7 posts tagged with "Books"

Overview​

I am bibliophile or bookworm and loves reading and/or collects books through purchase in online and offline books stores from various places. So I got any thought to know how many books I had and how many books I had completed reading, So I had used the google sheets (online Excel) to list books with following columns

Most of the columns are self explanatory other are explained below:

Recently I had completed the set of four books which are worlds greatest books on personal Growth and Wealth. Lets have a look which books are contained in this set.

Today I had completed a book When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi a Neurosurgeon. Book covers What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when life is catastrophically interrupted? What does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away?

Today completed reading. The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles by Bruce Lipton.

This book is a groundbreaking work in the field of new biology, and it will forever change how we think about thinking. It covers.

a. Interaction between your mind and body and the processes by which cells receive information.

b. Genes and DNA do not control our biology

Every book we read makes us grow taller. Reading helps in expanding the thinking of the mind. Most successful people from history to the present are having the habit of reading books.

The best investment that we can make is buying one or two books and reading them in a month every rupee you spent is worth. Reading can be a relaxing hobby as well.

How to read​

Use pencil or marker to highlight the important points Use Book Mark (Card with thread) Take notes on the margins best thing is use notebook to write points that you like most To get started with what books to read are below.

Bought Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson Biography on Feburary 14, 2012 to present it to my self through flipkart.com.

Today March 10, 2012 12.20 PM I had completed reading the book it contains 42 chapters spread over 571 pages

Reality Distortion Field: It can be done

Books That Inspired Steve Jobs​

1. 'Autobiography of a Yogi' by Paramahansa Yogananda Jobs read and re-read many times during his life. Jobs had first read as a teenager," Isaacson writes, "then re-read in India and had read once a year ever since.

2. 'Be Here Now' by Ram Dass

3. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

4. 'The Innovator's Dilemma' by Clayton Christensen

5. 'The Whole Earth Catalog' periodicals

6. Herman Melville's Moby Dick

7. Shakespeare's King Lear

8. Poems of Dylan Thomas

9. 'Diet For A Small Planet' by Frances Lapp

10. 'Mucusless Diet Healing System' by Arnold Ehret

11. Chogyam Trungpa's "Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism"

Articles​

1. "Secrets of the Little Blue Box,"

The Music That Inspired Steve Jobs​

1. Bob Dylan - bootlegs
2. Beatles
3. Stones
4. Joan Baez - Love Is A Four Letter Word song
5. Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now song
6. "Uncle John's Band" by the Grateful Dead
7. Glenn Gould

Quotes From His Biography​

"If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will."

"People don’t know what they want until you show it to them."

"I hate it when people call themselves 'entrepreneurs' when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on."