- GlennValentin
2. Reading 50 books
Updated: Jun 15, 2020
The spark:
A fight with a girl I was terribly in love with. Looking in the mirror and noticing that I'm not as great as my ego thought. I'm falling short on relationships, a life with purpose, finances, health... the best thing to do? Learn how the world really works.
BRAVE:
Big: 50 books is a lot, almost 1 book a week, this means reading on average 45 minutes a day. That's a lot.
Right: The goal is to become a better person, to grow, to develop myself.
Attractive: Yes, I like reading. I'm looking forward to dive into the world of people like Tim Ferriss, Tony Robbins, Seth Godin... Visionary: I want to become a better version of myself. Readers are leaders, most of the people I look up to read a lot of books. I want to be like them. Emotional: There's little risk involved. But along the line, neuroticism would strike, boredom as well, but also incredibele insights.
The Struggle:
The hardest thing to do was to stay focused on triathlon, while making time for reading. As silly as it sounds, reading felt like the most important thing I could do in my life, in order to improve it. Some books were a real struggle as well, because they contained a lot of pages and/or were difficult to understand (How Not to Die; Money, master the game; Why zebra's don't get ulcers...)
The Reward:
Enormous insights. This is the list of the 50 books in order of most influential to me personally:

Garry Keller - The ONE Thing
David Goggins - Can’t hurt me
Timothy Ferriss - Tools of titans
Seth Godin - Linchpin
Rich Roll - Finding Ultra
John Assaraf - The answer
Wayne Dyer - Change your thoughts, change your life
Joe Dispenza - You are the placebo
David Schwartz - The magic of thinking big
Amanda Palmer - The art of asking
Dale Carnegie - How to win friends and influence people
Louise Hay - Heal your life
Scott Jurek - Eat and run
Max Lugavere - Genius foods
Robert Kiyosaki - Rich dad, poor dad
Michael Greger - How not to die
Tony Robbins - Awaken the giant within
Shawn Stevenson - Sleep smarter
Kelly Starrett - becoming a supple leopard
James Clear - atomic habits
Daniel Amen - making a good brain great
Chris Guillebeau - The $100 start-up
Steve House, Scott Johnston -Training for the new alpinism
Steve House, Scott Johnston, Killian Jornet - Training for the uphill athlete
Antoine de St-Exupéry - The small prince
YN Harari - Sapiens
Gary Chapman - The 5 love languages
Tucker Max - Book in a box method
Tony Robbins - Money, master the game
Vishen Lakhiani - The code of an extraordinary life
Brené Brown - Daring greatly
Timothy Ferriss - The 4-hour workweek
Simon Sinek - Start with why
Herman Hesse - Steppewolf
Jordan Peterson - 12 rules for life
Steven Kotler - Rise of superman
Peter Thiel - From zero to one
Paul Jarvis - Company of one
Ido Leffler, Lance Kalish - Get big fast and do more good
Killian Jornet - Courir ou mourir
Robert Sapolsky - Why zebra’s don’t get ulcers
Ross Edgley - World's fittest book
Reinhold Messner - my life at the summit
Ben Horowitz - The hard things about hard things
Chris Zadeh - monkey money mind
Chip and Dan Heath - Made to stick
Faith Harper - unfuck your brain
Adam Rutherford - Humanimal
John Paradox - Vegan keto
Alan Watts - become what you are
Lessons learned
A whole lot! Let's go into the world and learn them for real again!