Most books you see at airports or on bestseller lists don't deserve to be read.
Many others are marketing schemes or blog posts stretched into a book.
Here are 12 books with the actual substance to change your life:
1. Man's Search for Meaning
Written by a survivor of the holocaust who explores the nature of suffering and meaning. An inspiring book that demonstrates the triumph of the human spirit.
2. A Short History of Nearly Everything
A timeline of humanities' scientific and historical progress and insight into the things we take for granted to spark a sense of wonder and a drive to explore and experiment.
Our relationship with time can be a skill in of itself.
Past — Thinking backward to empathize with history & culture and feel how things were different, what parts of it to cherish & what to discard.
Future — Ability to project oneself, trends, or consequences forward in time and feel distant patterns yet to pass, to lead, warn, inspire and motivate a reason to change course or act.
An Annual Review Tech-Stack makes the process a lot easier.
The tools support the habits you want to cultivate in the long-term and provides tracking to help you manage and experiment with systems that can make your life better.
Here's a list of tools I've used 🧵
I'm experimenting more with writing with my voice when I go through writer's block.
Using Audio Transcription
Ottter.ai is my tool of choice when it comes to voice transcriptions.
The transcriptions are accurate, searchable, highlightable, a summary of keywords is created and you can share the transcripts with others.