19 Incredible Books to Read in 2025

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TLDRThe video summarizes a selection of highly praised books from four categories: productivity, business and entrepreneurship, health and well-being, and fantasy fiction. Recommended readings include classics and recent entries like 'Getting Things Done' for productivity, 'Traction' for business, and 'The Power of Now' for spirituality. Each book is presented with insights into its themes and the impact it has had on the reader's perspective and practices.

Conclusões

  • 📚 'Getting Things Done' is a classic for task organization.
  • 💡 'Rest' emphasizes the importance of downtime for productivity.
  • 🚀 'Traction' is essential reading for businesses with teams.
  • 👥 'The Anxious Generation' explores mental health in Gen Z.
  • 🌱 'Outlive' offers insights on longevity and health.
  • 🌌 Brandon Sanderson's fantasy works are highly recommended.
  • 🔍 'Good Work' encourages living a fulfilling professional life.
  • ⏳ 'The Comfort Crisis' challenges the pursuit of comfort.
  • 📖 'Death by Meeting' critiques inefficient workplace meetings.
  • ✍️ 'Feelgood Productivity' promotes positivity in work.

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  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The speaker discusses their favorite books read this year across four categories: productivity, business, health, and fiction. They start with productivity, recommending 'Getting Things Done' by David Allen for its practical principles on managing tasks, 'Good Work' by Paul Millard for exploring meaningful career paths, 'Rest' by Alex Pang for emphasizing the importance of rest, and 'Slow Productivity' by Cal Newport for advocating quality over quantity in productivity approaches.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Continuing with business and entrepreneurship, the speaker highlights 'Ready, Fire, Aim' by Michael Masterson for its phases of business growth, 'Traction' by Gino Wickman as essential reading for businesses with teams, 'The Goal' by Eliyahu Goldratt for operational management principles through engaging storytelling, and 'Death by Meeting' by Patrick Lencioni for structures to improve business meetings alongside 'Million Dollar Weekend' by Noah Kagan encouraging action in starting a business.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    In the health and well-being category, the speaker recommends 'Outlive' by Peter Attia for a comprehensive approach to longevity and health, 'The Power of Now' by Eckhart Tolle for insights into spirituality, 'The Anxious Generation' by Jonathan Haidt discussing the impact of social media on mental health, and 'Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing' by Jed McKenna for irreverent insights on spiritual journeys, concluding with 'The Comfort Crisis' by Michael Easter which challenges the avoidance of discomfort in life.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:22:13

    Lastly, the speaker shares their fiction picks, including 'The Devotion of Suspect X' by Keigo Higashino, a compelling murder mystery, and several works by Brandon Sanderson, emphasizing his intricate world-building and storytelling in series like Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive. They conclude by encouraging viewers to explore a playlist of previous favorite book recommendations.

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  • What is the first book recommended in the productivity category?

    The first book is 'Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity' by David Allen.

  • Which book focuses on finding meaningful work?

    'Good Work' by Paul Millard discusses finding enjoyable and meaningful work.

  • What does 'Rest' by Alex Su Jun Kim Pang advocate for?

    It encourages the importance of resting more to enhance productivity.

  • What is the main idea of 'The Comfort Crisis' by Michael Easter?

    The book emphasizes embracing discomfort for better personal growth.

  • Which fantasy author does the summary recommend?

    Brandon Sanderson is highly recommended for his engaging fantasy novels.

  • What does 'Traction' by Gino Wickman focus on?

    It serves as a comprehensive operating system for running a business.

  • What is the theme of 'The Anxious Generation' by Jonathan Haidt?

    It discusses the rise of mental illness among Gen Z, attributing it to the impact of social media.

  • What book is recommended for spirituality?

    'The Power of Now' by Eckhart Tolle is recommended for those interested in spirituality.

  • Which book provides a system for capturing and organizing tasks?

    'Getting Things Done' by David Allen provides a comprehensive system.

  • What type of literature is 'Death by Meeting' by Patrick Lencioni?

    It's a business book written in a story format that discusses the inefficiencies of meetings.

