What are you currently reading?

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Dubli

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I've found that the most successful people I know read a lot.

What books are you reading right now?

I'll start:
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Dr. Joseph Murphy
 


I have a stack of books that I've half read and I'm still working on them. I must have a slight case of ADD, but:

Smartsourcing - Thomas Koulopoulos - Awesome
Revolutionary Wealth - Alvin Toffler - Talks to much
The Design of Everyday Things - Donald Norman - Skim through for good insights into designing anything for intuitive usability

I buy way too many books so I'm currently trying to finish the ones I've put down half way through in order to read newer ones that showed up.
 
I read "Up In the Air" a few weeks back flying back from ASE.. pretty decent. Excited to see the film coming out soon starring Clooney.
 
Finally reading End The Fed and really enjoying it.

I also am reading The Millionaire Mind which I find is very disappointing. The ideas behind it are alright but he sounds like a loser and the millionaires he interviewed aren't really that ballin' like he makes them out to be.

If I don't feel like reading a full chapter before going to bed I read a chapter in "Think Like a Champion" by Donald Trump. The chapters are around 5 pages and each point is really good.
 
The Carpetbaggers. It has it all. Native Americans, Cowboys, Whippings, Incest, Planes, Sex, Gunfights. Yep, and I'm only halfway through.
 
I'm currently reading this thread.

Edit: friend recommended "The Five Love Languages" - though it's for marriage and shit it's really interesting perspective on priorities and how different types of people "need" different types of things. Incorporating it into my content soon to see if it really makes a difference.
 
"getting everything you can, out of all youve gotten" good sales book.

That and ill be reading "goodnight moon" in a few..
 
Jondoe0069 said:
You can pretty much count on any book with the word "millionaire" in the title being disappointing.
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True - the only reason I picked it up was due to the cover looking pretty legit and interesting. Not the typical beaches + un-naturally tanned guy on the cover.
 
FTC-Hater said:
I also am reading The Millionaire Mind which I find is very disappointing. The ideas behind it are alright but he sounds like a loser and the millionaires he interviewed aren't really that ballin' like he makes them out to be.
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You're missing the whole point of that book then.
The whole Millionaire series was a compilation of data gathered over several years by Thomas Stanley and his associates. The premise of their first book The Millionaire Next Door was based on just the fact that most millionaires are not what you would expect them to be (ie: 'Ballers'). On the contrary, they are more conservative in their purchasing habits, many run their own business in less-than glamorous industries, they don't dress too hip, drive baller cars, a surprisingly low percentage of them are in the typically expected professions (Doctors, Lawyers, Corporate Execs).

Go read The Millionaire Next Door first, then come back to The Millionaire Mind.
 
I'm almost done reading Think And Grow Rich. It's a great book and it's a book that I'll definitely keep reading over and over until I have the principles down. I'm thinking of purchasing Eat That Frog after.
 
LotsOfZeros said:
You're missing the whole point of that book then.
The whole Millionaire series was a compilation of data gathered over several years by Thomas Stanley and his associates. The premise of their first book The Millionaire Next Door was based on just the fact that most millionaires are not what you would expect them to be (ie: 'Ballers'). On the contrary, they are more conservative in their purchasing habits, many run their own business in less-than glamorous industries, they don't dress too hip, drive baller cars, a surprisingly low percentage of them are in the typically expected professions (Doctors, Lawyers, Corporate Execs).

Go read The Millionaire Next Door first, then come back to The Millionaire Mind.
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Maybe I worded what I was trying to get at wrong. I forget exactly how he gathered these millionaires - but the jist of it was that a friend of his mapped out where the highest percentage of millionaires lived and he mass mailed them and asked them to take a survey. The small percentage that actually did do that he quizzed further and the book is centered around each question and the conclusions he draws from them. (More or less.)

It's not that the idea, millionaires, or writing is bad. It's that I expected more.

The average income, yearly, for each millionaire was around half a million and the average net worth around 5 million. (Or a long those lines.)

This is a great accomplishment. But I would much prefer learning about those with say a 50 million dollar net worth. I would much prefer learning about those who really went further and what drove them to succeed when they already had.

...One of the biggest things he talks about is how complacent they all are now and how much they enjoy just 'relaxing'. That's fine. But I was hoping to learn about the drive that got them to where they are and the drive they still have to go further.

Moral of the story: I should've read the cover more closely to see what I was really getting instead of just going by a cover that looked interesting.
 
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