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I wanted to start with books that I used to read so the books I used to read when I was younger were a lot
Around fiction I've read a lot of fiction around Dan Brown
and some of those sorts of books
And I really did stick to that sort of genre crime and so mystery in a sense
and I didn't really come out of that mainly because
I was in like sort of like I loved the fiction
But now when I think I was like 15 or 16
I jumped straight into nonfiction, and I started really with this first book now
It didn't look like this when I was younger
This is a more updated version the 2015 edition, but I actually read this book
I believe it was on Google Books first, and the book is getting things done by David Allen now
I recommend this book many for people who are looking to implement a process
With their productivity a lot of time when I recommend apps here on the channel
I'm recommending apps because I assume that you know the frameworks of productivity and
This really did help me especially because when I first read the book it was a framework
It was a five-step framework that I would go through to
Clearing out most of my processes and the reason I started doing
This sort of thing is because I was failing in school, and this book actually did help me you set sort of this
Routine into schedule and sort of get organized and get working on stuff
the great thing this really this book really helped with was the
Scaling abilities of it so when I read it I was obviously not doing well in school
And when I read it after that I got into this sort of like
Will I could apply it to the next year and the next year in the next year whatever?
I was doing at university and then freelancing I was applying it to all the different situations
So I would highly recommend reading reading
David Allen's getting things done now during this period of time I also read another book called how to be a Productivity
Ninja, and I believe I read it maybe a couple of years, maybe two or three years after it
but it was a nice addition to
the sort of productivity
Genre this sort of helped with more practical advice so whereas GTD was more like for example
GT would help with a framework like I can apply it to a lot of different things this helped with
information overload and more of like a email
Project managers task managers process which was quite nice so this books be written by Graham, Alcott
And he has a company called think productive. Not ki productive
But I highly recommend reading it definitely one of my recommended reads
Now after that I sort of had a bit of a break with my reading
I didn't really read for the first year or so of university necessarily
But I did read it a couple of useful thing just before University started
I and she read the 4-hour workweek which is written by Tim Ferriss and is probably
One of my favorite books of all time now
I really like this book at the time because when I got to that stage in my life
I was looking for more effective ways to do things and having that initial
Step with GTD and the ninja book really did help, but when I had to put it into
Context of my mission I guess to run businesses or work for myself or own my own time
I put it into context with the 4-hour workweek and during university it gave me a lot of time to pause
Definitely a lot of those lessons in the book
Now one of the lessons in the book that I think really did help while I was at university
Was the talk of time now?
I think it's an important subject time because a lot of time when you're a student
There's an association that you need to work in the library for like hours and hours
and you almost like get this credit like oh I was in there a library for all hours and
Having that mentality when you go into life is
Not the right sort of thing when you go into the world of work what I mean is
it's not the right attitude to have it's definitely not the right attitude to have and
The book actually helped me to think
Around this topic is to go do I need to be spending that much time in library where can apply my time elsewhere
And that's helped what helped me start the YouTube channel what helped me do
freelancing and what had me do placement and and
Sort of like I guess out of activities that not many other students were doing to some extent now also during this time I read
Walter Isaacson Steve, Jobs book which was a very good read and
Although obviously Steve, Jobs was a very particular character this actually really did help me to put into perspective
the way that he thought about things and the way that he approached things now one of my missions is to start a
Suite of productivity apps as I've mentioned to you guys a few times, but with the way that Steve Jobs has done things now
He's really being able to have merged design with business profitability
With the design focus stuff and that I know is gonna help me so when I was reading the book obviously he made a lot
Of mistakes, but I learned from all of those mistakes in that book I feel during this time as well
I also read Senna Senna was one of my favorite f1 racing drivers
He was really I guess like a thinker in the space. He wasn't just thinking about f1 racing
He was thinking more about life, and how you should approach life
he was very much someone who believed in God but
after reading the book the autobuyer I think not the autobiography the biography I
Can remember who the author is but including description below? I really get
An idea that Senna himself mmm sort of knew the importance of life, and what was creepy well not creepy
but just very
Haunting in a sense is that when he?
Like was doing the San Marino track when he sadly died
In 1994 he actually went to see some of his enemies not enemies
But rivals in the space to talk to them before he actually
You know that weekend started which was quite weird
So he was it was almost not in a sense like the way that he was talking he sort of
Like it was almost like he knew that he was going to pass but
The way that he thinks about certain things and the way that he reacted with certain people and was absolutely amazing
And I think his character is something. I definitely learned from in the book one other book
I read was called crush it and at the time. I think I was things
2013 or 12 I can only remember
But it was a very impressionable book on me mainly because it anybody talked necessarily about starting a business
The stunning content and starting your own thing now. There's a lot of pressure. I think in especially my generation
I'm like 23 and that sort of like age group when they're in a
Focus on starting a startup, it's all about like I need to do this. I need to be the business owner
I need to do this and go through this sort and like
You know holes to get to the the end goal, and I think that sometimes can be damaging
but when I read crush it is sort of gave me a different perspective on that and
The fact that you can create your own content, you can create your own thing
But it doesn't necessarily have to be that big startup at the end
so it sort of gave me a bit of confidence to do this and also work outside of
My remit as a student now some of the reference book that I do did like is the books by Tim Ferriss
tribe of mentors a very good book more of a sort of Bible in a sense that I found very useful and
The other one is how to stay alive by Bear Grylls now this one is very much
The title there are different scenarios like for example what happens if you jump out parachute
Why didn't you jump? If if there's I can attack on like a coffee shop or whatever you wherever you are?
