500 days and 150 Books Later

Starting last year, I set a goal for myself to increase my reading habits - a big jump from the zero books I had read in 2021. Now, 500 days and around 160 books later, I've experienced profound personal growth.

This increased intellectual engagement has elevated my levels of happiness, clarity, and curiosity. Although I can't quite articulate how I felt before this journey, I am thrilled with the transformation I've experienced.

I am sharing my experience for two reasons:

Firstly, to express my gratitude to those who have recommended books, listened patiently to my reflections, or engaged in enriching conversations with me. Your contributions have been invaluable.

Secondly, to give back. Over the past 500 days, I've gained a wealth of knowledge and insight, and I'd love to share it with you. Perhaps I can recommend a book, stimulate a thought-provoking discussion, or share a lesson I've learned. While I'm not exactly sure what form this will take, I'm eager to help in any way I can.

For those interested, here's a categorized list of all the books I've read, along with a link for easier access:?

Psychology:

• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
• Better Small Talk: Talk to anyone, avoid awkwardness, generate deep conversations and make real friends
• Cognitive Biases in a Nutshell: How to Spot and Stop the Hiccups in Our Thinking Process
• Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
• Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More than IQ
• Five Minds for the Future
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
• Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life
• Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
• How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression and Transcendence
• How to Read People Like a Book
• Humor, Seriously: Why Humor is a Secret Weapon on Business and Life
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
• Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
• The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind
• The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
• The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life
• The Undoing Project: A Friendship that changed our Minds
• The Unfair Advantage: How You Already Have What it Takes to Succeed
• Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better
• Thinking Fast and Slow
• Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-deceiving Brain

Sociology:?

• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
• David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
• Homo deus: A brief history of tomorrow
• Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
• Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
• Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
• What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
• What’s Our Problem? A self help book for societies

Neuroscience:

• Buddhas Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
• Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
• Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife
• Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again
• This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams:?

Science:?

• A Briefer History of Time: The Science Classic Made More Accessible
• An Immense World
• A Short History of Nearly Everything
• Body: A Guide for Occupants
• Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
• Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
• Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization?
• The Grand Design
• The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way
• The Order of Time
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

Mindfulness:

• Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality
• Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm
• Five Thieves of Happiness
• Happy sexy millionaire: The unexpected truths about fulfillment, Love, and Success
• How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness
• Stillness is the Key
• The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die
• The Last Lecture
• The Obstacle is The Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
• The Prophet
• The Seed: Finding Purpose and happiness in Life and Work
• The Things You Can See Only WHen You Slow Down
• The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety?
• The Wisdom of Morrie
• Why We Meditate: The Science and Practice of Clarity and Compassion
• Your Journey to Success: How to Accept the Answers You Discover Along the Way

Business & Leadership:

• Amp it Up: Leading for Hyper Growth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity
• Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life
• Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers
• Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
• Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and Impact
• From Impossible to Inevitable: How SaaS and Other Hyper Growth Companies Create Predictable Revenue
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap.. and Others Don’t
• High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 people
• Honest to Greatness: How Today's Leaders Use Brutal Honesty to Achieve Massive Success
• How Did That Happen? Holding People Accountable for Results the Positive Principled Way
• Kissinger on Kissinger: Reflections on Diplomacy, Grand Strategy, and Leadership
• Mastering Product experience in SaaS: How to Deliver Personalized Product Experiences with a Product-led Strategy
• Outcomes Over Output: Why Customers Behavior is the Key Metric for Business Success
• Rework?
• Shape Up
• The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More, and Change the Way you lead Forever
• The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
• The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
• The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done?
• The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues?
• The Motive: Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities
• The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How.
• Wise: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter

Spirituality:?

• A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
• How to Know God: The Soul’s Journey into the Mystery of Mysteries
• Many Lives Many Masters: The True Story a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy that Changed Both Their Lives
• Man’s Search for Meaning
• Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife
• Seat of the Soul
• Tao te Ching
• The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
• The Gift: 14 Lessons to Save Your Life
• The Search for Truth
• The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
• The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
• Three Essays on Universal Law: The Laws of Karma, Will, and Love
• Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson
• Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

Fiction & Literature:

• A Perfect Union of Contrary Things
• Artemis
• A Walk Through The Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
• Doneraile Court
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
• Fight Club
• For One More Day
• Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
• God’s Debris: A Thought Experiment
• Greenlights: Matthew McConughey
• Have a Little Faith: A True Story
• Into the Wild
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
• Is This Anything?
• Less
• Life, The Universe and Everything
• Memories of My Melancholy Whores
• Moneyball: The Art of Winning and Unfair Game
• Project Hail Mary
• Red Hot Chili Peppers: An Oral / Visual History
• Stranger in the lifeboat
• Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
• The 10th insight
• The Alchemist?
• The Archer
• The Art of a Beautiful Game: The Thinking Fan’s Tour of the NBA
• The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-year Old Man
• The Celestine Prophecy
• The First Phone Call from Heaven
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven
• The Great Gatsby
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• The Next Person you Meet in Heaven
• The Religion War
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
• The Secret
• The Storyteller: Tales of LIfe and Music
• The Time Keeper??
• The Unicorn Project?
• Will

Misc. / Self-Help / Haven’t classified

• All About Love: New Visions
• Atlas of the heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
• Braving The Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
• Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
• I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships
• Ikigai
• Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI
• Ishmael
• Make Your Bed?
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
• Playing to Win
• Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country’s Foremost Relationship Expert
• The Easy Way to Control Your Alcohol
• The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years
• The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to be and Embrace Who You Are
• When Breath Becomes Air