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The war of art summary book by Steven Pressfield Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

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When we attempt to complete a task, we encounter resistance because we aspire to execute it perfectly, not wanting to compromise our efforts. Resistance aids us in performing our tasks more effectively and guides us toward more beneficial pursuits. Feeling resistance signifies that "you desire to engage in work you love, yet somehow you can't," indicating a significant opportunity exists (an opportunity to solve a problem). Resistance prevents you from sharing your work with the world. Set aside a specific time every day to work on your tasks, persisting through resistance(working on it's suggestions) until you become exhausted; insights will emerge. Work while seated(sit don't lay on bed). Steven Pressfield begins writing his books daily at 10:30 am, battling resistance for 3-4 hours until exhaustion. Resistance is a natural force that advises us to proceed cautiously. Resistance is the path to transforming passion into purpose. To derive the most benefit from re...

The element book by Ken Robinson summary|How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

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Quote from author:(Ken Robinson) By understanding our natural talents, we can become more creative and vital for ourselves and the world, describing creativity in a single word as "applied imagination." By channeling the energy of your passion into your work, you can achieve anything. Work in a field where you feel passion, joy, and energy, and also where you have natural talent. Make a connection between talent and passion. The "element" is a place where "what we love to do" and "things we are good at" come together. Often, your "element" is found when you leave your hometown area to discover the intersection of your passion and talent because your native area may not support your "element." The element is where you find yourself completely immersed in "doing," losing a sense of everything else. Your element can be found in a place where you spend or want to spend time, but you think it should happen in a particular...

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mastery robert greene summary|key ideas from the book "mastery"

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  "Mastery" is the act of persisting in doing one thing for a very long period of time, regardless of whether you become bored, by constantly finding new ways to approach it. Learning any skill on your own can take decades. That's why you should learn from masters who have mastered skills through years of hard work. Consider mastering things you used to enjoy in childhood years because you were tension-free at that time. Now, in your young age, you have the burden of work and worries, making it difficult to truly hear your inner self. If you are stuck in a situation where you can't decide, think of your childhood and what you would have done in this current situation. You need 10,000 hours of focused practice to master a skill. When you master your field, you can foresee things, and your guesses are akin to natural forces that determine fate. Listen to your inner self to determine what things you should become a master at because, in the end, you have to align with yo...

|The power of habit|summary Why We Do What We Do IN Life and Business book by Charles Duhigg

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If we recognize cues and rewards in our habits (addiction), we can use these cues and rewards in any other habit to get the same satisfaction. Keep the cue and reward the same but change the routine to get the same benefits. A habit is formed with cues and rewards that incite us to continue the habit. Try different things that give you the same kind of reward to establish a new habit. Include different habit-forming cues in your life. We can't get rid of habits, but we can only replace them. Make a group of people who have similar habits to change bad habits. Try various substitutes that support the same kind of habit-forming behavior. Search for similar habits and do all good and bad habits at the same time to judge the connection between them. Note that the cue and reward will remain the same. You can never change a bad habit if you don't search for the same cues and rewards. Identify the cue, replace it with a good similar cue, and you will get the same reward. Even "co...

Summary and review of Steal like an artist book by |Austin kleon

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By the way, this book " Steal Like an Artist|10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative"  is small (160 pages) and can be read in 1 to 2 hours. Copying from one person is called plagiarism,  If you copy from many people, it's research. People often replicate the work of others, stealing ideas and adding their unique touch, making it seem like their own creation. They are being creative. When you were a child, you mimicked the people around you to learn how to speak. Everybody draws inspiration from somebody. Author Austin Kleon once said, "Collect a wide variety of information about a skill and create your own variation." Engage in reverse engineering of the things you've learned. Borrow ideas, concepts, and principles. Whenever a question pops into your mind, don't hesitate to search for it (Google it). If you can't find a satisfactory answer, you'll have better questions to ask. Share your work with others for smart collaboration. Change yo...

