Another Week In the Books

𝗪𝐄𝐄𝐊 𝐎𝐅 0𝟓/27 - 06/02

-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬⁣

* “The Road to Unfreedom” while reading “The Assault on Intelligence”

* “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” while reading “Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass”

* “The One Thing” while reading “A Curious Mind”

* “Compound Effect” while reading “A Curious Mind”

* “When I stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead”  while reading “A Curious Mind”

-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐈’𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠⁣

* “Crushing” by T.D. Jakes

* “Infinity” by Jonathan Hickman

* “Happier” by Tal Ben-Shahar

-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐈 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝⁣

* “Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass” by Frederick Douglass

* “The Assault on Intelligence” Michael Hayden

* “Show Your Work!” By Austin Kleon

* “Unlearn” by Humble the Poet

* “A Curious Mind” by Brian Grazer

-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭⁣

* The Age of Surveillance by Shoshana Zuboff (James Altucher)

* Frederick Douglass by David Blight (BooksandBeers)

* The Game of Nations by Miles Copeland (Books of Titans)

* The siege of Mecca by Yaroslav Trofimov(Books of Titans)

* Saudi, Inc. by Ellen Wald (Books of Titans)

* Barracoon by Zora Hurston (B&N)

* The American Spirit by David McCullough (B&N)

-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭⁣

* EconTalk with David Epstein

* James Altucher Show with Robert McNamee

* Making Sense with Adam Grant

-𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐬⁣

* Books for month: 2

* Pages for month: 544

* Books for year: 99

* Pages for year: 24,815

-My 2018 stats: http://bit.ly/2CN571b

-2019 Reading Challenge: http://bit.ly/2R5PB9h

-Want To Read List: http://bit.ly/2EJ27RD

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𝗪𝐄𝐄𝐊 𝐎𝐅 𝟓/20-𝟓/26

-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬⁣

* “The Filter Bubble” while reading “Zucked” 

* “The Road to Unfreedom” while reading “Zucked”

* “Thinking, fast and slow” while reading “Zucked”

* “Principles” while reading “Trillion Dollar Coach”

* “Radical Candor” while reading “Trillion Dollar Coach”

-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐈’𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠⁣

* “The Assault on Intelligence” Michael Hayden

* Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

* Crushing by T.D. Jakes

* Infinity by Jonathan Hickman

-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐈 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝⁣

* Black Panther Vol.1 by Christopher Priest

* Zucked by Roger McNamee

* The Four Horsemen by Christopher Hitchens

* The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino

* Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe⁣

* Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt

-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭⁣

* The New Right by Michael Malice (JRE)

* Move fat and Break Things by Jonathan Taplin (Zucked)

* World Without Mind (Zucked)

* The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick (Zucked)

* Brotopia by Emily Chang (Zucked)

* The Circle by Dave Eggers (Zucked)

* After On by Rob Reid (Zucked)

* Irresistible by Adam Alter (Zucked)

* Glow Kids by Nicholas Kardaras (Zucked)

* It’s Complicated by Danah Boyd (Zucked)

* Twitter and Tear Gas by Zeynep Tufekci (Zucked)

* Messing with the Enemy by Clint West (Zucked)

* Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier (Zucked)

* Mindhunter by John Douglas (JRE)

* The Upstarts by Brad Stone (The Everything Store)

* Automate This by Christopher Steiner (Customer bought)

-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭⁣

* JRE with Michael Malice

* James Altucher with Rich Karlgaard

-𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐬⁣

* Books for month: 20

* Pages for month: 5,028

* Books for year: 94

* Pages for year: 23,505

 -My 2018 stats: http://bit.ly/2CN571b

-2019 Reading Challenge: http://bit.ly/2R5PB9h

-Want To Read List: http://bit.ly/2EJ27RD

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-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬⁣

* “Can't Hurt Me” while reading “Crushing”

* “Antifragile” while reading “Crushing”

