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Reading List

Continuously learning through reading is like fishing with dynamite. It opens your mind, keeps it healthy and helps you accelerate past everyone else who doesn’t focus on improvement. Every successful person I know is an avid reader and consumer of new knowledge.

This is my reading list that I’ve been curating for the past 10 years I’ll keep it updated as I continue my learning journey so you can benefit with options on where to explore next.

Category	Title	Author	Synopsis	Comments
Bigger Thinking	Enforcer	Caeser Campbell	Biographie of one of the most prolific Australian motorcycle club figures	Bit left of field but a hectic read to hear how he lived his life and all of the hectic shit that went down
Biographies	Finding My Virginity	Richard Branson	The second part of his life	One might think that after achieveing so much there may be some slowing down in the second half of life, not Richard. Some great learnings that only time can produce as well
Biographies	Greenlights	Matthew Mcconaughy	The account of his life and his principles	Another inspiring read, and a great listen also as he narrates it himself. Really great insights into the right mindset and principles to live an awesome life
Biographies	Losing My Virginity	Richard Branson	The first part of his life	Inspiriational and great to see how Richard made it work from basically nothing to multiple billion dollar companies. Thriller read with all of his hectic physical achievements as well
Biographies	Why Buddhism is True	Robert Wright	The science and philosphy of meditation and enlightenment	A great read on what really matters in life.
Brain and Psychology	Becoming Supernatural	Joe Dispenza	How to use the body and energy centres to align and influence positive outcomes from a greater power	This is definitely a good thought boundary expansion exercise read. Some pretty interesting concepts about how to harness the quantum realm to manifest positive outcomes. Give it a go!
Brain and Psychology	Blink	Malcom Gladwell	A book about our unconscious judgments, biases, the impacts these can have, and strategies on how to navigate these to make better decisions	A real eye opener on just how wrong the assumptions we can jump to are based on our previous knowledge, our preferences, and cultural foundations and the resulting catestrophic impacts these can have if not managed.
Brain and Psychology	Spark	John Ratey	The connection between exercise and postive balance in brain chemistry and wellness	If you need motivation to do exercise, this is a great read. Outlines all the benefits and positive affects exercise has on our mental system. How it helps depression and how it can be used as a tool to create a better version of ourself
Brain and Psychology	The brain the changes itself	Norman Doidge	Case studies and a narrative to prove neuroplasticity of the brain - It's ability to change itself	Really interesting by itself, fundamental concepts of the brain and how you can use them to build and change habits for the better
Brain and Psychology	Thinking fast and slow	Daniel Kahneman	Description of the two thinking systems in the brain, the biases the two systems can have and what can affect the biases	Great to understand how ours and other's minds work. How much things can bias and impact our actions and reactions, like hunger, sleep etc. and great ways to realise we are being influenced. A great lens to help understand how and why people make what seem like irrational decisions
Business	21 lessons for the 21st century	Yuval Noah Harari	Questions for the now	Covers content from Sapiens and Homo deus but then asks and covers the questions for our current times. Another good refresher and re-set
Business	Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0	Jim Collins	Going from start up to enterprise	How to move from an idea and create a good company, all of the key elements and principles for establishing the foundations of a company. These principles can all be applied to yourself as an entity.
Business	Built to Last	Jim Collins	How to build an enduring company	How to build a good company, this builds on from the principles learned in beyond entreapaneurship 2.0 to get to a solid, successful company. Again, lots of the principles can be applied to yourself.
Business	Good to Great	Jim Collins	How to take an enduring company to a great company	How to take a good company, building on the foundation from built to last to a great company. A great company looks like staying successful for close to 100 years which narrows the list of case studies provided considerably. Really intersting to hear which companies have managed to do this and what the core elements are that have enabled them to stay great for so long.
Business	Great by Choice	Jim Collins	How to stay great once you've reached greatness	Getting to great is one thing. Staying great is a whole different kettle of fish and requires different skills. This book goes through what those are. These can be applied to yourself as well.
Business	How the Mighty Fall	Jim Collins	The lessons on how great or any company fails	Once you get to great, considerable, focused effort is required to stay there. This is a great book of what happens more often than not, how companies decline and fail once they've reached greatness. It covers the key indicators and things that people and organisations do to thow their companies into decline. Arrogance, hubris are but a few to consider. Apply these to yourself as well to navigate the fall from greatness.
Business	The 10 day MBA	Steven Silbiger	Summary overview and reference to all of the tools taught in a Masters of Business Adminstration course	Succinct and easy to understand overview of all of the key elements in business. Great references to all the tools, techniques, and vocabularly required to assess and manage a business or enterprise.
