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Grow into your Goals.

I don't have dreams, I have goals.  - Harvey Specter  GOALS? Why are goals so important? Why does everyone keep talking about goals? Well, Goals help me proudly say- "I know where I am going" Are you the kind of person who likes to drift along and see what happens? OR Do you have a goal which is something you would like to happen in your life and are working towards it? Setting goals is the most significant step and is quite difficult sometimes. But, believing you can accomplish the goal you have set may actually be the hardest part. So I do this thing called "living the result" or "internalising the goal" before you have achieved it. And I do think it plays an important role in motivating you constantly to work towards your goal. Your imagination is what makes the journey towards the goal so beautiful. The Goal should be clear in your mind, not a half hearted wish. You must have belief in yourself and your ability to achiev

Zero To One - The Economics we need to study

This book has made me see the world differently. A new approach to economics with the examples of the modern age- Peter Thiel himself, Elon Musk and of different companies like PayPal, Oracle, Google etc. It has the economics we need to study to understand and survive the coming age of startups. The book starts with the quote: EVERY MOMENT IN BUSINESS happens only once.  The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. The First chapter revolves around this quote about the originality of the idea, which is the whole explanation of the title of the book.  The author believes there are two types of innovation. If you take something that exists and improves upon it, you go from 1 to n. However, if we create something new on the other hand, we go from “0 to 1." This also explains the p