He decided to coach me, and challenged me to read the 11 business books that had gotten him started and helped him run a fantastically successful Kickstarter. He gave me the list around the end of August or beginning of September, and challenged me to read them all by Christmas. 4 months.
I was done in 3.
I needed to learn. I needed it. I had to know how to make things change from an idea in my mind to a real thing. Looking at the list, I could see how everything could fit together into something bigger than the sum of its parts. This was going to be amazing.
The Books
The Ten X Rule by Grant Cardone
Think and Grow Rich
The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
The One Thing by Gary Keller
22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
Hooked
Fascinate
Made To Stick
Mating Intelligence Unleashed
The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
Influence by Robert Cialdini
Holy shoot.
I had spent 3 months reading nearly a book a week. I also had used the mind palace memory technique (I’ll talk about that in another blog.) to remember many of the major principles. I was darn proud.
I began trying to apply the principles in my mind and could begin to see the gears working in companies. It was amazing, and I was eager to apply the principles to my own projects as soon as I could. I tried to apply the principles with my card game but really began to succeed a bit a few months later when I started my Etsy store that I wrote about a few weeks ago.
Over the next while, I’ll be writing about each of these books, what they’re about, and what I learned from them. I’d love for you to follow along, but to be perfectly honest, I’d recommend you start reading them yourself. You’ll get more out of it that way.
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