Summary and keypoints of "Creativity and problem solving" book by Brian Tracy

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1. If you're unable to make a decision, set a deadline for making that decision. Act on it after the deadline, and you'll gain more insights. 2. Generating at least 20 ideas before attempting to solve a problem can solve it by almost 50%. 3. Ask for a solution before going to sleep, and you may come up with the answer in a dream. Even if you wake up during the night, you might still have the solution in mind. Summary ends here but wait: Some keypoints from another book "Creative Problem Solving|An Introduction" are useful too.👇 State your problem in many ways,and select a line which is stimulating ideas.Be playful and bad.Let many ideas strange or silly or of any nature come in mind. When you have many ideas it becomes a system of individual ideas where sum is much greater than the whole.collaborate with others and check what kind of people are helpful.

David Rock your brain at work summary

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Summary and keypoints of book|Your Brain at Work|Strategies for Overcoming Distraction|Regaining Focus|and Working Smarter All Day Long by David Rock We have limited energy for conscious thinking. Always prioritize prioritizing; schedule and prioritize your most important tasks when you have high energy because solving a problem consumes a lot of energy. Collaborate with others to save your energy. Thinking about the image of something you have not seen is difficult. That's why, instead of a solution, people focus on the problem because picturing problems is easy. This is also why people cannot determine goals because the future is invisible. Do your important tasks in the morning. Convert the important tasks into habits; let them run on autopilot. Improve your condition a little bit. In fact, the aim here is to become better than yesterday. So here we go: We can't hold more than one idea in mind, just like we can't do more than one task at a time. Put your phone away from ...

Summary of Moonwalking with Einstein|The Art and Science of Remembering Everything book by Joshua Foer

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  Author Joshua Foer met a man at a memory championship who could remember 50 thousand digits of pi. So, Joshua became interested in the science of memorization. Socrates said: "Writing destroys memory." How? The brain remembers things easily when they are repetitive. Before the invention of writing, people memorized things to transfer them to others. You notice when you are trying to remember something, but it doesn't show up in consciousness. Somehow, when you go to a place, listen to music, or smell something, you exactly remember the forgotten thing. Memory is associated with that thing, and memory works this way. For example, if you want to learn to type faster, type 10 or 20% faster than your current speed so that you make mistakes, and then you can identify what is slowing you down. There is no limit to speed; you can go above and beyond the sky. Create a "memory palace." It can be a series of vivid or sexual images where you place all the things that nee...

Flow| the Psychology of Optimal Experience book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi|summary and review

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"Flow" is a state of activity in which people become so engrossed that they do it solely for enjoyment, and they don't think about anything else; they forget about the concept of time.flow occurs when someone tries to beat his own record. You enter a flow state when there is no chance of failure in your work. To achieve a flow state, do only what you are good at doing. Aristotle said that happiness can only be achieved if there is something left to learn, and this world is made in a way that there is always something to learn. Why do we always want more free time for ourselves even when we are already free? It's because we do not work in a "flow state." Your flow state is hidden in your teenage years (worry-free days). What did you do most during those days? I bet most people played video games or sports.

Ultralearning| Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career Book by Scott Young|summary and keypoints

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"The first step in learning is to research and draw a map of "what resources are available." Spend 10% of your total learning time to research every time you start learning something. Ultra learning can be described in a single word: "intensity." Scott Young learned four different languages in four different countries - Spain, Brazil, Korea, and China - in 12 months, spending three months in each country. He did not speak a single word in English, not even with his friend who was traveling with him, and not during phone calls. The ultra-learning phase is different from other methods due to its intensity and self-directed nature. Before starting or even during the learning process, you can spend 10% of your time researching resources to identify those that are concise and to the point. Learn something by doing it, by solving real-life problems. Learn directly from the source. Learning something new boosts your confidence because now you know you can do something...

