"Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued." -Zig Ziglar-
I have always been fascinated by what I learn in books, audio books, podcasts and industry publications. My life wouldn't be the same if I didn't have the opportunity to always be learning.
This summer I would like to introduce you to a new list of my favorite books. This list features a diverse variety of literature and knowledge to help you grow, learn and develop goals for your personal growth.
The Psychology of Money: by Morgan Housel
Timeless lessons on wealth, greed and happiness.
Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people.
Money: investing, personal finance and business decisions are typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don't make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing and odd incentives are scrambled together.
In The Psychology of Money award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life's most important topics.
1776: by Pulitzer Prize Winner David McCullough
The story of the American Revolution
America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776. This book is interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her rebellious colonial subjects and that placed America’s survival in the hands of George Washington. Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size and color; farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the King’s men, the British commander, William Howe and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known.
Written as a companion work to his celebrated biography of John Adams, David McCullough’s 1776 is another landmark in the literature of American history.
Meditations: by Marcus Aurelius
A timeless guide to Stoic philosophy, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius offers invaluable insights into life, virtue and resilience. This influential work offers a window into the mind of a Stoic philosopher-king as he reflects on the nature of the universe, the meaning of life and the virtues that lead to a fulfilling existence.
Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 AD to 180 AD, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy.
Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement.
This inspirational read is a must-have for anyone seeking personal growth, self-awareness and reflection.
Outwitting The Devil: The Complete Text: by Napoleon Hill
In this reproduction of the complete text of Hill's original manuscript is laid out the exact nature of the power by which the Devil disarms human beings with fear, procrastination, anger and jealousy so that they do not reach their full potential. This is the same power that paralyzed millions of individuals with fear and despondency during the Great Depression and continues to hold people back from their dreams.
Complacency and mediocrity are not the root issue; they are symptoms of deeper ills that we are conditioned by society to accept. But you must open your mind to acquire knowledge and consider facts that might not harmonize with your personal beliefs in order to access a greater truth that will, as Hill said in his original preface, bring harmony out of chaos in this age of frustration and fear.
If you have been the victim of lost courage, weakened enthusiasm, lack of self-discipline and you are demoralized and plagued by fear, anxiety or apathy the seven principles to freedom detailed in this book will help you discover freedom and redemption. You will finally become independent of the causes of failure and misery, break the bonds of destructive habits and unlock the secret of a natural law as significant as the law of gravity so that you can outwit the devil once and for all.
Breath: by James Nestor
A New York Times Bestseller
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020
Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR
No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of this matters if you’re not breathing properly.
There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences.
Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it.
Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance, rejuvenate internal organs, halt snoring, asthma and autoimmune disease and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is.
Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.
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