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    all right so these are some of the best
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    books that I've read this year across
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    four different categories productivity
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    and performance Business and
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    Entrepreneurship health and well-being
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    and fantasy fiction let's start with
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    productivity all right book number one
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    is getting things done the art of
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    stressfree productivity by David Allen
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    this is an absolute classic in the world
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    of productivity this is a book that I've
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    read about three or four different times
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    and I reread it again this year because
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    life has been pretty hectic this year
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    with like getting married and moving
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    country and trying to grow my business
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    and growing my team and everything and I
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    realized that there were a bunch of
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    fundamentals from this book that I
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    picked up over the years but it really
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    helped having that refresher and the
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    book basically gives you a comprehensive
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    system for capturing and organizing and
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    actually executing on all of the
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    different tasks and projects you need to
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    do to move your life forward I'll be
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    honest it's kind of a boring read it's
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    not that riveting but there's a few
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    really game-changing principles in here
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    that if you read it or you can listen to
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    an audible or whatever if you actually
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    productivity system then I think you'll
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    it's one of those things that the
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    principles you learn from this book
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    you'll genuinely use for the rest of
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    your life book number two is good work
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    by Paul Millard Paul is the author of
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    The pathless Path which is also one of
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    my favorite books and Paul's story is
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    that he quit a prestigious career in
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    management consulting where he was being
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    paid loads of money to kind of pursue
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    his own ambition and what he wanted to
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    do and become a writer where he's making
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    a lot less money if you're like me and
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    maybe you have a job or you had a job at
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    one point and you were a bit like
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    questioning about whether it was the
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    right thing for you and you didn't have
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    many examples of other people who have
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    kind of gone off the beaten path anytime
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    I read these books they just give me
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    more of a sense of permission it's like
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    we shouldn't need permission to explore
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    our own ambition and live our own lives
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    but often the social models we have
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    around us like friends and family and
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    colleagues either consciously or
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    subconsciously encourage us down a
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    particular path and if you're feeling
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    that sense of like H maybe this work
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    that I'm doing isn't really lighting me
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    up in the way that I'd like it to then
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    I'd really recommend reading the
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    pathless path and also this book because
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    it's a way of kind of it it doesn't give
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    you the answers but it gives you
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    questions and interesting prompts and
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    interesting anecdotes from Paul's life
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    and other people's lives around how to
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    answer this question for yourself of how
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    do we find good work how do we find work
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    that's enjoyable and meaningful and
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    sustainable all right book number three
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    is Rest by Alex Su Jun Kim Pang why you
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    get more work done when you work less
