Book Review 2024.05: Never Split the Difference -Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It, 258 pages, Paperback, 2016 Written by Chris Voss, the FBI hostage negotiator this book is a combination of gripping anecdotes of his negotiations with kidnappers coupled with insightful lessons learnt and practiced in these tense negotiations. Reading this book made me realize that good negotiation skills can be learnt, practiced and perfected. Further negotiations need not be conflicts with the other side being our enemy. …
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Book Review 2024.06: The Power of Habit -Why we do what we do and how to change, 286 pages, Paperback, 2012 I read the self-help book ‘Mini Habits- Smaller Habits, Bigger Results’ written by Stephen Guise, 155 pages, 2020 publication followed in quick succession by this book written by Charles Duhigg. Not being a fan of self-help books, this was my first attempt at understanding the difference between a self-help book and a more nuances one that goes much deeper …
Book Review 2024.07: The Essentials of Hinduism -A Comprehensive Overview of the World’s Oldest Religion, 194 pages, Paperback, 1998 Over the last few days, I had been listening to the informative lectures by Swami Sarvapriyanandaji of the Ramakrishna Mission on various aspects of Consciousness, Time and Space and the convergence of Vedanta with the modern science on the You Tube in my evening walks. These talks on specific topics made me curious to have an overview of Hinduism, and on …
Book Review 2024.10: indistractable -How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, 217 pages, Paperback, 2019 This is the second of the three books focusing on psychological research that helps us live a life of our choice which I picked up in July consisting of “Dopamine Nation”, “in distract able”, and “Grit”. A shorter book than the 217 pages suggests due to its widespread layout of large pictures, highlights in bold fonts and chapter summaries, what it lacks in …
Book Review 2024.08: The Upanishads- Breath of the Eternals, 128 pages, Paperback, 2002 This short concise book of Upanishads was the logical book to follow after I had read The Essentials of Hinduism that provided a birds’ eye view of the Sanatana Dharam. Unlike in the past where I had started books on Upanishads only to drop it quickly, what helped me complete this book was its clear and simple language and the authors intent to convey the gist instead …
Book Review 2024.09: Dopamine Nation-Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, 234 pages, Paperback, 2002 A byproduct of my online book buying habit is that I get a lot of articles about books in my mobile. One such article was about this book and its byline of ‘balance in the age of indulgence’ caught my attention resulting in this book purchase. Being a reasonably short and well written book, I completed reading it in a week. The need for this …
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