Booklist + WEB-links

Books I’ve read (or listened to) listed alphabetically. 
At the end of this page you will find what's next in to read and good weblinks. (The stuff in the parentheses is how I found out about the book.) 

If you click on the Book Title, it will link to an affiliate link to Amazon.com. 
Lastly, this list is much longer than my favorite-ness list   (and that list is yet to be updated)
(This list last updated 9/3/2012) 
(added books on 4/10/2022 are down below)

• Dan Ariely Predictably Irrational (heard him on TED) (listen to or watch other TED Talks of his on moral code and decision making)
• Dan Ariely The Upside of Irrationality : The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
• Ori and Rom Brafman Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior 
• Jill Bolte Taylor My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey (+ heard on TED)
• Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons:The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
• Geoff Colvin Talent Is Overrated:  What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
• Alice Domar Be Happy Without Being Perfect: How to Break Free from the Perfection Deception (discovered this great author when I downloaded a Managing Stress audio recording from lifeworks.com)
• Carol S Dweck Mindset: the New Psychology of Success (Pajaro Valley Unified School District GATE program recommended this)
• T Harv Eker Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth (Thanks to my buddy Colleen who dragged me to see Harv and Deepak Chopra both speak at a Health Fair in San Jose, CA sometime around 2007. Deepak wore red sneakers. Classy.)
• Tom Friedman Hot, Flat, and Crowded:  (audio book SCruz library via Inc Overdrive, found through Panopto.com suggestion to look at demonstrations online)
• Michael Fullan The Six Secrets of Change  
• Daniel Gardner The Science of Fear:  Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't--and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger
• Daniel Gilbert Stumbling on Happiness  (Listen to him on TED) 
• Malcolm Gladwell The Tipping Point:   How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Listen to him on TED- talking about spaghetti sauce)
• Malcolm Gladwell Blink:  The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
• Malcolm Gladwell Outliers The Story of Success (Outliers was the book that started this list in 2007 and was recommended to me by Dr. Tom Souza- who wrote a great book himself on diagnosis. Thanks Dr. S.)
• Seth Godin  Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us I liked the message of this book- definitely apropos of today's internet based world. (But the Audible.com reading was toooo slow, so just listen to it on 1.5x speed)
• Chip and Dan Heath Made to Stick:  Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
• Sheena Iyengar The Art of Choosing (link to her TED talk)
• Kaleel Jamison  The Nibble Theory and the Kernel of Power: A book about leadership, self-empowerment, and personal growth.
• Jonah Lehrer How We Decide
• Steven Levy In The Plex:  How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
• Julie Morgenstern SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life:   A Four-Step Guide to Getting Unstuck
• Randy Pausch The Last Lecture
• Daniel Pink Drive (here's his TED talk link to lure you in)
• Daniel Pink A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
• Barry Schwartz Paradox of Choice (hear him on TED, I love his voice)
• Robert Sutton The No Asshole Rule: : Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't (Everyone should read this! This book leaped off the shelf at a book store at me and I am so glad it did. Since then, I have given this book away multiple times.)
• Kathryn Schulz: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error (here's her 2011 TED talk on this subject) (and here's her newer TED talk on how we shouldn't regret regret)
• Nicholas Taleb The Black Swan:  The Impact of the Highly Improbable
• Brian Tracy  Eat That Frog! Oh for goodness sakes, just do it. Now. No, really, right now! This is the just do it manual of business building or actually life. If you start your day eating the dang frog in the beginning, the rest of the day just has to be better! Sadly, only 2% of people are self motivated. Be one of them!

 Books on my Kindle, by my bedside or on my audible.com current reading list 
• Chip and Dan Heath. Switch
• Walter Isaacson. Steve Jobs (which I doubt I will ever finish because SJ was SO mean!)
• Daniel Kahneman. Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaermann. Spontaneous Evolution

