So for the past couple years I’ve gotten into reading. I was wondering if you guys have any books you’d suggest to help grow and learn. I recently finished, Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink. It really puts things in perspective. I highly recommend it.
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Rich dad poor dad.
I’ve read it. Its been awhile I may have to revisit it. I did find it helpful in how I perceived money and growing up lower middle class.
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Cant hurt me by Goggins,is an awesome book along the lines of extreme ownership goggins is another seal and an ultra marathoner.
Dont split the difference by Voss, is what I’m currently reading, he was the lead FBI hostage negotiator for several years and it’s a great book so far. I have very little sit down time so most of mine are on audio book.
Yeah David is an animal! Is the latter about how everything is a negotiation?
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Yes he is! And yes it’s about how everything is a negotiation and gives coaching on how to use mirroring and open ended questions, silences and a boatload of other procedures to come to a good outcome. I’m reading it from a sales perspective but it’s really applicable in a bunch or areas.
Word. How to win friends and influence people is a good one too.
Go sell cars for six months and I promise you’ll learn more about sales than any book or class could ever teach you. Seriously.
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Literally every book y’all have listed is on the front page of Audible right now. Every single one lol
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I’d recommend subscribing to entrepreneur magazine, too. There’s always something in there that makes me go “Damn, that’s good.”
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Best read I found was in a Forbes magazine where a guy basically bought a yacht with other people’s money like a time share and cruised them around the world in exotic locations as a captain and scuba guide. Said he cleared 100k after expenses. Not the biggest salary but you are literally on vacation with Rich folks all year long.
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It’s a sign!
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I actually did worse than that! I worked at Radio Shack as my first job out of the Army… holy cow did I get an education in sales. Was there 4 months and never once was educated on what we sold, rather every day was on how to sell… it was a dog eat dog introduction to “commission: we called it spiff rather than commission” work. Ide make more selling 4 Motorola razer’s on spiff than I would working all week by hours.
But it was a sleazy shop, bad practices, no follow up care, not vetting customers needs properly… just sell sell sell… didn’t sit right with me.
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Yeah, that’s not cool. Always sell people what fits their needs and they’ll keep coming back to you.
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I tell customers I’m in for the long con, I take care of them and they keep coming back and giving me money…
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Can never go wrong with Sun-tzu Art of war or Mao tse-tung guerilla warfare, classics. The lessons don’t just apply to the battlefield.
Lt. Col David Grossman’s On Killing was good. Went to two of his seminars paid for by a prior employer, good stuff. Don’t buy into all the sheep dog hype, but good info notwithstanding. It opens your mind to how things are perceived by the public.
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On killing and on combat are both excellent, helped me more than I can say after the war to realize that I’m not a psychopath, and that others have been through the same situation. He’s got some theories especially on the video games side that I disagree with, but the sheep dog thing really isn’t one of them.
@Dirtyboy also of you enjoy unconventional warfare “Fry the brain” is an excellent look at sniper implementation and theory. Just ignore the JFK chapter I think it detracted from the book.
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That’s the way to be.
funny, i totally agree with the mental conditioning parts of his seminars - violent video games. Studies have shown time and time again how it desensitizes you, but this is the wrong forum for that. The psychs don’t normally agree on anything, but they all agree on that. My old lady is a psych, had her read it, she was bobbing her head up and down while reading.
Did you read Inside the Mind of a Teen Killer by Chalmers? Grossman recommended it. I did, rather eye opening. I have also watch videos of police interactions with teens with guns, rolling around corners instead of cutting the pie, in real life, learned the skill on video games.
**edited a rather verbose diatribe
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