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The book 'Rich dad Poor dad' by 'Robert Kiyosaki', provides a very strong inspirational insight to become financially strong. It helps us to overcome the old beliefs about money & education and clear all the obstacles in our path of becoming rich. Let's start with the summary of the book.   Introduction The author explains the role, his two father's played, in shaping his financial intelligence.  •To one, he calls 'Poor dad' (his own dad) .He is not poor in terms of earning money, though he earned enough, but still he struggled financially. He is highly educated and always asked his son to study hard and get good grades to find a secure job in good company.  •Other one is 'Rich dad'. He was not educated enough but had financial knowledge and so never faced money problems.  Although both gives importance to education but of different kinds.  •Poor dad wanted his son to have enough education so that he can find a secure job in good company. How...

Want to learn the process of changing your bad habits and developing good ones, that too by following few simple steps? So let's starts our journey towards inculcating good habits, through the summary of Book - 'Atomic Habits' (James clear).  About Habits  •Habit is a behaviour repeated enough times so that it becomes automatic. •When we face a problem for the first time, the neurological activity in brain is very high . But if faced with same problem repeatedly, it's solved automatically without any conscious thoughts(as it has now become our habit). •Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity so that you can allocate your conscious attention to new challenging tasks.  Surprising powers of atomic habits   •We convince ourselves that massive success requires massive actions and feels that small changes are unimportant. But that's not entirely true.  •Habits are compound interest of self improvement. Getting 1% better each day for 1 year will make y...

  Are you planning to 'quit' something because even after putting enough hard work, the results are not satisfying ? Then please rethink and decide wisely, after reading the summary of Book ' The Dip' (by Seth Godin). It teaches us about the right time to 'quit'.   The book talks about 3 curves  1) The Dip  • When we start something, it's fun because in intial phase, the new learnings and experiences keeps us going. But after that phase, 'Dip' happens. • Here our  increased efforts doesn't improve the results. At this point we feel like quitting.  • But quitting at this time isn't a good idea because just by pushing ourselves a little bit harder, we can cross 'the Dip' and become best in whatever we are doing and thus can achieve our ultimate goal. Although only few can gather courage to go beyond the dip.  • If you can't make it through 'the dip' of a particular field, its better not to start it and infact save your resou...

Curious to know the secret of long and happy life? Then 'Ikigai' provides you with the perfect answer - a book by  'Hector Garcia' and 'Francesc Miralles'. Here, I am sharing the important lessons that I have learnt from this Japanese way of long and happy life. Okinawa is one of the province in Japan with highest life expectancy all over the world. The book shares the secret of people living here. And broadly, those secrets are - people here have found their 'ikigai'; also they follow anti-ageing diet and include mental and physical exercise in their daily lives. Let's look at them one by one in more detail. 1) IKIGAI  •' iki' means 'to live' and 'gai' means 'reason'.  •Ikigai describe the 'why' behind our lives, it gives the reason to get up in morning, it keeps us ' happily busy' , inspire us to stay active until very end, it's something we continue to do even after retiring . In short, it gives...