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đź“š STW #66: On Truth, How to Give Back to Your Community, Raucous Monks, and More!
Welcome back to the Stairway to Wisdom! The week after next there will be no newsletter, as I’ll be away for my hernia surgery (probably already more than you wanted to know!), but STW will return on Friday the 25th with a new breakdown and newsletter. Today’s book breakdown
đź“š STW #65: Excellent Advice for Living, How to Do Hard Things, Learning How to Learn, and More!
Welcome back to the Stairway to Wisdom! There was no newsletter last week, but there should have been. It was a weird week for both my business and me personally, but I let work get away from me, and...well, yea. I don’t feel great about it. I should also
đź“š STW #64: Achieving Competitive Greatness, the 10% Rule, the Road to Mastery, and More!
Welcome back to the Stairway to Wisdom! I honestly can’t wait to introduce this week’s book breakdown - it’s one of the best books I’ve read all year, and the author, John Wooden, is one of my biggest role models and inspirations. You’ll see why this is when you read
đź“š STW #63: The Pathless Path, Prophets of Freedom, How to Soothe Your Own Mind, and More!
Welcome back to the Stairway to Wisdom! This week I released my breakdown of The Pathless Path, by Paul Millerd, which receives one of my highest recommendations of 2023 so far! The Pathless Path is about the invisible scripts that shepherd us into prescribed modes of living and being in
đź“šSTW #62: How to Master Any Sport or Skill, the Law of Very Large Numbers, Networking Like a Super-Connector, and More!
Welcome back to the Stairway to Wisdom! Today we’ve got the breakdown of a book that I consider to be one of the very best books out there on mastery and skill acquisition. The book is called Learn, Improve, Master, by Nick Velasquez, and it’s an essential guide to mastering
đź“š STW #61: A New Model of Mental Toughness, Impossible Irish Novelists, How to Survive Anything, and More!
Welcome back to the Stairway to Wisdom! I’m back after a brief hiatus and ready to deliver some epic new book breakdowns in the coming weeks! Today we’ve got Do Hard Things, by Steve Magness, a book that turns traditional ideas about mental toughness inside out and guides us along
đź“šSTW #60: An Honest Guide to Self-Improvement, How to Get a Promotion at Work, Reclusive Poets, and More!
Welcome back to the Stairway to Wisdom! I knew you’d be back! Today we’ve got my breakdown of Real Help: An Honest Guide to Self-Improvement, by Ayodeji Awosika, an “optimistically realistic” book that will tell you what you need to know, not what you want to hear. In this issue
📚STW #59: Raising Your Internal Thermostat for Success, How to Find Your Unfair Advantage, Tolstoy’s Tragedy, and More!
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đź“šSTW #58: Million Dollar Habits, Journeys to the Center of the Earth, Stunning Independent Bookstores, and More!
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📚STW #57: It’s Either “Hell Yeah” or “No,” My Favorite Book About Libraries, Adopting an Abundance Mindset, and More!
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đź“šSTW #56: The Midnight Library, How to Be a Contrarian Thinker, Doing Good Better, and More!
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📚STW #55: How to Find Out What’s Most Important in Life, Reading to Lead, Magical Realism, and More!
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đź“šSTW #54: How to Become a Star Student, Costly Signaling, Getting Paid to Read, and More!
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đź“šSTW #53: Profound Philosophical Aphorisms, 7 Tips to Read More Books, the Natural Order of the Universe, and More!
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đź“šSTW #52: Discipline Equals Freedom, an Unlimited Budget for Books, Visionary Poets, and More!
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đź“šSTW #51: Going All-In on Your Art, the Most Anticipated Books of 2023, How to Design Your Own Future, and More!
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đź“šSTW #50: The Most Connected Man on the Planet, the Best Books of 2022, Pain Detectives, and More!
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đź“šSTW #49: New Beginnings, The Science of Money, Insane Reading Challenges, and More!
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đź“šSTW #48: Doing the Impossible, Buying Books for Christmas, How to Stay Sane, and More!
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đź“šSTW #47: Discipline is Destiny, the First Modern Novel, How to Approach Any Exam with Confidence, and More!
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📚STW #46: Regarding the Pain of Others, Visuals to Inspire You to Pick Up a Book, Stephen King’s Tragic Accident, and More!
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đź“šSTW #45: How to Save $400,000 on Business School, the Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, Cruel Optimism, and More!
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đź“šSTW #44: How Your Attention Was Stolen, Nobel Prize Buzz, Creating Better Art, and More!
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📚STW #43: The Controversial (Yet Epic) History of Napoleon, A Matter of Death and Life, Elon Musk’s Favorite Books, and More!
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đź“šSTW #42: Proust and the Squid, Shocking Reading Stats, Unlocking Flow, and More!
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đź“šSTW #41: Making Time for What Matters, Taking a Bullet for the Right to Read Books, the Law of Authenticity, and More!
