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Biographies / Autobiographies Videos

1. Elon Musk - By Ashlee Vance (Book Summary in Hindi via Video)

Investment Videos

1. Psychology of Money - Book Summary in Hindi via Video
2. Rich Dad Poor Dad - Book Summary in Hindi via Video

Videos on "Finding Life's Purpose"

1. "Ikigai" by Hector Garcia (Book Summary with Video in Hindi)
2. Alchemist (by Paulo Coelho, 1988)

Videos on Japanese Philosophies

1. "Ikigai" by Hector Garcia (Book Summary with Video in Hindi)

Book Summaries

Emotional Intelligence

1. Emotional Intelligence - Why it Can Matter More Than IQ (Daniel Goleman, 2009) - Summary
2. Summary of Emotional intelligence 2.0 (2009, Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves)
3. Emotional Intelligence. Harvard Business Review. (Summary)
4. Beyond Reason - Using Emotions as You Negotiate (Roger Fisher) [Tags: Emotional Intelligence, Negotiation]
5. The Book of Joy (Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams; 2016) - Summary

Negotiation

1. Crucial Conversations (Kerry Patterson) - Book Summary
2. Negotiation Genius (How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond (Deepak Malhotra, Max Bazerman, 2008))
3. Never Split The Difference (Chris Voss) - Summary
4. The Negotiation Book (by Steve Gates) - Summary
5. Getting to Yes (Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In) by Roger Fisher and William Ury (1991, 2e)
6. Getting Past No (Negotiating in difficult situations, William Ury, 1993)
7. Getting to Yes with Yourself And Other Worthy Opponents (William Ury, 2015)
8. Bargaining for Advantage. Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People (G. Richard Shell, 2e, 2006)
9. Negotiation (Harvard Business Essentials, 2018)
10. Difficult Conversations. How to Discuss What Matters Most (Douglas Stone, B. Patton, S. Heen, 2010)
11. Beyond Reason - Using Emotions as You Negotiate (Roger Fisher) [Tags: Emotional Intelligence, Negotiation]
12. Negotiating The Impossible (Deepak Malhotra, 2016)
    
13. Thanks for the Feedback (by Douglas Stone) - Book Summary
14. Pre-suasion (a revolutionary way to influence and persuade) by Robert Cialdini
15. 3-D Negotiation. Harvard Business School Press (James K. Sebenius & David A. Lax, 2008)
16. Negotiating the Nonnegotiable. How to Resolve Your Most Emotionally Charged Conflicts (Daniel Shapiro, 2016)
17. Bargaining with the devil (Robert Mnookin) ...Bonus Video Inside

Biographies / Autobiographies

1. Ch 64: Optimus Is Born - Tesla, August 2021 (Book: Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson)
2. Elon Musk (by Ashlee Vance) - Highlights
3. Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance (15 Minutes Long Summary)
4. 50th Law (by 50 Cent and Robert Greene) - Book Summary
5. Steve Jobs (by Walter Isaacson) - 15 minutes long summary
6. Joe Biden (by Evan Osnos, 2020, Highlights) [Tags: Biography, Politics]
7. My Land and My People (by HH Dalai Lama XIV) - Highlights [Tags: Autobiography, Politics]

Creativity

1. Teach your child how to think (Edward de Bono) - Summary [Tags: Psychology, Creativity]
2. You Can't Be Serious! Putting Humor to Work (Michael Kerr)

Finding Purpose

1. Start with why (by Simon Sinek)
   • Start With Why (by Simon Sinek) - Chapter 1 & 2
   • The Golden Circle... Of Why (Ch 3)
   • This is not opinion, this is biology (Ch 4)
   • Clarity, discipline, consistency (Ch 5)

Investment Books

1. Psychology of Money (by Morgan Housel) - Summary
2. 'Rich Dad Poor Dad' (Summary, Robert Kiyosaki)
3. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing (by John C Bogle) - 15 minutes long summary (Dated: June 2019)
4. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing (by John C Bogle, 10th Anniversary Edition, 2017)
5. The Essays Of Warren Buffett (Lessons For Corporate America)
6. Intelligent investor (Ben Graham & Jason Zweig, 4e)

