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Never stop learning and never stop improving. While reviewing older books is useful for remembering old lessons that might have been forgotten, it’s still important to learn something very new. Here are a few of my top pics from my most recently read books, and there’s no doubt you’ll learn some great tidbits of wisdom from every one of them.
Come and check them out here!
5 Great Books to Read for This Year
Investing 101: From Stocks and Bonds to ETFs and IPOs, an Essential Primer on Building a Profitable Portfolio (Adams 101) by Michele Cagan
Warren Buffet famously said that “risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” One of the most important rules for investing is that you NEED to know what you’re putting your hard-earned money into. While this book won’t teach you how to read complex charts and financial reports, it will teach you some basic economics as well as the basics of the most common investment vehicles like stocks, bonds, mutual funds, treasury bills, currencies, properties, and more.
Before you even consider putting your money on any investment, read this first to understand what they are. A little bit of knowledge can certainly protect you from huge losses.
What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School by Mark H. McCormack
You can study business and economic theories all you want, but nothing compares to actual experience. While reading a book like this is not really a good substitute, you can still gain a lot from the business lessons that experts like Mark McCormack have learned from THEIR experience.
Valuable lessons like learning how to read people, creating and sustaining great impressions, improving your negotiating skills, getting things done, and several others can be found here. If you want a great headstart or you want to supplement to your current skills and knowledge, then give McCormack’s book a read and see what you can find.
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Have you ever heard about all those people who were drugged up in a bar and woke up in an ice-filled bathtub only to discover that they had their kidney stolen? How about the story regarding those nasty criminals who gave away halloween candy spiked with drugs and razor blades?
Fortunately, both of those stories never happened. Why did they spread as urban legends and stick in people’s minds? This book will show you why, and it will also show you how YOU can get your messages and ideas to stick.
No, you’re not gonna make up new urban legends, but you’ll learn some ideas on how you can write your resume, business’s product description, or next email in a such a way that your prospective employer or customer will remember. If you don’t learn the ideas here, your message will just be another email in the recycle bin, and even your best ideas will remain completely unknown and forgotten.
Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter by Dan Ariely and Jeff Kreisler
We’ve all heard the basic personal finance tips like “pay yourself first”, “create a budget”, “prioritize needs over wants”. This book is NOT about them. This one is about the main psychological reasons WHY we waste money and make terrible financial decisions.
Why do we waste money on stuff we don’t need when we could be investing it for our future or our children’s future? Why do we never consider better uses of our money (and regret stupid purchases long after we’ve already paid)? Why do we tend to get into massive debt when we use credit? This book explores all that and more.
By learning all of those lessons, we’ll also figure out some great strategies on how we can stop ourselves from making stupid financial decisions and thus increase our chances at improving the state of our finances.
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff and It’s All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life by Richard Carlson
You know the phrase “don’t judge a book by its cover”? Well for several years, I judged this one by its title and thought it was just another run-of-the-mill self-help book. After reading it, I noticed that while it was pretty ordinary, it still contained a lot of valuable lessons.
While most self-help and self-improvement books I’ve read teach things like how to increase your confidence, how to set goals, and how to become an overachiever, this one deals with the simpler things like how to be less stressed, how to handle annoying people, how to find happiness in your current situation, and more.
If those lessons sound nice to you, go ahead and get this classic. Learning and using just a few tips here will likely save you from a lot of stress, anger, and headaches in the long run.
We’ll end here for now. I might add a few more to this list in the near future, but it’s very likely that I’ll just make a new article for later books that I recommend. In any case, if you want to know more about books that I’ve enjoyed reading and learning from then just click on the book’s links above to learn more!
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