books am i right no as you've probably seen from this channel i love reading
i think it is an absolute power habit to have because it's a way to get off technology off
the screens it's a way to have some new time and a really good way to learn if that's what you're
into in my opinion for a book to be life-changing it needs to be a book that you start and you want
to read slowly you don't want to rush through a book that you don't want to speed read on a book
that you come back to again and again it's not something you read once and put in yourself and
you will never pick up so with that being said let me share with you
my five top life-changing books all of them are going to be linked in the description so you can
buy them and get them tomorrow if you think my recommendations are cute or something my method
for this video is i'm gonna mention the book he wrote it i'm gonna talk about why i liked it and
i'm gonna read a very short passage just to give you an idea of how the book flows book number one
sapiens now this is a very popular book on these kind of videos and that's for a reason
i mean first of all look at the size of that that there has a whole history in one book i think the
offer you will noah hirari i'm hoping i pronounced that right did such a good job of summarizing
the whole history and before this book i didn't really know that much about history i take
classes on french and spanish culture so i guess that takes a big portion of the world
and i know some history in that respect but this here just tells you everything from like the first
homosapien that existed to where we are today and beyond the reason i'm planning this in this video
is because it's such a good way to get a basic understanding of who we are where we came from and
what life was like at different points in history and i guess i could go on forever talking about
how much i love it but we'll leave it here for now my favorite part of the book is when she discusses
like how humans just created stuff like money in companies they're not real but they are
real to us and this is what she's referred to as inter-subjective so if i come around and say money
doesn't exist i'm gonna be blocked away forever because it does to the population of humans but i
mean if you were able to communicate with a dog they would not agree with you that money is an
actual thing it is something humans have created so let me read the passage usual for example
is not the imaginary friend of pedro's ceo the company exists in the shared imagination
of millions of people the ceo believes in the company's existence because the border of
directors also believes in it as do the company's lawyers the secretaries in the nearby office
the tellers in the bank the brokers on the stock exchange and cardiologists from france
to australia if the ceo alone were to stop believing in peugeot's existence
he'd quickly land in the nearest mental hospital and someone else would occupy his office
similarly the dollar the human rights and the united states of america exist in the
shared imagination of billions and no single individual confront their existence if i
alone were to stop leaving in the human dollar in human rights or in the us it wouldn't matter much
and they go on to sort of explain more about this phenomenon
and it's crazy this was the most interesting point of the book for me because i thought yeah like
why did we create money like should i be glad we created it or not this is an absolute must read
book i recommend it moving on number two we have how to win friends and influence people by dale
carnegie this was a recent read of mine i read it this year and this book really prepped me for
being a good employer or even being a good girlfriend being a good daughter to name a few
examples the title is very misleading it kind of sounds like a manipulation like how to influence
people and win friends you know you think that you would want to win friends naturally but that's
what the book is doing it's not actually about manipulating anyone it's about realizing okay
yeah if i want to make friends i need to actually care about them i need to be selfless i need to be
giving and i need to remember their birthdays and i need to ask them how they're doing and this book
just gives you some really good tips for life and how to deal with your friends how to be a
good employee and how to do well in that spectre but it's really about relationships in general
little section i'm going to read here is about appreciation which is a big thing when you think
about relationships with others we nourish the bodies of our children and friends and employees
but how seldom do we nourish their self-esteem we provide them with roast beef and potatoes to build
energy but we neglect to give them kind words of appreciation that would sing in their memories
for years like the music of the morning stars when alfred lunt one of the greatest actors of all time
played the leading role in reunion vienna he said there's nothing i need so much as nourishment for
my self-esteem such a great read and it's very simple to read as well it's very conversational
dale carnegie did a great job next book lol i don't even have it with me so i can't quote her
anything but i'm going to talk about atomic habits by james clear i read this book last year and
i borrowed it off of emilio that's why i don't currently have it with me so
here's a picture of it this book is great because as you can probably tell from the
title it discusses the importance of habits how to make habits easy how to build habits and
for example have a morning routine that works and that gets you up every day it's another book that
was really easy to read but brought me a lot of good information and as i think there's a
huge importance in habits and routines for our mental and physical sex book does a good job of
explaining how to do these things efficiently i'm just going to screen grab a quote from the
internet from this book so voila for book number four this is another popular one for anyone that's
into philosophy or perhaps the roman empire this is called meditations by marcus aurelius
this book is absolutely life-changing one of those books that you want to carry in your bag with you
every day and open a new page and think about it this book is a collection of marcus aurelius the
last of the great roman empire's diary over the space of 10 years and the format of the
book is kind of like little notes to himself that's how i would say or as i guess the title
says meditations to himself so it's not like a storyline that you're reading it's more
good quotes and and lessons for life i'm going to read you my favorite section this is probably
quite well known from book five i'd dawn when you have trouble getting out of bed tell yourself i
have to go to work as a human being what do i have to complain of if i'm not gonna do what i was born
for the things i was brought into the world to do or is this what i was created for to huddle under
the blankets and stay warm but it's nicer here so you were born to feel nice instead of doing things
and experiencing them don't you see the plants the birds the ants and the spiders and bees going
about their individual tasks putting the world in order as best as they can and you're not willing
to do your job as a human being why aren't you running to do what nature demands what a good
motivational quote to get you up in the morning but i really like the way that marcus aurelius has
connected with nature throughout the book and it kind of brought to life my appreciation for nature
to think that this was written two thousand years ago is insane to me because all of the
things he talks about are relevant today and that's another reason why i love philosophy
people think that it's outdated but really it's more relevant than ever when you look at nature
how many of us appreciate nature nowadays and the last one if anyone
as you can tell i just put another picture over i do have i do own this book that i'm going to
mention but i gave it away for someone to read so when it comes back i'll have it it's it was the
enemy by ryan holiday i'm just holding another one of his books for the the feel whilst i talk
everybody has ego everybody's full of themselves everybody thinks the world revolves around them i
talked about it in one of my videos not too long ago but this book really puts it into perspective
and makes you think yeah okay i'm not the center of the world the world doesn't revolve around me
and being selfless is the only way we should live this book is ryan holiday is alive today so this
is not a book from the past it's very modern book very recent ryan holiday takes a lot of
his influence from stoicism like marcus aurelius would but he modernizes it if that makes sense so
i think it's a really good book to get into philosophy specifically the stories system
this book really made me realize just how much i needed to change entitlement
assumes this is mine i have earned it that's another thing the big talks about entitlement
and yeah just everybody in 2021 should read this book to realize that we are all so eager
to stick in this day and we all need to take the time to work on it to become better people
okay thank you so much for watching this video i hope that gave you some good recommendations
if i did let me know in the comments which book you want to order too
and why not why don't you all comment your favorite book down and people can start
to have a little book club in the comments section of this video if you want to stay on
my page here are two more videos i recommend and if not that's okay i hope see you soon
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