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  Dr. Morrie is suffering from ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) and this book contains last words of wisdom that professor Morrie shares with his college student (author of the book, Mitch). Mitch used to visit Morrie every Tuesday before Morrie died of his severe illness. There is lot to learn from their meetings, let's look at the key points that Morrie shared -: First Tuesday : love  •Most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and let it come in.  • We don't let love come in because either we think we don't deserve love or we think it will make us too soft. But that's not true, never be afraid to love others and let others love you.  •As long as we love each other, we can die without really going away. All the love that you create will still be there. Death ends life, not a relationship.  •Love is - when you are concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own. Second Tuesday : self pity • No matter how worse the situat...

Attain whatever you ask from life, through the philosophy by Napolean Hill, in his book 'Think and Grow Rich'. The book provides the principles of success, after extensive research for 25yrs on more than 500 people who possesses great wealth.  Here I provide the brief analysis of those principles which you can apply in your daily lives and fulfil your dreams.  1) DESIRE   •Desire is the starting point of all achievements. Don't just wish but have a pulsating and definite desire.  •Desires become reality when you desire something so deeply that you are willing to stake your entire future for it.  •You can desire anything, but for now suppose you desire to be rich, then you can realise your desire by following these steps -: Step 1 - Fix your mind with exact amount of money you desire. Vague statements like 'I want to have plenty of money' doesn't work. Step 2- Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for that money, then gain enough knowledge abou...

  The book 'Monk Who Sold His Ferrari' (by Robin Sharma) enlists the 7 basic virtues of enlightened living which helps us to enrich our inner world so that we can enhance our outer world achievements. Practice these virtues for atleast a month to get pronounced results and to cultivate a habit of performing them.  So let's learn these virtues and simple techniques to apply them in our daily lives. SEVEN VIRTUES OF ENLIGHTENED LIVING   1)   MASTER YOUR MIND   •Control your thoughts - A persons runs 60,000 thoughts a day on average and 95% of them are same as the day before. So if we are having negative thoughts today, it can continue to affect us for many days after that also. Such thoughts block our minds to work upto its fullest capacity. Thus let only positive thoughts to enter your mind.  •Cultivate your mind with positive thoughts, they will banish all your worry of past or future.  •Quality of our life is determined by quality of our thoughts. •Mi...

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...