General Conference Applied S1 E1 – Sunday, July 30, 2023 | “Peacemakers Needed” by President Russell M. Nelson; April 2023 General Conference Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify Powerful Stories “During my surgical internship many years ago, I assisted a surgeon who was amputating a leg filled with highly infectious gangrene. The operation…
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Originals
How Non-Conformists Move the World Rating 3/5 Date Started 10/9/2022 Date Completed 10/15/2022 Five Powerful Quotes from the Book Quote 1 “But don’t day jobs distract us from doing our best work? Common sense suggests that creative accomplishments can’t flourish without big windows of time and energy, and companies can’t thrive without intensive effort. Those…
Moonwalking with Einstein
The Art and Science of Remembering Everything Rating 5/5 Date Started 9/11/2022 Date Completed 9/14/2022 Five Powerful Quotes from the Book Quote 1 “Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle…
Killing Sacred Cows
Overcoming the Financial Myths That Are Destroying Your Prosperity Rating 3/5 Date Started 7/6/2022 Date Completed 7/15/2022 Five Powerful Quotes from the Book Quote 1 “One thing that I consistently observe is the dichotomy between savers and spenders. It’s obvious to most people that the spenders are überconsumers who make many consumptive purchases on credit…
Bold
How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World Rating 4/5 Date Started 5/31/2023 Date Completed 6/6/2023 Five Powerful Quotes from the Book Quote 1 “This book was written as both a manifesto and a manual for today’s exponential entrepreneur, anyone interested in going big, creating wealth, and impacting the world. It is a…
How to Be a High School Superstar
A Revolutionary Plan to Get into College by Standing Out (Without Burning Out) Rating 3/5 Five Powerful Quotes from the Book Quote 1 “The Interestingness Hypothesis, Part 1: When admissions officers say they’re looking for students who show “passion,” what they really mean is that they’re looking for the type of student who would appeal…
How Rich People Think
Rating 3/5 Five Powerful Quotes from the Book Quote 1 “The rich use their brainpower in addition to the brainpower of others to hone in on ultra specific solutions their competitors have given up on. While the middle class makes simple problems seem complex, the world class makes complex problems seem simple. Their ability to…
Grit
The Power of Passion and Perseverance Rating 4/5 Date Started 4/17/2023 Date Completed 4/28/2023 Five Powerful Quotes from the Book Quote 1 “After more than a decade of thinking about it, sometimes alone, and sometimes in partnership with close colleagues, I finally published an article in which I lay down two simple equations that explain…
Good to Great
Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t Rating 4/5 Date Started 2/21/2023 Date Completed 3/4/2023 Five Powerful Quotes from the Book Quote 1 “The emphasis on luck turns out to be part of a pattern that we came to call the window and the mirror. Level 5 leaders look out the window to…
Counterclockwise
Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility Rating 3/5 Date Started 5/9/2023 Date Completed 5/26/2023 Five Powerful Quotes from the Book Quote 1 “Mindful health is not about how we should eat right, exercise, or follow medical recommendations, nor is it about abandoning these things. It is not about New Age medicine nor traditional understandings…