have to be a leader with a mission, vision, and direction.”
~ “A failed entrepreneur has just passion but a successful one knows how to plan to keep that passion alive.”
~ “Great things take time. Your business idea is one of those things. If it’s taking time, it means your idea is trying to bring a big societal and cultural change.”
~ “Vision and mission metaphorically represent the address that I’d forgot to add in my “invitation.” Alternatively, they represent the final destination of your business.”
~ “Sometimes the right business decision is to let it go - to let go of an underperforming employee, to let go of an unprofitable branch, to let go of a weak advertising campaign, and to let go of an idea that fails to create the hype you wanted it to be.”
~ “We have to start listening to what our ideal customers have to say about our product with an open mind.”

Loads of lessons on running a company and avoiding failure. Lessons that could be applied to business and life. Glad I picked it up!
]]> 74034 184 Neil Postman 014303653X Chantal 0 to-read 4.16 1985
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You're either a Purple Cow or you're not. You're either remarkable or invisible. Make your choice.

What do Starbucks and JetBlue and KrispyKreme and Apple and DutchBoy and Kensington and Zespri and Hard Candy have that you don't? How do they continue to confound critics and achieve spectacular growth, leaving behind former tried-and true brands to gasp their last?

Face it, the checklist of tired 'P's marketers have used for decades to get their product noticed - Pricing, Promotion, Publicity, to name a few - aren't working anymore. There's an exceptionally important 'P' that has to be added to the list. It's Purple Cow.

Cows, after you've seen one, or two, or ten, are boring. A Purple Cow, though...now that would be something. Purple Cow describes something phenomenal, something counterintuitive and exciting and flat out unbelievable. Every day, consumers come face to face with a lot of boring stuff-a lot of brown cows - but you can bet they won't forget a Purple Cow. And it's not a marketing function that you can slap on to your product or service. Purple Cow is inherent. It's built right in, or it's not there. Period.

In Purple Cow, Seth Godin urges you to put a Purple Cow into everything you build, and everything you do, to create something truly noticeable. It's a manifesto for marketers who want to help create products that are worth marketing in the first place.

Description from Amazon.com]]> 145 Seth Godin 159184021X Chantal 0 to-read 3.78
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Here is the book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom.

Although the media track him constantly, Buffett himself has never told his full life story. His reality is private, especially by celebrity standards. Indeed, while the homespun persona that the public sees is true as far as it goes, it goes only so far. Warren Buffett is an array of paradoxes. He set out to prove that nice guys can finish first. Over the years he treated his investors as partners, acted as their steward, and championed honesty as an investor, CEO, board member, essayist, and speaker. At the same time he became the world’s richest man, all from the modest Omaha headquarters of his company Berkshire Hathaway. None of this fits the term “simple.”

When Alice Schroeder met Warren Buffett she was an insurance industry analyst and a gifted writer known for her keen perception and business acumen. Her writings on finance impressed him, and as she came to know him she realized that while much had been written on the subject of his investing style, no one had moved beyond that to explore his larger philosophy, which is bound up in a complex personality and the details of his life. Out of this came his decision to cooperate with her on the book about himself that he would never write.

Never before has Buffett spent countless hours responding to a writer’s questions, talking, giving complete access to his wife, children, friends, and business associates—opening his files, recalling his childhood. It was an act of courage, as The Snowball makes immensely clear. Being human, his own life, like most lives, has been a mix of strengths and frailties. Yet notable though his wealth may be, Buffett’s legacy will not be his ranking on the scorecard of wealth; it will be his principles and ideas that have enriched people’s lives. This book tells you why Warren Buffett is the most fascinating American success story of our time.

Praise for The Snowball

“Even people who don't care a whit about business will be intrigued by this portrait. . . . Schroeder, a former insurance-industry analyst, spent years interviewing Buffett, and the result is a side of the Oracle of Omaha that has rarely been seen.” — Time

“Will mesmerize anyone interested in who Mr. Buffett is or how he got that way.  The Snowball  tells a fascinating story.” — New York Times

“If the replication of any great achievement first requires knowledge of how it was done, then   The Snowball , the most detailed glimpse inside Warren Buffett and his world that we likely will ever get, should become a Bible for capitalists.” — Washington Post

“Riveting and encyclopedic.” — Wall Street Journal

“A monumental biography . . . Schroeder got the best access yet of any Buffett biographer. . . . She deals out marvelously funny and poignant stories about Buffett and the conglomerate he runs, Berkshire Hathaway.” — Forbes

“The most authoritative portrait of one of the most important American investors of our time.” — Los Angeles Times]]> 960 Alice Schroeder 0553805096 Chantal 0 to-read 4.14 2008
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]]> 12609433 375 Charles Duhigg 1400069289 Chantal 0 to-read 4.13 2012
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