“Find the most talented person in the room, and if it’s not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. Try to be helpful. (Or) If you ever find that you’re the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.”

“Every artist gets asked the question, “Where do you get your ideas?” The honest artist answers, “I steal them.”

<ul><li>Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.</li><li>You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences.</li><li>Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.</li></ul>

Steal Like An Artist

“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”

<ul><li>We learn by copying.</li><li>We’re talking about practice here, not plagiarism—plagiarism is trying to pass someone else’s work off as your own.</li><li>First, figure out who to copy.</li><li>Second, figure out what to copy.</li></ul>

Copycat 🐱

“if you copy from one author, it’s plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it’s research.”

<ul><li>Don’t just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style.</li><li>Imitation is about copying. Emulation is when imitation goes one step further, breaking through into your own thing.</li><li>All you need is a little space and a little time—a place to work, and some time to do it; a little self-imposed solitude and temporary captivity.</li></ul>

Imitation Vs Emulation

“Do good work and share it with people.”Step one, “do good work,” is incredibly hard. There are no shortcuts. Make stuff every day. Know you’re going to suck for a while. Fail. Get better.Step two, “share it with people,” was really hard up until about ten years ago or so. Now, it’s very simple: “Put your stuff on Internet”.

Not So Secret Formula

Step 1: Wonder at something.Step 2: Invite others to wonder with you. You should wonder at the things nobody else is wondering about.If everybody’s wondering about apples, go wonder about oranges. The more open you are about sharing your passions, the closer people will feel to your work.Artists aren’t magicians. There’s no penalty for revealing your secrets.

Reveal Your Secrets

<ul><li>Remember “garbage in, garbage out”? You’re only going to be as good as the people you surround yourself with.</li><li>In the digital space, that means following the best people online—the people who are way smarter and better than you, the people who are doing the really interesting work.(Deepstash)</li></ul>

Garbage In, Garbage Out

You have to be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else—that’s how you’ll get ahead. Google everything. Google your dreams, Google your problems. You’ll either find the answer or you’ll come up with a better question.

Curious

<ul><li>Life is a lonely business, often filled with discouragement and rejection. Validation is for parking, but it’s still a tremendous boost when people say nice things about our work.</li><li>It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don’t have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.</li><li>Learn from them, steal from them.</li></ul>

Creative

“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”

<ul><li>Figure out what time you can carve out, what time you can steal, and stick to your routine. Do the work every day, no matter what. No holidays, no sick days. Don’t stop.</li><li>Parkinson’s Law: “Work gets done in the time available.”</li><li>Get a calendar. Fill the boxes. Don’t break the chain.</li></ul>

Make Stealing A Habit

<ul><li>Limitations mean freedom.</li><li>In this age of information abundance and overload, those who get ahead will be the folks who figure out what to leave out, so they can concentrate on what’s really important to them.</li><li>In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out. Choose wisely.</li></ul>

Limitations == Freedom

“Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the money in the world, all the colors in the palette, anything you want—that just kills creativity.”

“Fake it ’til you make it. Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.”

“Good artists borrow, great artists steal.”—T. S. Eliot’s dictum, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, Steve Jobs

You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That’s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an Artist is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illustrations, exercises, and examples will put readers directly in touch with their artistic side. When Mr. Kleon was asked to address college students in upstate New York, he shaped his speech around the ten things he wished someone had told him when he was starting out. The talk went viral, and its author dug deeper into his own ideas to create Steal Like an Artist, the book. The result is inspiring, hip, original, practical, and entertaining. And filled with new truths about creativity: Nothing is original, so embrace influence, collect ideas, and remix and re-imagine to discover your own path. Follow your interests wherever they take you. Stay smart, stay out of debt, and risk being boring—the creative you will need to make room to be wild and daring in your imagination.

Steal Like an Artist

<ol><li>For every action, there is an equal and opposite emotional reaction.</li><li>Ur self worth equals the sum of our emotions over time.</li><li>Ur identity will stay your identity until a new experience acts against it.</li></ol>Emotional gravity: People are pulled towards other people with similar histories and experiences like our own.

Newton’s Laws of Emotion

“If you get off your ass and actively seek out pain, the body is anti-fragile. Meaning it gets stronger the more stress and strain you put on it.….but if you avoid stress and pain… your muscles will atrophy, your bones will become brittle and you will degenerate into weakness.”

