“Self-judgments, like all judgments, are tragic expressions of unmet needs”
– – Marshall Rosenberg
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The Righteous Mind – Jonathan Haidt
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned. - - - Definitions of righteous, such as arising from an outraged sense of justice, morality, or fair play. The link also appears in the term self-righteous, which means convinced of...
The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel Van Der Kolk
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned. - - - Refugee camp in Syria or the Congo to encounter trauma. Long after a traumatic experience is over, it may be reactivated at the slightest hint of danger and mobilize disturbed brain...
The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership – Diana Chapman, Jim Dethmer, and Kaley Klemp
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned. - - - We've worked with many astounding leaders who enter midlife with broken marriages, fractured families, hardened hearts, and dreamless futures. The not enough resources belief...
Social Physics – Alex Pentland
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned. - - - Have we evolved to function better as group minds rather than as individuals? It is not simply the brightest who have the best ideas; it is those who are best at harvesting ideas...
On Tyranny – Timothy Snyder
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned. - - - Founding Fathers and contemplate the history of other democracies and republics. At the very beginning, anticipatory obedience means adapting instinctively, without reflecting, to a...
Leonardo da Vinci – Walter Isaacson
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned. - - - Together they served his driving passion, which was nothing less than knowing everything there was to know about the world, including how we fit into it. He had a reverence for the...
Internal Family Systems Therapy – Richard Schwartz
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned. - - - I was particularly drawn to Carl Rogers and Fritz Perls. IFS invites therapists to relate to every level of the human system intrapsychic, familial, communal, cultural, and social...
I Will Teach You to Be Rich – Ramit Sethi
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned. - - - Invisible scripts are the messages you've absorbed from your parents and society that guide your decisions for decades and often without even being aware of it. We either ignore it...
Fluent in 3 Months – Benny Lewis
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned. - - - My initial tangential motivations for learning a language were replaced by a direct motivation to live that language and use it as a means of communication and connection. Did you...
Effortless – Greg Mckeown
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned. - - - Disappointments are hard. Paying the bills is hard. Strained relationships are hard. Raising children is hard. Losing a loved one is hard. There are periods in our lives when every...
Breath – James Nestor
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned. - - - Even so, if the free divers and the ancient texts were to be believed, how we breathe affects all things. How could it be so important and unimportant at the same time?...
Beyond Order – Jordan Peterson
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned. - - - People depend on constant communication with others to keep their minds organized. We all need to think to keep things straight, but we mostly think by talking. The id, the...
Four Thousand Weeks – Oliver Burkeman
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned. - - - We’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action. A fairly modest six-figure number of...
Productivity Project – Chris Bailey
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned - - - Productivity is about how much you accomplish by managing time, attention and energy. From knowing to doing. Attention: What do you focus on? how well? how easily you get distracted?...
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen R. Covey
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned. - - - Change of Paradigm The change comes always inside-out. Focusing first in character and not in competence. Becoming Principles-Oriented “The map is not the territory” It is only...
When Things Fall Apart – Pema Chodron
All the notes were taken directly from When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron - - - Glossary Maitri: Loving-kindness toward oneself Samrana: Thinking that we can find some lasting pleasure and avoid pain Mara: Obstacles that generate confusion and...
Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott
All the notes were taken directly from Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott - - - Why “Bird by Bird” Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write, which...
How to Win Friends & Influence People – Dale Carnegie
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned! - - - Fundamental Techniques in Handling People: 3 Principles P1 “Don’t criticize” Humans are emotional beings, full of prejudice and motivated by pride vanity Don’t condemn Speak no...
Managing Oneself – Peter F Drucker
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned! - - - Discover your strengths Work on improving your strengths (Resources should go from make you competent into making you a star performer) Look where your intellectual arrogance is...
Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned! - - - Outlier: Phenomena that lie outside normal experience Matthew Effect “Those who are successful are more likely to be given the kind of special opportunities that lead to further...
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There – Marshall Goldsmith
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned! - - - At the higher levels of organizational life, all the leading players are technically skilled. They’re all smart. They’re all up to date on the technical aspects of their job. For...
High-Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way by Brendon Burchard
All the notes were taken directly from "High Performance Habits" by Brendon Burchard! - - - HABIT ONE: SEEK CLARITY Practice 1: Envision the Future FourHave vision and consistently set clear intentions for who you want to be each day, how you want...
Thinking in Bets – Annie Duke
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned! - - - The Misunderstanding of Decision Making I ask group members to come to our first meeting with a brief description of their best and worst decisions of the previous year. I have yet...
Unshakeable: Your Financial Freedom Playbook by Peter Mallouk and Tony Robbins
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned! - - - High Fiduciary Guidelines Previous Credentials (Not title based): Size of the money and clients Team: CFP (Certificado Financial Plave), State planners attorneys, CPA: Tax Advise...
This is Marketing – Seth Godin
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned! - - - How to make it happen? Offer a creative solution Narrow who’s it for (smallest viable market) Create a compelling story Spread the word Show up consistently Solution = Feeling...
Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies to Sleep Your Way to a Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success – Shawn Stevenson
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned! - - - Know the Value of Sleep Schedule sleep hours Reframe the idea of sleep. If you don’t value it, it won’t improve Get more Sunlight after Waking Up 6am to 8:30am (ideally 30min, even...
21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harari
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned! - - - WORK Humans have two types of abilities – physical and cognitive. In the past, machines competed with humans mainly in raw physical abilities, while humans retained an immense edge...
The State of Affairs – Esther Perel
All the notes were taken directly from the source mentioned! - - - Cheating is the only sin that gets two commandments in the Bible, one for doing it and one just for thinking about Euripides, Ovid, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Proust, Flaubert,...