I'm putting together a reading list for 2024. What was the one book that changed your life?
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- Hi Pip, we recently asked the same question to our team at Verb and this is the list we compiled all together. Hope it helps!https://verbbrands.com/10-books-that-will-change-your-career/
- The Greatest Salesman in The World - Og Mandino
- 'Death in Venice' by Thomas Mann. A novella deeply reflecting on our cultural history. Mann's genius adds layer upon layer of meaning to each paragraph, sentence, word even. There's nothing superfluous and everything is there for a reason. It was quite a learning curve for me. Very inspiring!
- Work Like a Woman by Mary PortasThis book empowered me to speak out about inequalities in my surroundings and gave me the confidence in the way I work, which I believe secured me my dream job.
- How to win friends and influence people.I was given it by my grandfather when I was a teenager. I learned an important lesson - be interested in other people.It led to a much more interesting and hopefully less selfish life!
- Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl. It is a truly unique book chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, but even more so, the thing that kept him and others going. It is about he power of having a 'Why', a meaning in life, even in the direst of circumstances.
- Seneca- On the Shortness of Life.
- quiet by susan cain
- A serious game changer for me was the book 'The Power of Now' by Eckhart Tolle. This book taught me the value of living in the now, which in turn effected both my work and personal ethics and for allowing me to be more efficient.A free link to download the book is below:https://files.shroomery.org/cms/6584522-EckhartTolle-ThePowerOfNow.pdf
- The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing - Bronnie Ware
- Becoming By Michelle Obama
- The Four Hour Work Week - Tim Ferriss
- LOADS of recommends, but start with:- The Inevitable- Understanding the 12 Technological forces that will impact the future by Kevin Kelly.- The Leader without a title: Robin Sharma.
- 101 essays that will change the way you think by Brianna Weist
- power of now
- A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle!
- Hmmmm.... so hard to pick just one.1. The man who planted trees - Jean Giono. A short tale about grace, transformation and human potential.2. the Snow Goose - Paul Gallico. A fable penned during some of the darkest days of the last century.3. Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman. The author imagines Einstein (as he finds his way towards the most revolutionary idea in science) dreaming up versions of Earth where time behaves in different way. Exquisite.Anyone of those will find a little place in your mind and nudge you just when you need it.
- Far too many to narrow it to one I'm afraid - these continue to stick with me though:Shantaram: David Gregory RobertsDo Android Dream of Electric Sheep: Philip K DickFight Club: Chuck PalahniukThe Art of War: Sun TzuOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Ken KeseyBe More Pirate: Sam Conniff AllendeDo Story: Bobette Buster
- The Fountainhead.
- Children of Blood and Bone (Not sure if you're looking for fiction)But it's an amazing book. The first African Young Adult Fantasy book I have read. It's so so good
- Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
- Alessandro Baricco - Ocean Sea
- Hadrian's Memoirs by Marguerite Youcernar
- Making Ideas Happen - Scott Belsky a must read for every creative person!
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