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BOOK SUMMARY: ZERO TO ONE

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Zero to one book is written by Peter Thiel . It is one of the best books to any budding entrepreneurs. The book is a collection of notes taken by a student at Stanford University when Mr. Thiel was a professor. In the book author stresses the vitality of creating a creative monopoly. What do you believe in? What do you think is your unfair advantage? What great business that exists today that nobody is building? Copying things usually do not end well. The next great tech entrepreneurs like Bill Gates , Zuckerberg or Sergey Brin will not built the things that already exist. You may think that you may succeed but you are intending towards failure. All happy companies are different. In the famous book Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy , says all happy families are alike, but each unhappy family in unhappy in its own special way. It is opposite in tech companies. Each happy company is unique but all unsuccessful companies have failed to escape competition. Most of the successful companies ...

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1. Smoke and Ashes Author: Amitav Ghosh Publisher: Fourth Estate India Print Length: 408 pages Release Date: 15 July 2023 Price: ₹542.00 (price may vary) Review When Amitav Ghosh began his research for the Ibis Trilogy some twenty years ago, he was startled to find how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote of were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean, but also by a precious commodity carried in enormous quantities on those currents: opium. Most surprising of all was the discovery that his own identity and family history were swept up in the story. Smoke and Ashes is at once a travelogue , a memoir and an excursion into history, both economic and cultural. Ghosh traces the transformative effect the opium trade had on Britain , India and China , as well as on the world at large. Engineered by the British Empire, which exported opium from India to sell in China, the trade and its revenues were essential to the Empire's survival. Up...

CREATIVE WRITING COURSE #2 ASPECTS OF CREATIVE WRITING

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Creative writing essentially consists of four aspects- Content - content is an experience and experience is what we acquire from the life through one’s senses, by observing things that happen. No one can write in a vacuum. He who would have seen life around him in its various situations, happy and sad, harsh and poignant, and he who made mental notes of everything, can write efficiently. It feels to him to write a story with a certain event as its centre, with a particular set of characters and the right elements, which he had once accumulated in his mind and which have in the meanwhile undergone a strange transformation with him, will begin tumbling out of their own accord and take a new life on paper. When one starts writing a story, its element would somewhere resemble the real content. The writing will lack credibility and authenticity if it does not look like real. A well written content should give a reader the feeling that it is real, it should never make him say, oh, how ...

WHY THIS BOOK: ZERO TO ONE

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Zero to one book is written by Peter Theil . This book provides us insights for entrepreneurs and start-ups looking to make an impact in the world. It emphasises that real value lies in creating something new rather following others. It also tells the need for companies to find their own niche market establish a strong culture. Every entrepreneur should think of innovative solutions that go beyond current standards, plan for the long term, focus on growth instead of profit, embrace risk taking and experimentation, and embrace learning as part of the entrepreneurial journey. Every start-up should focus on creating a unique identity that allows them to stand out in the market place. By researching on niche market, companies can become established leaders in their industry by supplying a specialised product or service.   Through this strategy companies not only creates sustainable business opportunities but also helps customer identify with the company brand and products they supp...

CREATIVE WRITING COURSE #1 INTRODUCTION

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Welcome to a course on creative writing . Writing is an art. It is an expression of your creative urge. Through this course people will not only stimulate their creativity but will also cultivate their writing skills . So, let’s start the course with a fundamental question that keeps cropping up the moment one sees the course. Can creative writing be taught? Is it a subject that one can teach? Does it work? I would answer more confidently yes. Some people say that the creative impulse is in born, but certain aspect of creative writing can certainly be taught. The grammar of the language, the building of the climax, the exact place where the ending should come- such technicalities can be taught. Even the creative impulse, the spark can be developed and honed. This will be demonstrated to you as you proceed with the course. Now let’s come to the question. Does it matter? It can be answered differently. If it does not work, there are certain benefits which come to the surface in the ver...

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1. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Author: Gabrielle Zevin Publisher: Vintage Print Length: 496 pages Release Date: 29 June 2023 Price: ₹400.00 (price may vary) Review THE BOOK EVERYONE LOVES: 'I loved this book ' JOJO MOYES 'One of the best books I've ever read' JOHN GREEN 'I devoured it. So enjoyable' ZADIE SMITH This is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love. When Sam catches sight of Sadie at a crowded train station one winter morning he is catapulted back to the brief time they spent playing together as children. Their unique spark is instantly reignited. What comes next is a story of friendship and rivalry, fame and creativity, betrayal and tragedy, perfect worlds and imperfect ones. And, ultimately, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. 'I loved it' CELESTE NG 'The book that everyone should read' PANDORA SYKES , Stylist Live 'One of the few I really like a lot this year' JAME...

INTIMATION FOR STARTING OF CREATIVE WRITING COURSE

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  In the world , everyone is writing something, it may be book , journal , social media post, script, birthday wishes, letter etc. Writing has become an essential part of our life whether we are in office, home or College. In corporate life most of the people are judged by their way of writing an email. Writing impacts our all sphere. Creative writing by definition is a writing which is beyond limits of normal professional, journalistic, academic or technical forms of literature. It is identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development and the use of literature groups. Feature stories are also considered creative writing and it divides in fictional and non-functional. Creative writing by Witty and LaBrant is a composition of any type of writing at anytime primarily in the service of such needs as -the need for keeping records of significant experience, -the need for sharing experience with an interested group and, -the need for free individual expressi...