What You Will Learn

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This was certainly an interesting read. The contention of the book is that everyone is made up of both masculine and feminine qualities, but most of us lean towards one more than the other. This is a book for the 'masculine' person, be that male or female, gay or straight. It takes us through how to become a 'superior man' and how the masculine should act and guide their more feminine partner. We don't agree with everything, but there's a lot of truth in this book - sometimes some uncomfortable truths.

'A Handbook for Living' According to Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, the purpose of life is happiness. Everything we do in life should be a move towards happiness. This book delves into a lot of different areas, from personal relationships to suffering to intimacy to meditating and training your mind for happiness. Whilst some of these lessons come from the Buddhist faith, you don't have to become a Buddhist to practice compassion and happiness.

"You have the power to change stuff" Three 19 year old kids dreamt big. They realised that 1 billion were living in poverty and decided to do something about it. It's only the beginning of their mission, it's only 'chapter one', but they are on their way to changing the world.

"Human Beings and the Natural World are on a collision course" With rapid, exponential growth and delays in our responses, we may overshoot the Earth's limits. There are limits in the world's sources of production and sinks for pollution, so we need to be vigilant in monitoring our growth and react quickly and efficiently if we go beyond our limits. If we overshoot too far or for too long, the world as we know it faces a near-certain collapse.

"Human Beings and the Natural World are on a collision course" With rapid, exponential growth and delays in our responses, we may overshoot the Earth's limits. There are limits in the world's sources of production and sinks for pollution, so we need to be vigilant in monitoring our growth and react quickly and efficiently if we go beyond our limits. If we overshoot too far or for too long, the world as we know it faces a near-certain collapse.

"An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance" Josh Waitzkin was World Champion in Chess and then became a World Champion in Thai Chi push hands competition. A super interesting life journey and this book is ultimately his autobiography. We were expecting a little more 'how to' tips for learning, but there were a few gems hidden within the anecdotes that we've extracted to share with you.

The Art of Learning

The last 30 years have served as a good platform, but the next 30 years is where shit gets real. Today, in 2016, we are in the best possible time to start something or invent something. The opportunities open to us now are enormous, and most of us don't even realise it. Kevin Kelly outlines the 12 biggest ways that the world is going to change and he gives us an insight into what the world of 2050 will look like.

Human were initially motivated biologically by hunger, thirst and sex. Next, we realised we can influence people by rewarding the behaviours we want more of and punishing the behaviours we want less of. This 'carrot and stick' worked for a while throughout the industrial age, but it's becoming less and less effective. Now it's all about 'Intrinsic motivation'. To get the best results from humans today, we need a sense of Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose in the jobs we do.

This was a 4 day, 50 hour immersion. Words seriously can't describe this live event. We did a whole bunch of crazy things and learnt so much. Things we talk about include the 6 humans needs, the 3 elements for lasting change, the 7 areas of constant growth for an extraordinary life, some major life decisions we made and of course, how we walked on fire. Want our notes that we've taken for every book and used for our episodes? Grab them at http://www.whatyouwilllearn.com/notes

It's a cheeky book title that definitely grabbed our attention. In essence, the author has renamed Active investing as "Hyperactive investing" which sounds pretty bad, and renamed Passive investing as "Smart investing". Passive makes it sound like you have no control or influence over the outcome, but Smart makes it feel right. The book goes through heaps and heaps of reasons as to why Smart investing is the way to go, and you really can't argue with these statistics.

This book is all about building your personal brand, building an audience and a community by pumping out content about things you love to talk about. By putting out videos, podcasts and blog posts, you can eventually build enough of an audience that you can monetise. You can then make money through advertising, books and TV deals, speaking engagements, consulting, retail, affiliate deals, so so much more! Want our notes? Grab them at http://www.whatyouwilllearn.com/notes