Archive for the ‘AudioBook Summaries’ Category

-Denis Waitley SUMMARY: The cause of disease is closely linked to how individuals react to life. The link between stressful life changes expect and anxiety and health changes, seems to be associated with the body’s immune system, which makes anti-bodies to fight germs, stress may cause you to stop producing anti-bodies. In other words if [...]

Never Eat Alone

Posted: March 26, 2010 in AudioBook Summaries

-Keith Ferrazzi SUMMARY: Your best customers are the ones you already have Rules to follow when calling an important person Convey credibility by mentioning a familiar person State your value proposition Import urgency and convenience Be prepared to offer a compromise that secures a definite follow-up at a minimum. Draft off a reference – establish [...]

-Mark Victor Hansen & Robert G. Allen SUMMARY: Wow: The Wheel of Wealth Questions Enlighten it. How can we enlighten this in the most unique way? Infinity it. How can we residualize this? Multiple stream it. How can we create additional streams of income from this? Combine it. How can we combine this with something [...]

Think & Grow Rich

Posted: March 14, 2010 in AudioBook Summaries

-Napoleon Hill SUMMARY: There’s no such thing as something for nothing. Failures are just practice shots, often success comes right after failure. Most people give up after failing. If you have subconscious faith in something, e.g. when the doctor says you are going to die, if you truly believe you’re not going to die you [...]

Outliers

Posted: March 2, 2010 in AudioBook Summaries

-Malcolm Gladwell SUMMARY: In sport, people born right after the cut off date are more likely to become professional, than someone born before the cut off. Because when they are kids they god picked for the top teams because they were slightly older and therefore better than the younger players of the same year group. [...]

The Tipping Point

Posted: February 17, 2010 in AudioBook Summaries

-Malcolm Gladwell SUMMARY: The time when everything changes is the tipping point. The tipping point is the point of critical mass. If only one person hears or sees something bad happen, like a fire for example, they are more likely to report it than if a group of people hear or see it, because they [...]

Purple Cow

Posted: February 8, 2010 in AudioBook Summaries

-Seth Godin SUMMARY: A purple cow is a product that stands out from similar products. A remarkable idea is only remarkable the first time people see it, then once they start seeing more of it, and similar products, it becomes regular, and a new remarkable idea must be created. Most people wait till a leader [...]

Free Prize Inside

Posted: January 29, 2010 in AudioBook Summaries

-Seith Godin SUMMARY: People buy products with free products included, and people end up buying their product just for the free prize inside. A product that carries a service or a prize is a purple cow. Newspapers without comics/pictures would be less popular than one with, although people buy the Newspaper for the news, not [...]

The 4-Hour Work Week

Posted: January 29, 2010 in AudioBook Summaries

-Timothy Ferriss SUMMARY: People do not want to be millionaires, they only want to live the lifestyle that millions bring. The ability to live like a millionaire is different to being a millionaire. Changing the status quo is different to being stupid. Different is better when it’s more effective. Don’t follow a model that doesn’t [...]

Getting Things Done

Posted: January 12, 2010 in AudioBook Summaries

-David Allen SUMMARY: He mentions 2 basic questions: what’s the successful outcome? What’s the next action? He also states that there are 5 phases of work: Collect all the stuff (notes) that has work embedded in it. Process those notes, go through and pick out the relevant parts. Organise the results (categorize, keep lists, folders, [...]