5 Life Changing Books | Everyone should Read
Hello everyone! So, we all want to be more successful, focus, inspired, and motivated. How about we learn from experts some tried and tested techniques that will give us this shortcut to success. These five books that you must read to be successful.
Today I'm going to mention 5 Life Changing Books that I believe every student should read and I would
consider them, these 5 Life-Changing Books. So I will tell you a short story from each
book, so read it till the end.
1)The Power of habit by Charles Duhigg
So, You've taken a decision or you've decided to give up smoking or junk food and the first few weeks go like
a breeze and you're feeling super confident and you're proud of yourself but
soon there's this temptation in front of you, you succumb and then you're back
to your old habits if you've been through this cycle before then you know the
power of habits when you should read this book when you think you're
procrastinating all the time this is the book for you to pick up and let me
tell you a little story from the book. So, Starbucks was once trying to
motivate its baristas to smile at customers all the time and they thought that
how about we use the power of willpower and they tried to train them to use the
willpower to smile at customers but they found that most of the time they were
able to smile but when the situation became very stressful the baristas became
grumpy and they discovered that willpower is a muscle and that tired easily so
they said how about we form a habit so they introduced a technique called latte
which was a series of steps that the barista had to do every time they faced a
stressful situation listening to the customer acknowledging the customer taking
action thanking the customer and explaining to the customer and now with repeat
practice every time they faced a stressful situation all they had to do was
perform this series of activities and they were able to remain calm so in this
book, you will be able to find techniques to change your life one habit at a
time
2)Find your Why by Simon Sinek
This is a follow-up book to
the bestseller start with the why of the same author. This is a step-by-step
tutorial that will help you find the purpose of your life, job, satisfaction,
or even your dream job. When you should read this book? when you're looking to
find your dream job or a task that fulfills you. I'll tell you this interesting
story from this book about a paper manufacturing company, that discovered that
one of its salesmen consistently outperformed all the other salespeople on the
team and when they looked at his background or his experience they found
nothing unusual. So they accompanied him on a call and that's where they found
the real difference while most salespeople would talk to the company about the
quality of the product or the attractiveness of the price. The star salesmen
would focus on the vision of the company and their commitment to producing good
quality paper and the focus on the way of the mission was what created trust
between the customer and the salesperson. And reading this book will give you a
step-by-step guide to finding a commitment to your old purpose
3) Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
There is a compelling drama
going on in our minds a film-like plot between two characters full of drama and
tension. Character number one is the intuitive, impulsive, automatic system one
and the second character is this thoughtful, calculating system number two. And
the way these two plays off each other determines how we make decisions how we judge
and how we act. When you want to read this book, when you want to avoid your
bad decisions and be able to control your mind to always make the right
decision. Now here's an exciting story from the book let's say a ball and a bat
together cost a hundred and ten rupees and what if I told you that the bat
costs a hundred rupees more than the ball now quickly tell me how much does the
ball cost? Chances are the first number that crossed your mind was ten rupees
but that's the wrong answer, think again and the right answer is five rupees. So
what happened that made us take this wrong decision? What happened actually was
that system number one took control, relied on your intuition and gave the
answer fast. Now normally, whenever you're faced with a complicated problem
system number one connects with system number two and they both together answer
that complicated problem. But, here the first system which is impulsive got
tricked into believing that, this is an easy question and why don't I just
answer it using my intuition. So this book will give you a host of such
examples of how these two systems interplay within us and that'll make us aware
of the wrong decisions sometimes that we take impulsively.
4)Deep work by Cal Newport
Now be honest with yourself while
reading this article, how many times has your phone beeped and how many
notifications have you attended to- The question is what is the impact of these
distractions on our focus and concentration? when should I read this book, when
I'm trying to focus and concentrate and I'm not able to deal with distractions.
And here's a story from the book that I want to share with you a researcher at
the University of Minnesota divided her students randomly into two groups A and
B. Now both the groups had to solve a word puzzle followed by a quiz based on
the word puzzle and then they had to go and read some resumes and get into some
hypothetical hiring situation. Now the only difference was that group A was
interrupted during the puzzle halfway through and told to go on to the quiz. Whereas
group B could complete the puzzle at their own time and go on to the quiz and
then they all went on to the resumes and the hiring decision. Now the result
group A performed badly on the hiring decisions why because they were interrupted
during the puzzle and their mind continued to stay in the puzzle and they were
not able to mentally make a switch from that task on to the next task and hence
they performed badly and the researcher use this activity to prove that
multitasking is in fact bad for us in terms of productivity. In this book
you'll find great examples of techniques that you can use to increase your own
focus and productivity.
5)Influenced by Robert Cialdini
Now did you just go into a
shop and buy some weird lamp just because the salesman forced you to buy or did
you donate to some obscure calls just because someone walked into your house
and persuaded you to do that. And are you now kicking yourself for being so
gullible. So, when you should read this book is when you're either looking to
persuade people or you're looking to prevent people from persuading you. So,
here's a story that I love from this book. The research walked up to a queue of
people standing in front of a photocopier machine trying to make copies of
paper and she walked up to them and asked them if they would allow her to skip
the line. Now in the first instance, she just said would you let me skip the
line and 60% of them allowed her to skip the line. In the second situation she
said would you allow me to skip the line because I'm in a hurry and 94% of the
people allowed her to skip the line. But in the third case she said, would you
allow me to skip the line because I need to make copies. And can you believe
that 93% of the people allowed her to skip the line. So, what she found with
this and several other experiments was that people are mentally tuned to give
you or grant you a favor if you give them a reason, any reason at all. So in
this book, you'll find a host of examples and case studies of how people tend
to get influenced or first you aided and how you can negotiate with people.
Hey and thanks for reading
this 5 Life Changing Book article till the end. I do hope you enjoyed it.
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