5 Books That Will Make You Smarter Than 98% of People

Some books when you read them at the right time, they hit you right in the chest and they forever change your life. Now, as someone who's a nerd and also an author myself, I'm a big fan of reading books. Now, in this video, I want to share five of the books that will for sure not only change your life, but make you smarter than 98% of people. Hey guys, I'm Alex Hine, author of Master Zeday and the dude behind here at Modern Health Monk. Let's jump in. Book number one is called Finding Your Own North Star by Martha Beck. This book is probably the number one book I've recommended for people who are in their 20s, 30s, or 40s who are feeling lost. If the specific emotion is you're feeling lost in life, this book is incredible for this. In my 20s, I struggled a lot with that feeling of purposelessness, aimlessness, not being sure what to do, and it gave me a lot of anxiety because I felt like the clock was ticking. Martha Beck's book, one of the reasons I love it is that the fundamental idea is she talks about your essential self versus your social self. Your essential self is basically like what you truly want from life. Do you really want to be an artist, not a doctor, but your parents are pressuring you into becoming a doctor? Who you are at your core is really what finding your own north star is about. And the social self is what she calls kind of like the self that caves to peer pressure. That's the person who's really not well equipped to be in medicine, but you do it because of like the money or the status or your parents are pressuring you. And what Martha says is the way you live a happy life and fulfilled life is by being aligned with your own north star. So, I'd highly recommend this if you're lost in life or you've gone through a tragedy or loss and you're trying to reinvent from that like winter death and rebirth phase of life. Book number two is called The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scoville Shin. Florence Shin is an 1800's Christian mystic. And this book was recommended to me by Susie Batiz, the CEO of PooPourri. And if you don't know, Susie Batiz had this incredible story of depression and attempted suicide and multiple divorce and bankruptcy. And she went on this kind of healing, soulsearching journey about why she was the worst entrepreneur ever. and she was praying and she was healing and working on herself and she got this insight for her next product which became PooPourri a $500 million a year business in one of her programs she's very into like the woo woo aspects of like resonance and synchronicity and that sort of thing and she recommended this book and one of the reasons I love this book is that this is like the original manifesting book you don't know it because this woman lived in the 1800s but this book is one of the books that really talks about how life is a game. Meaning, you are a consciousness field. You can pray to God and get a message for what to do next. And I think a lot of the tough phases of life, you need to figure out how to have that inner guidance that gets you on the right path. And this book is one of those that will help you stay aligned, you know, first line she says is most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game. And then it talks about sort of spiritual principles. The third book is called letting go the pathway to surrender of surrender and this is by David Hawkins. This is very much a bit more in like the manifesting space. This is a book all about vibrational states and about letting go. This book is so important is because first of all it talks a lot about where you are on the emotional spectrum and he says like at the highest level is like love and peace and those trigger high amounts of manifestation in your life. The things you're most successful at, you do the best are probably the things you love, right? And the things you hate to do, you probably procrastinate the most. You do the worst work, and you do the bare minimum. This is an example of that principle at play. But now, what if you apply that to love? What if you apply that to your friendships? What if you apply it to your career? What if you apply it to what you do at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday morning? So letting go is first about your recognizing your emotional vibrational state and secondarily learning the power of non-attachment because non-attachment is one of the ways you feel good when your goals haven't shown up yet. Fourth book is called the magic of thinking big by David Jvart PhD. One of the reasons why this book is so interesting is he talks a lot about how, you know, he gave the example of like a really highly paid job, like let's say a job that makes pays 200k versus a very low entry-level job that pays like 40k. And he says, do you know why the job that makes 40k gets 10 times the number of applicants than the job that pays 200k? And it's not just because of people's skills. It's because people think that's what they're capable of and that's what they're worth. And this book is all about uh I think a lot about attitude of high performance. People who get those high-paying jobs aren't always qualified for them. They just sometimes have more guts and believe that they could learn the skills. I loved this book because of I mean it's called the magic of thinking big. That sort of says it all. If your goal is to build like a million dollar business or a $100,000 business, it can take the same period of time, which is crazy. It's just you have to have a different strategy to get there. But if you start with a bigger vision, then you're more likely to be aligned with a different process to get there. And the people who've done what you want to do, they're usually not that special. The final book is called Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericson. If you don't know Andrew Ericson, Andrew Xerken is like the originator, if you want to call it that, the lead researcher behind what Malcolm Gladwell popularized as the 10,000h hour rule. So Andrew Ericson is a researcher who studies expert performance. and he studied expert performers in every industry from musicians to athletes to doctors and to artists. If you've seen my videos, you know I'm a diehard believer that the number one way to increase your career success is to focus on skills. [music] Skills are what pay the bills. But how do you get great at them? This book talks a lot about expert performance. Like how do violinists become the best? What are the main ways they train? How do they think? What are the main correlations you see with the best violinists in the world? What about athletes? Some start out as naturals, some are not natural, but do the top tier athletes truly have natural gifts? He says no. What's so unique about this book is the specific way you need to train because he says doing something for more hours doesn't make you better. Doing something for more hours with deliberate practice makes you better. And that's so important because a lot of us repeat the same things thinking that life will get better. And when it doesn't, we realize we've been not doing it right. So, highly [music] recommend this book. Now, you know me guys, I'm a nerd. I read books and I write books. The top 100 self-help books that changed my life. I shot a video on that right here and that will give you a lot more insights to add to your reading list.