by Aseem Gupta | Mar 26, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Cal Newport’s So Good They Can’t Ignore You is usually summarized in five words: “Don’t follow your passion.” That captures the provocation that made the book famous, but it does not capture the book itself. Newport’s real subject is not whether passion is good or...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 22, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull is often remembered as a simple inspirational fable about refusing to conform and pursuing what you love. That description captures its most visible idea, but it misses the larger movement of the book. Jonathan begins as an...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 19, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Most books about better thinking promise a method. Rolf Dobelli’s The Art of Thinking Clearly offers something more unusual: a catalog of the ways the mind repeatedly goes wrong. Across 99 short chapters, Dobelli moves from survivorship bias and sunk costs to...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 14, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Robin Sharma’s The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life. sounds, from its title, like a book built around one unusually specific recommendation: wake up at five in the morning. That recommendation is certainly real, and HarperCollins presents the book around...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 7, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Few works of philosophy are as easy to quote and as easy to oversimplify as The Enchiridion. Its opening distinction between what is and is not “in our control” has become one of the best-known ideas associated with Stoicism, often reduced to the advice that we should...
