Atomic Habits by James Clear is a concise guide to breaking bad habits and implementing new ones. It is essentially a compilation of psychological tricks that you can use to help you in your fight against yourself. How to create a good habit? 1. Make It Obvious Fill out the Habits Scorecard. Write down your current … Read more
Tulip Mania is known as a primary example of a bubble. The Beginning of Tulip Mania It all started in Holland, in the seventeenth century. Years before (in 1593), a botany professor from Vienna brought to Leyden, a city in the Dutch province of South Holland, some unusual plants from Turkey. The Dutch were fascinated … Read more
The problem with deciding or cutting off, is that it is not sensitive enough to the requirements of trial and error. If there was a list of things you had to do, and some of which, you perceived as more or less important than others, then you can, in an orderly way, rank each item … Read more
In The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty, behavioral economist Dan Ariely explores the idea of deception and self-deception, through a series of experiments that either he has learned about or has done with his research team. Self-deception and Self-help Like overconfidence and optimism, there are benefits to self-deception. An exaggerated belief in oneself can help you … Read more
An Ancient Greek named Eratosthenes (276-194 B.C) did something that was considered, at the time, impossible. He made the first recorded measurement of the circumference of the Earth. Of course, Erasthenes had no expensive survey equipment, and most likely, he didn’t have lasers or satellites (or Google Earth). And he didn’t even put his own … Read more
The Art of Worldly Wisdom – Baltasar Gracian – Summary The Maxims – La Rochefoucauld – Summary The Bed of Procrustes – Nassim Taleb – Summary
In Praise of Idleness – Bertrand Russell – Summary
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity – Carlo Cipolla – Summary
Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu – Summary The Book On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are – Alan Watts – Summary Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse – Summary Ikigai – Hector Garcia Puigcerver – Summary The Art of Living – S.N. Goenka – Summary
The Nature of Things – Lucretius – Summary