The ultimate skillset in life is learning how to learn.
Master that and you’ll go far.
Reading for me has been one of the best ways that I keep learning new skills.
There’s a lot of wisdom in great books.
With a good book you are taking someone’s 20 years of hard-earned experience and cramming it into 200 pages.
Here are some of the books that I have read that have changed my life in some way.
Try them out. Read parts of them. If you really like it read the whole thing.
I hope you enjoy.
Life:
- The Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
- How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Haran
- Straight-Line Leadership: Tools for Living with Velocity and Power in Turbulent Times by Dusan Djukich
- Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
Performance:
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
- High Performance Habits by Brendan Burchard
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckeown
- The One Thing by Gary Keller
Creativity:
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
- Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon
Money & Business:
- Profit First by Mike Michalowicz
- The Road Less Stupid by Keith Cunningham (get the hardcover if you can. This is not a book you read through once)
- The Ultimate Blueprint For Insanely Successful Business by Keith Cunningham
Marketing & Advertising:
- Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got by Jay Abraham (Free PDF from abraham.com)
- DotCom Secrets by Russell Brunson
- Made to Stick by Chip & Dan Heath
- No B.S. Direct Marketing: The Ultimate No Holds Barred Kick Butt Take No Prisoners Direct Marketing for Non-Direct Marketing Businesses by Dan S. Kennedy
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
Copywriting: