Alain de Botton has been the main voice of the YouTube channel The School of Life narrating most of the videos produced from the channel. The channel focuses on emotional life ranging on topics from self-understanding, calm, and emotional maturity. I’m a subscriber myself and will watch some of the videos on and off. He’s […]
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In the book The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, professor Scott Galloway goes into an in-depth analysis of for large US companies: Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple. He is a professor of marketing at the New York University Stern School of Business and has founded past successful businesses that were acquired,
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Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits Philip Fisher A lot of the investing books just looks at the numbers for investing into publicly traded companies. If it were as easy as just figuring out how to calculate discounted cashflow, then why isn’t everyone who went to business school rich from the stock market? I only have
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Every year, Warren Buffett will publish a separate annual letter to go onto of the annual report of Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA, BRKB). Considering his vast amount of knowledge, wisdom, and discernment, every part of the letter I’m sure was intentionally thought out to be placed in the letter to begin with. In fact, it was
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Chris Voss is a former FBI hostage investigator and has also written the book Never split the difference amongst others. He shares his notes on how to negotiate and his findings on what people are like. -a calm voice to be calm and calm the other person; low frequency -anger can pull out of sadness;
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Ramani Durvasula, otherwise known as Dr Ramani, us a US based psychology who specialized in narcissism. With the unfortunate growing trend of more personality disorders, those of the dark tetrad of manipulators, psychopaths, sociopaths, and narcissists, having a person in your life with one of these qualities can totally ruin you. I’ve written down my
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Don Valentine was the initial founder of the best VC firm in the whole world, Sequoia Capital. The mere fact that he did not put his own name in the name may be an indicator of some sort of character to begin with. Sequoia itself represents a redwood coniferous tree located through California, where all
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Tim Ferris is one of my personal favorite podcast hosts for his excellent listening skills, astute questions, and exceptional guests he is able to attract onto the show. He is also the author of the four-hour workweek, has started successful businesses, and has given out enough advice of his own that I have outlined here.
Research has shown that for startups involving multiple cofounders, 66% of the failed startups have confounder conflict cited as one of the contributing factors. Wow, imagine having a startup fail due to cofounders arguing. What a simple problem to solve it seems, and yet, more consideration must be taken before choosing one. In many ways,
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How to win friends and influence people When I went to business school, this was the favorite book and considered one of the must reads. Many of the students would learn it but then use the book in a manipulative manner. Hence, I resisted the temptation to read the book until years later juts to
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