How to read 8 books in 1 sentence each? My crazy book summary.
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As a product builder↗️, I love reading books to hunt product ideas, perspective, and inspiration.
I read about startups, business, mindset, and self-development.
Based on the 8 books I’ve read recently, I decided to share my craziest book summary & key lessons that I learn from each of these books:
1. Deep Work 👨💻
#Productivity
🖐 Using the habit of deep work and “singleness of task” to master hard things fast and produce quality outcomes or work.
Key lessons:
- Schedule long-stretches of hours or weeks to focus on getting 1 thing done.
- To achieve quality outcome, build your work life around craftmanship, flow state & prolonged deep hour.
- Practice daily shutdown time: no email, no impulsive social checking, no mental replay.
👉Read my previous 17 books summary here
2. The One Minute Salesperson ⏰
#SalesCommunication
🖐 Generate more sales with less work through repeat business from satisfied clients by treating a prospect like a person, not a commodity.
Key lessons:
- Selling is not a sales skill; it’s a people skill.
- Identify customer’s needs by asking more questions.
- Make the prospect feels good about buying a product.
3. Hunch 🚀
#ProductIdea
🖐 A book for aspiring startup founders to leverage intuition for idea discovery, recognize opportunities that others miss, and build something people want.
Key lessons:
- Ideas worth nothing unless it is adopted and used.
- Improve your ideas: keep creating, thinking and questioning.
- Talk to potential users who are facing problems, understand their emotions, and turn insights into solutions.
👉Read my previous 17 books summary here
4. Kaizen for Small Business Startup 💼
#ProjectManagement
🖐 A book for small businesses on how to practice continuous improvement to drive change and innovation using the concept of Kanban, Lean Startup and Project Management.
Key lessons:
- Train your team to embrace a willingness to surface problems and change.
- Strive for 1% improvement on a daily basis.
- Optimize process, declutter and standardize.
5. Rich Dad’s Before You Quit Your Job 💴
#Entrepreneurship
🖐 A list of business building blocks using the BI Triangle concept to build any multi-million dollar business — (1) Cashflow (2) Communication (3) System (4) Legal (5) Product.
Key lessons:
- Know the difference: Entrepreneurs own businesses that produce income. Self-employed owns a job but they own no assets & no ownership. Employees have a salary job.
- Don’t cut costs on Legal & Accounting.
- Hire slow, fire fast. Let go of bad staff to be less expensive.
6. Tao Te Ching 🧠
#Wisdom
🖐A book on the art of living through philosophy that revolves around nothingness; to expect nothing, i.e. you get everything when you want nothing.
Key lessons:
- Care about other people’s opinion, you’ll become their prisoners.
- Good artists free themselves from concept and let intuition creates.
- Colors blind the eyes. Desire wither the heart.
7. The Magic of Believing 🌌
#SubconsciousMind
🖐 Using the science of subconscious mind, power of thoughts, affirmation, and visualization to achieve tangible results in work, personal goals and business.
Key lessons:
- Practice mental picture: If you can see it in your mind, you can hold it in your hands.
- Creative thinking + firm beliefs + execution on ideas on sustained & convicted desire will lead to success.
- Surround yourself with people who have positive energies to help you strengthen your beliefs.
👉Read my previous 17 books summary here
8. The Alchemist 🌟
#Self-Help
🖐 A book about pursuing personal callings and how to deal with fears, doubts and lack of courage.
Key lessons:
- Find your personal dream, follow signs & intuition, find a mentor if you want to succeed.
- If you’re capable of achieving what you want, you should let go of the thoughts of uncertainly
- If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. Improve the “now” and “later” will become easier.
👉Read my previous 17 books summary here
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