Books that helps you deconstruct old perspectives and expand your worldview through past, present, and potential future insights.
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Learn From History
Productivity
Amazing book to reset and restart in a way that works for you and your business. This works for freelancers especially well but can also help those in traditional jobs find ways to rest in the overwhelm. It's not a hugely long read but there is value...
Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
It's been such a great book to read as I try to get my finances in order and step up my income. This goes for anyone, not just freelancers, and I highly recommend reading this book in segments so you can really digest the information and implement wh...
Finance for the People: Get a Grip on Finances
Though I'm organized in my work, my room is clean but messy. I loved the perspective shift I got after reading this about how to organize my home in a more harmonious way. Sometimes I'll even re-read a section if I'm feeling overwhelmed, like my clos...
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Founder and CEO Morgan DeBaun of Blavity, Inc., wrote this book to help high-achievers see a new perspective on what success means to you, not to others and break the hustle and identify the purpose in legacy-building that actually supports people in...
Rewrite Your Rules: Journey to Success
Learn From History
One of the best books from the first woman to serve as CIA Chief of Disguise was Jonna Mendez. I bought it to help me in my own fictional espionage novel but this has REAL accounts of missions (since declassified) and it's such an interesting piece t...
The Moscow Rules: Secret CIA Cold War Tactics
What a title! A “traitor to his class” in the best way. FDR came from wealth and yet he is known as one of the most progressive presidents the United States has ever had. Though there are pitfalls and disastrous decisions that will make you enraged, ...
Traitor to His Class: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Though some may not find this an immediately necessary read by the title, it is an incredibly historic work to learning human behavior that can be applied in your life in ways you may not need every day but may come in handy when you least expect it.
The Art of War (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)
Required reading for anyone who wants to 1) learn more in-depth American history, 2) start strategizing and partnering with their local community organizers, and 3) wants more context to what the U.S. has done in the past.
A People's History of the United States
Though America has entered a new phase of its existence, a lot can be learned through the trails and intentions of the past to not repeat them from here forward. It’s enlightening, to say the least.
Essential Documents of American History Vol II
The title grabs you and that’s because the context of how the Boomers betrayed the fundamental ideals of America that future generations were instilled with but, unfortunately, were blindsided into fascism at this point. Though no generation is perfe...
A Generation of Sociopaths
This is a great book for those who want to understand a bit more about why Millennials are uniquely poised to both burnout more than other generations and simultaneously revolt against traditional norms. Though we are more than the data, as other gen...