Recommended Reading List

My recommended reading list

On this page you will find a recommended reading list of books, podcasts and websites.

This page is based on many hours of reading, researching and studying.

This reading list is for people who want to learn how to balance the pillars of life, grow in their career and cultivate their skills.

The 9 Essentials

All of the books on this list are worthy of a read, but here’s a video and short-cut list of the 9 that I recommend for all managers, or those aspiring to management.

I read a lot and appreciate that it can be overwhelming to start. Hence, the 9. Enjoy.

Here are the 9 recommended books from the main reading list I would shortlist:

• Entrepreneur Revolution – Daniel Priestley
• School of Greatness – Lewis Howes
• How the mighty fall – Jim Collins
• John Wooden on Leadership – John Wooden
• Growing a Business – Paul Hawken  (Must Read!)
• Freedom from Command and Control – John Seddon
• Good Strategy, Bad Strategy – Richard Rumelt
• How I raised myself from failure to success in sales – Frank Bettger

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The bigger reading list

Health

• The Wild Diet – Abel James – Newsletter Week 6
• Primal Endurance – Mark Sissons, Brad Kearns
• Sleep Smarter – Shawn Stevenson
• – not just for anyone with MS – Terry Wahls
• The Depression Cure – Steve Ilardi
• Natural Solutions for Digestive Health – Jillian Sarno Teta
• Change your thoughts – Wayne Dyer
• Food Rules – Michael Pollan
• Pure, White and Deadly: How Sugar is killing us – John Yudkin
• Instinctive Fitness – Oliver Selway
• Survival of the fittest – Mike Stroud
• Big Fat Lies: How the diet industry is making you sick, fat and poor – David Gillespie
• Mindfulness for Busy People – Michael Sinclair, Josie Seydel
• Fatbot to Ironman – Jaan Larner
• Sugar Free For Life : How to remove the sugar from your diet – Daniel Adam
• Wheat Belly: Lose the wheat, lose the weight, and find your path back to health – William Davis
• Spontaneous Healing – Dr Andrew Weil MD
• Keep on running: The Highs and Lows of a Marathon Addict – Phil Hewitt
• Can’t Swim, Can’t Ride, Can’t Run : From Comman Man to Ironman – Andy Holgate
• Finding Ultra : Rejecting Middle Age – Rich Roll
• Eat and Run – Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman
• Why we get fat and what to do about it – Gary Taubes
• Unbeatable Mind – Mark Divine
• The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance – Nessa Carey
• Epigenetics: The Death of the Genetic Theory of Disease Transmission – Joel Wallach
• Ikigai : The Japanese secret to a long and healthy life – Hectar Garcia
• The Fatburning man Podcast – Abel James
• The Model Health Show – Shawn Stevenson
• Destressifying – Davidjii
• Write yourself happy – the art of positive journaling – Megan C Hayes
• The joy of mindful writing – Joy Kenward

Personal Development

• Choose yourself – James Altucher – Newsletter Week 18
• How Successful People Think – John C Maxwell
• How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big – Scott Adams
• Die Empty – Todd Henry – Newsletter Week 9
• Tools of Titans – Tim Ferris – Newsletter Week 3
• Black Hole Focus – Isaiah Hankel – Newsletter Week 1 2017
• Gamestorming – Dave Gray and Sunni Brown
• The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter -David Sax
• Switch – Chip and Dan Heath
• The Slight Edge – Jeff Olson
• The Compound Effect – Darren Hardy
• The Miracle Morning – Hal Elrod
• Key Person Of Influence – Daniel Priestley
• Atomic Habits – James Clear (Newsletter 49)
• Can’t hurt me – David Goggins
• Make Your Bed : Small things that can change your life…and maybe the world – William McRaven
• So good they can’t ignore you – Cal Newport
• Digital Minimalist – Cal Newport
• Smarter Faster Better – Charles Duhigg
• Authentic Happiness – Martin Seligman
• Positivity – Barbara Fredrickson
• Maximum Willpower: How to master the new science of self control – Kelly McGonigal
• The Power of When – Michael Breus
• Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway – Susan Jeffers (I read this and quit my job!!)
• Deep Work – Cal Newport
• 6 Months to 6 Figures – Peter Voogd
• Book yourself solid – Michael Port
• $100 startup – Chris Guillebeau
• Mastery – Robert Green
• 59 Seconds – Richard Wiseman
• Obliquity – John Kay
• Get out while you can, escape the rat race – George Marshall
• How to build your reputation – Rob Brown
• Never work again – Erlend Bakke
• Somebody should have told us – Jack Pransky
• Jab Jab Jab Right Hook – Gary Vaynerchuk
• The War of Art – Steven Pressfield
• Do the work – Steven Pressfield
• Turning Pro – Steven Pressfield
• Brand You – John Purkiss
• Rapt – Winifred Gallagher
• Positioning – Al Ries and Jack Trout
• The Shallows – Nicholas Carr
• How to get a grip – Matthew Kimberley
• The Start Up of You – Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha
• The Longer Tail – Chris Anderson
• Goals – How to get everything you want – Brian Tracy
• Emotional Intelligence and why it can matter more than IQ – by Daniel Goleman
• The Dip – by Seth Godin
• Perennial Seller : the art of making and marketing that lasts – by Ryan Holiday
• Discipline Equals Freedom – by Jocko Willink
• How to be your own bodyguard – by Nick Hughes
• The art of noticing – Rob Walker
• Oversubscribed – by Daniel Priestley
• Entrepreneur Revolution – Daniel Priestley
• School of Greatness – Lewis Howes
• ABCs of success – Bob Proctor
• Art and Fear – David Bayles and Ted Orland
• The complete BullS&*t-free and totally tested writing guide – Gabe Berman
• Show your work – Austin Kleon
• The way we are working isn’t working – Tony Schwartz
• Rules for a Knight – Ethan Hawke
• Essential Radio Journalism – Paul Chantler and Peter Stewart