<ul><li>The default human condition is to avoid pain and pursue pleasure, But this pursuit of pleasure is toxic because it is misleading and self-defeating.</li><li>The antidote is to actively engage with pain and learn to suffer well.</li></ul>

Pain Is The Universal Constant

“…while pain is inevitable, suffering is always a choice… there is always a separation between what we experience and how we interpret that experience.

<ol><li>Innovations (Upgrade pain): Innovations replace pain with a more tolerable pain.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Diversions (Avoid pain): Diversions help people to numb their pain. Examples: weekend out with friends and the use of social media.</li></ol>

The Feelings Economy:

“Humans warp their perceptions to fit their expectations.”Examples:<ol><li>In the pre-Uber days, we were willing to wait for 30 min for a taxi to come. Today we complain if there is a delay of even 5 min. </li><li>A decade back, someone was living in a small apartment and very contented. Today, the same family lives in a Villa with a much higher living standard and feels less satisfied than before. </li></ol>Convenience has improved but satisfaction has not.

The Blue Dot Effect:

“Freedom itself demands discomfort.”

<ol><li>A sense of control: We’re in control of our own life.</li><li>A belief in the value of something: Something important enough to work toward, something better, that’s worth striving for.</li><li>A community: A group that values the same things we do and is working toward achieving those things.</li></ol>

To Build And Maintain Hope

People want diversions from their pain, like social media to scroll through, or cheeseburgers or ice creams to divert them from their stress, These things, these diversions, give us the feeling of ‘freedom’ (temporary freedom from our pain), but really this is just FakeFreedom.

FAKE FREEDOM

<ul><li>Real freedom comes from sacrifices and choosing what to give up.</li><li>The only TRUE form of freedom is through SELF-LIMITATION. It is not the privilege of choosing everything you want in your life, but rather, choosing what you will GIVE UP in your life.</li></ul>

REAL FREEDOM

<ul><li>The hope that brings the most joy to our lives is the same hope that brings the greatest danger. </li><li>We must stop hoping and accept what is. That is the only way to end the perpetual cycle of conflict.</li><li>Don't hope for better. Be better. Be something better. Be more compassionate, more resilient, more humble, more disciplined.</li></ul>

Hope Is F*cked

“We are inconsequential cosmic dust, bumping and milling about on a tiny blue speck. We imagine our own importance. We invent our purpose—we are nothing. Enjoy your F*cking coffee.”

“Living well does not mean avoiding suffering; it means suffering for the right reasons.”—Mark Manson

From the author of the international mega-bestseller The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck comes a counterintuitive guide to the problems of hope. We live in an interesting time. Materially, everything is the best it’s ever been—we are freer, healthier and wealthier than any people in human history. Yet, somehow everything seems to be irreparably and horribly f*cked—the planet is warming, governments are failing, economies are collapsing, and everyone is perpetually offended on Twitter. At this moment in history, when we have access to technology, education and communication our ancestors couldn’t even dream of, so many of us come back to an overriding feeling of hopelessness. What’s going on? If anyone can put a name to our current malaise and help fix it, it’s Mark Manson. In 2016, Manson published The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck, a book that brilliantly gave shape to the ever-present, low-level hum of anxiety that permeates modern living. He showed us that technology had made it too easy to care about the wrong things, that our culture had convinced us that the world owed us something when it didn’t—and worst of all, that our modern and maddening urge to always find happiness only served to make us unhappier. Instead, the “subtle art” of that title turned out to be a bold challenge: to choose your struggle; to narrow and focus and find the pain you want to sustain. The result was a book that became an international phenomenon, selling millions of copies worldwide while becoming the #1 bestseller in 13 different countries. Now, in Everthing Is F*cked, Manson turns his gaze from the inevitable flaws within each individual self to the endless calamities taking place in the world around us. Drawing from the pool of psychological research on these topics, as well as the timeless wisdom of philosophers such as Plato, Nietzsche, and Tom Waits, he dissects religion and politics and the uncomfortable ways they have come to resemble one another. He looks at our relationships with money, entertainment and the internet, and how too much of a good thing can psychologically eat us alive. He openly defies our definitions of faith, happiness, freedom—and even of hope itself. With his usual mix of erudition and where-the-f*ck-did-that-come-from humor, Manson takes us by the collar and challenges us to be more honest with ourselves and connected with the world in ways we probably haven’t considered before. It’s another counterintuitive romp through the pain in our hearts and the stress of our soul. One of the great modern writers has produced another book that will set the agenda for years to come.

