Richest Man in Babylon – Financial Advisors Recommend

NEED Annotation – Concept highlihgthing in paper, what problem did this solve, what differentiates from other books

NEED Book then link to page w actionable steps

Framework to be acceptable human (6 books) – numbered bc build on each other

1. 4000 Weeks
2. 12 Rules
3. Richest Man in Babylon – How to make money. Not enough money, financial struggles. Financial Advisors recommend
4. Die w Zero – Helped me w hyper frugality. You’re always going to be working to make more money to acheive wealth. What the fuck is wealth to you. There’s a compelling story of a dude who has $4 billion and keeps saying – I’ll retire next year. He doesn’t. We continue to live the life of the habits we build.
5. Essentialism
6. Never Split – Incredibly useful.

• Can’t Hurt Me

Highly Recommend

• Richest Man in Babylon
• Ikigai – Not the one-stop-shop to solving all your problems but a short, useful read on fulfilling life
• Happiness Hypothesis
• Atomic Habits

Every single one of these books improved my life. I wish I started reading books that solved my problems earlier as the most influential were the ones that addressed a problem at that very moment.

• Greatest of All Time
  
• Girls
• Happy – Creating a Customized Life
• Health – (For discipline see resilience)
  • Body Dismorphia
  • Sleep
  • Food
  • Discipline
• Resilient – Become a savage
• Climbing/Outdoors
• Miscellaneous Self Help
• Money – Struggled Relationship w Money (Frugal or Spendy)
  • Business
• Psychology
  • Human Behavior/Negotiations/Relationships/How to Argue/Manipulate- If argue w ppl a lot or quality relationships
  • Understanding your Mind & How you Work – Understanding how you fit in
• Innovation
• Self Help – Literally see know issue w this. Tactics ppl use to improve life
• Leadership – If in charge of People

Intent: Give ppl ability to solve their own problems. Books I would rec to ppl to be basic functioning humans = top 5. Rest are recs to solve own problems – need to be findable.

Ppl could type problems into amazon but have no way of knowing if the book will actually solve their probs. This gives Colin’s stamp of approval. Vetted thru me or by extension my friends as it solves their problems

Top 5

• 4000 Weeks – prioritizing what’s what. best decision making.
  • This book was the nail in the coffin getting me to realize there’s only a finite amount of time on this Earth, we won’t get to read all the books we want to, yet I can use books to solve problems I have right now. How do I prioritize those? What’s my most immediate problem? Someone else has already solved it, why not learn from them?
• 12 Rules for Life
• Never Split the Difference
• Richest Man in Babylon
• Die With Zero
• Essentialism – prioritizing what’s important in life. only do important
• Meditations

A Custom Life

Understand Your Mind

• Please Understand Me by Kiersey
  • Unbelievably validating. As and MBTI INTP (for whatever weight that carries) this book, and specifically this passage made the whole world click
• 5 Frames of Mind rec by Robert Greene
• Innovation Code by Jeff DeGraff

Breaking Mental Chains

1. Courage to be Disliked
   • Delightful book for recovering people pleasers
   • Meaghanne’s book – Quit blindly following gold stars
   • Breaking childhood trauma and relations w parents – only affects you as much as u let it
2. Breaking the Habits of Being Yourself Dr. Joe Dispenza
   • Recommended this by a therapist.
3. Excellent Sheep
   • We’re trotting down the path of a pre-downloaded path. This book helps to understand and become aware the problem even exists. Then can start working way out. The system is set up against you. Education as a whole isn’t set up to optimize helping the individual. Validating for the hardworking individuals who’ve been doing what they’ve been told was ‘the right thing’ this whole time. Not super practical, but useful to understand the origins of our drive.
4. How to Change Your Mind psychedelics

Build a Better Future

1. Show Your Work by Austin Kleon
   • Super quick, very worth it
2. 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
   • Gives a good mental reframe. Forward thinking. Tim points out the whole point of his book is to make himself obsolete
3. Crush It by Gary Vee
   • Practical points to implement. Gary’s energy you either love it or hate it. His passion and experience makes it hard to believe every crazy word he speaks. There are ways out.

Cont in the Business section.

Note: I cannot stress this enough – Study people you’re interested in. That’s the best way to create a custom life. You’ll slowly pull useful tidbits from people you’re inspired by and subtly craft your own dream version of reality.

Top Recommendations – Foundational – Catch all Problems

• Happiness Hypothesis
• Turn the Ship Around
• Instead of accumulating random knowledge, we’ll devour the books most applicable to our lives.

Read what’s applicable to your life.

Health

Sleep

1. Why We Sleep
2. Breath

Body Dysmorphia

1. The Mountain Is You

Food

• Eat to Live

• Courage to be Disliked – Helped to let go of the past. It’s a choice. Can affect. Can not. Interpersonal relationships. Dialogue between philosopher and a boy. Do you have a bad relationship with your parents? No. How to feel you have value.

Money

Business

Resilience

1. Can’t Hurt Me – This dude showed that you can crawl your way out of any hell hole that exists. David Goggins auto biography details one of the most hellish childhoods and outlines how he crawls himself out. The book touches on racism, domestic abusive, overeating, household growing up.
   
   It gave me incredible relief to know that somebody could crawl out of such a deep hell hole. He somehow combines the most riveting story with some tips bordering self-help.
   
   Dealing with any problem ever. Learning in school. Military leadership. Fitting in. Racism. Domestic Abuse.

Unbroken – Story.

• Kiss or Kill –
• Gates of Fire –
• 127 Hours –

These are categories I didn’t even know were categories. Books have done a beautiful job at helping me solve my problems. Perhaps they’ll help you the same.

I am putting this reading list together days after my 24th birthday. Within the past year, year and a half I’ve seriously stepped into myself, my confidence, and direction in life. I’ll sprinkle some of the stories throughout, but am living in Japan, dating a beautiful girl, and fascinated with the things I’m building. Ultimately, I’d say I’m pretty happy.

In a few years I imagine I’ll be much deeper into the exploration of the world. I’ve dug myself out of a bit of a mental hell, having used to hate being who I was. I put this list together to help young folks like myself have a way out. These are the books I have read and have revolutionized my perspective on the world.