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Think and Grow Rich Summary Sketchnote

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This Think and Grow Rich summary sketchnote utilised the notes of the Readitfor.me service. I’ve attempted to synthesise Hill’s main points with other content I’ve come across in recent times. Included in each section are links to this other high-performers and some questions that you can ask yourself. 1. Desire: How to Create The Desire to Change Desire. It can be a little dirty word at times. Often associated with craving and bad intentions. But to start any kind of change from within, one must have compelling reasons to change. This boils down to desire. In Personal Power II, Tony …

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Scott Belsky Sketchnote

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How do you know when to give up or persevere? Scott points to a sense of conviction. What’s conviction in this context? It’s a sense of belief or knowing that you and what you’re doing will provide value to others. If you still have that, then persist. If you don’t, then it’s time to think alternatively. Ultimately, you never will know. I think another good filtering question to ask is “am I doing this for the benefit of others or for the benefit of myself? Scott spoke about passion and that not being a strong signal of success. He prefers …

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The Most Confronting Haircut I’ve Ever Had

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Sometimes, you get what you need and not what you want. That happened to me today as I booked in a cut with a barber. I’ve been thinking about business of late and how the product or service is actually how you feel when you walk out the door. Having worked at a barbershop before as a barista (yep, you read that right), I knew that people get cuts to feel a sense of confidence among other positive feelings when they walk out its door. So that’s what I thought I was booking myself in for this afternoon: confidence and …

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Luis von Ahn Sketchnote From Tools of Titans

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What’s the most popular language app in the world? Duolingo. Luis is its co-founder and CEO at the time of the writing of Tools of Titans. He is a computer science professor who is from Guatemala. Amusingly, in one unit he taught, he created a fake website of a solution to a problem he asked his students to solve. What his students didn’t know was that he tracked their IP addresses thus revealing who took to Google to ‘cheat’. He is also the founding father of those annoying captchas on the Internet. The origin story is from Yahoo where some …

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Noah Kagan Sketchnote from Tools of Titans

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Noah is a legend but I haven’t always held that evaluation. He can come across as rather brazen but he wants you to win. He was the #30 employee at Facebook and #4 employee at mint.com that was sold to Intuit for a pretty penny. He’s the chief sumo (Founder) of appsumo.com and sumo.me. The former of which I frequent for deals on tools. The Antidote to Fear and Rejection So much goodness to place onto a Sketchnote but let’s start with his first name: Noah. No is linked to his coffee challenge and asking for a 10% discount on …

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