* “Can't Hurt Me” while reading “Existentialism is a Humanism”

* “Mindset” while reading “Existentialism is a Humanism”

-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐈’𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠⁣

* Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe⁣

* Black Panther by Christopher Priest

* Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

* Zucked by Roger McNamee

-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐈 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝⁣

* Adulthood Is a Myth by Sarah Andersen

* Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon⁣

* Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conran⁣

* Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre⁣

* Crushing by T.D. Jakes

-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭⁣

* God in the ICU by Dave Walker

* Conscious by Annaka 

* No Sweat by Michelle Segar 

* The Tools by Phil Stutz

* Awareness by Anthony de Mello

* The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman

* Jaws by Sandra Kahn

* The assault on Intelligence by Michael Hayden

* The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre

-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭⁣

* Aubrey Marcus with Mark Manson

* Impact Theory with Mark Manson

* JRE with Annie Jacobsen

-𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐬⁣

* Books for month: 14

* Pages for month: 3,294⁣

* Books for year: 88

* Pages for year: 21,771

-My 2018 stats: http://bit.ly/2CN571b

-2019 Reading Challenge: http://bit.ly/2R5PB9h

-Want To Read List: http://bit.ly/2EJ27RD

-Instagram: bit.ly/2rglmg9

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WEEK OF 5/6-5/12

-Book Thoughts

* “Open” by Andre Agassi while reading “The Great Alone”

* “The Great Gatsby” while reading “The Great Alone”

* “Sh*t My Dad Says” while reading “Dad Is Fat”

* “Trust me, I’m Lying” while reading “The Filter Bubble”

-Books I’m reading

* Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conran

* Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

* Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre

* Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 

-Books I finished

* The Everything Store by Brad Stone

* Thanos: Redemption by Jim Starlin

* The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

* Dad Is Fat by Jim Gaffigan 

* The Barbarian Way by Erwin McManus

* The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser

* Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie

-Books added to Reading List

* The Remains of the Day

* Memos from the Chairman by Alan Greenberg

* The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick Brooks Jr.

* Lean Thinking by James Womack

* The Elephant in the Room by Tommy Tomlinson

* The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

* The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker

* The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

* Ghosts in the Schoolyard by Eve Ewing

* Eating Animals by Jonathan Foer

* Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt

-Books on Podcast

* School of Greatness with Mark Manson

* The James Altucher Show with Eric Schmidt

* Tim Ferriss with Derek Sivers

-Stats

* Books for month: 8

* Pages for month: 2,160

* Books for year: 82

* Pages for year: 20,637

-My 2018 stats: http://bit.ly/2CN571b

-2019 Reading Challenge: http://bit.ly/2R5PB9h

-Want To Read List: http://bit.ly/2EJ27RD

-Instagram: bit.ly/2rglmg9

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𝗪𝐄𝐄𝐊 𝐎𝐅 𝟒/𝟐𝟗-𝟓/𝟓⁣

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-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬⁣

* “Fight Club” while reading “Thanos: Infinity Abyss”⁣

* “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch while reading “The Unwinding of the Miracle”⁣

* “Educated,” “A Child Called It,” & “Glass House” while reading “The Great Alone” & “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”⁣

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-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐈’𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠⁣

* Thanos: Redemption by Jim Starlin⁣

* The Everything Store by Brad Stone⁣

* Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad ⁣

* The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah⁣

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-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐈 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝⁣

* The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams⁣

* Thanos: Infinity Abyss by Jim Starlin⁣

* The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne⁣

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-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭⁣

* Comedy Sex God by Pete Holmes⁣

* A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber⁣

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-𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭⁣

* 3 Books Podcast with Mark Manson⁣

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-𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐬⁣

