My readings - Notes

1) How to win and influence people by Dale Carnegie

Learnings: Never argue, 

                  May be I am wrong, 

                  Good listener, let others talk about themselves Talk in terms of the other person’s interests Make the other person feel important – and do it sincerely

                  Don't criticize, condemn, complain.

                  Give honest and sincere appreciation.

                  Arouse in the other person an eager want..

                  Become genuinely interested in other people, first impression - smile remember name.

                  

                Avoid argument Show respect for other’s opinion and never say you are wrong If you are wrong, admit it quickly Begin in a friendly way Get the other person saying “yes yes” immediately. Let the other person do a great deal of the talking. Let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers. Try honestly to see the things from other person’s point of view. Be sympathetic with the other person’s ideas and desires. Appeal to the noble motives. Dramatize your ideas When nothing works..Throw down a challenge.. 

Begin with praise and honest appreciation

Call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly.

Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing other person

Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.

Let the other person save face

praise the slightest improvements too..

Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to

use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.

Make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest.

                 

2) Zero to one - Peter theil

Startup- lot of things to be good for a startup to become successful..

advantages of monopoly, healthy competition - talks about airlines biz, few similar restaurants in the same area.

Venture capitalist investments, how/why do they invest and how many succeed.

.Com bubble

Hiring smart people

can china over come US, not easy since china growth staggered as they had growth mostly copying western stuff.

how they found paypal and how/why they merged with Musk's x.com etc.

3) Money master the game - Tony robinson

talks about .com bubble and how many lost money with poor investing.

Save and invest,

Diversify as Ray Dalio suggested,  also watch how economy works in youtube by raydalio

taxes
How investment fund companies cheat investors with commissions etc and actual money they get after all the crap deductions etc.

4) Switch- how to change things when change is hard - dan and chip

Raider - ratinoal thinking

Elephan - emotional thinking

Path - planning.

When change is hard shrink the change into smaller tasks.

Some times most of the problems are situational problems, not personnel problems..

Pop corn study

2% milk, when you tell people to drink low fat milk, no one cared...But actually you make that as mandatory, it works etc.

Health issues in Vietnam lack of nutrients in food, how someone changed the game there..

5) Intelligent investor - Ben Graham

6) Knowing your value - Mika Brazenziski

About salary negatiation, an MNBC TV news reporter story.

7) Think and grow rich - Napolian hill

positive thinking, subconscious mind
Dreaming of something again and again, feel like you already achieved it.

8) Rich dad, poor dad - Robert Kiosaki

Employee vs business man thought process..

Taxes on salaries etc,

9) Power of Habit -Charles Duhigg

how to make difficult habits - Favorite food/drink after woke up early morning etc.

10) Adapt - Tim Harford,
 Success always starts with failure, talks about ballet dance reviews, military, companies,
how few companies only last longer and rest will vanish.. MSFT, GOOGLE, IBM..

10) Investors podcast
11) Leadership podcast
12) Warren buffet annual share holder letters.