12 Rules For Life - by Jordan Peterson

'An Antidote For Chaos'

This book launched in January 2018 and has been pretty much #1 on the charts. Most of the rules are pretty straight forward, some are a little cryptic, but all are necessary to apply to your own life.

1. Stand up straight with your shoulders back
2. Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping
3. Make friends with people who want the best for you
4. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today
5. Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them
6. Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world
7. Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)
8. Tell the truth – or, at least, don't lie
9. Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't
10. Be precise in your speech
11. Do not bother children when they are skateboarding
12. Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street

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Annie Duke is a former poker pro who has shifted her focus to decision making. She won the 2004 World Series of Poker and the 2010 National Heads-Up Poker Championship, amassing career winnings of $4m. Now, she is looking at why people make decisions that aren't in their long-term best interest, how we can gather more information information that would allow us to make better decisions, and how we distinguish between the elements of luck and skill in the outcomes of our decisions.

Check out our interview with Annie Duke, author of 'Thinking In Bets'. 

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Thinking In Bets - by Annie Duke

'Making smarter decisions when you don't have all the facts'

We make little decisions every single day. We also make bigger decisions regularly - moving house, changing jobs, investing in the stock market, starting/ending a relationship, and so on. In pretty much every case, we don't have all of the information we need, and there is always an element of luck in the outcome. This book is all about viewing every decision as a 'bet' so that we can make better decisions that will serve us better over the long term.

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We visited Peter Singer (AC), the world's most famous and most influential living philosopher. Singer's career started over four decades ago with the publication of his book 'Animal Liberation' in 1975. He essentially kicked off the animal rights movement and his since applied his utilitarian philosophy to things like charitable giving, poverty, and bioethics. He is currently the Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the Centre of Applied Philosophy at Melbourne University. 

Check him out at http://www.petersinger.info/ and at https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/ 

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The Life You Can Save - by Peter Singer

'How to play your part in ending world poverty'

If you're reading this book or listening to this podcast, your life is pretty good. Compared to billions of people in the world, we life a comfortable life and we don't have to worry about where our next meal is coming from or if a little mosquito bite could kill you. Singer shows us that we have a responsible to help end suffering and help lift others out of poverty. He also shows us that there are a lot of low-cost, high-impact things we can do and provides a template for the amount we should give. When will you start playing your part in ending world poverty?

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We spoke to Chris Kresser, a podcaster, blogger and an all round health detective. Looking at the trends in the healthcare budget for the world, we are in a bit of strife:

- chronic disease accounts for 7/10 deaths in the USA and for 86% of healthcare expenditure.

- number of deaths from Alzheimers has increased 89% since 2000

- more killed by chronic disease than cancer

The world healthcare model is failing due to bias (bullshit) in medical research, big pharma (greed) influence and broken payment models.

Chris is stepping up to the plate and trying to create a new model of healthcare. He is a super star. We hope you enjoy :)

Check him out here: https://chriskresser.com/

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Unconventional Medicine - by Chris Kresser

'Join the revolution to reinvent healthcare, reverse chronic disease, and create a practice you love'

There is so much information out there in the world of health, diet and lifestyle, but obesity rates in the western world are higher than ever (and rising!). With that brings a lot of chronic diseases that are reducing our quality of life, but are completely preventable. Kresser shows us all a new way forward: a healthcare revolution. 

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We spoke to Tom Peters, the father of the modern business book. Before 'In Search of Excellence' in 1982, most business information was contained textbooks or academic journals. But thankfully, engaging and insightful information is now available and digestible for everyone. 

Tom Peters just released a brand new book: 'The Excellence Dividend'. The message is the same as many of his previous works, because most big companies STILL haven't got the idea. 'People First' is Peters's key to success - the only way to get a thriving, growing organisation is to focus on people.

Check out Tom and his books at http://tompeters.com/ 

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In Search of Excellence - by Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman Jr

'Lessons from America's best run companies'

This is widely regarded as one of the very FIRST popular business and management books, the book that created the entire category and brought these ideas from the exclusive academic journals to the masses. 

Tom Peters and Bob Waterman worked in management consulting at McKinsey and wanted to find out what made an 'excellent' company. They found 8 common traits the excellent organisations focused on that average business neglected. This book was written in the early 1980s, but most of the lessons and recommendations are still applicable today. 

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Perennial Seller - by Ryan Holiday

'The art of making and marketing work that lasts'

This book is all about putting in the time and effort and energy into making something that is really really good, and then getting it out into the world. It's about making something 'perennial', something that will last for decades and still be selling in the future, not putting together some low-quality garbage and a flash-in-the-pan scammy marketing campaign to sell a lot of copies in a quick amount of time and then it dies. This is the perfect book to read to balance out some other ideas around hustle and shipping and minimum viable product and the like. If you want to make something great, this book is a must-read.

This book is featured in our 'Top 50' books. To get the full list, send us an email to [email protected] and we'll send the PDF to you.

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