In this book, you can find all about the NLP techniques that make you understand how you are thinking, how you can handle your mind and how you can deal with others.
You can think of NLP as the practical manual for your brain.
How you can communicate with yourself and how you can communicate effectively with others.
An important concept I learned from the book is 'The Map Is Not The Territory'. It means that we all have that mental representation of the world around us. This mental representation is influenced by our previous experiences and believes. It's also augmented by our present needs. That means that what we might know about something in the world is not what it is actually in reality.
While the book emphasizes the NLP concept of 'The Map is Not The Territory' it point to a clear fact that the brain makes spacial maps to everything including abstract concepts. The brain even builds internal maps for the concept of time.
There is a very important fact to keep in mind that the best skill you need to have to survive and to thrive is the ability to be flexible to all situations.
I've just finished reading this book The Happiness Equation for Neil Pasricha.
I loved it very much. I also found it easy to read and backed by science in every chapter.
For example, I got one important insight I found from it. This one is about how we need to set goals that have intrinsic rather than goals those have extrinsic sources.
I've read about this thing before. I knew about studies that prove importance of intrinsic over extrinsic motivation.
This can be found in students or athletes who have their own reasons for success or for continuous training.
But the new insight I've got from the book is that when we aim to external source of motivation, we just miss the internal motivation.
For instance, when you do something purely for passion, you do your best in it without waiting to get paid for it.
But if you do this thing only for money, the whole meaning changes.
You must realize this. Even if you do something you already love but you are focusing on the external reward, you are letting this goal affects your true performance.
The author himself has mentioned this. He mentioned that when he started his first book, he didn't care about advertisement or website traffic.
But when he started to get real traffic, he stated to get anxious about more traffic, book deals and website ranking. All those things have represented distractions for him.
It's when you create something you love you do it with passion. But after a while you start looking for income sources, cash flow and invoices.
One good insight I got from this book: we always think that it's easier said than done, the reality is that it's easier done than said.
When you start doing, you get into the doing circle, you feel like you can do it, then you love doing it and then you continue doing it.
Now I started a new book, NLP For Dummies.
From the Escape from the cubicle nation.
You need to find your inner tiger and unleash it.
Everyone of us has some tiger lying down and waiting to be unleashed. Our modern lives keep that tiger from being free.
Freedom of this tiger doesn't mean to be harmful or weird. It only means that each one of us has his or her unique self. And we don't have to live as puppets made out of the same mold.
We don't have to go to the same track of education, work and living that we think it's the normal kind of live.
You don't have to be a freak to be yourself, but you need to be yourself.
In order to be the best to your customers, you need first to know them, define them and know their exacts needs to help them.
Helping is not a general term. Helping people is about solving their problems.
When you say to someone, I'm going to change your life to the better you are not helping him.
But when you define the exact thing to help him like:
"I'm going to help you quit smoking", "I'm going to help you lose wight" or "My mission is to help you grow your business". That's the kind of help you need to give to your customers.
I had lots of good information from the book. For Example, one good piece of information I realized at the end of the book was that in business world, It's better to focus on the cash flow rather than profit.
While it's important to care for profit, it's also important to focus on the cash flow at the first place.
Now, I've started reading a new book. The Book of Awesome.
For the first look, I found that book a little bit strange or not worth reading. I realized how wrong I was.
The author had one idea in his mind, it was focusing on casual things that happen to us everyday but can make us feel special.
With the noise we suffer in our daily lives we can forget how those things are awesome.
In fact I've done something similar back in 2009 when I started to record my positive thoughts about my daily life.
After I decided to think this way, I managed to find awesomeness in life in general and I continued reading this book.
Today I finished reading this useful book, How to Blog a Book : Write, Publish, and Promote Your Work One Post at a Time for Nina Amir.
From the founder of the National Nonfiction Writing Month. This is the Nonfiction version of the November challenge to write a book that holds each year.
The book is inspiring and educational.
It's about how you can write your book while writing a blog and then land a book contract with a traditional publisher or choose to self publish your book.
It gets you from the idea, book planning, business plan, book proposal, writing, blogging and marketing process to simple technical blogging knowledge for writers.
For example, some information like metrics, hits and blog visitor may be unknown for most writers while they are clear for bloggers.
Whether you are a blogger who wants to publish a book or you are an aspiring writer who wants to start the writing carrier, this book is for you.
For most of the success stories about bloggers who turned their blogs into books, success was a product of some factors:
Blogging on what you really love.
Focusing on a fine small niche.
Persistence.
The writer makes a simple success formula, you need to keep writing on what you love on a daily basis.
Writing a post of 300 words on average can get you about 110,000 words which makes about two books.
My personal experience with blogging and content has began from 2008.
I've always wanted to write and express my thoughts to the world. So I started writing my thoughts and experiments consistently.
I've been also interested in writing about technical subjects like wind energy and embedded systems.
And then I found myself writing easily. So I decided to self publish my books by converting content from my blogs into books and adding new content to it.
You can give it a try and read this book to get you in the mood of writing and publishing.
Now I've started to read a new book mentioned in this book as a blog turned into a successful best selling book. This book is titled:
Escape from cubicle nation.
Einstein has sent four articles to the der - --- - which has been considered as the most important physics entity in the time.
The first article was about the proving the existence of atoms. It was proved by the Brownian movement in fluids.
When we notice the fluids as they move when we mix two fluids like water and milk together. Or when we notice the movement of dust particles moving in the air. We can see this type of movement.
This movement has made the prove for existence of atoms possible. Einstein also has calculated the radius of atoms from this movement.
The second paper was the stone for the Special Theory of Relativity.
And the third article was the seed for Quantum Mechanics. As Einstein concluded that light is made of photons of energy. And this what causes the photoelectric effect.
The fourth paper is the relation between matter and energy. The famous equation E = m.c2
In this book, the author confirms one main idea. Which is in the heart of scientific thinking there must be a deep sense of uncertainty.
It's that doubt that motivates scientists to search and examine the unknown.
I’ve finished reading the book “Steal Like and Artist”.
The book isn’t about stealing as it may sound from the title. And it isn’t about copying or plagiarism as it may be thought of.
The book is about creativity and how you can boost your creativity with some steps. On top of those steps the step of fast starting. You don’t need to keep looking for something to do. Instead you need to start quickly.
Also you don’t have to wait for long time to be hundred percent original. You can start by trying to look like the public figure you want to become.
You cannot copy someone else’s work exactly but you can try to look like it if you can.
There is a difference between plagiarism, imitation, and emulation. Plagiarism is wrong; imitation is not good for you as a creative person. But you can start by emulating your favorite creative public figure and start to grow your own creative stream.
I've just finished reading this amazing book. It really complies with all things I kept reading about for the last four years.
Here's the book that you need to start changing your life slowly but sure.
It's about how you can change your way of thinking, your habits, your life and even yourself by controlling small and consistent changes in your own habits.
The book highlights the importance of small and repetitive actions as a way of long term change versus big but discontinued actions.
Most people think about great steps of change as a road to success or to failure and they neglect those small collective steps we keep doing during our daily lives.
The book is perfectly organized and helped with inspiring stories of successful people who have changed their lives with habits.
As you finish reading this book, you'll feel the urge to start reading it again due to simplicity yet its mind intriguing way of producing information.
I highly recommend reading this book.
I've used all those methods inside this book and they all worked with me.
I hope you find it useful too.
