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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)

Biographies / Autobiographies

1. Elon Musk (by Ashlee Vance) - Highlights
2. Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance (15 Minutes Long Summary)
3. 50th Law (by 50 Cent and Robert Greene) - Book Summary
4. Steve Jobs (by Walter Isaacson) - 15 minutes long summary
5. Joe Biden (by Evan Osnos, 2020, Highlights) [Tags: Biography, Politics]
6. 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)

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 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')
2. Think Like a Monk (by Jay Shetty)
   
   • Chapter 1: I am what I think I am
   • Chapter 2: Negativity. The Evil King Goes Hungry.
3. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (Book Summary)

Goal Setting

1. 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
2. The One Thing (by Gary Keller) - 15 minutes long summary

Non-fiction

1. Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work (John Gottman) - Book Summary
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

Book Lists

1. Negotiation Books (Aug 2019)
2. Intimate Relationship Books (Aug 2019)
3. Workplace Politics Books (Sep 2019)
4. Emotional Intelligence Books (Oct 2019)
5. Sense of Humour Books (Nov 2019)
6. Indian Fiction Books (Dec 2019)
7. Fiction Books (Dec 2019)
8. Clinical Psychology Books (May 2020)
9. List of Books on Surveillance (Mar 2021)
10. List of Books on Parenting (Jun 2021)
11. Books on Building Financial IQ (Mar 2023)
12. Books on Freelancing (Oct 2023)
13. Buddhism Books (Oct 2023)
14. Stoicism Books (Nov 2023)
15. Taoism Books (Nov 2023)
16. Personal Development Books (Dec 2023)
17. Books on Goal-Setting (Jan 2024)
18. Books on Japanese Philosophy (7 Life-Affirming Books) (Apr 2024)
19. Books on thinking clearly (May 2024)
20. Books on Journaling (May 2024)

Technology Related

1. Machine Learning Books (Mar 2020)
2. Natural Language Processing Books (April 2020)
3. Anomaly Detection Books (Jul 2020)
4. Time Series Analysis Books (Aug 2020)
5. Sentiment Analysis Books (Aug 2020)
6. Statistics Books (June 2022)
7. PySpark Books (Feb 2023)
8. Math books (Feb 2023)
9. Books on 'Game Development Using JS' (Feb 2023)
10. JavaScript Books (Mar 2023)
11. Books on SEO (Mar 2023)
12. Python Books (Apr 2023)
13. Data Analytics Books (May 2023)
14. Books For Flask - Web Development Using Python (Jun 2023)
15. Generative AI Books (Jul 2023)
16. Deep Learning Books (Oct 2023)
17. Coding Interview Books (Dec 2023)
18. Books on Large Language Models (Mar 2024)

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?

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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