Hello folks, welcome back to the Keep productive YouTube channel in today's video
We're going to be diving into a host of book recommendations for you
They're mainly give me productivity books also some career books and they're some of my favorites
I wanted to give you some recommendations in case you're reading more at home spending more time on that and
Hopefully they'll be helpful for your self development
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Oakley peace so I have ten book recommendations for you today
And the first one is a book by Ryan holiday
If you haven't heard of Ryan holidays, he writes pretty consistently about stoic philosophy
now this book the stillness is key is
Stillness is lucky
the reason I liked it is because what it dances it takes examples of individuals leaders in
situations where they're either not under pressure or looking to take a moral route or
leaving a compass of some kind and
it shows you how
Stoicism philosophy whether they took it or didn't and how that can benefit obviously the outcome
And it's really interesting. It talks about everything from presidents to Lee of big companies and
It's a very interesting read from that perspective
So I really enjoyed this one who had best recommend this for at the moment is for people who are looking to navigate uncertainty
I think obviously is a very uncertain time at the moment and this one definitely helped over at it
maybe two or three months ago now and
Yeah, it definitely helped from that perspective. Okay, so number two and this is 1 by Emma Gannon
it's called the multi - method and I would recommend it more for those who are
Looking to start a digital career
Mainly in sort of creating and also obviously freelancing and wearing lots of different hats what I quite like in this book is Emma
addresses the sort of issue of this sort of new digital era and
especially sort of titling and that's why it's called their multi - method because
It you know
You're when you explain what you do to someone in a digital space and you wear many different hats it can be quite difficult
So you may have to have multiple hyphens
But it's this concept - that you can have
many different skills
they're very in in a lot of different situations and can be quite helpful for your digital career and it tells you how to
approach working less and
Delivering more output and I really enjoyed it. Especially I read it maybe two years ago now, but it's quite good especially because
project keeper directive was a side project then and
some of the learnings and lessons in this book definitely helped it to steer towards more of a
Main job and different take it away my sort of scarcity of doing that because it can naturally be
Strange to do something completely new and go away from a very traditional working world
Okay. So number three is principles by Ray Dalio. I did read this affair while ago. It's a very chunky book
I'm looking to actually reread it on audible again
but what I quite liked about principles is that it touches on principles that Ray Dalio himself has actually
Pulled together from his own personal life finance and obviously working in a fairly big company
So he obviously brings together some great advice now
I think the thing that I took away most was how he
Treats his employees how he approaches those principles in the workplace. And it definitely that's helped me obviously
I'm not running a big team at all
I'm just a one person plus obviously Alice who does the blog the editing and
Definitely helped me some good values and and if I grow out that grow that out even further
I definitely think that will help to grow with those learnings. So number four is
Money a users guide Coralie. Remember the the woman who writes book? I'll include it here. I think it may be law or something and
what she and
Were the reason why I read this book, I'm definitely into personal finance
I really enjoyed recently learned a lot about how pensions work
I'm a bit of a weirdo like interested in how mortgages work and things like that
I like learning the figures and how to actually not beat the system but really take advantage for example
like learning in this book and
also outside of this book with reading that you if you attack your mortgage early on it can definitely take
Hundreds if not hundreds thousand tens of thousands of your interest payments in about thirty years, but it's very interesting
To obviously understand that and go through that but this book is really great
Particularly for people who are looking to start saving also to take advantage
Of the money that they may have saved also
To start learning about how they can take advantage of personal finance. Obviously this situation will win right now. It's pretty stressful
And and obviously you may not have money coming out of your ears in this situation
completely naturally
But I guess learning about personal finance and being able to take that forward for after could potentially help you in the next situation
Obviously that's totally uncertain at this sign
But I definitely think we learning about personal finance can really bolster you believe. This one is mainly for English readers
But there is a lot of reference to
general budgeting and
Personal projections on your finance. Okay. So number five is company of one by Paul Jarvis
I really enjoyed this book this probably the book that I'd say changed the way that I worked over the last five years
The reason it did is because it helped me to embrace and move forward with an approach of a one-person company
Quite literally obviously we've got out who does the blog editing?
