Book #3 changed the way my mind worked forever — I experience mixed feelings whenever someone recommends a book or a song that came out years ago and which I’m just discovering now. One part of me is grateful for the recommendation, but another part of me says, “This came out years ago and I’m only just discovering it now?!” …

This book explains why the widening gap between rich and poor is a direct threat to our public spaces, and our shared humanity as well In the near future, society will be divided between the have-nots and the have-yachts. …

Most won’t understand — but they don’t have to This one’s for the obsessed. I’ve got a long, long way to go before I get anywhere close to what I consider “greatness” — at least where my potential is concerned. But I’m absolutely, fanatically, maniacally obsessed with getting there, and…

Reading one of the most fascinating writers of the 20th century will inevitably lead you to these 4 books The Nobel Prize-winning philosopher Albert Camus called her “the only great spirit of our time,” and popes and presidents and philosophers the world over have said pretty much the same thing. …

Your real life begins once you figure out what those things are. — “The overwhelming reality is: we live in a world where almost everything is worthless and a very few things are exceptionally valuable.” -Greg McKeown, Essentialism The 80/20 Principle asserts that a minority of causes, inputs, or efforts usually lead to a majority of the results, outputs, or rewards. Crucially, however…

The brilliant philosopher Simone Weil on why “the afflicted are not seen” “Compassion and gratitude come down from God, and when they are exchanged in a glance, God is present at the point where the eyes of those who give and of those who receive meet.” -Simone Weil, Love in…

Steven Pressfield on gaining the attention of the “Muse,” and building consistency in your life and work “The goddess doesn’t just want to know where we are. She wants to know what time we start and at what hour we finish. …

(Genius business strategy you can copy) If you’re getting close to the end of the book you’re currently reading and you haven’t decided what to read next, don’t worry. I’ve got you! I released two (count ’em, TWO) new YouTube videos this week, and in this one right here I…

Tens of thousands of people trust me to bring them the absolute best book recommendations I can each week — here are 5 instant classics! “Try searching Google’s library of digitized manuscripts for the phrase ‘these uncertain times,’ and you’ll find that it occurs over and over, in hundreds of…