Business Self-Help

1. How To Talk TO Anyone (92 Little Tricks For Big Success In Relationships, by Leil Lowndes) - Book Summary
2. Zero to one (by Peter Thiel) - Book Summary
3. Screw it, let's do it (by Richard Branson) - 15 minutes long summary
4. The Virgin Way (by Richard Branson) - 15 minutes long summary

Politics

1. Staggering forward - Narendra Modi and India's global ambition (Bharat Karnad) - Highlights
2. 48 Laws of power (Robert Greene) - Book Summary
3. Secrets to winning at office politics (Marie McIntyre, 2005) - Summary
4. Joe Biden (by Evan Osnos, 2020, Highlights) [Tags: Biography, Politics]
5. Art of War (by Sun Tzu) - Summary
6. My Land and My People (by HH Dalai Lama XIV) - Highlights [Tags: Autobiography, Politics]

Psychology

1. Expressive Writing. Words that Heal (James W. Pennebaker, John E. Evans, 2014)
   • Why Write about Emotional Upheaval? (Chapter 1)
   • How Can We Get Ready To Write? (Chapter 2)
2. My Little Epiphanies (Aisha Chaudhary)
3. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Oliver Sacks, Summary)
4. Anxiety and Phobia Workbook (6e, 2015, Edmund Bourne) - Book Summary
5. Maps of Meaning. Architecture of Belief (Book by Jordan B. Peterson) - Summary
6. 12 Rules for Life (Jordan Peterson, Summary)
7. Demystifying the book '12 Rules For Life'
8. Beyond Order (12 more rules for life) by Jordan Peterson
9. The Body Keeps The Score (Bessel van red Kolk) Summary
10. I'm ok, you're ok (Thomas Harris, 2004 ed.) - Summary
11. Teach your child how to think (Edward de Bono) - Summary [Tags: Psychology, Creativity]

Buddhism

1. Why Buddhism is True (by Robert Wright)
   • Taking the Red Pill (Ch 1-3)
   • Bliss, Ecstasy, and More Important Reasons to Meditate (Ch 4-6)
   • The Mental Modules That Run Your Life (Ch 7-9)
2. Why We Meditate: The Science And Practice of Clarity and Compassion (by Daniel Goleman and Tsoknyi Rinpoche)
   • Chapter 1: What this book (Why We Meditate) offers you
   • Chapter 2: Drop it (from the book 'Why we meditate')
   • Chapter 3: Belly Breathing (from the book 'Why we meditate')
3. Think Like a Monk (by Jay Shetty)
   
   • Chapter 1: I am what I think I am
   • Chapter 2: Negativity. The Evil King Goes Hungry.
4. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (Book Summary)
5. Resilience and Wabi-Sabi (Ch 9 from the book Ikigai)

Goal Setting

1. Goals (by Brian Tracy)
   • Unlock Your Potential (CH 1)
2. Atomic Habits (By James Clear)
   • Chapter 1: The Surprising Power of Atomic Habits
   • Chapter 2: How Your Habits Shape Your Identity (and Vice Versa)
   • Chapter 3: How to Build Better Habits in 4 Simple Steps
   • Chapter 4: The Habits Scorecard
3. The One Thing (by Gary Keller) - 15 minutes long summary
4. CH1: Unlock Your Potential (Summary from 'Goals' by Brian Tracy)

Building Relationships

1. Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus (by John Gray)
   • CH2: Are You Speaking Your Partner's Language?
2. Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work (John Gottman) - Book Summary

Clear Thinking

1. Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
   • CH1-2: Mental Mishaps

Non-fiction

1. Think Faster, Talk Smarter (Matt Abrahams)
   • CH1: Tame The Anxiety Beast
   • CH2: Maximize Mediocrity
2. How to stop worrying and start living (Dale Carnegie)
3. The Journey (Tarun Deep Singh, Genre: Philosophy) - Book Summary
4. You Are a Badass. How to stop doubting your greatness and start living an awesome life (Jen Sincero, 2013)
5. Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck. A counter intuitive approach to living a good life. (Mark Manson, 2016)
6. The Top 200 Secrets of Success and the Pillars of Self-Mastery (Robin Sharma)
7. Stories from 'How Not to be Wrong' by Jordan Ellenberg

