10 Books to Help You Become the Leader This World Needs

Matt Karamazov
17 min readOct 8, 2024

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Tonight’s newsletter features three of my absolute favorite books of all-time (Meditations, Long Walk to Freedom, and Napoleon: A Life), as well as seven others that will help you develop yourself into the leader this world needs (and your community, organization, and family deserves).

As always, just skip around and pick out whichever books look interesting, but below I’ve got my completes notes from all of them, as well my full summaries.

I’m about to send this month’s Patreon book notes update as well, which is where you can find my notes from the 1,317 books I’ve read since 2014.

Just like Marcus Aurelius and his Meditations, I never intended to publish them, so now I’m going back and updating and expanding the earliest ones so that they’ll be even more valuable to you.

It’s an ongoing project, but you can find all my book notes here.

In This Issue of The Reading Life, We’ve Got:

📜 Book Quote of the Day

📚 The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, by John C. Maxwell

📚 Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius

📚 The Essential Wooden, by John Wooden and Steve Jamison

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Matt Karamazov
Matt Karamazov

Written by Matt Karamazov

🥇 The Most Disciplined Man on the Planet 📚 Read 1,302 Books in Just 10 Years 💪🏻 Strong Believer in Human Potential ⤵️ https://thereadinglife.beehiiv.com/