Everything Is F*cked

<ul><li>Take time to help another person.</li><li>Laugh for no reason.</li><li>Choose to be happy.</li><li>Spend time getting to know yourself.</li><li>Learn from other’s mistakes as well. </li><li>Don't allow others to force their expectations on you.</li></ul>

Laugh Out Loud 😂

<ul><li>Accept your mistakes and learn from them.</li><li>Nothing happens overnight.</li><li>Try to avoid making dumb mistakes.</li><li>Think before you act.</li><li>The things you choose to do today really matters.</li><li>Take the time to develop good habits.</li><li>Don't live in denial, take action.</li></ul>

Mitsakes

<ul><li>Focus on the vital few.</li><li>Say ‘no’ to a lot of things.</li><li>Focus on one task at a time.</li><li>Invest the time to think.</li></ul>

Vital Few

“You may delay, but time will not.”

<ul><li>Show me your company, and I'll tell you who you are.</li><li>Be open and honest in your communication.</li><li>Be true to your passions.</li><li>Take time to exercise.</li><li>Take responsibility for your life.</li></ul>

Passion 

<ul><li>It's never too late to reinvent yourself.</li><li>Don't live your life backwards.</li><li>Learn to embrace change.</li><li>The little steps, over a long time, enable you to cover a great distance.</li></ul>

Tiny Steps

“Greediness is a hole that makes you more and more shallow every passing day.”

<ol><li>Do what you think is right.</li><li>Don't follow others blindly.</li><li>Be honest and impeccable with your word.</li><li>Admit your mistakes.</li></ol>

4 Principles That Build Character

“Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”

<ol><li>They're masters of their fields because of deliberate practice. They're well-prepared.</li><li>They spend time deeply focused on solving problems that matter.</li><li>They step away from the problem, creating space for insights and solutions to come.</li></ol>

3 Common Traits of Successful People

<ol><li>Have a clear stretch goal.</li><li>Love what you do.</li><li>Work hard, usually over a long time.</li><li>Be realistic and know your limitations.</li><li>Be flexible and persevere.</li><li>Luck goes a long way.</li></ol>

Elements Critical for Success

“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”

“There are but three events in a man’s life: birth, life and death. He is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.”

Life is short. You can, if you work hard and are lucky, get more of almost anything, but you can't get more time. Time only goes one way. The average American has a lifespan of less than 30,000 days. So how you choose to live matters. That's the topic of this book. I don't pretend to have all the answers. I'm still learning every day, and many of the good ideas here I've picked up from other people either directly or by reading. But this is what's worked for me. Like life, this book is short. Many books I read could communicate their ideas in fewer pages. So I've tried to be brief in line with the wise person who noted: "If I'd had more time I would have written a shorter letter". I don't think brevity implies lack of content. The concepts here have improved the quality of my life, and I hope they're useful to you as well. Using these concepts, I have created a life I love. My job doesn't feel like work. I love and respect the people with whom I spend time. And I'm also passionate about my life outside work. I've learned how to create a balance that makes me happy between work and other interests, including my family, friends and exercise. Sadly I think that's rare. And yet, while I know I'm lucky, most people can work towards those goals in their own lives. My interest in making the most of my life began when I was just starting college, but when I was in my mid-thirties a boss I admired died of cancer. He was young. He had a great wife; he had three young children; he had a fantastic career -- he had everything in life. He just didn't have enough time. So, while I'd often thought about how to get the most out of life, the death of someone so young and vital increased my sense of urgency to act on it. One of the things I've always wanted to do was to work for myself. As a result, I left an exciting job at Microsoft in 2001 amidst the Internet bust to found the investing firm I now run. It was hard to do, both financially and emotionally. When I left Microsoft, many people - friends, family, and even some of the press - thought I was deluding myself to start a fund focused on Internet-related companies during a market crash. A press quote from the time said: "Call him a little crazy. Call him a little nuts." I'd never seen that type of coverage before. And, in a sense, the press was right; the business wasn't easy to start. Fortunately, from a vantage point of ten years down the road, it's worked out quite well. A key part of my job is reading and thinking about a broad variety of topics. So writing this book was relatively easy. It's even easier to read. But, like many things in life, actually executing each day on these concepts is extremely difficult. With thanks to Thomas Edison, life is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Even so, I hope you have fun perspiring. Peter Atkins Seattle, WA December, 2010

