Best Books to Read and Listen

LEONARDO DA VINCI THEE BIOGRAPHY  BY WALTER ISAACSON ' To read this magnificent biography of  Leonardo da Vinci  is to take a tour through the life and works of one of the most extraordinary human beings of all time in the company of the most engaging, informed, and insightful guide imaginable.  Walter Isaacson  is at once a true scholar and a spellbinding writer. And what a wealth of lessons there are to be learned in these pages. '  David McCullough Based on thousands of pages from  Leonardo’s  astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work,  Walter Isaacson  weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo’s genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. He produced the two most famous paintings in history,  The Last Supper  and  the  Mon...

BEYOND THE MESSY TRUTH : HOW WE CAME APART, HOW WE COME TOGETHER BY VAN JONES NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER • A passionate manifesto that exposes hypocrisy on both sides of the political divide and points a way out of the tribalism that is tearing America apart—from the CNN host hailed as “a star of the 2016 campaign” ( The New York Times ), now seen on  The Van Jones Show Van Jones burst into the American consciousness during the 2016 presidential campaign with an unscripted, truth-telling style and an already established history of   bridge-building across party lines. His election night commentary, during which he coined the term “whitelash,” became a viral sensation. A longtime progressive activist with deep roots in the conservative South, Jones has made it his mission to challenge voters and viewers to stand in one another’s shoes and disagree constructively. In  Beyond the Messy Truth , he offers a blueprint for transforming our collective anxiety into mean...

  BE OBSESSED OR BE AVERAGE BY GRANT CARDONE From the millionaire entrepreneur and  New York Times  bestselling author of  The 10X Rule  comes a bold and contrarian wake-up call for anyone truly ready for success. Before Grant Cardone built five successful companies (and counting), became a multimillionaire, and wrote bestselling books...he was broke, jobless, and drug-addicted. Grant had grown up with big dreams but friends and family told him to be more reasonable and less demanding. If he played by the rules, they said, he could enjoy everyone else’s version of middle class success. But when he tried it their way, he hit rock bottom. Then he tried the opposite approach. He said NO to the haters and naysayers and said YES to his burning, outrageous, animal obsession. He reclaimed his obsession with wanting to be a business rock star, a huge philanthropist, live in a mansion, even own an airplane. Obsession made all of his wildest dreams come true. And it can ...

THINKING FAST AND SLOW BY DANIEL KAHNEMANN In  Thinking, Fast and Slow , Kahneman takes us on a ground-breaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think and make choices.  One system is fast, intuitive and emotional; the other is slower, more deliberative and more logical.  Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities-and also the faults and biases-of fast thinking and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behaviour. The importance of properly framing risks, the effects of cognitive biases on how we view others, the dangers of prediction, the right ways to develop skills, the pros and cons of fear and optimism, the difference between our experience and memory of events, the real components of happiness-each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgements and decisions. Drawing on a lifetime's experimental experience, Kahneman reveals where we ca...

LEADERSHIFT : THE 11 ESSENTIAL CHANGES EVERY LEADER MUST EMBRACE BY JOHN C MAXWELL A masterclass led by internationally recognized leadership expert John C. Maxwell revealing the eleven shifts you should make over the course of your career to keep innovating, improving, and influencing others to the highest levels of success in today’s unprecedented business climate. . Change is so rapid today that leaders must do much more than stay the course to be successful. If they aren’t nimble and ready to adapt, they won’t survive. The key is to learn how to leadershift. In  Leadershift , John C. Maxwell helps leaders gain the ability and willingness to make leadership changes that will positively enhance their organizational and personal growth. He does this by sharing the eleven shifts he made over the course of his long and successful leadership career. Each shift changed his trajectory and set him up for new and exciting achievements, ultimately strengthening and sustaining his leaders...

RICH DAD'S ADVISORS : ABCs OF BUILDING A BUSINESS TEAM THAT WINS BY BLAIR SINGER Blair Singer's The  ABC's of Building a Business Team That Wins  offers a set of simple, powerful rules that govern the internal behaviours of any  business , organization, family or individual. They are rules like 'Never abandon a teammate in need', 'Be personally responsible for all mistakes' and 'Be on time'. Great champions in sports, business and even families have one thing in common. It's a legitimate secret weapon. It is something that lies deep in the genetic code of winning organizations. It appears when pressure is high, when the stakes are critical and when everything is on the line. They know how to work as a team.  Blair Singer's The ABC's of Building a Business Team That Wins offers a set of simple, powerful rules that govern the internal behaviours of any business, organization, family or individual. They are rules like 'Never abandon a t...