But actually did help with sort of like thinking quite
Literally about how to survive certain situations and that can be useful especially
If something bad happened suddenly
So for example like a fire they recommend that you go
And obviously shut the room that you're in because that will give you a bit of time
but if the worst-case scenario happens
And you need to completely get out is to get as many like clothes on as possible wet them
Like as much as you can
And just sort of get out there as fast as you can obviously there's more detail order and don't take that advices like
legal advice or anything
But there are so many great tips in this book and I do really like Bear Grylls writing style
I read a lot of his previous books, and I found it very useful
So another book that I read that Alex recommended me, and I had got to finish it
I think it was over three to four months span is
Linchpin it's by Seth Godin
And it was a great book to finish University with the book itself actually dives into
How you can break away from having a traditional career in a sense? It's not cliche
it's more like breaking away from the the mentality of certain realities I
think it's like almost in a sense of
You have to make yourself indispensable in some sense
That's what a lynchpin is and how you can really make
An amazing career so um that was a really good read. I actually found it incredibly useful
Seth Godin Slenderman
So you're skipping forward to now
I'm reading quite a few books at the moment are some audiobooks
And also some personal books as well sapiens is one of them sapiens by you Val Noah, Jara Jara V hibari
But this book is so good so far. I'm not finished it yet. I am nowhere near finishing it
I'm only just about approaching halfway, but it's incredible book so far, and I'm slowly leaving this one so I can take it all in
Or I'm just a sucky reader, but it's a great book about this sort of human evolution
And how we got to where we are today
Now just to follow up
There is a separate book called homo deus written by the same author and it's more about tomorrow the history of
The future and this is my book to read this year. I am not going to finish this year without reading it
Call me be accountable to that a brief history of tomorrow. It's called, but it dives into the knights of AI and
interests around that
So I also have a book called. I think I've mentioned it before Leonardo da Vinci's Walter Isaac
At the moment I'm also reading Leonardo da Vinci's Walter
biography by Walter Isaacson
I'm not too far into at the moment probably like a sliver, but I'm finding very very interesting
It's quite an expensive book. I like 20 quid or something like now
It was investment, and I didn't enjoy Steve Jobs is one, but I want to know how a designer
Specifically thought and especially such a one that was able to blend design and science at the same time
I think that's something that I'm really interested in
It's something one of the reasons why I'm so interested in like SpaceX and evil musk and things like that loosely
I'm using this book at the moment the daily stoic journal
For writing and reflection essentially you write sort of like a a morning reflection piece every morning
That's based around a stoic
Conversation or learning and it's quite interesting now
I as I said, I'm using this very loosely as I mentioned before and reading a lot of things slowly
So I'm not it might look like quite a lot
But it's not really that much other books. I'm reading is Churchill effect. Um. This is one about Winston Churchill the
UK or the Great Britain's sort of wartime leader prime minister at the time
It's a really great book written by Boris Johnson
Who's a sort of controversial political character at the moment in the UK?
but it's quite an interesting book so far about how he was able to take the leadership reins at a time and be able to
Sort of win the war to some extent now one of the most controversial books. I'm reading at the moment
I guess
controversial 12 rules of life by
Jordan P. Peterson now you may have heard of Jordan B
Peterson in the news he's been sort of a bit of a controversial character
Sort of and and some of this sort of talks he does go into a very high level of detail
But I really do like his book and hit some of his seminars it talks about especially because he talks a lot about
sort of the conversation about individual male individual stats are
suffering in workplace environment
And I quite like this conversation because I guess to some extent this channel is orientated around
helping
You to take control, and I think that's a very important topic especially
If this is in an epidemic especially mental health and men at the moment
I don't wanna go too much into this no, but the book is very interesting so far. He goes into different rules for life
12 to be specific and it covers topics from parenting all the way over to how you approach
Certain situations, and it brings it back to really nice like little stories, so the book is very good
I'm listening to the audiobook version at the moment and narrated by John Peterson - ah but in a moment
It's very very interesting and again as I said
I'm not a political and no way interested in the sort of political characters in to some extent, but I like
This sort of approach that he takes on the book books
I'd want to read I have on my audible the book gut which is all about the gut biome
And how that works I always have ego is an enemy by Ryan holiday
He also was the guy who wrote this daily stoic book, so I'm keeping that theme
But all about how you can avoid I guess an ego because I'm not something that I'm learning a lot about now there are other
Books I'd like to read are Elon Musk's book. It's a biography, but it's about how he's been able to approach tough. Why we sleep
Include the authors and information below as well and just for the fun of it
I wouldn't mind reading fire and fury as well and although it's not the top of my list anyway guys
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