The Mind At Night|The New Science Of How And Why We Dream book by Andrea Rock summary and keypoints

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  "1/3 of our day and life is spent in sleep. You can see a dream only when you wake up straight from the dream. Seeing a dream feels real because they are actually real; we see them without any help from our sensory organs. Our longest period of REM sleep is just before awakening (approximately two hours before). This exciting, vivid, and delightful dream has a lot of memories from our past, and hence, it wakes us up in good feelings. The human brain is at the peak of creativity while dreaming. Our brain, while dreaming, tries to know what the purpose of a particular memory is in the form of a dream. The more you dream, the more you know your personality and habits. Dreams help us become a new person according to our own needs. Dreams even help us in dealing with life-threatening situations. Dreams help us in making memories and connections among different things. Dreams assure us that we can solve these life-threatening situations. We dream about our emotions. In a dream, our lo...

Scrum|The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time book by Jeff Sutherland summary and review

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" Jeff Sutherland's Scrum book is about achieving twice the work in half the time. The key principles of Scrum involve doing twice the work in half the time and embracing the art of doing twice the work in half the time. One of the main ideas in Scrum is to share all the facts you know with your team. Additionally, remember that 80% of success is hidden in just 20% of the work. When working with Scrum, avoid having more than three tasks at a time and ensure your team consists of 5-9 people, as this number is optimal for fostering diverse ideas. Increasing the team size can disrupt performance and mental space. Maintain a clear goals list on the board, indicating what's done, what remains, and future projects. This helps everyone in the organization stay informed and engaged. Display your progress on a Scrum progress board that's visible to all workers. Always aim to involve experts from various fields for fresh perspectives. Collect short daily statements from your tea...

"How to Stop Worrying and Start Living" by Dale Carnegie - Summary and Quick Review

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Take action to address your problems and eliminate tension surrounding them. A quote from Dean Hakes of Columbia University: "Half the worry in the world is caused by people making decisions based on insufficient knowledge. They lack sufficient facts to determine how much concern (worry) a situation deserves." We become fatigued from stress, not from work. Video games are proof of this. Listen to your body, and take breaks before you become tired. Always maintain the mindset that the worst might happen regardless. Be prepared, as you often attract what you are, not what you want. Organize your schedule on an hourly basis. Plan what you intend to accomplish in each hour, or document your activities on an hourly basis. In life, 90% of things tend to work out well, while only 10% pose problems that can be easily solved with expert assistance. Focus on the positive aspects, the 90% of good happenings. Fatigue often leads to worry. Taking action is the key to solving problems. Mai...

"The art of the start" book by Guy Kawasaki summary and review

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"This book is authored by Guy Kawasaki. When aiming for business success, don't just create a product; also cultivate a community around its users who offer assistance. For instance, consider how fans of Coca-Cola created a Facebook fan page that garnered 1 million followers. All endeavors begin with a visionary approach. Think big—whether it's writing a book or crafting the fastest vehicle. Share your challenges with experts in relevant fields; the more you engage with experienced individuals, the more solutions you'll discover. As you solve problems for customers, their lives become easier, and your earnings increase. Maintain this approach from the inception of your business planning. Established and thriving companies often encapsulate their purpose in a single phrase. For example, Nike's mission statement is "Authentic athletic performance," while Disney focuses on "Fun family entertainment."  Develop a comprehensive business plan. It not o...

"Exploring the world of lucid dreaming book" by Stephen laberge| summary and review

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"Sleep at least 7.5 to 10 hours for more dreams! The chances of lucid dreaming are twice as likely in the last 2 hours of sleep than in the previous 6 hours. Freud said, "Every dream is the fulfillment of a wish.” Dream Signs: Dream signs occur when you realize you are dreaming. Write down your dream just after awakening from sleep, at any time during the night. Sleep with the intention of dreaming and remembering. Jot down the things you often see in the dream; these are your dream signs. Aim to remember at least 1-2 dreams per night. Often, people become lucid dreamers when they recognize particular unusual dream signs. For example, when you read a book in real life, its pages remain the same, but in a dream, they change a lot. Reality Checks: Check if you are awakening or sleeping, especially before going to sleep. Perform reality checks at least 30 times or more throughout the day. Ask yourself, "Are you sleeping or awakening?" MILD (Mnemonic Induction of Lucid ...