The 4-Hour Work Week - by Tim Ferriss

"Escape the 9-5, live anywhere and join the New Rich"

The 4 Hour Work Week is about original thinking and living on your own terms. Most people growing up are presented with the options:

A) getting a job and working your ass off until you retire, or

B) working your ass off building a business, working 80 hours a week

This book presents Option C -Lifestyle Design.

Ferriss suggests that both of the typical options involve deferring happiness and enjoyment until we get the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow - either we sell our company for millions of dollars or we retire with millions of dollars in savings. Instead, the New Rich aim for excitement and profit throughout their whole lives, having the freedom and options to live like a millionaire even without a million dollars in the bank. This book is about optimising your life and work to get the most out of life.

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Dr John Demartini, is an American researcher, best selling author, international educator, public speaker in human behaviour.

He lives on a boat, travelling the world delivering his signature seminars. We caught him when he was in Melbourne and spoke face-to-face before attending his event later that night. In this interview we chat about living to your potential, building wealth by determining your values (and, like always, we tried to slip in a few 'devils advocate' questions about personal development).

Dr Demartini's website: https://drdemartini.com/

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The Four Agreements - by Don Miguel Ruiz

'A Toltec Wisdom Book'

As we've grown up, we've subconsciously made a bunch of agreements with ourselves. This agreements guide our behaviour - they act as an internal compass by which we decide what we do and don't do. But we never CHOSE these agreements. This book presents us with four agreements that we should make with ourselves in order to live a good life. Replacing our old agreements with these new four won't be easy, but it may be an important personal shift you can make.

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Gretchen Rubin is the author of some great books, like 'The Happiness Project', 'Happier At Home', 'Better Than Before' and 'The Four Tendencies'. Today she launches her brand new book: 'Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter and Organise to Make More Room for Happiness'. 

We spoke about happiness, habits, the benefits of having a dog, and how to best organise your physical space to remove the clutter and the mess to allow you to be happier and more productive.

Find Gretchen, her books, podcasts and other resources at: https://gretchenrubin.com/ 

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The Four Tendencies - by Gretchen Rubin

'The indispensable personality profiles that reveal how to make your life better (and other people's lives better, too)'

In analysing who people act or don't act, Gretchen Rubin found that it boiled down to one very important question: How do you respond to expectations? She found that depending on whether you tended to resist or meet both outer or inner expectations, you could be categorised as either an Upholder, Questioner, Obliger or Rebel.

After you understand who you are, you can set up systems and environments that will allow you to harness the strengths of your personality, combat the weaknesses, and build better lives.

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Presence - by Amy Cuddy

'Bringing your best self to your biggest challenges'

We want to perform our best in a job interview, but if we're constantly thinking 'I'm in a job interview', then we won't be our best selves. Having presence is about being present - having the comfort, confidence and self-assured enthusiasm to stop the constant inner monologue and feel powerful and self-assured. 

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Robert Greene is the author of some juggernaut books: The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law, Mastery, and The Laws of Human Nature.

Robert's work delves into the parts of ourselves we don't want to look at - envy, our dark side and our secret lust for power. He identifies the things below the surface that are driving us forward.

We asked Robert about the role of intuition, taking advantage of the zeitgeist and using humility as a tactic. He is the author of our favourite book and one of the greatest thinkers on the planet. Enjoy!

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The Laws of Human Nature - by Robert Greene. 

This is a phenomenal book, all about what we do and why we do it. It should be read to firstly identify what is driving your own behaviour, secondly to allow you to start to make some positive changes to your behaviour, then thirdly to begin to recognise what other people are doing and why they might be doing it.

In this episode, we're covering four of the laws:

 - Chapter 6: Elevate Your Perspective (The Law of Shortsightedness)

 - Chapter 8: Change Your Circumstances by Changing Your Attitude (The Law of Self-Sabotage)

 - Chapter 2: Transform Self-Love into Empathy (The Law of Narcissism)

 - Chapter 13: Advance with a Sense of Purpose (The Law of Aimlessness)

This book features quite highly in our "top 50 best books of all time" document. Check out top 50 to see where it lands: https://www.whatyouwilllearn.com/top50/

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The 5 Love Language - by Gary Chapman

'The secret to love that lasts'

With Valentines Day coming up, we thought we'd delve into the subject of love so you can heighten the experience with your date or your partner.

Psychologists have concluded that the need to feel loved is a primary human emotional need - without it you will be emotionally and socially challenged. However, we all experience the feeling of love differently and we all have certain things that make us feel loved. Gary Chapman has broken this down in to 5 'love languages' - we all have our own language, and we often can't understand or speak other languages. Every partner needs to feel loved which best communicated through one of the 5 Love Languages.

#1 - Words of Affirmation

#2 - Quality Time

#3 - Receiving Gifts

#4 - Acts of Service

#5 - Physical touch

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After a great conversation with Dr Karl 12 months ago, we again had the pleasure of joining him to discuss his newest book (his 44th book!) 'Vital Science'. We got a master class on the shift towards renewable energy, coal, energy storage solutions, climate change, and space. We hope you enjoy Dr Karl as much as we do!

Listen to our first episode with Dr Karl here: https://whatyouwilllearn.com/episode/authorinterview/doctorkarl/ 

Download our 'Top 50 Best Books of All Time' here: https://whatyouwilllearn.com/top50

Check out Dr Karl at his website: https://drkarl.com/ 

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