Business	The E-Myth Revisited	Michael E Gerber	How to move from an expert to a business owner	This book has a great story of the differences and elements required from being a great expert to establishing and running a business in that field. It's told through a fictional narrative of an expert pie maker wanting to own her own bakery. Some very solid and fundamental lessons.
Business	The Goal	Eliyahu Goldratt	How to understand what the goal of anything is and the definition of productivity	This would be one of my most recommended books. It is told as a fictional story with characters and all of the challenges in life. It leverages the narrative to help you find what the goal of something really is and then layers in concepts such as Just In Time (JIT), theory of constraints and more. The audio book is awesome.
Business	The Phoenix Project	Gene Kim, George Spafford, Kevin Behr	A novel about IT, contemporary methods and helping a business win	This book is basically The Goal re-written in an IT context. It is just as awesome and if you are looking for ways to understand IT better or make it more efficient for an enterprise I highly recommend reading this book.
Business	The Voltage Effect	John A List	How to make good ideas great and great ideas scale	5 specific traits that all scalable ideas possess and 4 proven techniques for engineering voltage gains. Essentially how validate if your idea is a great one and can scale and how to scale it.
Business	To Sell is Human	Dan Pink	Contemporary approach on organic selling	Focuses on "hearing the sale" over jamming shit no one wants down their through. We could do a lot more of this with everything we do, selling doesn't have to be focused on making money, getting your mates to come on a trip is a form of selling!
Economoics	Why Nations Fail	Daron Acemoglu and James A Robinson	A macro view of the origins of power, prosperity, and power. A overview of inclusive vs extractive systems for running countries	A very interesting insight into what drives people and the impact it can have at a national and global scale. What it really boils down to is most countries that have slipped into poverty are driven by a small group of people who only care about status and power and attempt to extract more of it from their people at the people's detriment. Alternatively, countries that implement inclusive systems always seem to outperform their extractive counterparts
Economoics	Freakonomics	Stephen J Dubner and Steven D Levitt	A book that applies rational economic analysis to everyday situations, from online dating to buying a house	This is a really interesting book that looks into why we make decisions, why they are often appear irrational, and why conventional wisdom is frequently wrong.
Economoics	The New Confessions of an Economic Hitman	John Perkins	A behind the scenes of how America gained large amounts of control over the large portions of the world through lending money to countries to leverage their resources	This is a wild and eye opening first person account of someone who was groomed to put these deals in place. The author has had suicide attempts on him by publishing this book. It's basically a true thriller but also has some very interesting economoic approaches.
Finance Investing and Property	The Barefoot investor	Scott Pape	A great money management book	This is a very simple to follow and amazingly powerful book to educate on how to establish and manage the basic foundations to be good with money and to start to think about investing
Finance Investing and Property	7 steps to wealth	John L Fitzgerald	A simple, property investing process and framework focussing on buying decent houses, on good land, in decent locations, and then leveraging equity to buy another and another	Some really solid, simple advice on how to make money in the property market
Finance Investing and Property	Barbarians at the gate	Bryan Burrough and John Heylar	An account of the biggest leveraged buyout of it its time for RJR Nabisco	A great insight into how to create hype and competition to inflate the price of something astronomically. Also good insights into how people work and then the result once the dust and hype settles. Some really interesting learnings.
Finance Investing and Property	I will teach you to be rich	Ramit Sethi	A great introductory book on how to invest your spare cash	This is a great book on how to invest your spare cash. It builds on the concepts of the Barefoot Investor and focuses more on the different types of ways to invest money to make it work for you. Very useful read to put yourself in a great position and leverage compound interest.
Finance Investing and Property	Liars Poker	Michael Lewis	A description of the financial world in the 1980s, specifically a firm called Solomon Brothers	This wild to hear how the finacial world ran in the 1980s and probably still does today in many aspects. Great to see insights from inside the financial world and to see how little people in the business know and how a lot of it is run on relationships and peoples ability to sell and trade so called knowledge.
Finance Investing and Property	One up on wall street	Peter Lynch	A simple book about investing and how to be better than most on Wall Street	Peter Lynch shares rare air with the likes of Warren Buffet in having 25% returns on his investments for over 25 years. This is a great book that codifies his basic principles for how he has achieved such an amazing feat.
Fitness and Health	Breath	James Nestor	A book about nose breathing and all of the associated health benefits	For something that seems so simple, it has so many health benefits. A really interesting and well written read about how healthy nose breathing is and how to apply it. I've changed my habits around this in the gym and wherever I can.
