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The Wisdom Library

60+ transformative books that shaped my journey: from leadership and investment to spirituality, history, and strategy. Each one a teacher. Each one a portal.

🌟 Leadership & Growth

High Performance Habits

Brendon Burchard

Essential performance framework that I've read 3-5 times. Continues to reveal new insights with each reading.

Read 3-5 times
📝 My go-to framework. Have the notebook 2X. This book fundamentally changed how I approach performance.

The Leadership Challenge

Kouzes & Posner

One of the two most impactful books for leadership and developing others.

Most Impactful
📝 Transformed my understanding of leadership. This and True North shaped my entire leadership philosophy.

True North

Bill George

Leadership compass and authentic direction finding.

Leadership Core
📝 Along with The Leadership Challenge, this was the most impactful for my leadership development.

The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth

John C. Maxwell

Read multiple times. Fundamental growth principles that continue to guide me.

Multiple Reads

The First 90 Days

Michael Watkins

My essential companion for every role transition.

Every Transition
📝 I've read this every time I've transitioned into a new team, taken over a team, or moved into any other role.

Five Levels of Leadership

John C. Maxwell

Leadership progression model for growing influence.

Leadership

Extreme Ownership

Jocko Willink & Leif Babin

Military leadership principles applied to business and life.

Great Read

7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen Covey

Timeless principles for personal and interpersonal effectiveness.

Classic

💰 Investment & Business

Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Robert Kiyosaki

My gateway to investing. Started my entire investment journey.

Investment Gateway
📝 This book got me into investing. Then discovered the Billionaires podcast, which reviewed investing books. That's how I grew my investment library and created my thesis.

Tax-Free Wealth

Tom Wheelwright

Rich Dad Advisors series on strategic tax planning.

Financial Strategy

I Will Teach You to Be Rich

Ramit Sethi

Practical wealth building and financial systems.

Practical Guide

Business for the Glory of God

Wayne Grudem

Sacred approach to business and commerce.

Sacred Business

The Compound Effect

Darren Hardy

Incremental success through consistent action.

Consistency

Blitzscaling

Reid Hoffman

Rapid growth strategies for startups and enterprises.

Growth Strategy

Billion Dollar Brand Club

Lawrence Ingrassia

Modern brand building in the digital age.

Branding

The Greatest Salesman in the World

Og Mandino

The ONLY sales book in my library that I gravitate towards.

Sales Philosophy
📝 Honestly, a lot of the sales books in my library I don't care for. They don't align with my integrity. This is the exception.

Learning from the Giants

Various

Investment wisdom from legendary investors.

Investment

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

Nike founder's memoir of building an empire.

Entrepreneurship

Trailblazer

Marc Benioff

Salesforce story and stakeholder capitalism.

Business

🔮 Spiritual & Personal Development

The Artist's Way

Julia Cameron

A lifelong journey I'm still on. Read twice, with workbook.

Lifelong Work
📝 "I'll continue to work on this book for probably the rest of my life. I don't think I fully comprehend it yet, even though I've read it twice and have the accompanying workbook."

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

The first fictional book I read as an adult in quite some time.

Gateway Fiction
📝 Opened me back up to the power of story and fiction after years of non-fiction focus. Several Paulo Coelho books followed.

Becoming Supernatural

Dr. Joe Dispenza

Consciousness and human potential transformation.

Transformation

The Power of Intention

Wayne Dyer

Manifestation and purposeful living.

Manifestation

Awareness

Anthony de Mello

Read many, many times. Continue to learn from it.

Multiple Reads
📝 Definitely a book that I've read many times and I continue to learn from. There's always something new to discover in it.

Facing Love Addiction

Pia Mellody

Understanding enmeshment in relationships.

Healing
📝 Helped a lot with me learning what enmeshment is and how it can rear its face in relationships.

Fathered by God

John Eldredge

Spiritual masculine development journey.

Spiritual

Understanding the Bible

Various

Sacred text comprehension and study.

Sacred Texts

Unstuff Your Life

Andrew Mellen

Breaking bad habits from upbringing.

Declutter
📝 Definitely one that helped, given that I didn't realize I developed a lot of bad habits from my upbringing and family leading to having more than what I actually needed.

The Power of NO

James Altucher

Boundary setting and focus through saying no.

Boundaries

Off Balance

Matthew Kelly

Finding rhythm instead of balance in life.

Life Design

It Starts With Food

Melissa & Dallas Hartwig

Understanding food's impact on body and mind.

Health

🏺 History & Culture

1453

Roger Crowley

Fall of Constantinople. Historical fascination.

Historical
📝 Part of my vision: a curated historical experience compiled by different authors covering different periods.

Open Veins of Latin America

Eduardo Galeano

Economic history and exploitation in Latin America.

Cultural History

The Fall of the Ottomans

Eugene Rogan

Empire's decline and World War I.

Empire

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford

Mongol empire's global impact and legacy.

World History

The House of Wisdom

Jim Al-Khalili

Islamic Golden Age scholarship and innovation.

Scholarship
📝 Along with 1453, part of my vision for curated historical experiences.

Hagakure

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

The samurai way of life. I still practice its teachings.

Way of Life
📝 "I enjoy and respect the samurai way of life. Found it very fascinating and still exercise a lot of the things that I learned within that book."

Greenlights

Matthew McConaughey

Life wisdom and personal philosophy memoir.

Biography

⚔️ Strategy & Psychology

33 Strategies of War

Robert Greene

Strategic thinking applied to modern challenges.

Strategy

The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

Classical power dynamics and influence.

Power

The Art of War

Sun Tzu

Ancient strategic wisdom for modern life.

Classic

The Willpower Instinct

Kelly McGonigal

Understanding why our brains work the way they work.

Brain Science
📝 "Great for someone like me who needs to understand why things are the way they are, why our brains work the way they work."

The Organized Mind

Daniel Levitin

Cognitive organization for the information age.

Organization
📝 "I haven't finished it, but every time I read it, I get a lot of good insights."

Atomic Habits

James Clear

Tiny changes, remarkable results through habit formation.

Habits

The Power of Habit

Charles Duhigg

Why we do what we do and how to change.

Psychology

Mindset

Carol Dweck

Growth vs fixed mindset psychology.

Psychology

Ego is the Enemy

Ryan Holiday

Overcoming ego obstacles to success.

Self-Mastery

Crossing the Chasm

Geoffrey Moore

Marketing and selling technology to mainstream.

Marketing

The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking

Burger & Starbird

Powerful mental frameworks for problem-solving.

Thinking

Start With Why

Simon Sinek

Purpose-driven leadership and inspiration.

Purpose

Managing Up

Various

Strategic relationship management with leadership.

Career

Happy Sexy Millionaire

Steven Bartlett

Redefining success and happiness.

Success

GAPS Selling

Keenan

Problem-centric selling methodology.

Sales

Getting to Yes

Fisher & Ury

Negotiating agreement without giving in.

Negotiation