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    and the whole Theses of the book really
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    unsurprisingly is that Alex is
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    encouraging us to rest more so if we
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    just go through the table contents we've
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    got the problem of rest and the sence of
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    rest that sort of talks about why
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    resting feels so hard in this
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    capitalistic and hustle kind of society
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    that we live in where there's this
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    constant drve for more and more and more
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    and he also goes into a little bit of
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    the science behind things like the
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    default mode Network and how resting
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    actually stimulates our creativity then
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    there are two parts to the book there is
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    stimulating creativity and sustaining
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    creativity within stimulating creativity
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    we've got 4 hours he talks about the
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    focus for the power of morning routines
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    why walking and napping and stopping for
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    the day is actually a very good thing to
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    do and it sounds kind of obvious and
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    maybe you're watching this thinking I
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    don't need a book to teach me how to
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    rest but if you care about productivity
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    and personal development it is very easy
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    for people like us to get fixated on the
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    work thing and to really underappreciate
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    the rest thing all righty book number
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    four is slow productivity by Cal Newport
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    which is sort of like a productivity
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    and the subtitle here is the Lost Art of
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    actually done a whole video about slow
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    there somewhere and in the book he talks
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    about the three rules of slow
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    productivity so do fewer things at once
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    work at a natural pace and obsess over
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    quality and I really like it because
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    there's a bunch of really inspiring
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    stories and anecdotes from people like
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    Galileo and Isaac Newton and Jane Austin
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    and sort of the knowledge workers from
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    back in the day about how they managed
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    to structure their lives around
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    producing really meaningful output that
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    you know has stood the test of time
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    hundreds of years later but how they did
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    it in a way that wasn't particularly
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    hurried or rushed or busy or all of
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    these sorts of things his point is that
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    most of us are probably not in the
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    situation that Jane Austin was where you
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    could just sort of chill in a cottage
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    for 10 years and just do your writing
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    but the point is that there are things
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    that we can learn from these figures
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    from the Yonder days and how we can
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    apply them to our own fairly busy lives
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    and for me I found that this has been
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    one of the most impactful books that has
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    changed how I personally approach goal
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    setting and task and project management
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    and actually getting things done while
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    we're here a cheeky plug for my own book
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    Feelgood productivity which if you
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    haven't read yet then you might like to
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    it's available everywhere books are sold
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    I think it's a pretty good companion to
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    slow productivity my thesis in Feelgood
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    productivity is that if you want to be
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    more productive more creative less
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    stressed and do work that feels
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    enjoyable and meaningful and sustainable
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    then we got to focus on the positive
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    emotions that the work generates and
