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WHY I CHOSE “THINK LIKE A MONK” BOOK?

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Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day Author : Jay Shetty Publisher : Thorsons; FIRST EDITION (8 September 2020) Paperback : 320 pages Each and every person in this world feels some negativity in his day to day life. He knows that may be it is discouraging him, may be it is harming him, inside his mind, may be it is making him fearful for the imminent proceedings. But we did not ponder much over on the origin of this negativity and later we tend to become fragile and hollow from our thoughts, our focus loses and even we overlook our purpose of life. We tend to lose our control on mind; we lose control on our wisdom and later on our actions. Subsequently, we indulge in practices to find peace and happiness to overcome this negativity, overthinking and fear. Fear, negativity, overthinking is not any decease for which we can take some pills. But, it is a process of mind which can be controlled through some techniques. In this book there are so many ways are il...

WHY READING IS IMPORTANT?

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For readers Reading books help us to learn from the past, the present and in predicting future, from the people that have done something that we are about to do. It also expands our mind knowing who we are? What is good for us? How does the world around us behave and work? Reading books encourages us to raise the bar even higher so that our sparkling ideas or thinking can inspire the world through our writing. This also inspires everyone in the process when he found that his ideas or thinking are in high demand. It can create a snow ball effect on every reader to ignite an interest to read. Reading affirms and improves one’s cognitive skills in general but essentially in independence, original, creative and critical thinking skills. By reading he will come to know what other people are meditating upon, and this grows a sense to understand which field is working and which is not. For writers Each and every writer has his own writing style, though they use same words and same la...

REVIEW OF PSYCHOLOGY OF MONEY BOOK

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The Psychology of Money:  Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness Author:  Morgan Housel Publisher:  Harriman House   This book is based on money matters and psychology of billionaires. I completed this book in almost ten hours (not continuous). It is highly recommendable for the people who wish to manage their finance. Author presents an insight into various financial aspects. Also he writes the experiences of wealthy people and their investing techniques. I get a view on luck and risk in investing and its effects on psychology. I find it amazing when I read about every event of history is related to finance somehow and writer took its advantage while writing this book and relating with modern financial techniques. The writer also explained his own investment options and writes what works for him, about background of his family and the future of his family. This is one of my favourite chapters in the book. So along with reading about world’s most weal...

SUMMARY OF PSYCHOLOGY OF MONEY BOOK

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The Psychology of Money:  Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness Author:  Morgan Housel Publisher:  Harriman House This is one of the books of money matters it contains the psychology of wealthy people. It discusses the investment strategies of Warren Buffet , Rajat Gupta and Bernie Madoff . It can be read by all age groups and it will provide them a sense to understand the behaviour and background of investors and traders on finance matters in general outlook. I found some of the things very thought-provoking in this book what Rajat Gupta said after he released from prison. He suggested not to be attached to anything either with your reputation or with your accomplishment. He also suggested the things in which we should avoid to take risk in... Reputation Freedom and independence Family and friends Happiness . Author also talks about a brief history of why the US consumers think the way they do, for it he writes about post era of World War Two, how the US g...

WHY I CHOSE PSYCHOLOGY OF MONEY BOOK?

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The Psychology of Money:  Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness Author:  Morgan Housel Publisher:  Harriman House It is one of the books of psychology more than investing that introduces the fundamental required for investment and saving money without pushing and punishing with a lot of terminology and technical terms. The book starts in a clear approach; each chapter has deep knowledge with crisp information in a language which is descriptive with a lot of understanding of psychology of common investors who wants to secure his finance. The reader will understand timeless lessons of money, greed, happiness , freedom and many more aspects involved in investing and investors psychology. As we all know that money cannot buy everything. So, in this book author provides research data about how rich people make themselves happy with intangible things and how can everyone be happy while managing his wealth. After reading this book you will get the answers of som...