10 Books I wish I read earlier
These books have had an amazing ROI on my Life, and I'd give these to my grandkids (I don't have any guys, don't worry)
Man. These 10 books I’m about to show you have made a lasting impact on my life. I’m sharing these today, because I truly think these are must-reads.
This list won’t be set in stone. It’ll change over time, as will my opinion. I am going to make a revised list down the line.
Furthermore, I tried to make this list pretty diverse with different types of subjects. I won’t give you 10 books only on personal finance. But If you’d enjoy that, I will gladly make a list like that; I’m not really hard to bargain with.
I want to give a disclaimer. first: If you haven’t read any of these books yet—you’re not at all behind. You’re just in time! :)
I’ll stop rambling on now.
I present you:
10 Books that If I’d read them sooner, I would’ve been Google CEO by now, in no particular order:
#1 Atomic Habits (James Clear)
Subject: Habits (duh)
This books for sure has had the most impact on me, because it made reading a habit. If I didn’t read Atomic Habits—this newsletter would’ve never existed. This is the ‘Habit Bible’ in my opinion.
Shift your perspective on progress;
Learn to create healthy habits;
And, break unhealthy ones!
#2 Start With Why (Simon Sinek)
Subject: Purpose and Leadership
First non-fiction book I’ve ever read, so it has a special place in my heart. It was sort of a kick-starter to take responsibility of my current situation. Always start with ‘Why’ when you begin doing something new, or when you’re wondering why you’re still doing something.
“When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.” - Simon Sinek
#3 Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
Subject: Death and Purpose of Life
This novel explains the true story of a teacher named Morrie.
It’s not an ordinary story, because it depicts his final weeks of his life. Morrie has ALS, and while this terrible illness is eating away at him; he’s remarkably happy. How does he do it?
That’s what you find out in this touching little book!
“Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.” - Morrie
#4 Shoe Dog (Phil Knight)
Subject: Entrepreneurship
I’m a big admirer of shoes, and I have a soft spot for dogs. Me reading this was written in the stars.
Okay, all jokes aside. This book is a biographical masterclass in entrepreneurship by the founder of Nike.
“You are remembered for the rules you break.” -Phil Knight
#5 The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (Eric Jorgenson)
Subject: Happiness, Business, Wealth-building
A compilation of the beautiful wisdom that Naval Ravikant has preached—in book format. What more do you want?
“The three big ones in life are wealth, health, and happiness. We pursue them in that order, but their importance is reverse.” - Naval Ravikant
#6 The Psychology of Money (Morgan Housel)
Subject: Finance (The people side of it)
This book explains the way people handle money perfectly in 19 different short stories. The premise of this book is that financial success is not a hard skill, like most people think. It’s a soft science, where how you behave is more important than what you know. This is the psychology of money.
Getting wealthy is different to staying wealthy;
Everything has a price, but not all prices appear on labels;
Freedom is what you actually want.
#7 Why We Sleep (Matthew Walker)
Subject: Health and Sleep
We all think sleep isn’t a necessity, and that we can hack and bypass it. As rapper Nas beautifully said: “I Never sleep, cause, sleep is the cousin of death.”
After reading this book, I don’t really agree with this statement anymore. I think sleep is the nephew of life. Neglecting our sleep has great consequences on our (mental)health.
Learn why we sleep;
How we sleep;
And, how we improve our sleep
#8 Influence (Robert Cialdini)
Subject: The Psychology of Persuasion
In short, learn how people entice us and persuade us in making decisions we sometimes don’t even want to make.
Made a dedicated post about this book, check it here.
#9 The Obstacle is The way (Ryan Holiday)
Subject: Overcoming adversity
This one is a paradigm shifter. You’ll view your relationship with challenges and hardships in a radically different light after read this.
You want to push yourself more, and failures won’t bother you as much anymore.
"The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." - Marcus Aurelius
#10 Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell)
Subject: The true meaning of success
Thought-provoking, interesting and accessible read on top of that. How I see success is completely different after reading Outliers.
How the successful became successful;
What an outlier is;
How Bill Gates’ success was not only his intelligence;
If you got this far in reading this, I just want to thank you! I truly appreciate it that you’re taking time out of your day to read this.
See you next week!
-Quintin
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