Change is inevitable, yet most people are uncomfortable with it. Through a simple story, this book illustrates how people react to change, and how we can manage change more constructively and effectively. The story provides useful metaphors for us to reflect about our own lives, and the ideas can be used to facilitate discussions and shift attitudes toward change.  

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This book is about improving your mental agility and the ability to rethink. This can improve your problem-solving capacity, and increase your levels of success and happiness in life.  

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Most of us are used to annual planning over 12-month cycles. This book explains why it’s much more effective to compress your planning and execution into 12-week cycles, and how you can implement this system to improve your results by at least 4x.  

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Why do the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer? Why do the educated middle class have a successful career, yet struggle with their financial commitments? In this book, Kiyosaki shares what he learned about wealth from his “rich dad” and “poor dad”, the secrets that separate the Rich from the Poor and Middle Class, and how we can apply this to grow our wealth.  

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Many people believe that to be an achiever or a great leader, you must be bold, action-oriented, outgoing, and aggressive, i.e. you must be an extrovert. In this book, Cain explains why this perspective is flawed, why introverts may be severely undervalued, and how we can bring out the best in ourselves and others by changing the way we see introversion. In this summary, we’ve distilled and re-organized the key ideas from

the book into 3 parts:

• Understanding Introversion and Extroversion

• Debunking the Extrovert Ideal

• Living, Loving and Working Optimally  

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Renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl survived the Nazi death camps as a prisoner. His years of suffering, experiences and insights led him to develop logotherapy, a branch of psychology built on the belief that humans are primarily driven by meaning. In this book, he chronicled his camp experiences and how logotherapy can be used to help people overcome anxiety and find happiness and fulfilment in life.  

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Deep work is about focusing without distraction on cognitivelydemanding tasks. It’s vital for mastering hard things and delivering high-value outcomes. Yet, in our high-tech, hyper-connected society, people are constantly distracted by emails, social media and infotainment, losing their capacity for intense focus. This book explains the importance of deep work and how to nurture this valuable but increasingly-rare skill.

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“This book was written for those who seek the rules which have made others successful, and are willing to stake everything on those rules.”

This book was written by Napoleon Hill after more than 20 years of research on the accomplishments and attributes of 500 of the most successful people in business. Between 1937 until Napoleon Hill’s death in 1970, the book sold over 20 million copies, and continues to be a best-seller even today. The book can be considered the grandfather of personal development books. Hill’s ideas have been expanded upon and developed by many other authors and famous personal development icons worldwide. The book sets out 13 timeless principles for success that are still valuable after almost 80 years.  

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First published in 1910, this was one of the earliest self-help books that explained how to acquire wealth in a scientific way based on metaphysical concepts. Wattles promises that if you truly grasp the ideas in this book and apply them like a scientific formula, it will be the only book on getting rich that you’ll ever need to read.  

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In this book, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, Daniel Kahneman, summarizes decades of research to help us understand what really goes on inside our heads - the psychological basis for our reactions, judgments, perceptions and choices. By learning how our mind works, being aware of our intuitive biases and errors of judgement, we can improve our decision-making skills, shape how we think and how we live our lives.  

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