Physiology / Physical & Mental Health & Performance | |
Lifespan: Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To by David A. Sinclair | |
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia | |
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers A massive tome. You can read it cover to cover, like I did, or, as Tim recommends, pick and choose chapters out of the Healthy, Wealthy and Wise sections
The 4 Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex and Becoming Superhuman
by Timothy Ferriss
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The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance by Steven Kotler | |
Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age by Sanjay Gupta | |
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky From the celebrated neurobiologist and primatologist, a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behaviour, both good and bad, and an answer to the question: Why do we do the things we do? | |
Black Box Thinking: Marginal Gains and the Secrets of High Performance
Bounce: The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice by Matthew Syed
Matthew Syed is a half Welsh, half Pakistani, British journalist, author and broadcaster. He was a table tennis international champion, 3x men’s singles champion at the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships (in 1997, 2000 and 2001), and also competed for Great Britain in two Olympic Games, at Barcelona in 1992 and at Sydney in 2000. |
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Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein | |
The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. by Daniel Coyle | |
Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson | |
Super Human: The Bulletproof Plan to Age Backward and Maybe Even Live Forever by Dave Asprey | |
The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition
The Blind Watchmaker
by Dr Richard Dawkins |
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Psychology and Emotional Intelligence | |
The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance by Josh Waitzkin Waitzkin, an eight-time National Chess Champion in his youth, was the subject of the book and movie Searching for Bobby Fischer. At eighteen, he published his first book, Josh Waitzkin’s Attacking Chess. Now a martial arts champion, he holds a combined twenty-one National Championship titles in addition to several World Championship titles. | |
Grit: Why passion and resilience are the secrets to success by Angela Duckworth In her late twenties, Angela left a demanding job as a management consultant to teach maths to seventh graders in the New York City public schools. Several years in the classroom taught her that effort was tremendously important to success. To begin to solve the mystery of why some people work so much harder and longer than others, Angela entered the PhD program in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is now a professor. She is also a 2013 MacArthur fellow and founder and scientific director of the Character Lab. | |
Mindset: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential by Dr Carol Dweck | |
The Chimp Paradox: The Mind Management Program to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence, and Happiness by Dr. Steve Peters | |
The Tools: 5 Tools to Help You Find Courage, Creativity, and Willpower–and Inspire You to Live Life in Forward Motion by Dr Phil Stutz and Barry Michels | |
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D. | |
Psycho-Cybergenetics by Maxwell Maltz, Introduction and Commentary by Matt Furey | |
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson | |
Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers | |
High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way by Brendan Burchard | |
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuition Deceives Us by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons | |
The Laws of Human Nature
Mastery
The 48 Laws Of Power
The Art Of Seduction
by Robert Greene |
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Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert B. Cialdini, PhD | |
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz | |
The Art of War by Sun Tzu | |
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles A succinct, engaging, and practical guide for succeeding in any creative sphere, The War of Art is nothing less than Sun-Tzu for the soul. by Steven Pressfield | |
The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan | |
Yes! 50 Secrets from the Science of Persuasion by Noah J. Goldstein, Steve J. Martin and Robert B. Cialdini | |
The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything … Fast by Josh Kaufman | |
Rules of the Game
by Neil Strauss | |
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Sean Pratt and Bessel A. van der Kolk | |
Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig | |
Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink | |
Connect!: How to Inspire, Influence and Energise Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime by Simon Lancaster | |
The Luck Factor: The Scientific Study of the Lucky Mind
59 Seconds: Think A Little, Change A Lot
by Richard Wiseman
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Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and Impact by Phil M Jones | |
Sociology | |
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown | |
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by Yuval Noah Harari (Hebrew: יובל נח הררי) Harari is Israeli historian and a tenured professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. ‘ Sapiens’ is Bill Gate‘s favourite book and is on a lot of recommended reading lists. It is the 3rd most Recommended and Gifted books of guests on The Tim Ferriss Show as listed in his book ‘Tools of Titans’ (see above) |
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Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger From the author of THE PERFECT STORM and WAR comes a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go home. Tribe is a look at post-traumatic stress disorder and the challenges veterans face returning to society. Using his background in anthropology, Sebastian Junger argues that the problem lies not with vets or with the trauma they’ve suffered, but with the society to which they are trying to return.
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The Captain Class: A New Theory of Leadership by Sam Walker | |
Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam Grant, PhD | |
Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships by Christopher Ryan and Allyson Johnson | |
The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships by Neil Strauss | |
Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias by Pragya Agarwal | |
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed | |
Spirituality | |
The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett; Stephen Fry (Narrator) | |
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris Dr. Sam Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA. | |
Philosophy | |
The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage by Ryan Holiday | | |
Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent by Ryan Holiday | | |
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius | |
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu | |
Letters from a Stoic
On the Shortness of Life
by Sénéca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) |
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The Republic by Plato | |
Economics, Money and Business Skills | |
Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio Ray Dalio is the founder and co-chairman of Bridgewater Associates, which, over the last forty years, has become the largest and best performing hedge fund in the world. Dalio has appeared on the Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world as well as the Bloomberg Markets list of the 50 most influential people. He lives with his family in Connecticut. | |
Money: Master the Game 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom by Tony Robbins | |
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
This classic, written in the dark ages when your granddaddy was a young man, before TV, let alone the internet (yes, a time did exist), still rings true today. A lot of the information has become cliche because it is so well known and well read, but I often say, ‘Something becomes cliche because its true’. It was on my reading list for a while then I was chatting to my cousin about some stuff I was going through at work, and she basically implied that I needed to get some people skills then pulled this book off her shelf, loaned it to me, and told me that she regularly goes back to it when she is having trouble getting what she wants. If family can’t hit the BS button on you then point you in the right the direction then who can? | |
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
Horowitz is the co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that has invested in Airbnb, GitHub, Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter. Previously, he was cofounder and CEO of Opsware, formerly Loudcloud, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007. Horowitz writes about his experiences and insights from his career as a computer science student, software engineer, cofounder, CEO, and investor. | |
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz | |
Sell or Be Sold: How to Get Your Way in Business and in Life by Grant Cardone | |
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman | |
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Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill | |
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin | |
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter Drucker | |
Biographies, Autobiographies and Journalism | |
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
Maybe it was a grandparent or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly 20 years ago. Mitch lost track of this mentor. Mitch Albom rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man’s life. Knowing he was dying of ALS, or motor neurone disease, Morrie visited Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final “class”: lessons in how to live. | |
Between the World and Me: Notes on the First 150 Years in America by Ta-Nehisi Coates
This is a large open letter to his son. Not the usual book you’d expect a white Aussie, living in London, would read but it was an education on race relations in the USA, and I could relate to it as a man who grew up in the ’90s, had to find his way in this world, and now is of an age where he reflects and thinks about what he wants to pass on to the next generations. | |
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman | |
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival | |
Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way by Richard Branson | |
Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger | |
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss | |
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger | |
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson | |
The Founders: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and the Company that Made the Modern Internet by Jimmy Soni | |