I(20M) am third world immigrant to Canada and I decided to change my life for good when I decided to move to this country at age of 18. I decided to come to a smaller city so that the cost of living would be cheaper and I would be less distracted from partying and just drunk every weekend like most of the people of my age.
I came during covid and my school was online so I messed up the whole year. Did a minimum wage job. Payed my bills and barely made the ends meet and wasted my spare time on Netflix and porn.
But then I decided to change my life and at first it was not easy, as I would find myself goping back to same routines, habits and people(Which was frustrating). Then I bought a like 10 books in bulk, bought audiobooks (made financial commitment to reading) and things started to change.
The problem with me/ my generation is that we want ta quick fix and we just go to reddit forum or youtube and ask for a simple advice/ solution to a complex problem which requires serious coomitment to solving and don’t wanna be held accountable for decisions we need to take.
But reality is you need to take those decisions for yourself, learn and take more decsiosn -> decide -> see how the decision went(gather date) -> make more decisions and eventually get whereever you want to go.
First I would like to equip you with the right tools before I make you sign up for this marathon,
Books-> Depends on your choice among physical book or ebook.#hack1 -> Download any ebook from singlelogin(dot)re . Book reading app and format-> I prefer apple books as I can switch across my iPhone and Macbook easily.
Audiobooks -> Audiobooks are the best way to improve attention but they can be expensive as well even if you have the audible membership.
\#hack2 -> Download most of the audiobooks from findaudiobook(dot)com or#hack3 -> just simply search (‘name of the book’ full audiobook) on youtube and download it using any youtube to m4a converter online#hack4 -> you retention increases if you listen at faster speeds and read at the same time.(my current listening speed is 4x which I developed over the period of an year and you will get there soon as well)
Store all the audiobooks on cloud if you want to be convenient or justtransfer them to you phone from your computer
Apps to listen to audiobooks -Cloudbeats(can access all the cloud services, share bookmarks across platforms- iphone, android, mac)
Now the question is what to do if you cannot find any audiobook but you still want to listen to it:-> you use apps like speechify-> Use Windows app call balabolka – which is a free text to speech app and is super efficient as well
\->Now List of books along with the order of reading:
Stage 1(Stuck in the negative cycle)This is a stage where you start to take self improvement seriously and you want to chnage your life for good and it is the time to read some good foundational books which are gonna serve you in the long run.
\- Psycho-cybernetics
\- 4 Agreements
\- Atomic Habits
Stage 2 (Momentum)now you started to get some momentum and you want more:
health and fitness
\- Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body
\- Starting Strength
\- Eating Right
\- Sleepng right
\- Dopamine Nation
money
\- Rich dad poor dad(incase you’re living under the rock)
\- I will teach you to be rich
\- Psychology of money
relationships
\- How to Win friends and influence people
\- Way of the superior man
Stage 3(The real juice- books over here atart to get more juicy and give deeper insight and they have no order, go with your curiosity)
\- Managing Oneself
\- 100M OFFERS
\- 100M LEADS
\- Ray Dalio Triology(principles, Changing world order, navigating through big debt crysis)
\- Rober Cialdini (Influence, YES, Pre-Suasion)
\- Thinking Fast and Slow
\- Noise
\- Robert Greene all books(48 laws of power, laws of human nature, art of seduction, 33 strategies of war, mastery)
\- Nudge
\- Never Split the Difference
\- Crucial Conversations
\- E-Myth
\- Traction
\- Mastering RockefellerHabits, Scaling Up
\- Nassim Taleb’s Incerto(all 5 books)
\- Blue Ocean Strategy
\- Great Leads
\- Breakthrough Advertising
\- 10X Rule
\- Relentless
\- Evolutionary Psychology
\- Drive
\- The Mean Gene
\- Built to Last
\- Who- a method of hiring
\- Radical Candor
\- Way of the Wolf
\- Socratic Selling
Hope this gives you a good start and this list would be updated as I find more stuff. But this will give you enough direction to get you started and then your curiosity will take you to places you never imagined before.
The World is yours
by Green_Paint9824