Priyanka Gupta

“The premise of this book is that doing well with money has a little to do with how smart you are and a lot to do with how you behave.” “Financial success is not a hard science. It’s a soft skill, where how you behave is more important than what you know. I call this soft skill the psychology of money.” “The aim of this book is to use short stories to convince you that soft skills are more important than the technical side of money.” “We think about and are taught about money in ways that are too much like physics (with rules and laws) and not enough like psychology (with emotions and nuance).” “Physics isn’t controversial. It’s guided by laws. Finance is different. It’s guided by people’s behaviors.“

This book could have been a LOT BETTER had the author dropped the “fable approach”, and just presented his ideas in a straightforward manner. Over all a 2.5 star read

This book was just alright. I was slightly disappointed as I have had this book recommended to me by countless people so I had higher expectations from this book. I’ve started reading this book with great expectations. But while reading, I see that it was repeating itself. It is needlessly long, and telling the same things over and over again. I felt it could have been summarized to a quarter of its size easily, and the core of the book is “change your paradigm”. If you want to read this book, just find a summary and read it. It will be enough to learn the concept of this book.

All the Light We Cannot See is haunting. That’s how I would describe it. From the chillingly beautiful prose, to the realization of what the title actually means: that underneath the surface of history, there is light – and stories – that have not been seen; that have gone untold. Scientifically, we only see a small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum; historically, we only see a small portion of the story. My Rating : 5/5