My Highlights of The Path Between The Seas by David McCullough Read on Amazon The biggest undertaking of all time The Panama Canal always had a special place in my heart. I grew up in Panama. When I was in school, we visited the Canal every year. At that time, I did not appreciate the canal’s importance. I thought every country had its canal equivalent, that […]
My Highlights from Million Dollar Weekend by Noah Kagan “If you believe your product or service can fulfill a true need, it’s your moral obligation to sell it.—Zig Ziglar” Read more on Amazon The reason most people don’t start a business When I was 18 my dad bought hundreds of golden masks from China. The mask was supposed to moisturize and rejuvenate your facial […]
My Highlights of Psycho-Cybernetics by Dr. Maxwell Maltz One of the most pleasant thoughts to any human being is the thought that he is needed, that he is important enough and competent enough to help and add to the happiness of some other human being. Read More on Amazon When I wear a suit I feel different. My body is still the same, […]
Lo más destacado de La Breve y Maravillosa Vida de Oscar Wao Leer en Amazon Junot Diaz nos cuenta la historia de 3 generaciones de una familia dominicana que se muda a Nueva Jersey para escapar del terror de la dictadura de Rafael Trujillo. Pero intercambiar las palmeras y el trópico por el inglés y el frío no resuelven sus problemas, es más, la maldición que corre […]
My Highlights of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki by Haruki Murakami Read more on Amazon The premise of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki is irresistible. Tsukuru’s highschool group of friends suddenly cut him off for no apparent reason. In his late 30s, he decides to find out why. I rarely buy a book on impulse, but this time, curiosity took the best of me. Being exiled from the […]
My highlights of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Read More on Amazon Twenty-three hundred years ago Aristotle concluded that, more than anything else, men and women seek happiness. There are many ways we have sought happiness since Aristotle was around. And in many ways, we have been seeking in the wrong places. Flow intends to show us the right places. According to […]
My Highlights of A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway Read More on Amazon A novel about an American who volunteers as an ambulance driver in Italy during WW1 and falls in love with a British nurse. I am very disappointed by A Farewell To Arms. In the description on the back cover it says “It’s a novel of great power”, that Hemingway’s description of […]
My Highlights of the Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer You can get the book here. The Forgotten Soldier is the terrifying memoir of Guy Sajer, a Frenchman who fought for Germany in WW2. He describes the brutality of the Eastern Front — the fear, hunger, cold, and constant onslaught of the enemy that he endured during years of fighting. The book also tells a […]
My Highlights of Island by Aldous Huxley Read More on Amazon “Nice comfortable people just don’t have any idea what the world is like.” Will Farnaby is a cynical, depressed, neurotic but witty journalist who works for a rich man he despises (the average westerner, basically). His worldview changes drastically when he is shipwrecked on the forbidden island of Pala. According to […]
My Highlights of Zorba The Greek Read More on Amazon “While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise – sometimes with astonishment – how happy we had been. But on this Cretan coast I was experiencing happiness and knew I was happy.” […]