Life Is Short And So Is This Book

<ul><li>As Nike was a growing company, Knight made almost no profit, his business struggled, and faced bankruptcy many times.</li><li>He had an MBA from Stanford University and left a full-time career as an accountant to sell shoes.</li><li>He had to follow his passion – his calling. He felt it was important that the work he spent his life on needed to feel meaningful, purposeful, and creative.</li></ul>

Chase A Calling, Not A Career

<ul><li>In the early 1960s, the athletic shoe industry was dominated by German companies Adidas and Puma. </li><li>Knight’s “crazy idea” was that Japanese-made shoes could gain popularity in America as Japanese cars had been. He pursued his idea, and eventually found great success.</li></ul>

Pursue Your “Crazy Idea”

<ul><li>Blue Ribbon Sports (Nike), was on the verge of bankruptcy for almost two decades.</li><li>He faced challenges acquiring funding, landing orders on time, and difficulties with manufacturers throughout the early days and pushed through to find the accomplishment that Nike has today.</li></ul>

Success Does Not Come Easily

<ul><li>He openly acknowledged that starting a business was risky, and he was willing to face that risk. </li><li>He felt that failure would gain him wisdom, and wisdom is an intangible asset. </li><li>Failure is an opportunity to learn and do better next time.</li><li>He said in the past that if he had failed, he would have just tried again with more wisdom.</li></ul>

Failure Is An Opportunity

<ul><li>He started his journey with the desire to import high-quality, low-cost shoes.</li><li>Nike consistently focused on the quality of their shoes and were constantly innovating ways to improve them.</li></ul>

There Is Value In Quality

<ul><li>Traditional advertising was not favored by Knight.</li><li>He valued publicity and focused on signing popular athletes to become brand representatives for Nike.</li><li>These iconic athletes increased public awareness of Nike and the plan was a huge victory for the brand.</li></ul>

 “Advertising” Takes Many Forms

<ul><li>Nike and Adidas have a well-established brand rivalry. </li><li>Knight looked to Adidas as inspiration, but also as their main competitor.</li><li> He felt Adidas was arrogant and had a negative view of them, but that did not stop him from learning from them. </li></ul>

 Learn From Your Competition

It is no secret that Nike shoes are manufactured offshore.Though the company receives criticism for using foreign labor, he details the changes and efforts he made to improve conditions for workers in his factories.

Improve Where Improvements Can Be Made

Phil Knight gives credit to the employees that supported Nike through its growth and recognizes them enormously for helping the company to grow and succeed.

Give Credit Where Credit Is Due

<ul><li>He observed that none of the great leaders micromanaged their teams.</li><li>They did not tell people how to do things, they would tell them what to do, and trust them to get it done.</li><li>This resulted in Knight hiring people with passion and ability and allowing them to solve problems on their own.</li></ul>

Trust Your Team

<ul><li>Knight acknowledges that “never give up” is an overstated piece of advice. </li><li>However, he recognizes many moments in Nike’s early years where it was exceedingly difficult to keep the company going, and it would have been easy to quit. </li><li>Pushing through those challenges has earned him the success that Nike has today.</li></ul>

Perseverance Pays Off

It is easy to feel unproductive when you view a task as a huge project. When you break that project down into small goals and success markers, it becomes a lot easier to manage, and the little amount you complete each day, adds up until the job is done.

