Communication is a superpower. Learn to communicate like your career depends on it. It is one skill that remains valuable regardless of the industry or job you pursue.
6 Books to Boost Your Communication Skills:
1) Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg
2) Crucial Conversations by Stephen R. Covey, Kerry Patterson, and Joseph Grenny
The book gives you the tools you need to step up to life’s most difficult and important conversations, say what’s on your mind, and achieve the positive resolutions you want.
3) Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg
It focuses on creating a consciousness of empathy, understanding, and connection, not just with others but within oneself. It provides concrete steps for applying NVC in everyday interactions.
A timely and useful book. This book provides a road map for escaping overload and arriving instead at a more sustainable and timeless approach to pursuing meaningful accomplishment.
6 lessons from the book:
1) The slow productivity is based on the following three principles:
- Do fewer things.
- Work at a natural pace.
- Obsess over quality.
2) Doing fewer things is the key to producing good work.
7 books to understand Human Psychology and Behavior:
1) Behave by Robert M. Sapolsky
A comprehensive look at human behavior through biology, examining what drives our actions from milliseconds before a decision (brain chemistry) to millennia ago (evolutionary pressures).
2) Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
The book explores the dual systems of thought that drive decision-making: System 1 (fast, intuitive, emotional) and System 2 (slow, deliberate, logical).
It reveals how biases, heuristics, and overconfidence often lead to flawed judgments, even when we think we’re being rational.
3) Surrounded by Idiots by Thomas Erikson
The book delves into human behavior and communication styles, using a four-color personality model (red, yellow, green, blue) to categorize different types of people.
It explains how understanding these personality types can help you navigate interactions more effectively.