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📚STW #40: The GAP and the GAIN, Saying “Yes” to Life, a Mysterious Literary Figure, and More!
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đź“šSTW #39: Timeless Money-Wisdom, Resolving Conflict, Fascinating Philosophers, and More!
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đź“šSTW #38: The Status Game, the Book World Divided Against Itself, How to Be a (Slightly) Better Person, and More!
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đź“šSTW #37: The Quest for a Moral Life, Reading at Work, an Enlightenment Hero, and More!
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đź“šSTW #36: Waking Up to Reality, How to See Where the World is Heading, the Danger of Intellectuals, and More!
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đź“šSTW #35: Personal Development for Smart People, an Ancient Greek Mystery, the End of History Illusion, and More!
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đź“šSTW #34: The Science of Successful Learning, How to Challenge Yourself with Harder Books, Single-Tasking, and More!
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đź“šSTW #33: The Education of Millionaires, the 85% Rule for Learning, How to Develop a Winning Mindset, and More!
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đź“šSTW #32: Being Your Future Self, How to Take on the World, Ancient Chinese Wisdom, and More!
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📚STW #31: Essentialism, the 1-in-60 Rule, Dante’s Muse, and More!
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📚STW #30: The ONE Thing That Leads to Extraordinary Results, Dante’s Mentor, the Paradox of Abundance, and More!
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đź“šSTW #29: Conspicuous Consumption, Uncovering What It Takes to Win, How to Network Without Feeling Cringy, and More!
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đź“šSTW #28: Discovering the Immeasurable, How to Tap Into Your Full Potential, Reading Banned Books, and More!
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đź“šSTW #27: The Go-Giver, Why You Should Stop Trying to Read Faster, the Lost History of Reading, and More!
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đź“š STW #26: The 10 Pillars of Wealth, the Longest-Ever Book Title, How Many Books You Have Left Until You Die, and More!
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đź“šSTW #25: Cultivating Badass Habits, the Importance of Re-Reading Great Books, How to Become a Better Writer, and More!
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đź“šSTW #24: Zorba the Greek, Flow States, Why Adults Should Read Fairy Tales, and More!
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đź“šSTW #23: The Tactics of Master Persuaders, the Largest Library Late Fee in History, Your Limitless Brain, and More!
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đź“šSTW #22: Infinite Games, The First Bookmobile, How to Avoid Catastrophe, and More!
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📚STW #21: Aphorisms That Pack a Punch, The Paradox of Value, Bill Gates’s Reading List, and More!
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đź“šSTW #20: The Human Costs of Evictions, Updating Our Beliefs About Wealth, the 7 Illusions of Knowing, and More!
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📚STW #19: Playing the Long Game, How to Win a Negotiation, the Power of a “Done” List, and More!
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đź“šSTW #18: The Heart-Melting Legacy of Mister Rogers, How to Focus When Reading, the Curse of Knowledge, and More!
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📚STW #17: The War Against Sleep, Subverting Parkinson’s Law, a Most Mysterious Manuscript, and More!
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📚STW #16: The Hidden Force of Desire, Philosophy’s Greatest Hero, Non-Cringy Networking, and More!
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📚#15: Finding Your “Who,” Optimizing for Interesting, How to Gain Financial Freedom, and More!
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đź“š#14: Living Without Regrets, The Principle of Charity, Human Potential, and More!
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đź“š#13: Irrepressible Human Freedoms, How to Grow Old, My Best Tip for Reading 52 Books a Year, and More!
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📚 #12: Transcendence, How to Develop Mental Toughness, Hitchens’s Razor, and More!
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đź“š #11: The Psychology of Money, Decision Fatigue, the Resilience of Readers, and More!
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đź“š #10: The Power of Leverage, Three Books to Spark Wonder, the Veil of Ignorance, and More!
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📚 #9: The Mindset of Winners, The $30,800,000-Dollar Book, Chesterton’s Fence, and More!
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đź“š #8: How to Grow Old, The Tragedy of the Commons, Literary Plane Crashes, and More!
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📚 #7: Helping Kids Learn to Read, The World’s Oldest Libraries, a Critical Concept Everyone Should Learn, and More!
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đź“š #6: The List of Banned Books, How to Tackle Big Challenges, Radical Gratitude, and More
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đź“š #5: The Very First Science Fiction Novel, How to Beat Stress, the Hidden Danger of Opportunity Costs, and More
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đź“š #4: The Power of Silence in an Age of Noise, Antislavery Heroes, and the Real Purpose of Education
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đź“š #3: Time Management for Mortals, a Tragic Loss for 20th-Century Philosophy, and How to See the World More Clearly
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đź“š #2 - How to Be Happy, The Right Kind of Teachers, and The Great Rat Race Escape
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đź“š #1 - Overcoming Hardship, New Possibility, and the Pleasure of Reading
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