A Massive Project Is Just Many Small Projects

<ul><li>In the early days of Blue Ribbon Sports, Knight gained success by projecting confidence and success. </li><li>He had to participate in many meetings and business deals with experienced and essential business people, and by acting successful, he eventually became successful.</li></ul>

Act Successful Until You Become Successful

<ul><li>Knight goes into great detail about how his world travels expanded his knowledge and viewpoints. </li><li>He values the wisdom that he gained from his travel as a young man and is a proponent of young people (with the means to do so) traveling as much as they can before they settle into careers.</li></ul>

Travel To Gain Experience And Wisdom

<ul><li>A large focus is placed on the hard work, dedication, and perseverance that it took for Knight to grow Nike.</li><li>However, Knight also acknowledges that luck played a role in his success. Hard work, dedication, and perseverance play a role in providing more opportunities for luck.</li></ul>

Success Has An Element Of Luck

<ul><li>Knight demonstrates very well that storytelling is a powerful tool.</li><li>There is a history of Nike’s most effective and famous ad campaigns coming from a place of storytelling.</li><li>Engaging your audience will have a profound effect on your marketing and brand.</li></ul>

Understand The Importance Of Storytelling

<ul><li>Like all business owners, Knight understands the importance of knowing who Nike’s audience was. </li><li>Having this information, and fully understanding it gives you the tools you need to create products, marketing, and branding that resonate with those intended to experience it.</li></ul>

Know Your Audience

<ul><li>Brands must have a mission that the public can agree with and get behind.</li><li>Nike’s current mission is “to bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world. *If you have a body, you are an athlete.”</li><li>This statement aligns with Knight’s understanding of the need for a deeper purpose. </li></ul>

Your Brand Needs To Inspire

<ul><li>Knight’s focus was always on the quality and performance of his products, however, delivering his orders on time was more important to him. </li><li>In the early stages of importing his shoes, there were often times they struggled to receive their orders on schedule. </li><li>The quality of a product is irrelevant if your customers can not trust you to deliver it on time consistently.</li></ul>

Delivery Trumps Perfection

<ul><li>His life revolved around the concept that growth was the most important thing in his life.</li><li>He risked everything, on multiple occasions, to grow Nike into the company we know today, and took extraordinary measures to pursue personal growth through his study, reading, and travels.</li><li>Growth and life are one and the same for Knight.</li></ul>

Life Is About Growth

“Life is growth. You grow or you die.”

Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.

In this instant and tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight “offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh” (Booklist, starred review), illuminating his company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands. Bill Gates named Shoe Dog one of his five favorite books of 2016 and called it “an amazing tale, a refreshingly honest reminder of what the path to business success really looks like. It’s a messy, perilous, and chaotic journey, riddled with mistakes, endless struggles, and sacrifice. Phil Knight opens up in ways few CEOs are willing to do.” Fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed fifty dollars from his father and launched a company with one simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost running shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his car in 1963, Knight grossed eight thousand dollars that first year. Today, Nike’s annual sales top $30 billion. In this age of start-ups, Knight’s Nike is the gold standard, and its swoosh is one of the few icons instantly recognized in every corner of the world. But Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always been a mystery. In Shoe Dog, he tells his story at last. At twenty-four, Knight decides that rather than work for a big corporation, he will create something all his own, new, dynamic, different. He details the many risks he encountered, the crushing setbacks, the ruthless competitors and hostile bankers—as well as his many thrilling triumphs. Above all, he recalls the relationships that formed the heart and soul of Nike, with his former track coach, the irascible and charismatic Bill Bowerman, and with his first employees, a ragtag group of misfits and savants who quickly became a band of swoosh-crazed brothers. Together, harnessing the electrifying power of a bold vision and a shared belief in the transformative power of sports, they created a brand—and a culture—that changed everything.

Shoe Dog

<ul><li>The key to a good life is not giving a F*ck about more; it’s giving a F*ck about less, giving a F*ck about only what is true and immediate and important.</li><li>The more you pursue feeling better all the time, the less satisfied you become.</li><li>Any attempt to escape the negative, to avoid it or quash it or silence it, only backfires.</li><li>Most of us struggle throughout our lives by giving too many F*cks in situations where F*cks do not deserve to be given.</li></ul>

Disappointment Panda

Do something now, even if it’s really small, and let good actions cascade as a result.

Do Something Principle

"If you want the rewards, but not the struggle, you don’t really want it."

