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Chap 6: biggest takeaway is the power of my desire in the way I pray, focusing on the fulfillment of my desire or goal now will lead to an experience of my joy of my answered prayers.

Chap 5 - biggest takeaways were the impact and powers of how praying for loved ones who are not physically in your presence and how things are manifested in their lives. Also how important it is to give the subconscious mind something good to work on as I sleep by repeating words of prosperity, peace, wealth and health outwardly prior to going into a slumber.

Chapter 4- huge emphasis on the power and concept of faith and how that is the only healing process , and the subconscious mind is the only healing agent! Planting seeds in your mind about positivity or goals in which I am to obtain will eventually manifest through faith and feeding those thoughts to my subconscious.

Chapter 3- dope comparisons drawn to how the subconscious mind directly flows throughout the biological make up of humans. The way in which we think about our heath and or the way in which we manage stress, worry, and anxiety has a direct impact on the status of our health. E.g,: a lot of stress stemming from thoughts can lead to high blood pressure, ulcers,etc. Our conscious thoughts even impact us in our sleep!

Man, so enlightening. Really puts an emphasis on how your conscious thoughts and mind feeds directly into your subconscious where those thoughts are essentially soaked up and revealed into all components of your life. The goal is to train your conscious mind to think positively through activities like prayer and affirmations, forcing your sub conscious to move in that direction.

So many gems in the start of this book that I feel can be applicable to my life and my family. I can tell it going to be one of those reads where I’m highlighting and documenting my takeaways to reference in the future

- the law of life is belief, belief is summed up as a thought in your mind
- unite mentally and emotionally with the good you wish to embody, and the powers of your subconscious will respond accordingly

Just the intro talking about Joseph Murphys journey to many different forms of religious/spiritual organizations and how they formed some of the methodologies that influenced and inspired the creation of this book.

Man how empowering this story and last chapter was. During the initial era of software development, it was common in practice for software to be stolen, copied, and used for free. Bill, Paul, Ric, and their team had to devise a plan and approach to make software hobbyists understand the ethical concerns of software, where it’s headed, and how they can contribute either with dev support or money.

Summary about bill gates, his childhood friend Paul, and Harvard classmate Monte worked together to develop a program called BASIC that would be the origin of how Micro-Soft was created. Also found it interesting how so many of his Harvard professors were upset with the amount of time he spent in the Aiken computer lab to build the program.

Update: Deep dive into Bills college tenure as a freshman, how he placed into an accelerated MAT course and continues working on programming skills. I like how he utilized the methodology of applying to several full time jobs as a freshman in the software field, just to see if he could land the jobs. I’m sure that helped sharpen his focus in terms of where he needed to up-skill within software engineering.

Source Code has been interesting, starts slowly by focusing on Bill Gates’s upbringing, family life, schooling, and his struggles with academics, social belonging, and extracurricular activities.

The book shifts to his early exposure to computers and the development of his passion for programming, finding bugs, built a payroll program, and hands on experience through small companies and his school, Lakeside.