Personal Development
James Altucher's Book Recommendations

James Altucher's Book Recommendations

The entrepreneur and investor's top-picks to reinvent yourself

By James Altucher

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Host of the eponymous top-10 rated podcast, The James Altucher Podcast—and its Blinkist Shortcast—James Altucher is all about helping listeners find themselves and get out of whatever rut they're in. Find out what titles have inspired the Choose Yourself author to grow and achieve his successes in this collection of Blinks.

James Altucher's Book Recommendations

The entrepreneur and investor's top-picks to reinvent yourself

Antifragile
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Things That Gain from Disorder
20 min4.5
The Mastery of Love
The Mastery of Love
Don Miguel Ruiz with Janet Mills
A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship
24 min4.4
Anything You Want
Anything You Want
Derek Sivers
40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
13 min4.1
Sapiens
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
A Brief History of Humankind
28 min4.3
13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do
13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do
Amy Morin
Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success
40 min4.6
Outliers
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
The Story of Success
16 min4.2
The Future of Humanity
The Future of Humanity
Michio Kaku
Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
20 min4.4
Peak
Peak
Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
14 min4.1
Mindset
Mindset
Carol Dweck
The New Psychology of Success
15 min4.4
The Surrender Experiment
The Surrender Experiment
Michael A. Singer
My Journey into Life’s Perfection
16 min4.1
Mastery
Mastery
Robert Greene
Myths about genius and what it really means to be great
16 min4.3
Thinking in Bets
Thinking in Bets
Annie Duke
Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts
21 min4.4
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
A memoir about running and writing
24 min4.3

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