<ul><li>Many self-help gurus teach you new forms of denial and pump you up with exercises that feel good in the short term, while ignoring the underlying issue. Remember, nobody who is actually happy has to stand in front of a mirror and tell himself that he’s happy.</li><li> Pain serves a purpose.</li><li>The path to happiness is a path full of shitheaps and shame.</li></ul>

Self Awareness Onion

<ul><li>The way to be happy and fulfilled, Manson says, is to not give a F*ck about everything we’re told to care about.</li><li>Instead, get clear on what truly matters, focus your choices on those few priorities, and accept that in spite of that, you’ll still make stupid mistakes and suffer occasionally.</li></ul>

Focus On What Matters

<ul><li>If you are able to not give a F*ck about the pain your goals require, you become unstoppable.</li><li>Finding something important and meaningful in your life is perhaps the most productive use of your time and energy.</li><li>You can’t merely be in love with the result. You have to love the process.</li><li>Rejection of alternatives liberates us.</li><li>Commitment to one thing offers more freedom than anything else.</li></ul>

Rejection Of Alternatives

<ul><li>But when we choose better values, we are able to divert our F*cks to something better—toward things that matter, things that improve the state of our well-being and that generate happiness, pleasure, and success as side effects.</li><li>When you give better F*cks, you get better problems, when you get better problems, you get a better life.</li></ul>

Good Values

"Action isn’t just the effect of motivation; it’s the cause of it.”

The only way to achieve meaning and a sense of importance in one’s life is through a rejection of alternatives, a narrowing of freedom, a choice of commitment to one place, one belief, or one person.

The Importance of Saying No

<ol><li>Pleasure is a false god: People who focus their energy on superficial pleasures end up more anxious, more emotionally unstable, and more depressed.</li><li>Material Success: Many people measure their self-worth based on how much money they make or what kind of car they drive etc..</li><li>Always Being Right: People who base their self-worth on being right about everything prevent themselves from learning from their mistakes.</li><li>Staying Positive: Denying negative emotions leads to experiencing deeper and more prolonged negative emotions and to emotional dysfunction.</li></ol>

Shitty Values

<ul><li>Fault is past tense.</li><li>Responsibility is present tense.</li></ul>Maturity == to become more selective about the F*cks you are willing to give.

Fault Vs Responsibility 

Depth is where the gold is buried. And you have to stay committed to something and go deep to dig it up. That’s true in relationships, in a career, in building a great lifestyle— in everything.

Freedom Through Commitment

<ol><li>Be comfortable with being different, not being indifferent.</li><li>Find something meaningful to give a F*ck about – otherwise you’ll waste energy on meaningless worries.</li><li>You always have a choice over what to give a F*ck about – as we get older, we realise what matters are the simple things.</li></ol>

What Not Giving a F*ck Means?

<ul><li>If someone is better than you at something, then it’s likely because she has failed at it more than you have.</li><li>If we’re unwilling to fail, then we’re unwilling to succeed.</li></ul>

Failing Is The Way Forward

<ul><li>Instead of striving for certainty, we should be in constant search of doubt: doubt about our own beliefs, doubt our own feelings, doubt about what the future may hod for us unless we get out there and create it for ourselves. </li><li>Openness to being wrong must exist for any real change or growth to take place.</li></ul>

You’re Wrong About Everything (But So Am I)

“The acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.”<ul><li>Being open with your insecurities paradoxically makes you more confident and charismatic around others. The pain of honest confrontation is what generates the greatest trust and respect in your relationships. </li><li>Suffering through your fears and anxieties is what allows you to build courage and perseverance.</li></ul>

The Feedback Loop from Hell

….…“The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it.”<ul><li>The more options we’re given, the less satisfied we become with whatever we choose, because we’re aware of all the other options we’re potentially forfeiting.</li><li>Once we understand that root cause, we can ideally do something to change.</li></ul>

Law Of Avoidance

<ul><li>Confronting the reality of our own mortality is important because it obliterates all the crappy, fragile, superficial values in life.</li><li> Simple optioning for your own values in life, already makes you beautiful, already makes you successful, and already makes you loved. Even if you don’t realize it.</li></ul>

… And Then You Die

“Maturity is what happens when one learns to only give a F*ck about what’s truly F*ckworthy”

Only give a f*ck about what’s truly f*ckworthy :) New ideas added 😉

#1 New York Times Bestseller Over 1 million copies sold In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up. Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek. There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

1. The law of authenticity – the real you is the best you.2. The law of self-image – before others will like you, you have to like yourself.3. The law of perception – how you perceive others is your reality about them and the same is true for them of you.4. The law of energy – energy is contagious – what we project, we receive.

