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I finished reading this book in two days to prepare myself for a very critical business agreement negotiation (I hope my counterparts are not reading this :-)).
It was super helpful.
Very practical tools and examples to understand how to apply them.
Needless to say, fascinating examples from his hostage negotiation experience.
And these tools are useful in not business but also personal/relationships contexts.
One of the best business stories I've come across.
Whether you're a fan of Nike or not, the journey of its creation, as narrated by the founder himself, is truly one-of-a-kind.
Phil Knight's honesty shines through as he takes us on a rollercoaster ride from the humble beginnings (OK, OK, he had the advantage of his family's privileged status at the beginning) of Nike to its position as a global powerhouse.
What's refreshing is that he doesn't sugarcoat the narrative. He openly shares the ups, downs, mistakes, and not so ethical areas of the business.
This book doesn't follow the typical MBA playbook; it's a raw and authentic account of building a company, brand with purpose and meaning.
While you may try to find some valuable business and entrepreneurial lessons sprinkled throughout (he provides some at the end), even without them, it's simply a remarkable story.
Amazing combination of capturing historical events around mobile phone revolution during 90s-20s from Nokia perspective with Harvard Business Review like organizational analysis.
From Big Bang to Upanishads and The End of Time, B. Greene tries to cover a lot.
Understandably, he does a great job explaining the physical and cosmological scientific thoughts and hypothesis compared to humanities quest for meaning.
I admired his way of combining these two and also realized how far we came in terms of our understanding of physics and cosmology in the last decades.
In the spectrum of spiritually/meaning to physics, particles, reductionism he does a great job to strike a balance most of the time.
The potential downside is that the reader who expects more or less to be on one side of this spectrum will probably be disappointed.
I was occasionally. But loved the book in general.
I love that the book reminded me the fact that there's no good reason for us to take ourselves so seriously, given how small we (as humanity or even life in general) are in the cosmological time scale.
Also it was fun to listened to the audio version from B. Greene's own voice.
4 stars for the tools, 1 star for trying to come up with a new spirituality foundation to place these tools on top of it.
Tools are not unique but a good bunch:
How to handle pain (do not escape from it)
Expanding your love towards everyone, everything unconditionally
Bring out your other shadow self out
Be grateful
And memento Mori.
All good. Even if the writers present these tools in a little different fashion, fundamentally important tools.
But then they also try to talk about a higher force, a new spirituality as basis to these tools where things go not so well for me.
I don't remember them talking about any Eastern philosophies which will be sensible thing to do instead of talking about a higher force as if its something new and their creation.
But no, they have found a new spirituality, who cares about 2500 years old philosophies that are much deeper, well thought and matured over the centuries, etc.
Unorthodox hypothesis about “reality”, against physicalism. Intriguing ideas.
Not so unfamiliar if you are a little exposed to science fiction however he tries to come from a scientific angle.
The hypothesis resonated with me especially because I found this hypothesis to be in close proximity to Eastern philosophies like Hinduism, especially Advaita Vedanta.
I've read this one when I was a teenager - I didn't remember much other than the fact that Richard Bach becoming my favorite writer for a while with this book.
And reading it many decades later was such an amazing experience hence I can't rate anything but five star. I'm adding couple of his other books to my to-read list.
Short and magical story. What you will take away from it will depend on your spirituality maturity :)
Needless to say heavy duty Heidegger read.
It's about Gelassenheit (releasement) and the introduction which is as long as the original text itself is very informative.
Heidegger is light on his usual new vocabulary on this one which makes it a little easier to read.
Read the book to write a class (Philosophy of Technology) paper about Gelassenheit and found this book to be the core of Heidegger's thought on this topic.
Not that I read a lot of books about Zen however this is one of the best I've read. Before reading this books I've tried a couple different books about koan. They were pretty mainstream ones that did not really go deeper into the meanings and the roles of the koans. Whereas in this book, Mumon does an amazing job to explain the historical and conceptual contexts around the 40+ koans.
I really enjoyed reading them.
Whack!
I like Matt Fitzgerald and his books, like Race Weight and How Bad Do you Want.
In this book, he convinced me to try 80/20 approach to my back to Triathlon training after my 4 years break from it.
4 stars just because it feels a little light on the breadth of the topics however it covers all the aspects of 80/20 training including how to setup your own training plan and 4-5 plans for different Triathlon distances.
Beautiful book where you can find all of Michelangelo's amazing work.
I was reading https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321552.The_Agony_and_the_Ecstasy and this book was a great companion.
Referred by Alan Watts.
Bankei is an important chester in Zen history and his style is very unique.
Unborn mind, buddha mind it is.
The book has three sections: (1) Bankei's sermons. This is where you really learn about unborn mind. However it gets s little repetitive because Bankei uses the same way and metaphors to explain it.
(2) The Dialogues and (3) Unnecessary Words: I liked these a lot because most of them are like little stories.
Obviously my review will be more about the translation rather than this historic book of Taoism.
I found the language slightly difficult compare to the online translations of some of the chapters.
However I really liked the fact that he got multiple translations and commentary after his original translation for each chapter from sources range old master's to contemporary writers.
Also the “dictionary” at the end was super insightful.
Excellent.
Disclaimer: I am an Alan Watts fanboy - There I say it: He is my spiritual guru nowadays.
This book was not as deep into Buddhism/Zen however more pragmatic imo. Great compliment to “Out of Your Mind”. Will continue reading his other books & listening to his talks.
I don't feel comfortable rating a poem book in the first place. I see poetry as a form of art and the fact that it did not resonate with me doesn't mean much about the art but more about me.
And these poems did not.
3 stars just reflect that. Nothing else.
5 star if you read it before your late 20s :)
Which I did, can't remember exactly when but it should be sometime in my teens.
I didn't remember anything about it other than having a significant influence on me
Hence re-reading (actually listening this time) was such an interesting experience. As I came across themes that resonated with me deeply, I wondered if their original source was this book.
I'm not sure if Demian will be meaningful if you are not a “seeker”. If you do, regardless if your age, go ahead and read.
It turns out I really liked his late work (i.e. the poems he wrote after 1985) compared to his poems before 80s
And the first half of this collection is from before 80s. Therefore 4 stars but what a character and poet:
This collection has some of his best known poems like “the bluebird”, “dinosaria, we”, etc.
I've read Bukowski so many years ago for the first time and loved it, so this was a great re-iinroduction.
Looking forward to reading more from him, i.e Ham on Rye (novel) and The last night of the Earth Poems.
I assume his Holiness Dalai Lama is the best person from whom to hear what Buddhism is.
The language is very clear and the content is very structured, perfect for an analytical brain like mine (not that it's the best approach).
Caution warranted: Reading the book doesn't make you enlightened :)
What a precious collection of human wisdom from ~2000 years ago. It's a shame that we do not value the wisdom collected in this book more in our lives.
As quoted in the book, Arthur Schopenhauer said “... [Upanishads] will be consolation of my death”. For sure...
I have no doubt I will read the Upanishads and/or more about them in the future again and take more.
This book gets to the bottom of lot of discussions happening in various social media, etc. via quoting good amount of research.
It's very comprehensive and has lot of really valuable information especially for athletes of course.
I had to re-read some parts multiple times, which is not uncommon for me when reading poetry.
However the elusiveness was a little much for me to enjoy even though at times I really liked it.
“Night is the overflow of Being”
I enjoyed her way of bringing philosophy to poetry but again at times of really getting in it deep.
I would like to read one of her novels.