10 books that taught me more about life + death than I learned in 6 years of medical school:

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MY TAKEAWAYS FROM ATOMIC HABITS by @JamesClear

A spectacular book that focuses on building HABITS following SYSTEMS to achieve RESULTS - Instead of the traditional GOAL BASED approach.

It's a highly engaging read with plenty of practical examples .

#BookRecommendation

2/20
Your OUTCOMES are a lagging measure of your HABITS . Although difficult to appreciate on a daily basis , they MATTER IMMENSELY.
Change your habit ,to change the outcome.

It doesn't matter WHERE you are currently,
CHANGE YOUR HABIT TO CHANGE THE TRAJECTORY OF YOUR LIFE!👇

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You do not RISE to the level of your GOALS .You FALL to the level of your SYSTEMS .

Why so ?

Both WINNERS & LOSERS have a Goal . What then sets them apart ?

It's having a SYSTEM in place.
Systems are forever & they result in continuous SELF IMPROVEMENT .

4/20
Reaching a goal may give rise to emptiness or targetting another goal.
But that isn't the case for systems.

Hence GOALS - OVER RATED SYSTEMS - UNDER RATED

2 small examples on my system based approach for self improvement.

#booklovers

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5/20
Your identity emerges out of your habits. Every action is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.

Despite knowing better we find that
changing our habits is challenging because :
1) We try to change the wrong thing
2) We try to change our habits in the wrong way.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

But nowadays, let alone buying a #book, it takes a lot of effort to even finish what we had started because of our hectic schedules.

To solve this, @elearnmarkets brings you best #finance book summaries, all in one place!

🔖One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch

This book provides a holistic knowledge of investing in stocks. The author discusses how to use what you already know to make money in the market. It serves as an extensive guide for investors. Read more:

🔖Think and Trade Like a Champion by @markminervini

The book will show you how to increase your returns while keeping your risk to an absolute minimum. Mark reveals his personal trading rules that made him super successful stock trader.

Read more:

🔖Trading in the zone by Mark Douglas

Douglas uncovers the underlying reasons for lack of consistency & helps traders overcome ingrained mental habits that cost them money. He exposes the myths of the market, to look beyond random outcomes.

Read more:

🔖Rich Dad Poor Dad by @theRealKiyosaki

Robert Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective from two very different influences. He speaks about the monetary problems experienced by his poor dad and the life experiences of his rich dad.

Read more:

"Meditation - The Art of Doing Nothing" by @naval Visualized 🧵⬇️ 1/24

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2 weeks ago, I started reading "Fooled by Randomness" by Nassim Taleb.

WOW, It's been mindblowing!

Thanks to @dvassallo 's recommendation.

Inside, there's a part he talks about how to deal with volatility.

Here’s 6 big lessons that are useful in the current market crash:

Lesson #1:
Negative emotions of seeing your stocks drop > Positive emotion from seeing your stocks rise.

"A negative pang is not offset by a positive one...

Some psychologists estimate the negative effect for an average loss to be up to 2.5 the magnitude of a positive one)...

... At the end of every day the dentist will be emotionally drained.

If the unpleasurable minute is worse in reverse pleasure than the pleasurable minute is in pleasure terms, then the dentist incurs a large deficit when examining his performance at a high frequency."

Lesson #2:
When we zoom out and check the prices less frequently, we are less affected by negative emotions.

Because over a longer time horizon, the market tends to rise more than it goes down.

10 Powerful Lessons of the book “The Art of Thinking Clearly”

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1. Never underestimate the hard work and lower probability of success, just because we are shown more successful people than many more actual failures.

It does not mean, in any way, that you should not dream big. It just says that dont get overawed by the number of success stories you read and assume that success would be easy. No one prints the failure stories.

2. Confirmation bias is the mother of all misconceptions.

It is a tendency to interpret new information so that it becomes compatible with our existing theories.

Warren Buffet has seen people losing money with this because they ignore facts which contradict the theory in the mind of the investor.

Dis-confirming evidence must be seeked out to beat this theory.