The Gap and The Gain by Benjamin Hardy, Dan Sullivan

"I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The lesson, although simple, is quite profound. I started to look at how this could be applied in one area of my life and then quickly realized that the lesson learned in measuring the gain greatly impacts all the areas of my life. The journal prompts were a big help in how to dig deeper and the action steps were easy to implement. I cannot highly recommend this book enough......" "This book has been expanded from the original book written by Dan in 2017 (which I have also purchased). Benjamin Hardy adds his own spin, psychology, philosophy, stories and more to Dan's original book and idea. Benjamin has transcended original idea from Dan. If you like this book, I would also recommend buying Dan's original book of the same title written in 2017 without Benjamin (It is available in Strategic Coach's online store). The original book is much shorter and gets straight to the point. Dan Sullivan originally shares a strategy for measuring your progress and achievements in a way that will keep you positive, motivated, and happy. Also, building your progress and happiness entirely on how your brain works for you. And Benjamin took Dan's original idea to a totally different level. It talks about staying away from the Gap and transform yourself into a gain in any situation. The biggest takeaway from the book is how Benjamin does 1 hour before he goes to bed and what he does when he wakes up. I will not reveal what it is. So, you have to read the book in order to find out what it is. I like the way Benjamin writes about concepts, needs, wants, success criteria, mental methods - very clever! This shows he's a great psychologist! This book is good not only for Entrepreneurs and but High Achievers and non-Entrepreneurs as well....."

'행복'에 대한 이야기다. 어떻게 하면 행복하고 충실한 삶을 살 수 있는지 'GAIN'과 'GAP'이라는 이론을 통해서 설명해 주는 책이다. 이런 종류의 책들이 많은 거 보면 '행복'해진다는 것이 쉽지 않은 테마인 거 같다. 지금까지 읽은 이런 주제의 책들 중에서 이 책이 가장 SIMPLE, SHORT, CLEAR, PRACTICAL 한 내용을 다루고 있는 거 같다. 즐겁고 의미 있는 독서 시간이었고 문장이나 표현들이 평이하고 읽기에 쉬워서 진도가 잘 나가는 책이었다. 

-- Ideals are not for measuring yourself against .....always measure backward. 'Measuring backward' means you measure your progress based on where you were before ...

-- "Who controls the past controls the future ; who controls the present controls the past" from George Orwell, 1984

-- "Your past is just a story. And once you realize this, it has no power over you" from Chuck Palahnuk

-- As Einstein is credited with saying : "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results."

-- My experience is what I agree to attend to

-- As Thomas Edison said, "Never go to bed without a request to your subconscious."

--  Psychologists call memory a "reconstruction," because it is always reconstructed based on your present views, which influence how you see and perceive past events.

-- You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect then looking backwards."

-- By imagining that the important things and people in your life don't exist, you can genuinely start to appreciate what you have. 

-- "Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes."

-- "Comaprison is the thief of joy" from Theodore Roosevelt

-- No one's life is without serious problems, but you still have a choice on how you see them.....

-- A fundamental aspect of being in the GAIN is to live your life in a self-determined way ..... The philosopher Seneca called it euthymia, which means "That you're on the right path and not led astray by the many tracks which cross yours of people who are hopelessly lost."

-- Your happiness as a person is dependent on what you measure yourself against ..... you measure your own GAINS, rather than worrying about other people.

-- Social media is aritculately designed to subconsciously manipulate people's identity, their desires, and their behaviors...

-- ..... public education was actually invented in 1918 to get out of the factories .... the education system was designed to train kids to be "better" and more obedient, productive, and submissive workers in the future ....

-- Erich Fromm defines two types of freedom ; freedom from which is external and freedom to which is internal ...

-- When you are in the GAP, you have an unhealthy attachment to something external.

-- .... happiness is where you start, not where you finish.   

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