Fitness and Health	Built To Move	Juliet and Kelly Starrett	10 mobility exercises that will keep you fit, healthy, and living the longest	A great read on 10 Mobility exercises that will change your life and keep you succeeding well into your final years. Great information and stories around each exercies, why they are so good and how to get closer at being able to do them. This is great for overall health as well.
Fitness and Health	Lifespan	David A Sinclair	A book that frames aging as a disease and not as a mandatory	A really interesting look into what aging is and how it is more like a disease that something we have to take as a given. Some great insights into how to reduce the impact of aging
Fitness and Health	The encyclopedia of body building	Arnold Schwarzenegger	One of the most comprehensive books on how to life weights and body build	This book is great. If you are wanting to go to the gym for the first time or a seasoned veteran this book has it all. Awesome pictures and the most detailed descriptions of how to do each lift. This guy really understood how to make the body look awesome, you can too by having a read or even a skim through.
Fitness and Health	Training for Climbing	Eric Horst		This is a great great book for thinking about creating goals and how to train for them. Specifically for this section, the visualisation chapters are awesome and well worth the read.
Fitness and Health	Why we sleep	Matthew Walker	An in depth look under the covers at sleep, what it is, how it works, and how it is literally one of the best things for us if we get enough and self adhered euthanasia if we sacrifice it.	This book drastically changed my life. I never used to sleep enough as I thought I could get more done. Sleep is literally the wonder drug, the silver bullet, the panasea. If you get enough you eat less shit, you can lift heavier in the gym, you can think perfectly. One of the books I've gifted the most.
Non Fiction	Career of Evil	Robert Galbraith	An awesome crime fiction series	Amazing Crime fiction novels. I don't know how she does it, so easy to read, keeps you guessing, multiple narratives intertwining, unputdownable!
Non Fiction	Dark Horse	Gregg Hurwitz	An edge of your seat thriller series	An awesome series that follows an ex government lethel weapon who is trying to do good after all of the things he was made to do during service
Non Fiction	Hellbent	Gregg Hurwitz	An edge of your seat thriller series	An awesome series that follows an ex government lethel weapon who is trying to do good after all of the things he was made to do during service
Non Fiction	Into the fire	Gregg Hurwitz	An edge of your seat thriller series	An awesome series that follows an ex government lethel weapon who is trying to do good after all of the things he was made to do during service
Non Fiction	Lethal white	Robert Galbraith	An awesome crime fiction series	Amazing Crime fiction novels. I don't know how she does it, so easy to read, keeps you guessing, multiple narratives intertwining, unputdownable!
Non Fiction	Orphan X	Gregg Hurwitz	An edge of your seat thriller series	An awesome series that follows an ex government lethel weapon who is trying to do good after all of the things he was made to do during service
Non Fiction	Out of the dark	Gregg Hurwitz	An edge of your seat thriller series	An awesome series that follows an ex government lethel weapon who is trying to do good after all of the things he was made to do during service
Non Fiction	Out of the dark	Gregg Hurwitz	An edge of your seat thriller series	An awesome series that follows an ex government lethel weapon who is trying to do good after all of the things he was made to do during service
Non Fiction	The Cuckoo's calling	Robert Galbraith	An awesome crime fiction series	Amazing Crime fiction novels. I don't know how she does it, so easy to read, keeps you guessing, multiple narratives intertwining, unputdownable!
Non Fiction	The Ink Black Heart	Robert Galbraith	An awesome crime fiction series	Amazing Crime fiction novels. I don't know how she does it, so easy to read, keeps you guessing, multiple narratives intertwining, unputdownable!
Non Fiction	The nowhere man	Gregg Hurwitz	An edge of your seat thriller series	An awesome series that follows an ex government lethel weapon who is trying to do good after all of the things he was made to do during service
Non Fiction	The Running Grave	Robert Galbraith	An awesome crime fiction series	Amazing Crime fiction novels. I don't know how she does it, so easy to read, keeps you guessing, multiple narratives intertwining, unputdownable!
Non Fiction	The Silkworm	Robert Galbraith	An awesome crime fiction series	Amazing Crime fiction novels. I don't know how she does it, so easy to read, keeps you guessing, multiple narratives intertwining, unputdownable!
Non Fiction	Troubled blood	Robert Galbraith	An awesome crime fiction series	Amazing Crime fiction novels. I don't know how she does it, so easy to read, keeps you guessing, multiple narratives intertwining, unputdownable!
