by Aseem Gupta | May 26, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Keith Ferrazzi’s Never Eat Alone is often described as a networking book, but that description makes it sound narrower—and more transactional—than the book Ferrazzi actually wrote. His real subject is social capital: the relationships through which information, trust,...
by Aseem Gupta | May 20, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Robin Sharma’s The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari begins with a contradiction that has helped keep the book relevant for decades. Julian Mantle appears to possess everything an ambitious professional is supposed to want: talent, status, money, prestige, a formidable...
by Aseem Gupta | May 15, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Few personal-finance books have embedded themselves in popular culture as deeply as Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad. Even people who have never read it often know its signature ideas: the rich acquire assets, the middle class buys liabilities it mistakes for...
by Aseem Gupta | May 11, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Jordan Belfort ended The Wolf of Wall Street with the federal government closing in on the financial empire he had built around Stratton Oakmont. Catching the Wolf of Wall Street begins after the fantasy of being untouchable has collapsed. Belfort is arrested, his...
by Aseem Gupta | May 5, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Florence Scovel Shinn’s The Game of Life and How to Play It is a compact spiritual self-help book built around an unusually ambitious premise: life is governed by spiritual laws, and people can change their circumstances by learning to cooperate with them. First...
