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Talent is overrated: what really separates world-class performers from everybody else by Geoffrey Colvin

Talent is overrated: what really separates world-class performers from everybody else by Geoffrey Colvin (2010). This book presents a very simple idea which I like very much: Greatness is not necessarily the result of an innate gift or talent, buy the product of a large number of hours of hard work.  Here I just mention

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Napoleon’s Buttons by Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson

Napoleon’s Buttons by Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson (2004). This book explores the role of chemistry in history. It is a brilliantly written narrative of how several chemical inventions changed the course of history and how the people behind these inventions, sometimes inadvertently, contributed to drive entire nations towards making and sustaining wars and

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