The 11 Laws Of Likability 

5. The law of curiosity – curiosity leads to connections.6. The law of listening – others won’t understand you until they feel heard and understood.7. The law of similarity – people like people like them.8. The law of mood memory – people are more likely to remember how you made them feel than what you said.

9. The law of familiarity – people feel comfortable with who and what they know.10. The law of giving: give first – do because you can.11. The law of patience – with time, things happen.

We all know that networking is important, and that forming relationships with others is a vital part of success. But sometimes it seems like networking removes all emotions from the equation and focuses only on immediate goals whereas the kind of relationships that have true staying power, give us joy, and support us in the long run are founded on simply liking each other. This book, featuring activities, self-assessment quizzes, and real-life anecdotes from professional and social settings, shows readers how to identify whats likable in themselves and create honest, authentic interactions.

The 11 Laws of Likability

<ol><li>When you save part of your income (even if you have a low income), it helps you build up your wealth.</li><li>When you invest your money, it will multiply so you have more of it.</li><li>Leverage the advice of financial experts if you need to when investing your money for more security.</li><li>Don’t rush headlong into an investment you know nothing about! It’s just asking for trouble.</li><li>Don’t fall for get-rich-quick schemes or scams. You’ll lose your money.</li></ol>

The Five Laws Of Gold

<ul><li>Set aside 10% of your income for you!</li><li>You can use that other 90% to pay bills and other expenses. But that 10% is specifically for you to save and invest later on.</li><li>It seems small at first, but gradually, you’ll start to have a good amount set aside.</li></ul>

1. Start Thy Purse To Fattening - Start Earning

If you’re not in debt:<ul><li>Set aside 10% of your income before anything else; and</li><li>Live on the 90% that’s left.</li></ul>If you are in debt:<ul><li>Set aside 10% of your income before anything else;</li><li>Repay your creditors with 20%; and</li><li>Live on the 70% that’s left.</li></ul>

Always Pay Yourself First:

<ul><li>On to the subject of thrift - when you have extra money, it’s tempting to splurge and buy fancy things. But don’t! Make sure to live within your means and only take on necessary expenses.</li><li>Arkad says: “What we call ‘necessary expenses’ will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary.”</li></ul>

2. Control Thy Expenditures - Spend Less Than You Earn

<ul><li>Make a list of all your outgoing expenses.</li><li>Think vary carefully about what’s strictly necessary and what’s just a luxury.</li><li>Cut back on things you can live without.</li><li>Be very wary of developing expensive habits.</li></ul>

Never Live Beyond Your Means

<ul><li>Now that you have some money set aside, it’s time to put it to work. When you invest your cash, it can reproduce and bring you a steady stream of income and personal wealth!</li><li>Arkad’s philosophy is that “you make your gold have children, who can then also work for you.”</li><li>In our modern world, this might be loaning money out or getting interest from a savings account or stocks or crypto or gold.</li></ul>

3. Make Thy Gold Multiply - Invest

<ol><li>You should surround yourself with people who want, understand and make lots of money.</li><li>You should only seek financial advice from the very best experts in the field. Don’t take advice from your family, friends or colleagues.</li><li>You should stick to the plan. Don’t underestimate the power of compounding. Trust what you know, not what you see. Let time take care of the rest.</li></ol>

How Can I Make Money Multiply?

“Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.”

<ul><li>Arkad warns us that there is no way to make massive amounts of money overnight. Instead, it takes time, effort, and knowledge.</li><li>And when you are ready to invest, make sure to start small. You need to learn to secure smaller amounts until you can handle larger ones.</li><li>Arkad praises the ability to reclaim your money when you need it back in a hurry.</li><li>Study before making an investment so you can be sure it is a wise one.</li><li>You won’t get rich overnight… but you will get rich eventually.</li></ul>

4. Guard Thy Treasures From Loss  - Diversify / Insure

<ul><li>Don’t get into debt.</li><li>Don’t help people in ways that mean you take on their financial burdens.</li><li>Don’t lend money to others without taking some guarantee of repayment.</li><li>Don’t forget to protect your income and assets with diversification and insurance.</li><li>Don’t invest in things you don’t fully understand.</li><li>Don’t get sucked into get rich quick schemes.</li><li>Don’t put your money in investments which don’t pay out dividends (i.e., cash).</li></ul>

