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Pain + Reflection = Progress

Principles by Ray Dalio

“I believe that the key to success lies in knowing how to both strive for a lot and fail well. By failing well, I mean being able to experience painful failures that provide big learnings without failing badly enough to get knocked out of the game.” – Ray Dalio, Principles

Ray Dalio has encountered many failures on route to creating the largest hedge fund in the world, Bridgewater Associates.

In the following book summary you will learn Ray Dalio’s principled approach to failure, and how to use failure to increase your odds of success.

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Achievement + Happiness

“Have big goals—but don’t tie your happiness to your goals. You must be happy before you attain them.” – Vishen Lakhiani

Author Vishen Lakhiani has developed a powerful goal setting method you can use to achieve extraordinary results

The following book summary explains the three types of goals you need to focus on to accelerate achievement and maximize happiness:

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Habits of High Performers

High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard

“With the right habits, anyone can dramatically increase results and become a high performer in almost any field of endeavor.” – Brendon Burchard

What do High Performers routinely do differently? I read “High Performance Habits” to find out. Here’s what I found:

1-Page PDF Summary of High Performance Habits

The Science of Sticky Communication

Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath

“If you want your ideas to be stickier, you’ve got to break someone’s guessing machine and then fix it.” – Chip Heath, Made to Stick

It’s hard to be successful if you can’t communicate your ideas effectively.

Luckily the book ‘Made to Stick’ has a proven system for communicating ideas effectively. Here are a few actionable takeaways:

1-Page PDF Summary of Made to Stick