How I’m Getting More Done, by Doing Less.
We all know it’s true, that we can get more of an impact if we focus our energies on fewer tasks. An example I’ve quoted often on the power of focus is the analogy of…
Tag: Book Reviews
A short Review of the 9 Personality Development Books I’ve read in 2009
Reading…it’s one of the the greatest, most pleasurable, highly blissful indulgences that this ephemeral existence has to offer. Other than Coffee (and Chocolate ofcourse). Sometime back I gave myself a schedule to spend an hour…
A few Quotes from Tuesday’s with Morrie
I read this bestseller quite some time back, after Ali informed me that it’s audiobook has been quite a hit on iTunes. Although not a spiritual classic and not a book that I would strongly…
Page after Page – Review of a Book on Writing
Have you every come across a book that was so good that you actually felt like kissing it? And then actually did so? If you are a writer, Page after Page can get you dangerously…
The Zurich Axioms – A Book Review
The Zurich Axioms has an interesting preamble. Switzerland. A country that’s landlocked by mountains. It has no agricultural, mineral or any other natural resource of any kind. Yet is one of the richest countries in…
Book Review: Man’s Search for Meaning.
One of the more meaningful books I have read in the recent past is Viktor E Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning. The book is a mere 165 pages long, but has sold over several million…
Naked Economics- a Book Review & a Great Election TV ad
Ever since the beginning of the Economic Crises, I’ve been gobbling up every editorial, analysis, documentary and book on it, trying to understand in as plain words as possible what exactly is going on. It’s…
Keep track of Web Links that we find fascinating and Books that we’re currently engrossed with.
The Arif & Ali blog is now on Twitter and AllConsuming.net. What’s Twitter? Twitter is this wonderful service to help stay in touch with friends no matter where you are by sending status updates of…
War of Art (Book review): My most effective weapon against Procrastination.
There are just a handful of books that I can say have dramatically changed my life for the better. War of Art by Steven Pressfield sits way high on that list. It is an outstanding…
50 Spiritual Classics – A Book Review
Why would anyone want anybody to read 50 spiritual classics? 1. If you’re ever plagued like questions like, Where have we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? This book would not…