Far too often I'm asked for a book recommendation. Below are a small sample size of books that influenced my thinking in one way or another — personally and professionally. Because I consider myself radically open-minded, there are several books that may be considered "fringe" by some people — I don't. I think of them as learning from differing perspectives.

Currently Reading

• Outlive by Peter Attia MD

Must Reads

Personal Development

• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg, PhD
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck by Mark Manson
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
• Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
• Never Finished by David Goggins
• Your Next Five Moves by Patrick Bet-David
• Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter by 50 Cent
• The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson
• The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy

Psychology

• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Dr. Robert Cialdini
• Thinking Fast and Slow by Dr. Daniel Kahneman
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• Behave by Robert M. Sapolsky

Philosophy

• Five Dialogues (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, & Phaedo) by Plato
• The Republic by Plato
• The Symposium by Plato
• Timaeus and Critas by Plato
• Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius; Translated by Gregory Hays
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
• On The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Courage to Create by Rollo May

Power

• 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
• Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene
• Mastery by Robert Greene
• 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
• Beyond Order by Jordan Peterson

Politics

• Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler - Free to read on Project Gutenberg
• Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John Kaczynski
• Politics by Plato
• The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
• The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Products

• Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
• Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath
• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
• Change by Design by Tim Brown

People

• A Promised Land, an autobiography by Barack Obama
• Titan, a biography about John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
• American Prometheus, a biography about J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
• The Art and Science of Respect an autobiography by James Prince

Business

• The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
• Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
• This Is Marketing by Seth Godin
• The Six Types of Working Genius by Patrick Lencioni
• Traction by Gino Wickman
• The Lean Startup by Eric Reis
• $100M Offers by Alex Hormozi
• Zero to One by Peter Thiel
• The Challenger Sale by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson

Esoteric

• The Kybalion by Hermes Trismegistus; Written by The Three Initiates
• The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida
• The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe

On My Radar

Non-Fiction

• 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Jim Dethmer, et al
• High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil
• The Boron Letters by Gary Halbert

Fiction

• The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
• Nazi Billionaires by David de Jong