Stoicism and Philosophy

• A guide to the good life – William B Irvine
• Wisdom of Insecurity – Alan Watts – Newsletter Week 15
• Man’s search for meaning – Viktor E Frankl
• The Ego is the Enemy – Ryan Holiday
• Obstacle is the way – Ryan Holiday
• Wherever you go there you are – Jon Kabat-Zinn
• The importance of living – Lin Yutang
• The Daily Stoic – Ryan Holiday
• Happy – Derren Brown
• How to think like a Roman Emperor – Donald Robertson

Money, Finance & Selling

• How to get rich – Felix Dennis – Newsletter Week 24
• The Millionaire Messenger (Brendon Burchard)
• The Way Of The Wolf – Straight Line Selling – Jordan Belfort
• To sell is human – Daniel H Pink
• Priceless – William Poundstone
• The Rules of Wealth – by Richard Templar

Management

• How the mighty fall – Jim Collins
• John Wooden on Leadership – John Wooden
• Smart Retail – Richard Hammond
• I Want You To Cheat – John Seddon (Masterpiece)
• Growing a Business – Paul Hawken  (Must Read!)
• Who – A Method – Geoff Smart and Randy Street
• The Toyota Way – Jeffrey Liker
• The Toyota Kata – Mike Rother
• Reinventing Leadership – Paul Thomas
• The Fifth Discipline (systems thinking) – Peter M Senge
• Extreme Ownership – Jocko Willink
• The E-Myth revisited – why small businesses don’t work – Michael E Gerber
• Eleven Rings – Phil Jackson
• Like a virgin – Richard Branson
• Freedom from Command and Control – John Seddon
• Good Strategy, Bad Strategy – Richard Rumelt
• How I raised myself from failure to success in selling – Frank Bettger
• Profit First – by Mike Michalowicz
• Traction – by Gino Wickman
• Thinking in Systems – by Donella Meadows
• Superbosses – by Sydney Finkelstein
• Let my people go surfing – Yvon Chouinard

Communication

• Bareknuckle Presenter – Graham Davies – Good book on doing great presentations.
• What Every Body Is Saying – Joe Navarro – Great book on decoding body language and changing yourself to elicit the truth
• How to talk to anyone – Leil Lowndes – Brilliant book with plenty of ideas on how to talk to people
• Louder Than Words – Joe Navarro – Another book about body language from ex FBI Investigator
• How To Win Friends And Influence People – Dale Carnegie – Classic book on influence
• Steal the show – Michael Port – Brilliant guide for presenters
• Get The Truth – by Philip Houston, Michael Floyd and Susan Carnicero.
• The etymologicon – by Mark Forsyth
• Trust me I’m lying – by Ryan Holiday
• The Science of Story telling – by Will Storr
• The art and craft of storytelling – by Nancy Lamb
• The elements of style – Strunk and White
• Rhetoric – The Art of Persuasion
• Slideology – Nancy Duarty
• Presentation Zen – Garr Reynolds
• The Elements of Graphic Design - by Alexander W. White
• Essential Radio Journalism by Paul Chantler

Ideas and Thinking

• Loonshots – How to nurture the crazy ideas…. – by Safi Bahcall
• Artful Making – by Rob Austin
• Humble Inquiry – by Edgar H Schein
• Thinker Toys – by Michael Michalko
• Factfulness – by Hans Rosling

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