The habit of reading is one of the best qualities that a person can possess. Books are known to be your best friend for a reason. Reading helps a great deal in building your confidence, reducing stress and puts you in a better mood. Once you start reading books and make it your habit, you will eventually get addicted to it. Reading is the best kind of refreshment that you need from your hectic life schedule. So no matter how busy you get, do not forget to make time for you and your books. Now if you are a person who doesn’t read, well it’s never too late to start. What could be a more better opportunity than a situation like this to nurture a new habit into your life. Here are the top 5 eBooks you can start with and since I personally have read all of them, I can guarantee no book can become a better candidate than these 5 to start reading with.
5. IKIGAI, THE JAPANESE SECRET TO LONG AND HAPPY LIFE
The term ”ikigai” is explained in various ways. You can describe it briefly as: the reason why you get out of bed in the morning. It is the reason for your existence. The French might say ”raison d’etre”. The book also links to certain Western therapies (such as logotherapy) and may also be a question, such as: ”why don’t you commit suicide?” That’s a harsh question, but it’s forces you to really think what’s important in life. And right there lies the secret to a long and happy life. In the answer to this question you will find your own ikigai. This is one of the reasons why the inhabitants on the Okinawa island are getting so extremely old. On this Japanese island, there are more centenarians than anywhere else in the world. Not only are they old, but they are still active and happy, up until a very high age.
”We find our ikigai by concentrating on what is important, rather than what’s urgent. By constantly keeping an eye on what feels good, we are able to discover what our passion is.”
Mundo Urano
In this book, the term ikigai is translated as the bliss of always being busy. Ikigai is actually a combination of your passion, your mission and your profession. Your ikigai can be very clear, but also something you’re still looking for (which on its own may be your ikigai). Reading this book can prove to be the best thing you did in this quarantine.
4.THE ALCHEMIST
Coelho wrote The Alchemist in only two weeks in 1987. He explained that he was able to write at this pace because the story was "already written in (his) soul. "The book's main theme is about finding one's destiny, although according to The New York Times, The Alchemist is "more self-help than literature".The advice given to Santiago(a character in the book) that "when you really want something to happen, the whole universe will conspire so that your wish comes true" is the core of the novel's philosophy and a motif that plays throughout it.
3. SAPIENS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND
Harari's (author) main argument is that Sapiens came to dominate the world because it is the only animal that can cooperate flexibly in large numbers. He argues that prehistoric Sapiens were a key cause of the extinction of other human species such as the Neanderthals, along with numerous other megafauna. He further argues that the ability of Sapiens to cooperate in large numbers arises from its unique capacity to believe in things existing purely in the imagination, such as gods, nations, money, and human rights. He argues that these beliefs give rise to discrimination – whether that be racial, sexual or political and it is potentially impossible to have a completely unbiased society. Harari claims that all large-scale human cooperation systems – including religions, political structures, trade networks, and legal institutions – owe their emergence to Sapiens' distinctive cognitive capacity for fiction. Accordingly, Harari regards money as a system of mutual trust and sees political and economic systems as more or less identical with religions.
2. RICH DAD POOR DAD
Rich Dad Poor Dad is about Robert Kiyosaki and his two dads- his real father(poor dad) and the father of Robert's best friend(rich dad)- and the ways in which both men shaped his thoughts about money and investing. The Five Big Ideas in this book:
- The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.
- It's not how much money you make that matters. It's how much money you keep.
- Rich people acquire assets. The poor and the middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets.
- Financial aptitude is what you do with money once you make it, how you keep people from taking it from you, how to keep it longer, and how you make money work hard for you.
- The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind.
1. THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR
The Intelligent Investor explains value investing, which is focused on generating steady, long-term profits by ignoring the current market and picking companies with high intrinsic value.
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Benjamin Graham (author)
Benjamin Graham would easily be the most famous investor of the 20th century, if it weren’t for his student – Warren Buffett – likely the only person to surpass him in investing brilliance.
Coming from poverty he became an excellent student at Columbia and upon graduation started his investing career with a job on Wall Street. He wrote down his investing principles in 1949 inside The Intelligent Investor, which Warren Buffett calls the best book on investing ever written.
Here are 3 key lessons from Graham’s book to help you start investing:
- There are 3 principles to intelligent investing: analyze for the long term, protect yourself from losses, and don’t go for crazy profits.
- Never trust Mr. Market, he can be very irrational in the short and medium term.
- Stick to a strict formula by which you make all your investments, and you’ll do fine.
Ready to become an intelligent investor?
BONUS: THE SECRET
You know how you sometimes get really excited about a thought or an idea, it hijacks all your thinking for a couple of days, and then a few months later, after you’ve long forgotten it again, it randomly pops back into your life? Or have you ever set an outrageous goal, never looked at it again, and later realized you did indeed accomplish it?
This once happened to famous talk show host Oprah Winfrey. She read a book called The Color Purple, and immediately recognized herself as destined to portray one of its characters in a big Hollywood movie. This manifested even more when she got a random call to audition for a secret movie, which turned out to be…The Color Purple.
That was in 1984. For the next 20 years, Oprah couldn’t quite explain how she’d managed to turn this fantasy into reality. Until Rhonda Byrne told her about The Secret. This 2006 movie and global bestseller with almost 30 million copies sold is by many considered the perfect blueprint for achieving your goals. Here’s the essence of The Secret in 3 lessons:
- The law of attraction is one of the most prevalent principles in the world.
- In order to use the law of attraction, you must think about what you want, not what you want to avoid.
- The three steps of the law of attraction are asking, believing, and receiving.
Do you have a big, crazy vision? Here’s how to prime yourself for achieving it.
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