“From the first stages of development, what we choose to read can last a lifetime and contribute to shaping our view of the world and our place within it.”

These are 25 books that can impact life-altering change.
In them, I have discovered some of the most valuable tools of literary learning to benefit self-development and to be a better human being among other human beings.

I encourage you to explore the depths of what is possible.

MINDSET: THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY
by Carol Dweck

Mindset addresses that there are two attitudes pertaining to mindset: fixed mindset or growth mindset. There are those that believe your abilities are everything and those that believe our minds are malleable to correspond with our needs in growing through any circumstance as a powerful lifetime ally.
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THE POWER OF MYTH
by Joseph Campbell

Campbell explore mythology as  a framework of how we educate a society through stories that build coping mechanisms that follow us through the different stages of life. The impact of Campbell’s work has influenced some of our most beloved pieces of literature, film, and popular culture for decades.
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GRIT
by Angela Duckworth

Grit identifies the qualities that help people succeed. It introduces us to successful individuals from a wide range of fields and identifies the mindset, habits, and practices they have in common. The conclusion is that what really drives success is not “genius” but a special blend of passion and long-term perseverance.
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BEYOND GOOD & EVIL
by Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil, by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, is a critique of the foundations of previous philosophers and examining how the “good” and “evil”  are not so much divisive aspects of ourselves but a mutual part of one morality conversing with itself as we struggle to adapt to a more modern moral sense.
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MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING
by Viktor E. Frankl

Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning is a book that seeks to explain how, despite the dehumanizing conditions in both his concentration camp life and in ordinary life, Frankl was able to find a reason to live. The inspiring aspects of this book break through the abilities of how resilience and perception can shift our meaning even in the darkest moments.
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MORAL ANIMAL
by Robert Wright

Wright has created an exploration into the how human behavior has evolved and affected even the most basic everyday occurances. He explains the depths of how psychology, social dynamics, and structures in interpersonal relationships evolve with each other and the effects they have on our brains and tribal behaviors through evolutionary psychology.

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PRINCIPLES
by Ray Dalio

An eminently practical, manifesto by one of the world’s most unique and successful investors. Dalio has discovered a set of principles that revolve around the concept of radical transparency and how that concept can build more meaningful work and personal relationships. The design of how we manage our own principles within business and work must bridge together to create a successful lifelong foundation.
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THE OBSTACLE IS THE WAY
by Ryan Holiday

How do you turn a stumbling block into a stepping stone? In The Obstacle Is the Way, Ryan Holiday shows us how great men and women have transformed frustration and suffering into strength, adversity into achievement, and adversity into advantage. The foundation of the book is centered in stiocicm and the philosophies of many founding stoics that show how we can confront our own obstacle.
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START WITH WHY
by Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek has developed methods and ideas that have inspired many to examine their own missions and why we do what we choose to do. Understanding the importance of how and why we communicate, adapt, and inspire others to better understand ourselves and our sense of purpose can lead to becoming better leaders and human beings altogether.
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MASTERY
by Robert Greene

Greene builds a detailed examination of historical figures and how their lives have inspired and have been followed by many for decades and centuries. The mastery we create for ourselves is explained in how we learn the strategies of those high achievers and visionaries to impliment the very best of their discoveries and practicies into our own.
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Incognito
by David Eagleman

Incognito unfolds a very detailed examination of the unconscious part of our brains and how the complexities of the neural networks fight and merge with one another in a constant and fluid way that influences everything we we say, in how we behave and even why we are attracted to certain things and people.
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THE ELEPHANT IN THE BRAIN
by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson

The book focuses on how we are not often aware of the true reasons of most of our behaviors. The research delves into how  behaviors are optimised by social influence, circumstance, and how the unconscious motives has helped us historically in some strange and fascinating ways while further examining why we hide our motives when they are discovered through many aspects of human behavior.
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POWER VS. FORCE
by David R Hawkins MD, PhD

David R. Hawkins writes that anyone can resolve and surpass the most complex life dilemmas. Through philosophy, psychology, and theoretical concepts, Hawkins has created one of the most impactful books in how we can persevere through absolutely anything by determining truth and falsehood in any circumstance.
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TRAUMA: The Invisible Epidemic
by Paul Conti M.D.

Paul Conti has created a book often called a game changer in weaving psychology and sociology with a multitude of solutions in regards to trauma. The examination of trauma in this book is unique in addressing physical and mental health with unhealthy behavior patterns not only for ourselves but through the environment we are within.
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THE BLANK SLATE
by Steven Pinker

The book presents how the argument that equal rights and equal opportunities are moral principals that do not require biological justification. Pinker speaks on how we are all humn beings born with all the same innate traits that should come with the same rights and opportunities regardless of circumstance, social status, and culture – and how we may achieve that in a more universal communication that starts with ourselves.
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PHANTOMS IN THE BRAIN
by V.S. Ramachandran

Ramachandran presents years of research in fascinating storytelling format that brings to life his work with patients exhibiting phantom limbs. Experiences within the brain that defy trauma and meidical interference to create entirely unbelievable experiences associated with epileptic seizures, stroke, and array of other disorders.,
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LINCHPIN
by Seth Godin

What are the values of those who are so easily downsized, outsourced and looked over within society? What does it mean to find what is within you that makes you indispensible? Godin brings to light essential building blocks of successful organizations and those within them that lay the groundwork for themselves against the chaos of business and our doubting selves to turn the obstacles into opportunities of invisible leverage. It is time to end complience and develop your own indispensible system.
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DRIVE
by Daniel H. Pink

What motivates us to pursue goals and chase performance? What is at the core of what drives a solitary person and an entire workforce to succeed in a longlasting healthy manner that does not destroy the goals or the spirit? Pink addresses three key points that truthfully drives people to do so: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose.
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BREAKING THE HABIT OF BEING YOURSELF
by Dr. Joe Dispenza

The depths of power that neuroplasticity can create lie within the pages of this book. The keys to address your mindset, rewire it and create life altering experiences are limitless. The framework of epigenetics and rebuilding any thought or behavior regardless of DNA is a deep dive into the abilities of the brain.
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THE 3rd ALTERNATIVE
by Stephen R. Covey

The Third Alternative is a philosophy that provides ways of thinking and acting that lead to greater cooperation and more satisfying relationships. Its logical, problem-solving approach offers a way beyond the adversarial positions that keep us mired in conflict.
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THE COURAGE TO BE DISLIKED
by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

Discover the thought process that allows each individual to define their life instead of having it defined by past experiences and expectations of others. Spoken in theory and storytelling prose, a philosopher explains to his pupil how each of us is able to determine our own lives, free of past experiences, shame, and doubt.
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TRIBE
by Sebastian Junger

Tribe is a fascinating narrative that serves as both enthralling entertainment and a contemporary psychological study. The complex and dynamic subject addresses how we come together in modern relationships based on our past evolutionary process and the origins of desire to be part of a tribe.
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MEDITATIONS
by Marcus Aurelius

Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD. The text is divided into twelve books, and inspired by Stoic philosophy. Meditations gathers thought and accountability in all moments and all experiences to find a place of better undertanding of self and those in our society.
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BEHAVE
by Robert M. Sapolsky

A study of what makes us human – our behaviors and how they shape our lives. Sapolsky bridges our human existence at its best and worst that spans 3 billion years and is filled with fascinating characters, emotionally charged, and can change how you see why we behave in the ways that we do.
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TAO TE CHING
by Lao Tsu

The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese classic about the way and its power. It has been said to be the most widely translated and influential work in human history. A timeless collection of wisdom and anecdotes that spans centuries, cultures, and experiences.
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