My Next in Line Wishlist
• Kevin Frieberg: Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success
• Daniel Coyle. The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How. (GATE conf)
• Ori and Rom Brafman. Click: The Magic of Instant Connections
• Sir Ken Robinson. The Element (heard on TED)
• Alec MacKenzie. The Time Trap
• Gunther and Shea: Your Job Survival Guide: A Manual for Thriving in Change (whitewater story- from www.lifeworks.com, heard audio recording)
• Gary Vaynerchuk. Crush it (David Cohodes)
• Viktor Frankl. Man's Search for Meaning (Can't believe I haven't read this one yet... skimmed it, believe everything it says, have even quoted from it...)
• Martin Seligman. Learned Optimism (Brian Tracy recommended)
The-Other-Need-to-Check-out-More List:
• Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie (great movie, want to read book)
• Mitch Albom: 5 people you meet in heaven
• Mitch Albom: Have a Little Faith, a True Story
• Virginia Postrel The Substance of Style: How The Rise of Aesthetic Value is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (ref Talent is Overrated)
• Mitch Joel: Six Pixels of Separation: Everyone Is Connected. Connect Your Business to Everyone
• Virginia Postrel The Substance of Style: How The Rise of Aesthetic Value is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (ref Talent is Overrated)
• Paul Bloom: How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
• Youngme Moon: Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd
• Daniel Freedman: Wrong: Why experts* keep failing us--and how to know when not to trust them *Scientists, finance wizards, doctors, relationship gurus, celebrity CEOs, ... consultants, health officials and more
• Zachary Shore: Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions
• Madeline Van Hecke: Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things
• Cordelia Fine: A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
• Jody Hoffer Gittell: The Southwest Airlines way- using the power of relationships to achieve high performance (ebook SCruz library via Inc Overdrive)
• Richard Nisbett Intelligence and How to Get it (GATE conf)
• IQ (GATE conf)
• What Intelligence Tests Miss (GATE conf)
• Gretchen Rubin: The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
• Robert Sapolsky: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition
• Richard Feynman: What Do You Care What Other People Think ?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character 
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WEBlinks and Ideas to fill your soul ~~~~~~~~~~~~

 TED conferences
For audio only- you can download these as MP3s via the www.TED.com website or go to iTunes. However, if you have time to watch videos... then go for it.
MY favorite speakers are: 
Malcolm Gladwell allows me to understand on spaghetti sauce ~~~full tilt worth it~~~
Dan Ariely helps us to know our irrationality
Dan Ariely speaks on the (lack of) ethics of cheating- yikes!
Barry Schwartz on how choice can paralyze us
Sir Ken Robinson on how sitting in that classroom seat can suck out your lifeblood
Eva Vertes inspires on how she is helping save the world one biologic question at a time
Dan Gilbert opens our eyes to the science of happiness
Erin McKean opens the dictionary into a wonderful adventure
Benjamin Zander opens my ears wider
Paul Zak explains oxytocin
Jill Bolte Taylor through her story helped me understand the brain in a much better way

 Here's the list that Jessica needs. Inside joke, but sister Jessica and I just enjoyed a few wonderful TED videos and YouTube videos tonight. Here are the links.
Benjamin Zander through music and comedy demonstrates how a leader sees the outcome
Charlie Todd brings to your home the theatre of absurd and improv
Abraham-Hicks
These guys started it all. Listen to the CDs or get a book or best choice- buy a recording of one of the live presentations. www.abraham-hicks.com

  • Ask- Allow- Receive- the power is in the allowing. Focus on what you want. Allow the Universe to provide.
  • Write a positive list- this is one of my favorite tips I ever got from Abraham- when something or someone is bugging the wits out of you, pull out a blank piece of paper and write down all the positive attributes you can think of. It may be that the person is tall and that's all you can write. Then fold it up and hide in a drawer to read or toss later. Do this several days in a row adding, if you can, to the list. Fixes so many woes.

Journal to change your live with a 15-minute miracle journal/book
This tool has been a staple in my life for over 2 years and has been, I believe, instrumental in helping me get through thick and thin.

Swami Beyondananda- For fun political satire/ insight/ good vibrations take a look at http://wakeuplaughing.com  I've seen Swami/Steve speak several times and each time I feel filled up. I've got a couple of his recordings and books (Duck Soup for the Soul: the Way of Living Louder and Laughing Longer (book) and Drive your Karma, Curb your Dogma (CD)).


GET ORGANIZED!
Questions of the day/week/year...  How do I organize myself? How do I build my self-confidence? How do I market myself? How do I build a business? How am I going to use my education and start my own business?
So these are the questions I keep hearing around me... and I realize there are so many books and seminars out there it's hard to figure out where to start. Here is a list of books, resources I think gave me the best business and marketing empowerment. 
Realize it's not the system......         it's if you practice and USE the system, silly!

