The Power of Fifty Bits

This book was a little interesting but much of it was just lifted from books I already read.......more

Disappointing The entire book can be summed up in the first chapter. All succeeding chapters are more or less fillers. What I find most annoying is the author's habit of setting up examples to support his topic sentence then later on throwing them under the bus for being weak (e.g. Obama, Hilary, McCa......more

A quick read (or in my case listen) addressing what we already (or should) know. Gives good food for thought and insights on how to avoid being one of the many sheep of today's society.......more

If a book is about a topic of interest to me, I’ll probably pick it up. If the book is based on science and research, but written by a practitioner, I’ll start reading it. If the writing is clear, includes stories and real world examples, I’ll likely keep reading. If within the first ten pages it ha......more

Most people have good intentions, but very few are able to execute. In his book, Bob Nease defines how the human brain can process about 50 bits a second and much of our bandwidth taken up by processing short-term decision and basic survival issues. Making the hard decisions, moving out of our comfo......more