Not a trading book, really. A mindset book, based on trading examples. Core ideas: Humans seek to avoid pain above all else. How well you can moderate that automatic response will determine a lot about how well you can do in life. There’s not a lot more to it, although the specific mechanics are much more detailed in the book. Interesting tidbits: 90% of traders are failing - they lose money....
Matthew McConaughey’s 50 years of adventure. The view from the half-way house. A guide to livin. McConaughey’s autobiographical work seems an endless stream of adventures. It shows appetite. Hunger. It reminds me to demand more from life. The meat and the experience of this read is in the stories, but the purpose is to convey eight principles for livin. It’s a handbook that reads like fiction. Vitamins in jelly beans. It creates no FOMO....
Lessons from the presidents by Doris Kearns Goodwin. What an incredibly rich description of 4 lifetimes of transformational leadership by 4 wildly different individuals with each of their own leadership styles, strategies and tactics to learn from. This is one of those reads that’s so dense, juicy and packed with gold nuggets, wisdom and perspective, that it’s completely impossible to extract the maximum value from it without dedicating years of re-reading and practice....
The Silk Roads – A new History Of The World Peter Frankopan Epic outline of how the world was shaped into what it is today in terms of the global trade and political landscapes that have shifted since the beginning of recorded civilisation. The book starts with the creation of the original silk road, and speeds through history, gradually decelerating and spending more time on recent events – a solid half of the book is dedicated to events after WW1....
Zag, Marty Neumeier’s guide to differentiation for high performance brands. I’m structuring this one as a key takeaways list. It’s a short read, very well suited for revisiting in the future to check in on the quality of the brand being built. This is my first run-through. Page 7: Reduce clutter – clutter comes in multiple forms in the marketplace, but the ones we have control over are feature clutter (too many features in a product), message clutter (too many elements per message)....