Fiction

1. The White Tiger (by Aravind Adiga) - Highlights
2. A Game of Thrones (by George RR Martin) - book review
3. The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy) - Highlights
4. One flew over the cuckoo's nest (by Ken Kesey) - Highlights
5. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) - Highlights
6. Sense and Sensibility (by Jane Austen) - Highlights

Books

Negotiation

1. Negotiating the Impossible (Deepak Malhotra, 2016)
   • Chapter 1: Power of Framing
   • Chapter 2: Leveraging The Power of Framing (Summary)
2. Thanks for the Feedback. The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well (Douglas Stone)
   Chapter 7: Learn how wiring and temperament affects your story
   
3. Pre Suasion. A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini
   • Chapter 3: The Importance of Attention... is Importance
     And a story about US' War Propaganda During Iraq War.
   • Chapter 4: What's focal is causal (And a story about false confessions)
4. "3-D Negotiation" by James Sebenius
   Chapter 1: Negotiate in Three Dimensions
5. "Bargaining with the Devil" by Robert Mnookin
   
   • Chapter 1: Avoiding Common Traps While Thinking to Negotiate
   • Questions to ask yourself while entering a conflict (From Chapter 2)
   • Chapter 3: Story of Natan Sharansky
   • Ch 4: Rudolf Kasztner (Bargaining with the Nazis)
   • Ch 5: May 1940 — Should Churchill Negotiate With Hitler?
   • Ch 7: Business Devils & Giant Software Wars - IBM vs. Fujitsu

Emotional Intelligence

1. The Cost of Emotional Illiteracy (And a lesson about Depression)
   Book: Emotional Intelligence - Why it Can Matter More Than IQ (Daniel Goleman, 2009)

Psychology

1. The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog (Bruce Perry)
   • Chapter 1: Tina's World
   • Chapter 2: For your own good
   • Chapter 3: Stairway to Heaven
   • Chapter 5: The Coldest Heart (Study about snowball effect)
   • Chapter 6.2: Mother's Touch
2. 12 Rules for Life - An Antidote to Chaos (Jordan B. Peterson, 2018)
   
   • Rule 1: Stand up straight with your shoulders back
   • Rule 2: Treat Yourself Like Someone You Are Responsible For Helping
   • Rule 3: Make friends with people who want the best for you
   • Rule 4: Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today
3. Beyond Order. 12 More Rules for Life (Jordan B. Peterson, 2021)
   Rule 6: Abandon Ideology
4. Book: The Body Keeps the score, vessel van red Kolk, 2022
   • Chapter 1: Lessons From Vietnam Veterans
   • Chapter 2: Revolutions in understanding mind and brain
   • Chapter 5: Body-Brain Connections
   • Chapter 6: Losing your body, losing your self
   • Chapter 7: Getting on the same wavelength: Attachment and Attunement
5. Book: Anxiety and Phobia Workbook (6e, Edmund Bourne)
   Chapter 17: Medications for Anxiety
6. Book: "Maps of Meaning" by Jordan Peterson
   
   • Preface: Descensus ad inferos (Descended into hell)
   • Chapter 1: Maps of Experience

Business Self-Help

1. Business Adventures. Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street-Open Road Media (2014, John Brooks)
   • Chapter 1: The Fluctuation (of Stock Markets in 1962)
   • Chapter 2: The Fate of the Edsel (A Cautionary Tale in Business)
   • Chapter 3: The Federal Income Tax
   • Chapter 5: The fast and incredible rise of Xerox and the subsequent fall in Oct 1966
2. Steve Jobs (by Walter Isaacson)
   • Chapter 8: Xerox, Lisa and Graphical User Interfaces (Dec 1979)
3. Generative AI: How ChatGPT and Other AI Tools Will Revolutionize Business (by Tom Taulli)
   • Ch 9: The Future With Generative AI. Utopia? Dystopia? Something in Between?

Fiction

1. The White Tiger (by Aravind Adiga)
   
   • Chapter 1 - The First Night (The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga)
   • Chapter 2 - The Second Night (The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga)
   • Chapter 4 - The Fourth Night (From the book 'The White Tiger')

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