🧠 The best quotes from powerful books
Wisdom Letter #185
Hey friend
We’ve done 9 power summaries so far this year.
9 incredible books that will help you become healthy wealthy and wise.
Today let’s do a quick recap on them with the best quote from each book.
Next week, we will update the keys to wisdom with all the power summaries.
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Now let’s get started -
1. Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day
Best quote -
“You only waste time if you’re not intentional about how you spend it.”
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2. Deep Work: Focused Success in a Distracted World
Best Quote -
“The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill, and then make it the core of their working life, will thrive.”
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3. Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
Best Quote -
“Independence, to me, doesn’t mean you’ll stop working. It means you only do the work you like with people you like at the times you want for as long as you want.”
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4. Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A counterintuitive approach to living a good life
Best Quote -
“Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for.
People who enjoy the struggles of a gym are the ones who run triathlons and have chiseled abs and can bench-press a small house.
People who enjoy long workweeks and the politics of the corporate ladder are the ones who fly to the top of it.
People who enjoy the stresses and uncertainties of the starving artist lifestyle are ultimately the ones who live it and make it”
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5. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Best Quote -
True self-confidence is “the courage to be open—to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source.”
Real self-confidence is not reflected in a title, an expensive suit, a fancy car, or a series of acquisitions.
It is reflected in your mindset: your readiness to grow.
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6. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Best Quote -
“..there are no shortcuts to excellence. Developing real expertise, and figuring out really hard problems, all take time―longer than most people imagine....you've got to apply those skills and produce goods or services that are valuable to people....Grit is about working on something you care about so much that you're willing to stay loyal to it...it's doing what you love, but not just falling in love―staying in love”
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7. Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable results
Best Quote -
“Ultimately, your habits matter because they help you become the type of person you wish to be.
They are the channel through which you develop your deepest beliefs about yourself.
Quite literally, YOU become your Habits. “
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8. Getting Things Done: The Art of stress-free productivity
Best Quote -
“Your Mind is for having ideas, not storing them”
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9. 4000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Best Quote -
“We’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action.”
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That’s it for this week.
We’re in the process of finishing up the new keys to wisdom bundle.
We will be back with it next week.
See you then.
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Ayush & Aditi