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No original ideas

Revisado: 05-12-23

For the whole book, the author just quoted other authors and loosely rephrased their work.

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Interesting stories, but mostly common sense advice

Revisado: 02-18-23

It is an interesting story of the life experience of a person who gained it both through personal experience and also through his profession which allowed him to view the world through the eyes of others, especially those who have encountered hardships in their life.
Sadly, once reading the book you will likely find that it contains a lot of common sense explanations.
This book is favorited by those who need guidance in their life - young people who didn’t receive proper guidance in their life so far, or people who have been dealt hardships in their life and are looking for a way to persevere through them.
So, unless you belong to those groups, you will most likely not learn anything new from this book and find it to be teaching common sense.

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Not original

Revisado: 02-08-23

For a book called “Originals”, the thoughts and ideas presented in this book were surprisingly unoriginal. The author explained ideas already mentioned by other authors, and presented what seemed to be cherrypicked anecdotes to make questionable conclusions.

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Fascinating story

Revisado: 02-07-23

Fascinating story of the chess grandmaster who marked the end of human vs AI battle

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Reverse-engineer your goal and provide context to your team

Revisado: 01-20-23

Could’ve been a blog article or linkedin post. Even though the book was short, it still was filled with common sense fillers.

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Business advice with specific examples

Revisado: 01-03-23

The author offers specific examples from personal experience for solving some common issues that arise in companies when leading teams. As promised in the beginning of the book, it managed to deliver both breadth (which may be repetitive to most great advice on business and strategy mentioned in other books) and depth (specific examples from personal experience).

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Good but repeated business advice packaged for small business

Revisado: 01-03-23

Good but repeated business advice packaged for those who want to start a small business.

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Shallow overview of many broad topics

Revisado: 01-01-23

I expected this book to provide an in-depth review of psychological warfare, such as propaganda, media, government, political communication. Instead, it only briefly mentioned these topics, while the majority of the book talked about 1on1 communications with other people. And even these topics were only touched lightly. The book was reminiscent of a collection of Wikipedia articles.

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History from the perspective of the economy

Revisado: 12-30-22

Ray Dalio offers interesting insights by looking at historical data of how political and technological advances, combined with human nature, have influenced the economical cycles of the world’s most powerful countries and empires.
It is reminiscent of Henry Kissinger’s “World Order”, but Ray Dalio looks at how historical events and political turbulences influence our lives from an economic perspective, and also how the economy influences political events as well.

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Focus and high quality

Revisado: 12-28-22

A great book which provides condensed information on how to deliver high quality work through focus, preparation and communication.

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