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Introduction The Pulitzer-award winning reporter Charles Duhigg presents to us an interesting read about a subject that often defines our daily routine- habit. In his 2012 New York bestseller, The Power of Habit, we see a ubiquitous read that has been recommended by readers across the divide. Duhigg presents to us truths and techniques on how habits form and even goes out of his way to give us insight on how to ch Read more
This is the third and final part of the Blue Ocean Strategy series. Parts one and two can be found below: Part 1: Blue Ocean Strategy -- Finding and Exploiting Uncontested Markets Part 2: Blue Ocean Strategy -- Discovering a "Value Innovation" Idea Blue Ocean ideas are all over the place just waiting to be discovered. But finding them is often like a trying to find a specific shell on a huge beach. Commerci Read more
This is an excerpt from Trevor Noah's amazing autobiography Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood The money kept rolling in and I was balling out of control. This is how balling I was: I bought a cordless telephone. This was before everyone had a cellphone. The range on this cordless phone was strong enough that I could put the base outside my window, walk the two blocks to McDonald’s, order my l Read more
Warren Buffett is usually considered the greatest investor of all time but one thing that is often overlooked is how much his longevity has helped. Yes, he is worth $110 billion. Yes, he’s compounded money at a 22% annualized rate. But he also started investing in stocks at age 10 and is now 91. That is 81 years of compounding. By the way, 95% of his wealth accrued after age 65. If he had started investing at 3 Read more
I thought I’d share something I learned from Russell Brunson’s book Expert Secrets , which I recommend. It is a way of positioning something in a new and sexy light—finding a way to carve out a little blue pond out of a red ocean, to use the “Blue Ocean” terminology. To illustrate the 5 hooks he uses an example from the weight loss industry. Here is a direct excerpt from his boo Read more
