Money and Finance
- Robert Greene Interview
Link to interview: TNM 156: Robert Greene – How to Make a Big Life Change Are you afraid you’ll have to make a radical shift in your life in order to feel fulfilled? Have you ever felt tempted to walk away from your career so you could pursue a dream?...
- A Few Notes From The Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting
I'll put up some of the better transcripts that start to appear over the next few days, but until then, here are a few highlights from the notes that I took during the meeting. These are based on my scribbling and aren't exact quotes, just summaries...
- Robert Greene Quote
From the book Mastery: It is never wise to purposefully do without the benefits of having a mentor in your life. You will waste valuable time in finding and shaping what you need to know. But sometimes you have no choice. There is simply no one around...
- Improvement Of The Mind – By Dr. Isaac Watts
Synopsis of the book The Improvement of the Mind: Link to: Improvement of the Mind .................. This book is also mentioned in Robert Greene's Mastery as being a book that helped to change the course of Michael Faraday's life: "Then in...
- Which Traits Predict Success? (the Importance Of Grit) - By Jonah Lehrer
Found via Simoleon Sense.What are the causes of success? At first glance, the answer is easy: success is about talent. It’s about being able to do something – hit a baseball, play chess, trade stocks, write a blog – better than most anyone else....
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"...the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results"
Greene is accustomed to defending his first book, but I suspect he's trying to move beyond it with his latest, Mastery, which studies how talent is developed, using a heavily researched slew of examples including Einstein, Darwin, Goethe and John Coltrane. "I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results," he says.
Mastery is an illuminating book but its message (the secret of success is working incredibly hard for many years) is much tougher and more exacting than the follow-your-dreams manuals with which it will share the self-help shelves. "I hate them," he says. "I was under a lot of pressure to write something faster and shorter and easier for people to consume and I resisted that. So maybe this book won't sell because I've loaded the donkey with all that baggage, but I do at least try to debunk the idea that it's all about your parents and education and wealth."
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Related book: Mastery
- Robert Greene Interview
Link to interview: TNM 156: Robert Greene – How to Make a Big Life Change Are you afraid you’ll have to make a radical shift in your life in order to feel fulfilled? Have you ever felt tempted to walk away from your career so you could pursue a dream?...
- A Few Notes From The Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting
I'll put up some of the better transcripts that start to appear over the next few days, but until then, here are a few highlights from the notes that I took during the meeting. These are based on my scribbling and aren't exact quotes, just summaries...
- Robert Greene Quote
From the book Mastery: It is never wise to purposefully do without the benefits of having a mentor in your life. You will waste valuable time in finding and shaping what you need to know. But sometimes you have no choice. There is simply no one around...
- Improvement Of The Mind – By Dr. Isaac Watts
Synopsis of the book The Improvement of the Mind: Link to: Improvement of the Mind .................. This book is also mentioned in Robert Greene's Mastery as being a book that helped to change the course of Michael Faraday's life: "Then in...
- Which Traits Predict Success? (the Importance Of Grit) - By Jonah Lehrer
Found via Simoleon Sense.What are the causes of success? At first glance, the answer is easy: success is about talent. It’s about being able to do something – hit a baseball, play chess, trade stocks, write a blog – better than most anyone else....