People	Culture Code	Daniel Coyle	The importance of a good culture and how it normally transcends most other elements such as rules and processes.	This book is so awesome. It shows how a good culture is so much more important than rules and processes. If you can foster and nurture a good culture, everything is so much easier.
People	Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates people	Dan Pink	The fundamental key drivers that actually motivate people	Great insights into the actual motivators people have. This information allows you to structure things you need from people into things they want to do or align work you have for them into things that motivate them
People	Getting Past No	William Ury	Tips and techniques for negotiating with difficult people	A great book for negotiating in difficult situations. Techniques on how to turn even the most challenging people into making at least some progress
People	Getting To Yes	Roger Fisher and William Ury	How to negotiate like a boss	A great book on how to negotiate agreements to ensure there is a mutual benefit and both parties feel they have value
People	Hold Me Tight	Sue Johnson	A book about emotially focused therapy	What people need in a relationship and how to coummunicate with those you love. Real world application tools and techniques. A great listen
People	Homo Deus	Yuval Noah Harari	A brief history of tomorrow	A sobering view into what the next sapien might look like. Is our conciousness just the sum of all of our parts, can it be replicated and automated, if so will we slip out of conciousness and never know it?
People	How To Win Friends And Influence People	Dale Carnegie	Foundational methods for building relationships and organically working with people to a great outcome. Another must read	This is one of the seminal texts for how to work with people. Highly recommend reading this. Published in 1936 the content is still just as relevant and awesome. If you want to build great relationships and work well with others, read this book
People	Influence: The psychology of persuasion	Robert B. Cialdini	How to influence and persuade people	Use this for good or bad, that's up to what your goal is and how your moral compass is configured. The information in this book is literally like cheating for getting people to do things for you or like you
People	Never Split The Difference	Chris Voss and Tahl Raz	How to negotiate and not to compromise to a bad outcome for all	A great negotiation book, with many applied real world examples from high profile hostage situations. How to not compromise and get the worst of both worlds.
People	Non Violent Communication	Marhshall B. Rosenberg	How to communicate with people directly without violence	Great tools and techniques on how to hear what people are really saying and to get to the root cause or real part of the conversation comfortably. Doing this can save years of time off your life
People	Raidcal Candour	Kim Scott	A framework on how to have direct, valuable, outcome driven conversation without hurting feelings.	Awesome for working out how to communicate directly with people and to have meaningful conversations about getting outcomes or improving without having to tip toe around what really needs to be said
People	Sapiens	Yuval Noah Harari	A brief history of humankind	A very succinct overview as to why homo sapien has dominated all other sapiens. A very good insight on the key things that enabled us. Grounding views and realisations and a very good insight into happiness and what might make us happy
People	The Tipping Point	Malcom Gladwell	How to create the tipping point where something goes viral	The unpacking of the key elements of how to make something go viral. Great insights into the tools and techniques that can be used
Personal improvement	Atomic Habits	James Clear	How to break bad habits and build good ones	A great introduction to the importance of habits, how to build them, and most importantly, how to identify and break bad ones.
Personal improvement	Deep work	Cal Newport	How to stop the noise and focus deeply to produce maximum results in less time than everyone else.	Some very simple but very powerful concepts in here that are useful for everyone. It starts out a touch academic, stick with it as it has some gems for even the most busy or hectic business and social lifestyles
Personal improvement	Grit	Angela Duckworth	the difference between natural talent and skills built through grit and how to be gritty
Personal improvement	The 80/20 Principle	Richard Koch	20% of your time delivers 80% of the value, while 80% of your time only delivers 20% of the the value. How to look at what you are doing and see what that 20% is so you can stop the other 80% to give you more free time and maybe even do more of the 20% stuff.	Very liberating, great reset to even listen to once every couple of years to help you zoom out and stop a lot of the noise and refocus on the important stuff
Personal improvement	The Start Up of You	Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha	How to run your career like a start up. Lean, mean, and ready to accelerate to billion dollar growth	A great blueprint on how to run your own personal career like a business. How to accelerate and use lessons learned from building start up companies to progress your career to your goal.
Personal improvement	Think and grow rich	Napoleon Hill	One of the very first books around how to build wealth	This is a big but rewarding read. Can be dry at times but the concepts and principles are still as true today as they were when it was written. Definitely worth a read to build the foundation of understanding and building wealth
Personal improvement	When: the scientific secrets of perfect timing	Dan Pink	How timing can impact what we do based on how we are programmed. And how changing the timing sequence to match our program can deliver efficiencies (and give you more time back)	Great to help how you might structure your day, or when you do certain things or when you might do things with others based on how they are programmed to get the most out of the time

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