Summer Reading List 2014

Reading wasn’t important to me until I made it important. It’s important because I’m only one person. I don’t have all the information. In other words, the collective ideas, views, knowledge, and life experience of other people are always going to be more than I can ever have on my own. Education and reading is how we can close that gap a little bit at a time. We absorb the ideas, experiences, and knowledge and we apply it to our life. Making our view of the world more broad through reading.

So I thought since summer is upon us, it would be a good time to make a plan for what I want to read over the next three months. Here’s a my summer reading list 2014 some I’ve read before and some I haven’t. Some are old and some are new but all should be awesome. Here’s to a summer of awesome:

1)  The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance by Steven Kotler

6)   The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? by Seth Godin

8)    Duct Tape Marketing: The World’s Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide by John Jantsch

11)    Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal by Oren Klaff

13)   Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust by Chris Brogan

14)   The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business by Josh Kaufman

15)   Zag: The #1 Strategy of High-Performance Brands by Marty Neumeier

This should get me started 😉 All of these books have come highly recommended from friends, podcasts, etc. I can’t wait to dive in! Hope you get to enjoy some of these as well. Happy reading!

Happy Thursday!!

Chris

 

Question:

What books do I not have on here that I should add to my “Big List?”