But from a perspective of being keeping lean and keeping focused on really things that um can improve your company
Versus necessarily just growing it for growing its sake. This is something that I definitely
Saw a lot of when I was in a start-up spaces
We need to hire lots more people because we need hiring target. We need to raise money
and because this is something that everyone else does but I think those days are over and
I think that these sort of values that Paul talks about and that you can run your company very lean and profitable
versus necessarily raising and waiting for profit to come is
very much a reality coming soon what I like to ban it in this book and I particularly try to pay attention to it is
Taking a skeleton of something like what I do now and looking to improve it
So I'm actually looking to do a very much overview and continue to enhance what I already do instead of necessarily
Adding too many
extra things to it to maybe necessarily make it harder to
Approach the market. So it's very an interesting approach to business and I think it's very good
Even if you're a small to medium-sized company, it doesn't mean you have to fire everyone tomorrow
It's just that sort of mindset that will help you to grow but internally in an effective way
Okay, so number six and this is one that always gets controversial sort of talk around there
It's twelve rules for life by Jordan Peterson. Now. I personally really enjoyed this book. I
Keep I sort of don't really listen to all the other stuff that he talks of how I listened to some of his university lectures
More on the topic of you know more stoicism sort of topics
But I quite liked overalls for life because it approached
Responsibility and I especially think for young men. This book could be quite important for me. I think I had a
small amount of responsibility and it's only just enhanced that
Even the lessons and the sort of fables in it and the the stories in it that teach you about responsibility
And how to really take that on board can really help you to move forward
and embrace any sort of past that you have so I really like
This book I think it's a fantastic read especially
For a lot of people struggling out there and looking to take more responsibility in their life, okay?
So number seven is cheesy. One is fine chap called Aubrey Marcus. I think his name is and
It could own your day own your life and although it's very cheesy title. I found it very interesting
The audiobooks very good obviously reads himself
And it's everything from fitness to health to your so routine and what it quite like about that is it gives you really?
Actionable tips at the end of every chapter on how to go and apply that every single day
It doesn't rush you throughout the book either and it really introduces some really healthy
routines and habits to embrace
I'm actually reading again at the moment because I think they're some of the things that you talks about for example in the mornings trying
To get outside seeing the Sun
starts off your circadian rhythm
Very interesting and I think I'll continue to learn from the book as time goes on
Number eight is a book by Mark Manson. It's called everything is star star star
but it's about the concept of hope and obviously the understanding that you think everything is
Very much in a difficult situation is probably a very relevant book right now, but it talks about how to approach
uncertainty
In a very proactive way and ways to embrace it and take it on board and it's a very interesting
Read so number nine is let my people go
Surfing and this is written by the Patagonia founder. Can't remember his name
But essentially it's a book about how he treats his company also
is actually what I say two layers to it the company side of it if you learning about how to
the best ways to run a company good values and good sort of ways to
Treat people around you including making sure you get that work balanced life, right? But also how to
like how the sort of companies work in terms of clothing and how that industry works and it's definitely
Let him help me take another approach. I think I
definitely was last year travelling for travelling sake and that book definitely has helped me to
Understand whether I should necessarily be traveling as often
but of course, you know, you may need to travel definitely for some reason but naturally
You know for work, it might not be entirely necessary, but very interesting some of the focus on environmental
You know effects and also how they approached
It is super interesting so number 10 and I'll find a recommendation is one called digital minimalism
This is my cow new poor. You don't know who Cal Newport is he wrote a fantastic book called deep work?
It's a classic. It's about how to sort of produce these blocks of time. That might be helpful for working on a project
uninterrupted now the water quite like about digital minimalism is probably a very, you know,
Effective right now. Is it aims to try and take away?
unnecessary use of tools and also bring you back to being more present now, I'm not
100%
You know digital minimalism at all, but I definitely have a lot of factors that I do take away from this book
especially like trying to
Reduce your amount of social media browsing. Definitely recently. I've been on it a lot more
obvious reasons the news Twitter
Just uncertainty in general, but I think this book is probably good maybe even to reread during this period of time because you can understand
Where and how you can be better?
with handling that so folks before we go on reading this one by nearly our
Indestructible. It's called very interesting so far and a lot of
scientific approaches to in being
Distracted did being distracted and also control of your attention, which is very very interesting
So I will be continued to read and probably letting you know when I finished it okey-dokey folks
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But thank you very much to stopping by comment below with your recommendations of books that I should check out
Maybe add to my audible. I think I have a couple of credits in my audible
So do send them over and of course, I'll check them out. But thank you very much folks
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