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    however boring a task or project might
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    be there are always ways that we can
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    find the fun in it and find a way to
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    enjoy it just a little bit more so you
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    might like to check that out if you
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    haven't yet all right let's now move on
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    to the Business and Entrepreneurship
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    favorite books of this year that I would
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    recommend for you and the first one is
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    ready find aim by Michael Masterson and
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    the subtitle here is0 to $100 million in
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    no time flat obviously that's a little
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    bit of an exaggeration but actually I
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    think the BG does a reasonable job of
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    delivering on that particular promise
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    and basically what he does is that he
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    splits up business entrepreneurship into
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    distinct phases the 0 to $1 million
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    phase the $1 to $10 million a year phase
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    then 10 to 50 and then I think like 50
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    to 100 for me having been through the 0
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    to $1 million a year stage there were a
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    lot of lessons that I learned from
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    reading this that I learned myself
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    through experience and a few that I
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    hadn't quite considered but now in our
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    case our business is between the $1 and
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    $10 million year mark like we do about
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    456 million a year in annual revenue
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    depending on the year fluctuates a
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    little bit and this book gave me some
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    genuinely novel and very useful ideas on
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    how to break that $10 million a year
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    sort of business growth threshold now if
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    some of these books you might find
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    book number two is a book that I have
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    read many many times on Kindle and that
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    is traction by Gino Wickman traction is
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    one of the books I have most recommended
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    to other entrepreneurs running
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    businesses if you have a business that's
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    got at least three people in it then
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    traction I would say is pretty much
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    Essential reading if you have a business
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    that's less than three people in it and
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    maybe you're at an earlier stage or you
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    haven't yet gotten started I probably
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    wouldn't recommend traction because it's
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    not quite for that particular stage of
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    growth but if you do have a business
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    with more than three team members then
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    traction is really really good it is
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    like the ultimate operating system for
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    running a business now in my business
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    we've been kind of going back and forth
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    on like the traction methodology versus
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    not the traction methodology for the
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    last few years and this year I kind of
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    reread the book and I realized that a
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    lot of the mistakes that we've made in
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    business over the last 2 years we could
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    have avoided had we just stuck to the
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    method like you know they've built this
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    method on how to like operate a
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    particular business they built it over
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    decades with like hundreds and hundreds
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    of businesses that are between like
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    three and 100 plus people in size and
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    it's just like really it's just really
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    really good all right book number three
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    is a really old school one called the
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    goal by eliahu gold Rat this is the 30th
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    million copies that is a lot of copies
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    and basically it is about the principles
  • 00:07:38
    of business operations and management
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    which sounds really really boring and
