Thinking about starting a business and becoming an entrepreneur? There are SO MANY books, articles and videos to help and inspire your new journey. From learning about mindset, habits, perseverance, setting boundaries to tactical solutions on how to start and market yourself.
Our EIC @themariavonlosch has read them all and shares her top favorites. A few new books and a few classics. Let us know your favorites by dropping in the comments below. Happy reading!
GRIT THE POWER OF PASSION AND PERSEVERANCE
Angela Duckworth dives into the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called “grit”. Grit is a book about what goes through your head when you fall down, and how that—not talent or luck—makes all the difference. This is “a fascinating tour of the psychological research on success” (The Wall Street Journal).
YEAR OF YES
The mega-talented creator of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal chronicles how saying yes for one year changed her life – and how it can change yours, too.
THE LEAN STARTUP
Eric Ries defines dives into why most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Learn Startup book aims to have startup entrepreneurs learn a new scientific approach that will help them create the best products and/or provide the best services.
ATOMIC HABITS
James Clear, leading expert on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.
If you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don’t want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you’ll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.
THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A F*CK
There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience.
YOU ARE A BADASS AT MAKING MONEY
Jen Sincero’s book will launch you past the fears and stumbling blocks that have kept financial success beyond your reach.
Learn to:
• Uncover what’s holding you back from making money
• Give your doubts, fears, and excuses the heave-ho
• Relate to money in a new (and lucrative) way
• Shake up the cocktail of creation
• Tap into your natural ability to grow rich
• Shape your reality—stop playing victim to circumstance
• Get as wealthy as you wanna be
ALL MARKETERS ARE LIARS
Learn how stories are the only way we know to spread an idea. Marketers didn’t invent storytelling. They just perfected it.
As Seth Godin has taught hundreds of thousands of marketers and students around the world, great marketers don’t talk about features or even benefits. Instead, they tell a story—a story we want to believe, whether it’s factual or not. In a world where most people have an infinite number of choices and no time to make them, every organization is a marketer, and all marketing is about telling stories.
HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE
This is an oldie but a mustie. Carnegie’s principles still hold true and work today. It’s like going back to basics and as human beings, we tend to overcomplicate and overanalyze everything.
Learn the six ways to make people like you, the twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking, and the nine ways to change people without arousing resentment.
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