Reading is to mind what my Italian grandpa Yayo was to his iconic bolognese: true love and nourishment. Here’s an assortment of my favorite reads. Oh and, full disclosure, I earn a tiny commission from these purchases. Like, very tiny.
A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind
Shoukei Matsumoto
A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle
Be Obsessed or Be Average
Grant Cardone
Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself
Dr. Joe Dispenza
Can’t Hurt Me
David Goggins
Design is Storytelling
Ellen Lupton
Designing Brand Identity
Alina Wheeler
Grid Systems
Josef Müller-Brockmann
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
Never Split the Difference
Christopher Voss
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Draplin Design Co: Pretty Much Everything
Aaron Draplin
Open
Andre Agassi
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
The Brand Gap
Marty Neumeier
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Steal Like an Artist
Austin Kleon
The Coaching Habit
Michael Bungay Stanier
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
The E-Myth Revisited
Michael E. Gerber
The Power of Now
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
Think And Grow Rich
Napoleon Hil
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom
