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Let me read it firstThe book teaches that understanding oneself is key to achieving full potential and emphasizes focusing on strengths, taking responsibility for relationships, and recognizing oneself as a knowledge worker.
The Defining Decade by Meg Jay explains why your twenties matter – and how to make the most of them now. I felt like the author has been talking to me through the stories and powerful insights shared in the book.
The Art of War is a great book for anyone interested in strategy, tactics and high-level management. It's quite hard to read for a beginner or a non-native English speaker but it's easy enough to get value for any reader.
An unorthodox book about career building. Highly recommended to college students, recent graduates, and people under 30 years old.
If you ever wanted to understand how luck works, this is the book you want to read. It presents a couple of very interesting ideas to understand luck, and how we can make it work in our lives.
Interesting book that teaches you the power of testing new things by developing “little bets”. Not a new concept for a lean entrepreneur, although this book is focused on the everyday life rather than to entrepreneurship.
If are a self-learner, and have no business background, this book teaches you basic concepts on starting, growing and managing any business.
A philosophy book about being a stoic in the 21st century. Interesting, well-writen and useful, anyone can benefit from this book.
A condensed version of The Talent Code. You'll learn the 52 principles of talent acquisition. Very interesting and to the point.
A book made of small nonelated essays, almost as if it was a blog, ranging from skill acquisition and skill development to happiness.
Positioning is a key business concept nobody understands. This book will teach you what it is and how to use it.
This book will teach you how to create your own startup, nail the problem it solves, and scale it. A terrific book.
The best book about analytics for startup that you’ll ever read. I can’t recommend it highly enough for tech entrepreneurs.
The perfect accompanying book for The Lean Startup, although more action-oriented than the former. It will teach you how to start a startup.
A marketing book for entrepreneurs and business owners that want to learn how to market their business like a pro. This book is all tactics, no B.S.
The book that changed the entrepreneurial world. It teaches you not only how to start a tech company, but how to think about them.
An interesting book that analyzes happiness from a psychological and phylosophical standpoint by an astounding philosopher.
The key to learn any skill is to define what you think is "good enough", and focus on the small parts that make that "good enough" skill.
A book that changed my life forever. Thanks to this book, I decided to start working on my skills, instead of focusing on “my passions.”
A great book that will teach you why you should focus on your habits (rather than the actions or outcomes), how to create and maintain them.
A true advertising classic that will teach you how to think as a professional advertiser.
Another book from Fried and DHH that teaches you how to think about business, life and your career. Unorthodox, highly usable, and unique.
If you are a growth hacker, you’ll love this book. It teaches you what some of the most famous and innovative startups of the last 5 to 10 years did to grow themselves.
Maximize Your Potential is a compilation of books. This book will teach you things like networking, developing new habits and skills, and re-creating your career.
Listening is one of the most important qualities anyone can have. However, most people don't know how to do it. So if you have trouble listening to other people, this is the book you want to read.
A manifesto to become a better person. Shocking, bold and unorthodox, this book will force you to think about yourself, who you are, and where you want to be.
A great short book that teaches you that you can get anything you want out of life if you do things your way (ergo the name of the book).
A must read for any tech entrepreneur. It explains the concept of the "Chasm"; the gap between the "early adopters" and mainstream customers.
Mindset by Carol Dweck will transform your thinking. It will show how many times you gave up in life because of the fixed mindset.
Learn what the rich teach their kids about money that the poor and middle class do not.
Detailed summary of a classic guide to modern day spiritual enlightenment.
This book explains how you can retrain your brain to boost serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphins levels.