5 Books That Changed My Life
Our brain can’t tell us the difference between good and bad habits, while be teach it. Books are the best medium and friend for to do that.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
– André Gide, Autumn Leaves
Here are the FIVE BOOKS that challenged my perceptions and wiped of my rigid concept.
Books inspire me and have always been my shelter inconsistency in life. With every new page, new word, new personality and a new book, you don’t just find out yourself but construct yourself with little pieces of what the story teaches you about life.
1. The Go Giver
The Go-Giver tells the story of an ambitious young man named Joe who yearns for success. This book was written by “Bob Burg and John David Mann”.
Things This Book Will Do For You
- Whatever you focus on is what you get
- Your Outer World is a Reflection of Your Inner World
- Your income is determined by how many people you serve and how well you serve them.
- The key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving.
- Your income is determined by how many people you serve and how well you serve them.
2. The Road Less Travelled:
This book was written by “Scott Peck” to help readers make the right decisions when they are stuck at a crossroads.
The book has three parts, with each section discussing a different aspect of life.
In the first section, the book talks about the importance of discipline. The second part of the book discusses the nature of love, saying that it is the driving force of spiritual growth. The third part deals with grace, saying that it is a powerful force that nurtures spiritual growth in human beings.
Things This Book Will Do For You
- If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem
- Route to reality is not easy
- The desire to love is not love – Love is both an intention and action.
- An attempt to avoid legitimate suffering is the root cause of emotional illness.
- We cannot be a source of strength unless we nurture our strength.
- My feeling of love may be unbounded, but my capacity to be loving is limited.
3. The Power of Habit:
The author “Charles Duhigg” wants to tell the world how changing certain habits can make a huge difference between success and failure, life and death. The readers shall be enlightened to find that few good habits can be the leading cause of betterment of community, businesses or individual growth.
Things This Book Will Do For You
- Brain converts sequence of action into an automatic routine
- The habit loop consists of three elements: a cue, a routine, and a reward.
- Brain makes almost any routine into a habit
- Since we often don’t recognize these habit loops as they grow, we are blind to our ability to control them.
- The brain can be reprogrammed; you just have to be deliberate about it.
- If you want to change the habit, you must find an alternative routine
- If you genuinely believe in people that they have what it takes to succeed, they will prove you right
- If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
- To market a new habit – make it familiar.
- Every habit, no matter how complex is flexible.
- Habits can be changed; if you understand how they can function.
4. The science of getting rich:
There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. In this book, “Wallace D. Wattles” introduced the world to the power of positive thinking.
Things This Book Will Do For You
- Moral and spiritual greatness is possible only to those who are above the competitive battle for existence.
- The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.
- People must be taught to become rich by creation, not competition.
- Never ever compel your will on others.
- You must know what you want, and be specific and definite.
- The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best; therefore it tends to become the best.
- Getting rich is not the result of doing certain things; it is the result of doing things in a certain way.
- An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.
- Give everyone more in use value than you take from him in cash value. Then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction.
5. How to Win Friends and Influence People:
This Book was Written by “Dale Carnegie” and published in 1936, it has sold over 30 million copies. This book is a guide to improving a person’s aura in the world. It is about changing how the world views and treats you by changing your own behavior. That means that if you change the kind of energy that you emit, what comes back to you is also different.
Things This Book Will Do For You
- Get you out of a mental rut; give you new thoughts, new visions, new ambitions.
- Enable you to make friends quickly and easily.
- Increase your popularity.
- Help you to win people to your way of thinking.
- Increase your influence, your prestige, your ability to get things done.
- Enable you to win new clients, new customers.
- Increase your earning power.
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