I am currently reading Become An Idea Machine Because Ideas are the Currency of the 21st Century by Claudia Azula Altucher. The book offers prompts and challenges you to come up with ten ideas based on the prompt. The thought is to get in the habit of having and writing down ten ideas each day. Here was today's prompt.
Tell Me Your Favorite 10 Books Of All Time And One Thing You Learned From Each
This assignment was framed to be as broad as possible. I focused on books I recommend, many of them easy reading with significant impact on me. Here are my choices.
Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl. The power of choice to cope with anything.
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. It's never too late to pursue your dreams.
Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress-free Productivity by David Allen the systematic process of doing.
Success Principles by Jack Canfield. Take 100% responsibility for your life and dozens of other valuable life lessons.
Good to Great by Jim Collins. Among several other ideas it reveals the value of a stop doing list. From this comes my own advice to get out of your own way.
The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach which teaches the latte factor, the long term cost of habitual spending. If you are looking for something specific to stop doing, this may help.
Notes From A Friend by Anthony Robbins. Robbins. Robbins offers a wide variety of formats and many life changing ideas. This quick read introduces some of his most important ideas including the power of decisions.
Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker. Thus book points out several ways wealthy people think differently from others including think "and" not "either ... or ..."
The Richest Man in Babylon by George S Clason. This old book teaches the basics of personal finance.
Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy. Another small book full of great ideas including the one which gives the book its title -- eat the big frog first. That is, start your day by tackling your biggest, highest payoff activity.
The point of the Idea Machine is to
generate tons of ideas, not stop at ten. So, what books would you add and why?
I'd add to your list any of P.G. Wodehouse's books from the "Jeeves" series--fictional and starting in 1915, but with entertaining life lessons. The laugh-out-loud plot, vocabulary, metaphor rejuvenate my mind, body, and spirit, and inspire my writing.
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