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    probably is boring unless you work in
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    riveting because you can immediately see
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    all of the different ways in which
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    you're screwing up your own business and
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    what I like about this book is that it's
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    not a like textbook or a how-to guide
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    It's actually told in the form of a
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    fable or a story and that's nice because
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    it really helps drive home this idea of
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    theory of constraints which is
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    ridiculously important when you are
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    running a business but it tells it
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    through a story that makes it far more
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    engaging and accessible all right book
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    number four is a book I listened to on
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    Audible and that is death by meeting by
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    Patrick lenion I love the business books
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    by Pat Lencioni they sound like super
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    boring on the surface like death by
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    meeting and the four obsessions of an
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    extraordinary executive and the
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    advantage and things like that but
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    they're really really good they're very
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    accessible very easy to read or listen
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    to and they are also told in the format
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    of a story so you learn in important
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    business Concepts but you don't have to
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    just sort of read or listen to the
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    important business Concepts you listen
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    or you read them in the format of a
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    story of a fable of a business owner and
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    kind of the struggles they're having in
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    their like manufacturing plant or
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    marketing business or whatever the thing
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    is and through the story he introduces
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    the concepts which I think is a super
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    super nice way to learn and this book
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    death by meeting I think is super super
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    interesting and required reading for
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    anyone who either leads or attends
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    meetings as part of your job book number
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    five is million dooll weekend by Noah
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    Kagan the surprisingly simple way to
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    now obviously you're not going to make a
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    s figure business in 48 hours but you
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    can absolutely launch a s figure
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    business in just 48 hours I speak to
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    loads of people who want to start
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    months maybe even a few years maybe even
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    a few decades and you've Pro you're
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    probably waiting for the right idea
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    right because you got to find the right
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    there's all of this procrastination that
  • 00:09:24
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    launching their first thing and what I
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    love about this book is that it's really
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    he really encourages you to take action
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  • 00:09:36
    thrives on just learning lots of stuff
  • 00:09:37
    and never taking action on it then you
  • 00:09:39
    probably won't like this book because it
  • 00:09:40
    will call you out and encourage you to
  • 00:09:41
    take action but if you actually want to
  • 00:09:43
    start a business rather than just
  • 00:09:44
    reading about starting a business
  • 00:09:45
    forever then this book will actually
  • 00:09:47
    help you take action and make it happen
  • 00:09:48
    so would 100% recommend all right number
  • 00:09:50
    six is the audio book for the biography
  • 00:09:52
    of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson this
  • 00:09:55
    book came out many years ago but I
  • 00:09:56
    hadn't read or listened to it until this
  • 00:09:58
    year and when I did I thought it was
  • 00:10:00
    really good it was very compelling very
  • 00:10:01
    interesting read very engaging and
  • 00:10:03
    obviously it's it's not a how to guide
  • 00:10:04
    on how to start a business or anything
  • 00:10:05
    like that but just hearing the stories
  • 00:10:07
    of like the early days of apple and how
  • 00:10:08
    Steve Jobs and Steve bnak operated and
  • 00:10:10
    you know obviously a flawed character in
  • 00:10:12
    many ways but there's a lot I think we
  • 00:10:13
    can learn from Steve Jobs about how to
  • 00:10:15
    do business and also how not to do
  • 00:10:17
    business so if you're interested in
  • 00:10:18
    entrepreneurship or you have a business
  • 00:10:19
    already or you just really like Apple
  • 00:10:21
    products then I think you would really
  • 00:10:22
    enjoy this book all right let's now move
  • 00:10:24
    on to our health and well-being and
  • 00:10:25
    including spirituality category and the
  • 00:10:27