* Books for month: 2⁣

* Pages for month: 400⁣

* Books for year: 76⁣

* Pages for year: 18,877

-My 2018 stats: http://bit.ly/2CN571b

-2019 Reading Challenge: http://bit.ly/2R5PB9h

-Want To Read List: http://bit.ly/2EJ27RD

-Instagram: bit.ly/2rglmg9

-Twitter: http://bit.ly/2joINAC

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WEEK OF 4/22-4/28

-Book Thoughts

* While Reading “The Everything Store” by Brad Stone I taught about “Elon Musk” by Ashlee Vance, “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson, and “Bad Blood” by John Carreyrou

-Books I’m reading

* The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams

* The Everything Store by Brad Stone

* Thanos: Infinity Abyss by Jim Starlin

-Books I finished

* How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky

* Shit my dad says by Justin Halpern

* Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

-Books added to Reading List

* The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer

* Small Giants by Bo Burlington

* Dad Is Fat by Jim Gaffigan

* What If? by Randall Munroe

* Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides

* The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer

* Dropping Ashes on the Buddha by Stephen Mitchell

* Hard time by Shaun Attwood

* Grandma Gatewood’s Walk by Ben Montgomery

* The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

* Everyday by David Levithan

* A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

* The Four Horsemen by Christopher Hitchens

-Books on Podcast

* Joe Rogan with Graham Hancock

* Tim Ferris with Amanda Palmer

* Tim Ferris with Kevin Systrom 

* Valuetainment with Shaun Attwood

-Stats

* Books for month: 18

* Pages for month: 4,431

* Books for year: 73

* Pages for year: 18,112

-My 2018 stats: http://bit.ly/2CN571b

-2019 Reading Challenge: http://bit.ly/2R5PB9h

-Want To Read List: http://bit.ly/2EJ27RD

-Instagram: bit.ly/2rglmg9

-Twitter: http://bit.ly/2joINAC

-Facebook: http://bit.ly/2DfYDZH

𝗪𝐄𝐄𝐊 𝐎𝐅 𝟒/𝟏𝟓-𝟒/𝟐𝟏⁣

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𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬⁣

* David and Goliath for Running for my life⁣

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𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐈’𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠⁣

* Shit my dad says by Justin Halpern⁣

* Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk⁣

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𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐈 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝⁣

* The compass of pleasure by David Linden⁣

* The Pearl by John Steinbeck ⁣

* Running for my life by Lopez Lomong⁣

* Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi⁣

* The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder⁣

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𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭⁣

* The 5AM Club by Robin Sharma⁣

* The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King⁣

* Adulthood is a Myth by Sarah Andersen⁣

* Where the winds leads by Dr Vinh Chung⁣

* News of the World by Paulette Jiles⁣

* The Big Burn by Timothy Egan⁣

* Manic by Terri Cheney ⁣

* Zealot by Reza Aslan⁣

* Maid by Stephanie Land⁣

* Nickel and Dime by Barbara Ehrenreich⁣

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𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭⁣

* Impact Theory podcast with Robin Sharma ⁣

* Aubrey Marcus Podcast with Joe Rogan⁣

* School of Greatness Podcast with Jason Silva⁣

* Jordan Peterson Podcast Lecture June 27, 2018⁣

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𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐬⁣

* Books for month: 15⁣

* Pages for month: 3,728⁣

* Books for the year: 70⁣

* Pages for the year: 17,409⁣

-My 2018 stats: http://bit.ly/2CN571b

-2019 Reading Challenge: http://bit.ly/2R5PB9h

-Want To Read List: http://bit.ly/2EJ27RD

-Instagram: bit.ly/2rglmg9

-Twitter: http://bit.ly/2joINAC

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In this episode, I give My 3 Thoughts on the book "Can't Hurt Me" by David Goggins, which are: 

1. The gift of suffering

2. 40% Rule

3. Own the truth 

-My 2018 stats: http://bit.ly/2CN571b

-2019 Reading Challenge: http://bit.ly/2R5PB9h

-Want To Read List: http://bit.ly/2EJ27RD

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In this episode, I give My 3 Thoughts on the book "This Is Marketing" by Seth Godin, which are:

1. Direct and Branding

2. Status and Affiliation

3. Fulfilling a desire 

-My 2018 stats: http://bit.ly/2CN571b

-2019 Reading Challenge: http://bit.ly/2R5PB9h

-Want To Read List: http://bit.ly/2EJ27RD

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In this episode, I give "My 3 Thoughts" on the book "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson, which are:

1. Injustice

2. Mental illness

3. Documenting the journey 

-My 2018 stats: http://bit.ly/2CN571b

-2019 Reading Challenge: http://bit.ly/2R5PB9h

-Want To Read List: http://bit.ly/2EJ27RD

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In this episode, I give "My 3 Thoughts" on the book "The Laws of Human Nature" by Robert Greene, which are:

1. Not much has changed

2. This is for the reader

3. The complexity of human nature 

-My 2018 stats: http://bit.ly/2CN571b

-2019 Reading Challenge: http://bit.ly/2R5PB9h

-Want To Read List: http://bit.ly/2EJ27RD

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In this episode, I talk about the "top 5 books of the 215 books I read in 2018" which are:

1. "Bad Blood" by John Carreyrou

2. "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson

3. "Educated" by Tara Westover

4. "Elon Musk" by Ashlee Vance

5. "The Third Door" by Alex Banayan

-My 2018 stats: http://bit.ly/2CN571b

-2019 Reading Challenge: http://bit.ly/2R5PB9h

-Want To Read List: http://bit.ly/2EJ27RD

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In this episode, I give "My 3 Thoughts" on the book "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson, which are:

1. 1893 World Fair

2. Creativity of Writing

3. Deception of Evil 

-My 2018 stats: http://bit.ly/2CN571b

-2019 Reading Challenge: http://bit.ly/2R5PB9h

-Want To Read List: http://bit.ly/2EJ27RD

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In this episode, I talk about how I, a high school dropout, read 216 books in 2018 by:

1. Reading a physical book for 1 hour a day

2. Listening to audiobooks daily while doing other things

3. Audiobooks are for high page count books and physical books for short page count books

4. Increasing narration speed

5. Re-reading books

6. Reading widely

-My 2018 stats: http://bit.ly/2CN571b

-2019 Reading Challenge: http://bit.ly/2R5PB9h

-Want To Read List: http://bit.ly/2EJ27RD

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In this episode, I give "My 3 Thoughts" of the book "Black Edge" by Sheelah Kolhatkar, which are:

1. A brief history of Hedge Funds

2. Everyone was doing it

3. Having good lawyers 

-My 2017 stats: http://bit.ly/2r3WTOp

-2018 Reading Challange: http://bit.ly/2DdJDeZ

-Want To Read List: http://bit.ly/2EJ27RD

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In this episode, I give "My 3 Thoughts" of the book "The Fifth Risk" by Michael Lewis, which are: 1. Trump sort of delivers on some of his promises 2. The unknown risk 3. Project Management 

-My 2017 stats: http://bit.ly/2r3WTOp 

-2018 Reading Challange: http://bit.ly/2DdJDeZ 

-Want To Read List: http://bit.ly/2EJ27RD 

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In this episode, I talk about 10 aspects of "The Dip" that leads you to mastery, which are: 

1. "The Dip" adds extraordinary benefits 

2. "The Dip" controls everything in life worth doing 

3. "The Dip" creates scarcity 4. "The Dip" insulates you from competition 

5. "The Dip" is an opportunity 

6. Know that you are facing "The Dip" 

7. Quitting "The Dip" well turn you into a serial quitter 

8. Find a steep Dip 

9. Keep going when "The Dip" is expecting you to stop 

10. "The Dip" is an opportunity to create something extraordinary 

Books referenced: - "The Dip" by Seth Godin 

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