SALES DOGS : YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AN ATTACK DOG TO EXPLODE YOUR INCOME BY BLAIR SINGER The number one skill for any entrepreneur or business owner is the ability to sell. Why? Because sales = income. Yet, many fail financially not because they do not have great ideas or even good work ethic, but typically because they don't know how to, refuse to, are afraid to, or don't think it is important to know how to sell.  SalesDogs was written as the very first of the Rich Dad Poor Dad "how-to" Advisory series to teach in a very fun and impactful way how to overcome the fears, the myths and the obstacles to selling your products, services or yourself.  It then teaches a simple, time-proven process of selling that will generate great income in most any business. The reader will learn the five most important selling skills to master, how to overcome any objection, manage a territory and much more.  The book quickly de-bunks the idea that you have to be an overly aggressive...

THE UNEMPLOYED MILLIONAIRE ESCAPE THE RAT RACE, FIRE YOUR BOSS AND LIVE LIFE ON YOUR TERMS  BY MATT MORRIS In  The Unemployed Millionaire , Morris reveals how he turned his life around and shatters the myth that it takes money to make money. Thanks to the Internet explosion and the ease of global trade, it is possible for anyone to start a business and market their products worldwide to millions of customers. A self-made millionaire shows you how to make millions while living life on your own terms At just eighteen years old, Matt Morris founded his first marketing business. At twenty, he dropped out of college to pursue business full-time. At twenty-one, he was homeless and deeply in debt, living out of his car. It was then that he made a life-changing decision to re-invent himself and his career. By twenty-nine, Matt was a self-made millionaire. How did he do it? In  The Unemployed Millionaire , Morris reveals how he turned his life around and shatters the myth that it...

HOW SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE THINK : CHANGE YOUR THINKING, CHANGE YOUR LIFE BY JOHN C MAXWELL A  Wall Street Journal  bestseller, HOW SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE THINK   is the perfect, compact read for today's fast-paced world.  America 's leadership expert John C. Maxwell will teach you how to be more creative and when to question popular thinking. You'll learn how to capture the big picture while focusing your thinking. You'll find out how to tap into your creative potential, develop shared ideas, and derive lessons from the past to better understand the future. With these eleven keys to more effective thinking, you'll clearly see the path to personal success. John C. Maxwell points out in his book that those missing links, can be further exhibited through the 11-skillset program one should strive to possess: Seeing the Wisdom of Big-Picture Thinking Unleashing the Potential of Focused Thinking Discovering the Joy of Creative Thinking Recognizing the Importance of Realistic Thin...

OUTLIERS - THE STORY OF SUCCESS   BY MALCOLM GLADWELL Definition of  outliers . An  outlier  is an observation that lies an abnormal distance from other values in a random sample from a population. Malcolm Gladwell's  primary  objective in  Outliers  is to examine achievement and failure as cultural phenomena in order to determine the factors that typically foster success. Gladwell  proposes that once a person has practiced his or her craft for 10,000 hours, they enter a threshold of genius through which fame and fortune become tangible possibilities. At that point, the person is talented enough or smart enough or capable enough to be truly  successful . The central  thesis  of the book is that while talent and dedicated practice are necessary for success, early advantage and privileged social standing are what truly make the  outliers . Outliers  explains why “the self-made man” is a myth and what truly lies be...

COVID 19 DAYS - FRIENDS FOREVER - FRIENDHSHIP DAY 42 nd ANNIVERSARY NAVAL TECHNICAL BATCH 1978 - NEW WAY OF ANNIVERSARY ONLINE ZOOM  GET TOGETHER  A  Novel way of Get Together was organised on the 42nd Anniversary Get Together of the Naval Technical Batch 1978 was organised on 31 July 1978. A zoom get together was organised where 28 families participated actively. All of them were very happy to connect and really enjoyed each other's company. A brief background of the Naval Technical Batch 1978 is given below.  It comprises of 35 Marine Engineers. The Batch Photograph with their names  can be seen below.  The course also comprises of 16 Electrical Officers and 6 Constructor Officers. The Batch Photograph with their names can be seen in the Photograph below. The Course further comprised of  officers who joined as Direct promotions from the Ranks in the Upper Yard man scheme. Course Photo is below. The Course is unique in that two Musician officers were...