As a student or as a professional, you need to study different topics. It can be an organized study (properly designed courses) or unorganized one (knowing about ad hoc topics in isolation). In both the cases, you need to focus on the effectiveness of study rather than the time spent. Following tips will help to... Continue Reading →
Eat That Frog!
Not literally!! In “Eat that Frog!”, Brian Tracy presents 21 tips to help you stop procrastinating and get more done in less time. This practical action guide is built on 30 years of time-management study–it’s for anyone who feels overwhelmed or wants to be more effective in planning, prioritizing and achieving more results in less... Continue Reading →
Understanding Questions
UPSC, MPSC or any other competitive examination is basically a game of questions and answers. The sole aim of study and preparation for Competitive examinations has to be being able to write/select the best answer possible. Your study material, method of study, coaching, time and resources invested- all these issues will not matter if you... Continue Reading →
Think and Grow Rich
Think and Grow Rich is a book written by Napoleon Hill released in 1937 and is regarded as a landmark personal development and self-improvement book. Think and Grow Rich is the combined wisdom from more than 500 of America’s most successful individuals. Their insights were then narrowed down into principles and contribute to what Hill... Continue Reading →
The Comfort Zone
As the founder and CEO of 'The Power of Positivity', an online community with more than 50 million followers worldwide, Kristen Butler has spent over a decade examining the elements of a life well lived and the paths that get us there. Her book “The Comfort Zone’ blows the lid off the idea that anxiety... Continue Reading →
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
The much celebrated book The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson talks in details about life-changing advice about learning, specific knowledge, judgement, decisions, reading, anger, honesty, being yourself and freedom. This book discusses the tools needed to get rich in a predictable and replicable way, and through this... Continue Reading →
Nudge
The book Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein discusses the concept of using behavioral sciences in public policy and managerial practices. The book talks about how people always go for the path of least resistance when it comes to making decisions. In order to help lazy decision makers pick the right choice, it is... Continue Reading →
The Power Of Now
“The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual self-help guide to help us discover our true Being, release our pain and find deep inner peace. This book states that living in the now is the most authentic path to happiness and enlightenment. When we are intensely present in the Now, we respond from... Continue Reading →
Factfulness
Factfulness by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Rönnlund focuses on the idea that we systematically overestimate how bad the world is on many of the most important metrics, such as poverty, violence and income. Rosling believes this overdramatic worldview is mainly the result of ten instincts that distort our perspective of the world... Continue Reading →
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman is a Psychologist who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in decision making, specifically Prospect Theory. Kahneman in the book Thinking, Fast and Slow explains how we overestimate our abilities to make the right decision and correct judgments. He further reveals the limitations of intuition – our which... Continue Reading →