 • Spencer Johnson Who Moved My Cheese?:  An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life- use this to get out of a rut or help in career choice. I re-read this at least 2x a year. 
• Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson The One Minute Manager - excellent nutshell info on managing your time well. Easy read. Easy to apply.
• Ken Blanchard- The One Minute Manager Meets The Monkey - find the monkeys that are messing up your flow.
• Ken Blanchard and Colleen Barrett- Lead with LUV:  A Different Way to Create Real Success- best thing I've read in a long while. It's okay to use a loving style in leadership. See the best in everyone around you, up or down the chain of authority. I LUV this book! Here's a link to their website that talks about values.
• Jon Kabat-Zinn Full Catastrophe Living:  Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness- a mindfulness seminar arranged in chapters. Instead of thinking, we should try "awarenessing". Watch Dr. Kabat-Zinn speaking at Google in 2007  Here are some tidbits from the last few minutes of his talk... 
What do we think our work in the world is? We are here because of who we are. The world needs us to be ourselves. We need to know that we fit into the larger picture and that we can contribute in the imaginative ways that are really unthinkable. In fact the world wants us to think of the unthinkable and discover that it's actually doable. How do we get there? Not by thinking, but instead by trusting in certain aspects of ourselves.... 
Treat yourself with tremendous kindness and self-compassion. Don't try to attain some ideal. Recognize who you already are and the beauty that is already you.

• Julie Ditmar CDs- Hyponotherapy for Inner Peace and Hypnotherapy for Self Confidence These are something I listen to a few times a week. Her voice and words are so right on. I always feel more empowered, centered, and ready to go after listening to these.
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 HOW DO I GET IT ALL DONE!?? 
Really?
I want to shout out to Daft Punk for the lyrics of "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger". Listen to the song and stop and think... oh, just do it (thanks Nike). Set aside the pocket of time, lay out a plan, and just do it. Make sure you sleep and eat well and exercise.... and then just do it. No more excuses. I think pretty much every self-made millionaire, motivational speaker, leader, etc has used this tactic. Todd Durkin of the field of sports training says in his seminars and book called Impact! use the IMPACT formula: Two of my favs are Master your craft and Play at the top of your game. Here's his book: The IMPACT! Body Plan: Build New Muscle, Flatten Your Belly ; Get Your Mind Right!  


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Added books on 4/10/2022
This round I'm adding the books with some commentary... 

Books that Opened my Mind part 2


What makes my long commutes more do-able are audio books. Thank God for the public library and their magnificent inventory and the Overdrive App. I think in my past life I was a librarian. 


Here’s a great cartoon by @TomGauld https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb4d8uyML5P/ 


It’s been a while since I wrote out my list of books that have opened my mind… 

so here’s part 2…. and for this list, there is no order...


OPENED MY MIND BOOK PART 2- the list...

  • Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics, A 10% Happier How-to Book, by Dan Harris and Jeff Warren (undoubtedly the best book I could have read to finally get me to allow meditation into my life and to fully come to love it.)
  • Ten Percent Happier, Revised Edition: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works: A True Story by Dan Harris (I love this guy and his story!)
  • Daily Trip Meditations from the Calm App, By Jeff Warren (not a book, but something that has dramatically improved and brightened my life twice a day since Dec 29, 2021)
  • Think Like a Monk, Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day, by Jay Shetty (This book is a good one for those starting out in the adventure of their potential and a great refresher for me)
  • A Wrinkle In Time, by Madeleine L'Engle (Thank you Ted Lasso (Apple TV+) for making this the book to encourage Roy (and now me) to be the leaders we could really be.)
  • Upstream, The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen, by Dan Heath (This makes the reader take a deep breath to ponder the concepts and benefits of prevention. Prevention is a weird one. You can’t prove that prevention works. You must just do what is sensible. There is correlation. But there is no way to prove that prevention avoided causation.)
  • Everything Is Figureoutable, by Marie Forleo (this book wins for the best word award and the concept that goes behind it… the antonym to figureoutable is impossible… and it’s true, nothing is impossible. This is a good book for those who haven’t yet figured out how the busiest people are the ones you want to do things for you, because they always figure out how to fit it in and do it well.)
  • Think Again, The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know, by Adam Grant (I really like the works of Adam Grant. And I listened to them all in a row, so I can't even say which is my fave in terms of content. I do say though, I really liked it best when he was the reader for his own book.)
Technical note:
Yes, if you click on a link and it takes you to Amazon, I may some day earn some pennies on the purchase. 
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