THE SUNDAY SUMMARY #40

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Welcome to The Sunday Summary, a weekly newsletter where I share a quick book summary with actionable lessons, Book recommendations, Reading tips, New Concepts, and one life-changing Quote to help you build a healthy, wealthy life.

👋🏻 Hey Everyone,

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📕 Book Summary

This week's book is “Get Epic Shit Done” by Ankur Warikoo

Often in our lives, we all have questions revolving in our minds and want someone to answer them. We look for someone who can help us to make better decisions, to help us navigate through life, and live life happily.

Written as a conversation between a student and a teacher, where a student asks a life question, and Warikoo as a teacher gives a beautiful answer through his own experience of life.

Divided into 4 parts, Get Epic Shit Done answers 36 Life questions that we face every day, questions that we were always looking to find answers to, Like how to manage my time, How to make tough decisions in life, how to build a growth mindset, how to grow in your career, how to Deal with relationships and many more questions.

A beautifully written book that you can refer to whenever you want to get an answer to your doubts. written in an easy-to-understand way, and the questions you can easily relate to, the book can be seen as a little life manual. I will say that the answers shared by Warikoo can give you a new perspective to see your life and can inspire you and help you find your own true path.

Overall the Book is an amazing read and I would definitely recommend you give it a read. If DO EPIC SHIT (his first book) made you think, GET EPIC SHIT DONE will definitely make you act.

Check out some of the amazing insights from the book

Here are 7 valuable insights from the book

1. You won’t feel the same tomorrow: The Emotions that we humans go through are not permanent. What we feel today. we will not feel tomorrow. However, what we feel today, can either make us depressed or induce us to take action.

2. The Worst Use of Your Time: The Worst use of your precious time is comparing yourself with others.

3. Ask Difficult Questions: Once you have figured out which decision to take, imagine the worst-case scenario when you make the decision. Before you decide on the answer, ask yourself if you have asked all the difficult questions.

4. The game of guilt: The difference between the successful and the self-critical ones is that the successful ones manage what they could be doing better by taking better actions, instead of playing the game of guilt.

5. The Reading Quest: Reading replaces mindless entertainment with learning and eventually leads to enlightenment. The Quest should not be to read as many books as possible. The Quest should be to absorb as much from them as possible.

6. Get what you want: You will get what you want in your life. when you take the actions in your life, not when you compare your life to someone else’s, and take no action because your heart is filled with envy instead of encouragement.

7. Learn to say NO: You are worried to say no because you care what people may think of you. The reality is, that a lot of us are raised in an environment where saying yes is a reflection of capability and saying no is a reflection of lack of intent.

Actionable Advice:

Here are 3 Actions you can start taking from these insights:

1. Stop Comparing: Everyone is unique and have their own strength and weaknesses. Stop comparing your life with others, and start working on your own self.

2. Take Actions: Instead of feeling guilty about not achieving success in your life, start taking action. Get yourself to work. Dream big and take action to fulfill them.

3. Say No: Start saying No to the toxic people in your life, to unhealthy food, to people distracting you from your goals. Learn to say NO.

📚 Recommendations

5 books to help you become emotionally Strong

1. Daring Greatly

2. Primal Leadership

3. Emotional Intelligence

4. Master Your Emotions

5. 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do

⚡️ Reading Tip

Declutter your Mind & Reading Space

Declutter your mind before reading.

Whenever you get any thoughts just write them down on a piece of paper and return back to your reading.

Also If you read in a cluttered environment, you won’t be able to focus on your reading and will be prone to getting distracted. Organizing your reading environment will help you focus more and read peacefully.

👨🏻‍🏫 Book I’m reading this week

Still Reading:

1. I am reading “Focus on What Matters” by Darius Foroux. Amazing book with timeless stoic lessons for life.

🎉 New Addition

I just received a new book in the past week i.e. Focus on What Matters by Darius Foroux

This book is a collection of 70 letters/essays about different aspects of life, from happiness, wealth, and health to our relationships with others and ourselves.

The review will be shared soon on my Instagram page @readermentality

🎉 New Concept To learn

Welcome to my favourite section in our newsletter where I share a new concept every week to learn something new and improve our lives.

This Week’s concept is the Carlson’s Law of Productivity

Carlson’s law is also called the “Law of homogeneous sequences,” which states that interrupted work will be less effective and will take more time than if it were completed in a continuous manner.

Carlson’s law emphasizes on focusing one task at a time for an extended period yields overall better results than constantly switching back and forth between tasks.

Because of the inevitable delays required to get back to effective work after each interruption, the entire task’s duration will be longer.

For example:

For example, Sometimes when we are doing some kind of work leave it in between, saying that I’ll return to it afterward. Then it takes more time to complete that same work.

Students can use this Law to increase their productivity 

To apply this law, students can: 

• Avoid multitasking

• Start a task, and finish it before passing it on to the next one

• Isolate themselves to limit distraction

• Focus on one task at a time

• Reduce distractions as much as possible

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🔥 Quote

I hope you find these tips and insights helpful in your reading journey.

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Stay Awesome & happy reading!

Kamalpreet Singh 👋🏻