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49 reviews

Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins

inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Powerful book that is not only motivating but makes you want to get to work and become like David Goggins. Lots of actionable lessons in there that helped me a lot. 

The Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention by Nicolas Cole

lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

Overall a great book that teaches everything you need to know to start writing. It is best for someone who wants to start writing on social media and wants to make a living. Lots of great insights and well structured.

Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day by John Zeratsky, Jake Knapp

informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

Great book that has a lot of amazing insights and teaches a variety of topics quickly . It includes ways to simply plug and play new ideas and actionable steps. Although it is used as reference for almost all self-improvement videos, I think it is important to get it from the source.

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

An amazing book that contains several eye-opening insights and answers to questions you never even asked for. It is a must read for pretty much everyone and everyone can learn something from it. Although it is quite a dense topic, the author has managed to separate it into a storylike structure.

The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business by Josh Kaufman

informative slow-paced

5.0

Very dense book that inlcudes several concepts and ideas that are hugely beneficial to entrepreneurs and business owners. It includes everything that you can learn in business school simplified to the bare essentials and cuts our any unneeded information. 

Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book is great as it teaches the importance of habits and how to implement them into your life efficiently and as fast as possible. It has been clearly formatted so that knowledge can be easily digested and learned. Personally, I have learned the important of habits and now I have consciously starting improving my systems in order to always be improving even when I don’t feel like it 

Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behavior and How to Effectively Communicate with Each in Business (and in Life) by Thomas Erikson

informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

The book contains a simple system that is very efficent to deal with different types of human behavior and is very easy to understand. The author is great at teaching us how to interact with different types of colours and although it has a focus on business settings, it can be easily applied to other settings as well.

How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less by Cal Newport

informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

Extremely practical book that covers almost everything a student or someone who is on the learning journey would benefit from. Cal Newport talks about how to manage time to how to revise with clear actions and steps to follow. He also includes examples of a student using his technique which clears up any confusion.

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport

informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

Great book and has several great insights. My favourite one is that being bored is actually good for you and I found that very eye-opening. This book is amazing to perfect your productivity and deep work and talks about the difference between deep and shallow work. However, I found it a bit difficult to read at times because the stories were not that engaging.

The Male Advantage: Why women can't resist the Outlier Male by Kris Sturmey

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

Great book but quite short. It perfectly organises all of the information from the 1stMan Youtube Channel and has lots of actionable steps. However, there are some parts that I do not agree with but for the majority, they are eye-opening.