    first book on this list is out live by
  • 00:10:30
    Peter AA the science and art of
  • 00:10:32
    longevity this is an absolutely enormous
  • 00:10:35
    book and it is also really really really
  • 00:10:38
    good I thought like I saw it it arrived
  • 00:10:41
    in the post and I was like who's who's
  • 00:10:43
    got time to read this ship and I didn't
  • 00:10:44
    make the time to read it I actually made
  • 00:10:45
    the time to listen to it on Audible and
  • 00:10:47
    all the way through I was just like damn
  • 00:10:50
    a the information is really good and B
  • 00:10:51
    just the way that he writes it is also
  • 00:10:53
    just really good and really engaging I'm
  • 00:10:55
    going to read this thing at the start in
  • 00:10:56
    his mid-30s prominent longevity expert
  • 00:10:58
    Dr Peter AA was a marathon swimmer
  • 00:11:01
    Crossing ocean passages like the
  • 00:11:02
    Catalina Channel but as he discovered he
  • 00:11:04
    was also surprisingly unhealthy and on
  • 00:11:06
    the path to early death from heart
  • 00:11:08
    disease this knowledge launched him on a
  • 00:11:10
    quest to understand longevity how and
  • 00:11:12
    why we die and how we can delay or even
  • 00:11:14
    prevent the chronic diseases that kill
  • 00:11:16
    most people including heart disease
  • 00:11:18
    cancer Alzheimer's disease and type 2
  • 00:11:20
    diabetes this is not biohacking it's a
  • 00:11:22
    strategic and science-based approach to
  • 00:11:24
    extending lifespan while also improving
  • 00:11:26
    our physical cognitive and emotional
  • 00:11:27
    health Dr aa's aim is less to tell you
  • 00:11:30
    what to do and more to help you learn
  • 00:11:31
    how to think about long-term Health in
  • 00:11:33
    order to create the best plan for you as
  • 00:11:35
    an individual I turned 30 this year and
  • 00:11:37
    got married and my wife is currently
  • 00:11:38
    pregnant with our first child and so
  • 00:11:39
    really for the first time in my life I'm
  • 00:11:41
    starting to think about how to help
  • 00:11:43
    ensure or maximize my chances of living
  • 00:11:46
    a long and crucially healthy life
  • 00:11:49
    because you know especially you know
  • 00:11:50
    being a former doctor as some of you
  • 00:11:52
    might know you know I spent some time
  • 00:11:53
    working in the geriatric medicine Ward
  • 00:11:54
    the care of the elderly Ward and also
  • 00:11:56
    knowing various older family members
  • 00:11:58
    like there are people who age healthily
  • 00:12:01
    and then there are people who age
  • 00:12:02
    unhealthily and the people who age
  • 00:12:04
    unhealthily generally have a way less
  • 00:12:06
    good quality of life than the people who
  • 00:12:07
    age healthily there's not much we can do
  • 00:12:09
    about aging itself at least for now but
  • 00:12:11
    there is a lot that we can do to set
  • 00:12:13
    ourselves up to be able to walk around
  • 00:12:15
    and not get out of breath climbing up
  • 00:12:17
    the stairs and be able to carry the
  • 00:12:18
    shopping baskets and be able to
  • 00:12:20
    potentially even go on a long hike
  • 00:12:22
    without like feeling like we're going to
  • 00:12:23
    collapse all of that kind of stuff is
  • 00:12:26
    the stuff that he touches on in the book
  • 00:12:27
    and if you interested in not just how to
  • 00:12:28
    live longer but also how to live
  • 00:12:29
    healthier as well not just in physical
  • 00:12:31
    health but also in terms of cognitive
  • 00:12:32
    and emotional health I think you will
  • 00:12:34
    get a lot of value from this wonderful
  • 00:12:35
    book book number two we have the Power
  • 00:12:37
    of Now a guide to spiritual
  • 00:12:39
    enlightenment by eart tol this is good
  • 00:12:42
    stuff there's some good in here
  • 00:12:44
    it's Al it's really really hard to
  • 00:12:46
    describe this if you are into
  • 00:12:48
    spirituality then you will get a lot
  • 00:12:49
    from this if you are not yet into
  • 00:12:51
    spirituality then you probably won't um
  • 00:12:55
    but it might be a good gateway drug into
  • 00:12:56
    it back in the day when I wasn't into
  • 00:12:58
    spirituality I tried reading this cuz I
  • 00:12:59
    heard loads of people recommended
  • 00:13:00
    recommending it and I just did not get
  • 00:13:02
    it and then you know I started
  • 00:13:05
    meditating I did an iasa Retreat I got
  • 00:13:08
    more into the spirituality stuff I
  • 00:13:10
    actually preferred as a gateway drug
  • 00:13:13
    books like the surrender experiment by
  • 00:13:14
    Michael Singer and um A New Earth by eot
  • 00:13:17
    tol but then earlier this year I reread
  • 00:13:20
    the power of now and it's sort of like
  • 00:13:22
    the classic in this the classic pop
  • 00:13:24
    spirituality book and all the way
  • 00:13:25
    through I was like okay nice I I I now I
  • 00:13:29
    now get it if you don't get the world of
  • 00:13:31
    spirituality try reading the surrender
  • 00:13:33
    experiment that's usually my first sort
  • 00:13:35
    of gateway drug for people who are sort
  • 00:13:36
    of like me as sort of a bit like high
  • 00:13:38
    achieving e type people the surrender
  • 00:13:40
    experiment is a really good gateway drug
  • 00:13:41
    to make the Journey Into The Power of
  • 00:13:42
    Now we will need to leave our analytical
  • 00:13:44
    mind and its Force created self the ego
  • 00:13:46
    behind from the very first page of this
  • 00:13:48
    extraordinary book we move rapidly into
  • 00:13:50
    a significantly higher altitude where we
  • 00:13:52
    breathe a lighter air we become
  • 00:13:54
    connected to the indestructible essence
  • 00:13:55
    of our being the Eternal everpresent one
  • 00:13:57
    life beyond the Myriad forms of life are
  • 00:13:59
    subject to birth and death I met a guy
  • 00:14:01
    last year who when he was like he was he
  • 00:14:04
    was telling the story of when he was 19
  • 00:14:06
    he was he'd been clinically depressed
  • 00:14:09
    for like 5 years to the point of having
  • 00:14:11
    had multiple suicide attempts and felt
  • 00:14:13
    like he was on the verge of ending his
  • 00:14:14
    life and then a friend of his
  • 00:14:16
    recommended this book The Power of Now
  • 00:14:18
    and he said that reading this book
  • 00:14:20
    literally cured his depression and made
  • 00:14:21
    him realize that life was in fact worth
  • 00:14:22
    living and he hasn't had a suicidal
  • 00:14:24
    thought ever since obviously that is
  • 00:14:25
    just an anecdotal example and obviously
  • 00:14:27
    I'm not saying that if you are depressed
  • 00:14:28
    right now now this book is magically
  • 00:14:29
    going to cure cure your depression or
  • 00:14:31
    whatever but I think it's an interesting
  • 00:14:32
    story it's an interesting anecdote and
