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[eliquid]

Brain Rules

 

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[Kevin Peter]

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

 

[GuestUser202]

Doublepost.

Sorry...hard to sift through 44 pages.

 

[Aidan]

Sorry...hard to sift through 44 pages.

Oh no, I was saying that about myself. I clicked "post reply" instead of editing my post at one point, so I just edited the second post and said "Doublepost" so a mod knows that they can delete it.

 

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[arfadugus]

Reading now:
-The rise of Superman - Steven Kotler
-BOLD - Steven Kotler

Recents:
-Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris (2nd time)
-The War of Art -Steven Pressfield (3rd time)
-Rich Dad Poor Dad
-Your Brain on Porn

Goodies:
-Outliers
-TMFL
-4 Hour Workweek
-The tipping point
-Lying - Sam Harris
-The Magic of Thinking Big
-The Monk and the Riddle
-The End of Faith
-The Moral Landscape
-Think and Grow Rich
-Caffeine Blues (a must read)
-Becoming a Supple Leaopard
-Ready to Run
-Flow
-Waking up
-Who owns the Ice House?
-The Game
-Mystery Method
-Six Pillars of Self Esteem
-Influence
-The Red Queen
-Mastering Your Hidden self
-How to Get Rich
-DMT - The spirit Molecule
-Wherever You go There you are
-The Power of NOW
-The experince of Insight
-Waking up
-The End of Illness
-Trigger point Therapy Workbook
-Way Of the Peaceful Warrior
- The Alchemist
-The Prophet
-Starting Strength
-How to Win Friends and Influence people
-5/3/1

*This is me realizing I read a lot now and never touched a book in High School

 

[Under-Dog]

Currently reading the Third Circle Theory and Alpha Home Flipping. Both have been great so far

 

[AntonyS]

Never Eat Alone [emoji106]

 

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[Deleted20833]

Moneylove ...old book and most people have never heard of it

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[Payden]

Just finished:
Unfair Advantage by Robert Kiyosaki

Currently reading:
The greatest Salesman in the World by O.G. Mandino

Currently listening to during my commute:
Today Matters by John C. Maxwell

Coming up soon:
The Education of Millionaires by Michael Ellsberg
How Successful People Think by John C. Maxwell
Secrets of Closing the Sale by Zig Zigler
Failing Forward by John C. Maxwell

Can anyone recommend a good book about sales?

 

[Andy Black]

Pitch Anything

 

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[SSimz]

Becoming a person of influence

 

[Alan LT]

Finished reading The Motivation Manifesto by Brendon Burchard

Now I'll be reading these books for the next few days:

Meditation by Marcus Aurelius

Letters from a Stoic by Seneca

The Art of Living by Epictetus

 

[Bellini]

I've read a lot of the books you guys mention, but I cannot for the life of me figure out why "Outliers" has so many good reviews.

No offense to the author, or anyone here that liked it, but I did not like it at all. I bought the audio version which was very long. I wanted to turn it off half-way through because it was so boring, but kept listening and telling myself to give it a chance, because maybe he would say something important in the middle, or near the end. Nope.

When I got to the end of the darn thing (took a few days), I felt like I had just wasted 10 hours of my life (and $30+ !). I was so disappointed that I almost wanted my money back.

All I got out of all that hoopla, was that you need 10,000 hours of training in something to become an expert, a prodigy.

He could have said that in one sentence.

Oh, and the other thing that baffled me - he spent an hour or so near the end teaching me about the mental gymnastics and mechanics of being an airplane pilot. ???

I wasn't in flight school. Maybe it helped someone else but it didn't help me at all. I gave it away.

 

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[Ma Co]

Kick a$$ Copywriting Secrets Of A Marketing Rebel - John Carlton

Carlton preaches ethical selling, marketing and copywriting.

So far the easiest-to-digest copywriting book I've read.
Lots of nuggets that can be applied right away and a treasure of useful marketing tips.

Pitch Anything

Fantastic book!
Goes well along with "Winning Through Intimidation." Did you read that one, too?

 

[Chazmania]

- Ready Fire Aim (Awesome so far...)
- The law of success 16 Lessons by Napoleon Hill (Kindle version was only 99 cents! Definitely worth it to me.)

 

[Drq]

Was reading Choose Yourself from James Altucher. Now I started Psycho Cybernetics and that book's really something!

 

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[Joanne Greco]

I'm reading The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks.

 

[ddall]

I'm with you @Vigilante... Mind you that recently I have stupidly been following one specific author's line of books. I read "Abundance", which I thought was great, then followed it up with "Bold" which was decent but more geared to crowd funding and using competition to drive 10x gains in industry in the end than it was about much else. Then I stupidly started on "Exponential Organizations". I'm about 2 hours into the audio book and I'm ready to skip the rest. All rehashed crap from the first 2 books. I get that the target audience may not have necessarily read the other books, but my view is that if you don't have enough 'meat' to write a book in the first place, then don't write the %$@[HASHTAG]#ing[/HASHTAG] book!

