When you search for self-development books on Amazon, you’ll get over 60,000 results. The same search on goodreads yields 20,000 books. It might feel like self-development books (or self-improvement or self-help – you choose) are one of the major (book) trends of the 21st century: get more done in less time, love better, eat better, work […]
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Playing the Enemy by John Carlin This is the first stanza of the poem Invictus by William Ernest Henley (Poetry Foundation, 2022). Individual lines were used by Winston Churchill in a speech during WWII (International Churchill Society, 2021) and it was on the cover of The Economist with a large picture of Nelson Mandela upon his death in December 2013 (The Economist, 2013). Henley’s
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Taking Control of Your Time – Why We Should be Saving Money Here we go again. It is that topic again: saving. A bunch has been written in books, blogs, and newspaper articles. A bunch has been said on podcasts, the news and talk shows. A bunch has been said by celebrities, life coaches, stock
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What makes a human kill someone? How good can a motive be? Ferdinand von Schirach’s novel “The Collini Case” (originally “Der Fall Collini”) is about Fabrizio Collini who out of seemingly nowhere kills the successful businessmen Hans-Meyer. Caspar Leinen, Collini’s lawyer, can’t quite figure out why. So what makes a human kill someone? Crime Ferdinand
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The books I read can sometimes be a little lobsided. A lot of economics, business, and finance. But that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy other genres as well. I absolutely do and Born A Crime by Trevor Noah is a perfect example of a wonderful book, that is unusual for my bookshelf. Spear of the Nation Apartheid
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Super Freakonomics – More Absurd than Ever One of the very first posts on TRD was Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. It is one heck of a book. But it was also weird (in a good sense), as it had no obvious overarching theme. It was much more about a style of
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The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger If you and I would have bought Disney stock in 1981 we’d have made a return of about 16.300% – that is an insane return. While this doesn’t tell us how Disney is going to perform in the future, it is interesting to observe why it did so
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I don’t know where to start this post. There are so many places to start at, but none of them feel right. John Strelecky’s The Big Five For Life is a book I would love to carry around all day and gift it to people. Just give one away every single day. Only a few books can
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I found The $100 Startup on accident. I was browsing for some other books on Amazon – among them One thousand ways to $1000, which Warren Buffett mentioned in an interview – but then Chris Guillebeau’s startup guide popped up and it went on my booklist immediately. In The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau provides timeless lessons on how to get
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Noise – A Flaw in Human Judgement by Daniel Kahneman, Cass R. Sunstein and Olivier Sibony How would you react if I told you that the length of the prison term, a convicted felon could get, depends on whether the judge had lunch before the trial or whether the local sports team had won the night
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