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How to choose which books to read
Improving what you get out of reading starts with choosing the right books. Most books are a waste of time. Shane Parish of Farnam Street provides some simple ideas that can help stop wasting time on books that you forget in a few days and pick the most valuable book every time.
Spending a little time filtering books, dramatically improves the quality of the raw material you put into your mind.
Get your basics right
Read books across disciplines
Go for classics or those books which have stood the test of time
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Is luck real?
This is just such a wonderful piece that is worth reading and thinking about.
Some beliefs that are objectively false can be practically useful. For example, if you believe that "all wild mushrooms are poisonous," then you won't eat mushrooms in the wild and risk being poisoned. Though many wild mushrooms are not poisonous, believing that they are provides more benefits than costs. Michael Jordan did something similar when manufacturing objectively false beliefs about his opponents. As revealed in The Last Dance, Jordan would regularly make up things other players said about him to push himself harder on the basketball court. He used fake beliefs to create real results. You could do the same thing with one false yet useful idea—luck isn't real.
Of course, we know luck is real. We know luck impacts our investments, our careers, and our lives. And we've all been on the receiving end of some form of good or bad luck at some point in our past.
But, believing in luck does very little to help us. It does very little to serve us. After all, if you believe in luck, what lesson do you learn after facing a setback? The answer is—nothing. You can always chalk it up to "bad luck" and move on. But, if luck isn't real, then you can ask yourself, "Where did I go wrong?" and "How can I change it?" You could learn something from even the most unfortunate of events. For example, something as seemingly random as a car crash could be less attributable to bad luck than you might initially imagine.
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"Never think about what's at stake. If you start thinking about who is going to win the championship, you've lost your focus."
"Just play, have fun, enjoy the game."
~ Michael Jordan
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