I need some fresh suggestions on good books. I've read pretty much everything that seems to be worth reading in this thread. Anyone? Even if it's off-the-wall, so long as it's worth the read I'll give it a go.

I have done the same as you and find Exponential Organizations mostly a rehash. If you are sick of business books rehashing the same old concepts perhaps your would enjoy some biographies ( I really enjoy these, there is much to learn from good bio's), books on self-improvment (not the ' ra ra I have unlimited power' books but one's such as making "making a good brain great", persuasion techniques, buyer psychology, longevity etc.

 

[94blackbird]

I'm currently in the middle of How to Win Friends and Influence People by carnegie, and Rework is in the magazine rack by the toilet.

 

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[Hackdroot]

I've often wondered if the truly successful people in the world (like those discussed here on the forum so frequently) spent much of their time reading motivational/success/self help/etc books.

 

[Drq]

I've often wondered if the truly successful people in the world (like those discussed here on the forum so frequently) spent much of their time reading motivational/success/self help/etc books.

I don't think they read any of that for motivation per say, but understanding yourself (and your environment) is something a successful person would want. A friend of mine who I consider successful (around 1m/year) has recommended me some of the books recommended in this thread.

Also, Warren Buffet has recommended at least one that I know of - How to win friends and influence people, and he's doing okay. So I'd say - sure, they are people like everyone else.

 

[Mattie]

I was on the Life Code Dr. Phil and finished.
But then found the Giraffe Technology The making of the 21st Century Leader. Hubert Glover
Thinking about: People Code Taylor Hartman.

 

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[Mattie]

I've often wondered if the truly successful people in the world (like those discussed here on the forum so frequently) spent much of their time reading motivational/success/self help/etc books.

I've read a lot of different books since I was 18.

I suppose it was to understand myself. It didn't motivate me. I think I focused on relationship books and Christian books because that's where my focus was at the time. Trying to understand myself and family and relationships with men. Then when crap happen: I went into reading books to figure out how to manage emotions, becoming mentally tough, success strategies, visualization and mindfulness and meditation. At that point I started looking at Millionaire mindsets and ended up here, where now it's more about success financially and creating a business.

I don't believe any book ever motivated me. It gave me inspiration. Motivation came from sports video's and watching like the Junction boys and getting that concept no matter how hard your crushed keep moving. Movie's like "Whiplash" Remind me why I'm in the fast lane, best of life physical experience with people. If I get in a crappy mood, I just have to look at something like that and remember why I'm doing this. Freedom and staying control to create my reality and world, instead of allowing others to create it for me.

I think various parts of your life, you're focused on different things. And being from a sidewalk family, you never seen success books, business books, or millionaire books on the coffee table. You seen gossip magazines and home and house magazines. I didn't have the role models that read books, and fortunately, I watched other people and kept comparing my life to other families, and pondering what they were doing different.

 

[million$$$smile]

Just finished:
Grinding it Out-The story of McDonalds Ray Kroc
Talk about Fastlane, Kroc made it happen...

Now Reading:
More than a Hobby- The story of Hobby Lobby David Green
Good book on starting with $600 and creating an empire of 600 stores nationwide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_Lobby

Lean Six Sigma Demystified Jay Arthur
I'm constantly looking for ways to ways to simplify, streamline and optimize my processes in my businesses. This book takes work, but is worth it.

Seems lately I have been focusing on the retail side of business more than normal. I think there is a tremendous science to merchandising both online and offline.

 

[Alan LT]

Has anyone read Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday? I'm waiting for it to come in the mail & want to know what to expect.

Also, feel free to recommend me any good marketing / advertising books you've read lately

 

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[Lee Hyde]

How to Make Millions Without A Degree - Simon Dolan
Entrepreneurial Revolution - Daniel Priestley

Currently reading Steve Jobs' biography.

 

[Bellini]

I'm currently reading a guide to Guerilla Marketing.

Very good so far. I'm actually learning a lot.

I had no idea about the marketing stunts pulled by some of these big companies!

 

[MakeItHappen]

How to Make Money: The 88 Steps to Get Rich and Find Success by Felix Dennis

The book is basically an overview of the concepts he talks about in his book "How to Get Rich".

 

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[Gin]

Has anyone read Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday? I'm waiting for it to come in the mail & want to know what to expect.

Yep, good little book. Quick read.

 

[JAJT]

How to Make Money: The 88 Steps to Get Rich and Find Success by Felix Dennis

The book is basically an overview of the concepts he talks about in his book "How to Get Rich".

That's really unfortunate. How to Get Rich was a fantastic read and I would have loved to have seen some new content instead of a rehash.