Common Traps We Should Avoid

<ul><li>Arkad tells us that “every man should own the roof that sheltereth him and his.” That’s because it can reduce your cost of living and make more money available for your desires.</li><li>Instead of just throwing your money away on rent, you’ll be building equity in an investment. And can pay off big when planning for future income.</li></ul>

5. Thy Dwelling A Profitable Investment - Own Your House

<ul><li>Arkad recommends planning for retirement in advance to ensure your treasures and protect your family. Naturally, having a savings account or retirement pension with a lot of money saved up is great.</li><li>But you can also rent out the properties that you bought earlier in life. Either way, coming up with a plan now should ensure you’ll be comfortable when you’re older.</li></ul>

6. Insure A Future Income - Plan For Retirement

<ul><li>Want to earn more? Develop your mindset and your skills! The more wisdom you have, the more you can earn.</li><li>Choose knowledge over gold — a bag of books over bag of money.</li><li>Doing all of these things can help you become a better investor and increase your ability to earn. Whatever you do, start small. Eventually, you can go bigger as you learn and become more capable.</li></ul>

7.Increase Thy Ability To Earn-Create Multiple Streams Of Income

“The more of wisdom we know, the more we may earn. That man who seeks to learn more of his craft shall be richly rewarded.”

The more of wisdom we know, the more we may earn. That man who s

Gold lender Mathon’s advice on lending ,When lending, only lend to those you trust, who are knowledgeable in their field and have the means to repay. If possible, you should even consider taking some collateral worth the value of the loan. This winning combination of factors ensures you’ll get your money back eventually.The moral : It’s better to have a little caution than a great regret.

Story-1 : The Gold Lender Of Babylon

Babylon is under attack, and the citizens are afraid. The guard assures them all the walls will hold, as they are strong and fortified.Babylon does survive the attack, and Clason uses this to illustrate that we need financial security throughout life. You never know when you’ll be under attack – whether you lose your job or have some emergency medical bills.The moral : We cannot afford to be without adequate protection.

Story-2 : The Walls Of Babylon

Dabasir was sold as a slave and was trained as a camel tender. One of his master’s wives, Sira, asks him if he has the soul of a free man or slave. After a while, he realizes he wants to repay his debts, so she helps to free him.He works so hard to pay off his debts using a precise budget.But in the end, he makes things right and proves he has the soul of a free man.The moral : Where the determination is, a way can be found.

Story-3 : The Camel Trader Of Babylon

Sharru Nada was a slave working for a baker, where he made extra pastries and shared the money with his master. He wanted to work hard so he could buy back his freedom.Unfortunately, his master gambled all his money, so Sharru was sold again and almost condemned to a hard labor life before his friend purchased him. His friend was able to do this because Sharru taught him about the value of hard work.The moral : Hard work can be your best friend in times of distress and help you achieve many things.

Story-4 : The Luckiest Man In Babylon

<ul><li>A part of all you earn is yours to keep.</li><li>Men of action are favored by the goddess of good luck.</li><li>Better a little caution than a great regret.</li><li>We cannot afford to be without adequate protection.</li><li>Where the determination is, the way can be found.</li></ul>

Morals 

In old Babylon there once lived a certain very rich man named arkad . Far and wide he was famed for his great wealth….

The Richest Man in Babylon is considered as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift, financial planning, and personal wealth. Revealed inside are the secrets to acquiring money, keeping money, and making money earn more money. Providing financial wisdom through parables, 'The Richest Man in Babylon' was originally a set of pamphlets, written by the author and distributed by banks and insurance companies. These pamphlets were later bundled together, giving birth to a book. In this new rendering by Charles Conrad, the classic tale is retold in clear, simple language for today's readers. These fascinating and informative stories set you on a sure path to prosperity and its accompanying joys.

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Steal Like an Artist

Everything Is F*cked

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Shoe Dog

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Bite-sized knowledgeto upgradeyour career

Prince Rahul@r.rahulprasath

Steal Like an Artist

Everything Is F*cked

Life Is Short And So Is This Book

Shoe Dog

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Bite-sized knowledge
to upgrade
your career

Prince Rahul
@r.rahulprasath