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How to Catalyze Your Destiny
You can’t be your best self unless you understand yourself. In his book Catalyze Your Destiny!: Discover Who You Are, Reveal Your Purpose, and Launch Into Action, Jordan Ring discusses many approaches to finding your strengths and then putting them to use to build a fulfilling life.
Blinkist Roundup, Volume VII
More than a million new book titles are published each year. Few people have the time to read even 0.01% of that number each year. Blinkist is a book summary service that has condensed over 3,000 of the most impactful non-fiction books into summaries that take about 15 minutes to read. I maintain a list […]
Blinkist Roundup, Volume VI
More than a million new book titles are published each year. Few people have the time to read even 0.01% of that number each year. Blinkist is a book summary service that has condensed over 3,000 of the most impactful non-fiction books into summaries that take about 15 minutes to read. I maintain a list […]
Blinkist Roundup, Volume V
More than a million new book titles are published each year. Few people have the time to read even 0.01% of that number each year. Blinkist is a book summary service that has condensed over 3,000 of the most impactful non-fiction books into summaries that take about 15 minutes to read. I maintain a list […]
Blinkist Roundup, Volume IV
More than a million new book titles are published each year. Few people have the time to read even 0.01% of that number each year. Blinkist is a book summary service that has condensed over 3,000 of the most impactful non-fiction books into summaries that take about 15 minutes to read. I maintain a list […]
Make It Anything You Want
Once, a long time ago, I took MBA classes at a business college. My classmates hated this one professor because he didn’t use the textbook to teach. He was an old fella, I think 72 years old at the time, and he would just tell stories for the entire hour of each class. His stories […]
Blinkist Roundup, Volume III
More than a million new book titles are published each year. Few people have the time to read even 0.01% of that number each year. Blinkist is a book summary service that has condensed over 3,000 of the most impactful non-fiction books into summaries that take about 15 minutes to read. I maintain a list […]
Blinkist Roundup, Volume II
More than a million new book titles are published each year. Few people have the time to read even 0.01% of that number each year. Blinkist is a book summary service that has condensed over 3,000 of the most impactful non-fiction books into summaries that take about 15 minutes to read. I maintain a list […]
Lessons on Facing Death, Unafraid
Paul Kalanithi spent much of his life examining the nature of life itself, and the inevitable death that results. He found his calling as a neurosurgeon until a diagnosis of stage IV lung cancer forced him to reexamine his own mortality. He wrote his memoirs, When Breath Becomes Air, during the final year of his […]