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Life isn’t fair!

Would you like to keep believing success is only about hard work and hustle?

This month, we dig into The Unfair Advantage: How You Already Have What It Takes to Succeed, a thought-provoking and empowering read by Ash Ali and Hasan Kubba. This book challenges the meritocratic myth that success is purely a result of effort and instead shows how leveraging your unique background, experiences, and traits can become your biggest edge.

This book is a guide to uncovering the hidden strengths you already possess and turning them into the drivers of your personal and professional growth. As highlighted on Goodreads below:

This innovative book shows how to identify your own unfair advantages and apply them to any project. Drawing on over two decades of hands-on experience, including as the first Marketing Director of Just Eat, the authors offer a unique framework for assessing your external circumstances in addition to your internal strengths.

Hard work and grit aren't enough, so this book explores the importance of money, intelligence, location, education, expertise, status and luck in the journey to success.

From starting your company, to gaining traction, raising funds and growth hacking, The Unfair Advantage helps you look at yourself and find the ingredients you didn't realise you already had, to succeed in the cut-throat world of business.

We all have unfair advantages in life, whether we happen to be quick, have a talent for maths, a great feel for people. An unfair advantage is simply the element that gives you an edge over your competition.

Would you like to keep chasing productivity only to feel more overwhelmed and unfulfilled?

This month, we take a reflective turn with Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman—a refreshing, philosophical, and surprisingly funny take on time management. With the average human life amounting to just over four thousand weeks, this book invites us to rethink how we spend our most precious resource. It challenges the modern obsession with efficiency and offers a more grounded, meaningful way to relate to time.

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The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks.

Nobody needs to be told there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and ceaseless battle against distraction; we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient and life hacks to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks.

Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern obsession with “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing that many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we could do things differently.