  • 00:14:34
    weirdly there's quite a few reviews of
  • 00:14:35
    this book where people have those sorts
  • 00:14:37
    of life-changing experiences I did not
  • 00:14:39
    personally have a life-changing
  • 00:14:40
    experience from reading the book but I
  • 00:14:41
    know at least a handful of people who
  • 00:14:43
    have in various ways including this guy
  • 00:14:44
    who Depression was allegedly magically
  • 00:14:46
    cured by just reading the book so if any
  • 00:14:48
    of that sounds interesting it might be
  • 00:14:49
    worth checking out all right book number
  • 00:14:51
    three is the anxious Generation by
  • 00:14:53
    Jonathan height how the great rewiring
  • 00:14:55
    of childhood is causing an epidemic of
  • 00:14:57
    mental illness
  • 00:14:59
    I absolutely love this book it explain
  • 00:15:02
    like explained a lot of stuff around
  • 00:15:05
    around experiences that I've had and
  • 00:15:06
    experiences that my friends have had I
  • 00:15:07
    was born in 1994 so that technically
  • 00:15:09
    makes me a millennial but I am friends
  • 00:15:11
    with a lot of people in genz who I think
  • 00:15:12
    is 1997 plus and I work with a lot of
  • 00:15:14
    people in who were in genz 1997 plus and
  • 00:15:17
    there really does seem to be this sort
  • 00:15:18
    of epidemic of mental illness in
  • 00:15:20
    particular among genz and that's not
  • 00:15:22
    just um conjecture uh Jonathan height
  • 00:15:24
    sites a BN he's like a sociologist I
  • 00:15:26
    think and he sites a bunch of like
  • 00:15:28
    studies across loads of different
  • 00:15:30
    countries that show that there was this
  • 00:15:31
    sort of massive spikes in reported
  • 00:15:34
    levels of depression anxiety and various
  • 00:15:36
    mental illnesses amongst the people who
  • 00:15:37
    were born after 1997 he argues
  • 00:15:39
    compellingly that this is not just a
  • 00:15:41
    case of mental illness being
  • 00:15:42
    destigmatized that is often a thing
  • 00:15:44
    people say that oh the the reason that
  • 00:15:46
    these kids are anxious is either a well
  • 00:15:48
    the world is falling apart so of course
  • 00:15:50
    they're going to be anxious or secondly
  • 00:15:52
    that hey you know we've destigmatized
  • 00:15:53
    mental illness and therefore you know
  • 00:15:55
    people had mental illness all along they
  • 00:15:56
    just weren't open about it but now jenz
  • 00:15:58
    are more open about it for various
  • 00:15:59
    reasons but on both of those points
  • 00:16:01
    Jonathan height kind of refutes that I
  • 00:16:02
    think in a pretty convincing way and he
  • 00:16:03
    basically argues that this epidemic of
  • 00:16:05
    mental illness can basically be traced
  • 00:16:07
    down to a handful of major things the
  • 00:16:09
    primary culprate being social media and
  • 00:16:11
    the various negative impacts that things
  • 00:16:13
    like Instagram have had on teenage boys
  • 00:16:15
    and girls you know I'm just going to
  • 00:16:16
    read out the summary of the introduction
  • 00:16:17
    cuz I think this is good stuff in some
  • 00:16:19
    between 2010 and 2015 the social lives
  • 00:16:22
    of American teens moved largely onto
  • 00:16:24
    smartphones with continuous access to
  • 00:16:25
    social media online video games and
  • 00:16:27
    other internet-based activities this
  • 00:16:29
    great rewiring of childhood I argue is
  • 00:16:31
    the single largest reason for the tidal
  • 00:16:33
    wave of adolescent mental illness that
  • 00:16:35
    began in the early 20110 the first
  • 00:16:37
    generation of Americans who went through
  • 00:16:39
    puberty with smartphones and the entire
  • 00:16:40
    internet in their hands became more
  • 00:16:42
    anxious depressed self Haring and
  • 00:16:44
    suicidal We Now call that generation gen
  • 00:16:47
    Z in contrast to the millennial
  • 00:16:48
    generation which had largely finished
  • 00:16:50
    puberty when the Great rewiring began in
  • 00:16:53
    2010 the tidal wave of anxiety
  • 00:16:55
    depression and self harm hit girls
  • 00:16:56
    harder than boys and it hit pre-team
  • 00:16:59
    girls hardest of all this increase in
  • 00:17:00
    suffering was not limited to the United
  • 00:17:02
    States the same pattern is seen at
  • 00:17:04
    roughly the same time amongst teens in
  • 00:17:05
    the UK Canada and other major
  • 00:17:07
    anglosphere countries and also in the
  • 00:17:09
    five Nordic Nations feelings of
  • 00:17:11
    alienation in school Rose after 2012
  • 00:17:13
    Across the Western World data is less
  • 00:17:14
    abundant in non-western Nations
  • 00:17:15
    admittedly and the patterns there are
  • 00:17:17
    less clear no other theory has been able
  • 00:17:19
    to explain why rates of anxiety and
  • 00:17:21
    depression surged among Adolescence in
  • 00:17:22
    so many countries at the same time and
  • 00:17:24
    in the same way other factors of course
  • 00:17:26
    contribute to PO mental health but the
  • 00:17:28
    unprecedent rise between 2010 and 2015
  • 00:17:31
    cannot be explained by the global
  • 00:17:32
    financial crisis nor by any set of
  • 00:17:34
    events that happened in the US or in any
  • 00:17:36
    other particular country and there's a
  • 00:17:37
    bunch of super interesting stuff there
  • 00:17:38
    that if you are interested in this topic
  • 00:17:40
    if you know people who are you know
  • 00:17:42
    suffering from mental health issues or
  • 00:17:44
    you have kids or you interact with
  • 00:17:45
    social media in any way shape or form I
  • 00:17:47
    think there's some really really really
  • 00:17:49
    interesting stuff in this book that you
  • 00:17:50
    might like to check out all right book
  • 00:17:51
    number four is a spirituality book by
  • 00:17:53
    Jed McKenna who is a PUD name actually
  • 00:17:55
    uh called spiritual enlightenment the
  • 00:17:56
    damnedest thing I read various books
  • 00:17:58
    about about spirituality and spiritual
  • 00:17:59
    enlightenment and stuff over the years
  • 00:18:01
    have not yet achieved the SP the state
  • 00:18:02
    of spiritual enlightenment unfortunately
  • 00:18:04
    but I thought this was quite a nice at
  • 00:18:07
    least I really liked Jed McKenna's sort
  • 00:18:08
    of teaching style in this book it's very
  • 00:18:10
    irreverent it's very sort of straight
  • 00:18:12
    talking this is probably not the book
  • 00:18:14
    for you if you have never dabbled with
  • 00:18:15
    spirituality but if you have potentially
  • 00:18:17
    read other spiritual literature if
  • 00:18:19
    you've maybe got a yoga or meditation
  • 00:18:20
    practice or you've done gone somewhere
  • 00:18:23
    into this world of spirituality I think
  • 00:18:25
    this I think you would really enjoy this
  • 00:18:26
