Inspired by this Original Article of Seth Godin. This actually hits very close to home. For someone who find most business books rubbish, Seth Godin’s books are the rare gems. And he’s managed to publish so many of them! They’re not tomes but are timeless principles and stories to take with you on the road.
The best books are there to change your life. If you allow it so. Seth’s advice to pick three things are powerful. The attitude change will have much longer lasting effects than scanning books for some “actionable tools”. Numbered list alone doesn’t change lives. But with an open mind numbered lists might actually do. I’ve had that happen on occasion and the liberation was delightful. Really just pick one thing.
You’ve finished the new amazing book. Hard won wisdom of another person floating around in your head. But does it touch your heart? Three weeks from now what is going on with the three things? If the book hasn’t touched your heart has been mere entertainment.
It also needs to be considered that true changes depends on many conditions. Maybe its the right book and not the right time. Rereading it years later might be what it takes. Maybe its not the right book for you. Just because a book has sold millions of copies and smart sounding people raved about it has nothing to do with you.
Physical books are not the only things that are hoarded. Most importantly, the knowledge and wisdom that could have been unleashed in the world. That can be out there helping a lot of people. Manifest the book in your lives. Use the principles in your business. Treat your customers with grown compassion. True wisdom is not hoarded in someone’s mind, it grows being shared with the world.
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Originally from My Blog: Builders' Sun
Your words do magic on me.
I stood and brought the "Zero to One" book on computer table with a highlighter to start reading it from today.
That's a highly recommended book by many! Best wishes to find the three things :)
great work man!
It should also work for audiobooks too!
Recently I started reading one of the business classics: In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies by by Thomas Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr.
I found a lot of similar practices between this book and Agile development, e.g., mindset towards experimentation, bias toward action.
I don't have a particular approach, just read and take notes.
For anyone interested, I started a weekly newsletter that has a section about Indie Hackers books. Check it out here: https://tonians.com/
I'm sure Agile development has longer roots. The techniques are just things that have been around probably.
When are YOU going to write a book @witsuma?
I'm going to write a book? Well eventually my blog posts would go over 20k words lol. Some hack job can turn that into the book. Or I can finally use the amazing Airtable bookgen template I found.... hmmm.
Haha absolutely my man! I look forward to it in the near future!