    book at least I did and would would Rec
  • 00:18:28
    giving it a go in fact here's a nice
  • 00:18:30
    quote from the here in nearly all cases
  • 00:18:31
    the enlightenment being bought and sold
  • 00:18:33
    is not truth realization at all but a
  • 00:18:35
    state of consciousness so crazy ass
  • 00:18:37
    wonderful that you'd have to be an idiot
  • 00:18:38
    to not want it so insidiously wonderful
  • 00:18:41
    in fact that its Radiance has blinded
  • 00:18:43
    Untold millions of seekers to the fact
  • 00:18:44
    that it doesn't exist if that sentence
  • 00:18:46
    means anything to you if you're
  • 00:18:47
    interested in this sort of stuff you
  • 00:18:48
    should read the book you might like it
  • 00:18:50
    for the record my wife absolutely hates
  • 00:18:51
    it she does not like the way that he
  • 00:18:53
    writes or talks in the book I absolutely
  • 00:18:55
    love it because I Vibe with the sort of
  • 00:18:56
    like very kind of aggressive and like
  • 00:18:59
    contrarian tone of it but try it out and
  • 00:19:01
    see if you like it all right book number
  • 00:19:02
    five in this category is the Comfort
  • 00:19:04
    crisis by Michael Easter this is a book
  • 00:19:06
    that I'm still reading but I really like
  • 00:19:08
    it so far and I've taken lots of notes
  • 00:19:10
    and so it's on my list of uh favorite
  • 00:19:12
    things that I've read this year I intend
  • 00:19:14
    to finish it by the end of the year and
  • 00:19:15
    perhaps unsurprisingly the whole thesis
  • 00:19:16
    of the book is that we should embrace
  • 00:19:18
    discomfort seek out discomfort much more
  • 00:19:20
    than we currently do the lives that we
  • 00:19:22
    have including mine like I I felt I felt
  • 00:19:23
    like really called out in this because
  • 00:19:25
    you know my life is just riddled with
  • 00:19:27
    Comfort um everything you know I live in
  • 00:19:29
    an air conditioned apartment live in a
  • 00:19:30
    nice place like I try to avoid
  • 00:19:32
    discomfort wherever possible and this
  • 00:19:33
    book is helping me realize that actually
  • 00:19:35
    this is not necessarily a good way to
  • 00:19:37
    live and it's really entertaining it's
  • 00:19:39
    really engaging he I think he's a
  • 00:19:40
    journalist um yeah he's a journalist so
  • 00:19:42
    he writes really well so it's good book
  • 00:19:44
    would recommend all right finally let's
  • 00:19:46
    move on to the fiction category so this
  • 00:19:47
    year I got a recommendation from a
  • 00:19:49
    friend of mine called Ollie uh for the
  • 00:19:51
    detective Galileo series of Japanese
  • 00:19:53
    murder mystery novels and I read the
  • 00:19:56
    first two books in that series and I'm
  • 00:19:58
    reading the third and they're really
  • 00:20:00
    really really good the first one is
  • 00:20:02
    called the devotion of suspect X I read
  • 00:20:04
    it on Kindle this is a series of murder
  • 00:20:06
    mystery books by Japanese author Keo
  • 00:20:08
    higashino I think this is a translation
  • 00:20:10
    is it a translation I don't know maybe
  • 00:20:13
    maybe not can't remember either way it's
  • 00:20:14
    really good the first book that I read
  • 00:20:15
    in the series is the devotion of suspect
  • 00:20:17
    X which is think of it like a murder
  • 00:20:20
    mystery meets like physics and maths
  • 00:20:24
    like a physics teacher and a maths
  • 00:20:26
    teacher who are both like genuses are
  • 00:20:29
    involved in this like murder mystery
  • 00:20:31
    type situation which is which is good
  • 00:20:33
    like I don't want to say anymore
  • 00:20:35
    cuz like I don't want to give the plot
  • 00:20:37
    away but I've recommended this to so
  • 00:20:38
    many people and people like a couple of
  • 00:20:40
    people have recommended it to have come
  • 00:20:42
    back to me being like holy that was
  • 00:20:43
    a really really really good book and
  • 00:20:44
    secondly of course this year I read a
  • 00:20:46
    bunch of books by Brandon Sanderson who
  • 00:20:47
    is my favorite fiction author of all
  • 00:20:49
    time I read Tres of the emerald sea Yi
  • 00:20:51
    and the nightmare pain painter and the
  • 00:20:53
    sunlit man and I'm currently reading
  • 00:20:54
    wind and Truth which is book five of The
  • 00:20:56
    Stormlight Archive I have literally been
  • 00:20:58
    recommending Brandon Sanderson to
  • 00:21:00
    everyone that I ever meet everyone who
  • 00:21:01
    talks to me to any for any amount of
  • 00:21:03
    time about any kind of book I'm like oh
  • 00:21:05
    my God have you read Brandon Sanderson
  • 00:21:06
    if you have not yet read any of Brandon
  • 00:21:07
    Sanderson stuff I would really recommend
  • 00:21:09
    starting with the final Empire which is
  • 00:21:11
    book one of the mistborn trilogy I made
  • 00:21:13
    a video about this back in like 2017 the
  • 00:21:16
    mistborn series is a good introduction
  • 00:21:18
    to the cosm the world of Brandon
  • 00:21:19
    Sanderson and it's it's cool because
  • 00:21:21
    it's sort of like the Marvel Cinematic
  • 00:21:22
    Universe or at least back in the day
  • 00:21:25
    like pre Avengers endgame where like
  • 00:21:27
    there's all these different character in
  • 00:21:28
    all these different books and they
  • 00:21:30
    they're like all part of the same
  • 00:21:31
    universe and some of them like interact
  • 00:21:32
    with each other and stuff in like really
  • 00:21:34
    cool ways I've been absolutely obsessed
  • 00:21:35
    with Brandon Sanderson for the last like
  • 00:21:37
    8 years now and I don't see that
  • 00:21:39
    changing in the near future so this year
  • 00:21:41
    I was delighted to read four of his
  • 00:21:43
    books and they are just absolutely
  • 00:21:44
    incredible and every time I'm absorbed
  • 00:21:46
    in a book my wife knows when I'm
  • 00:21:47
    absorbed in a book because I will just
  • 00:21:49
    sort of like tune out of everything else
  • 00:21:50
    and just be sort of reading and just be
  • 00:21:52
    like obsessed with this book trying to
  • 00:21:53
    get it try you know trying to finish it
  • 00:21:54
    but also trying to save it at the same
  • 00:21:56
    time cannot speak more highly of books
  • 00:21:58
    by and serson but I'd recommend starting
  • 00:22:00
    with the final Empire all right so those
  • 00:22:02
    are some of my favorites this year but
  • 00:22:03
    I've actually put a playlist together of
  • 00:22:04
    some of my favorite books from previous
  • 00:22:06
    years that you can find over there if
  • 00:22:07
    you are looking for more book
  • 00:22:08
    recommendations thank you so much for
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    watching have a lovely day and I will
  • 00:22:11
    see you in the next video bye-bye
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