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The cover of Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It by Kamal Ravikant, centred in a thin gold frame on a midnight blue background under the words From my bookshelf, with the line “If I loved myself truly and deeply, would I let myself experience this?” beneath it

I keep going back to Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It

A short book with one simple practice and one powerful question that can change how you treat yourself, read five times.

The cover of Play Bigger by Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead and Kevin Maney, centred in a thin gold frame on a midnight blue background under the words From my bookshelf, with the line “Part of being a category king is having the courage to be nonconsensus.” beneath it

The book that taught me to market the problem: Play Bigger

Business

What category design means in plain English, why marketing the problem beats shouting about your solution, and how to stop being a me too.

The cover of Switch by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, centred in a thin gold frame on a midnight blue background under the words From my bookshelf, with the line “What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.” beneath it

Switch and the jockey who isn’t really in charge

Business

Why change is hard even when you’ve decided, the elephant and the rider in plain English, and how shaping the path makes change easier.

The cover of The Power of No by James Altucher, centred in a thin gold frame on a midnight blue background under the words From my bookshelf, with the line “When you say yes to something you don’t want to do, here is the result: you hate what you are doing, you resent the person who asked you, and you hurt yourself.” beneath it

The book that taught me no is a complete sentence

Business

Why a yes you don’t mean turns into resentment, and how to say no without a speech so you get your time back for what matters.

The cover of Purple Cow by Seth Godin, centred in a thin gold frame on a midnight blue background under the words From my bookshelf, with the line “In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is failing.” beneath it

Seth Godin’s Purple Cow made me want to be the giraffe

Business

Why fitting in is the riskiest thing a business can do, what Seth Godin means by remarkable, and how to stop competing on price.

The cover of Twisting My Melon by Shaun Ryder, centred in a thin gold frame on a midnight blue background under the words From my bookshelf

Twisting My Melon and the Shaun Ryder you don’t see on telly

Beats

Meet the Shaun Ryder behind the TV persona, and see why his story of surviving the Happy Mondays years is worth reading.

The cover of Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis, centred in a thin gold frame on a midnight blue background under the words From my bookshelf, with the line “When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn’t otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.” beneath it

What Scar Tissue taught me about putting pen to paper

Beats

What Anthony Kiedis’s raw memoir can teach you about recovery, about music and about getting your thoughts onto a page.

The cover of High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, centred in a thin gold frame on a midnight blue background under the words From my bookshelf, with the line “I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.” beneath it

High Fidelity is about the man I could have become

Beats

Why a novel about a record shop owner made it onto a DJ’s shelf of true stories, and what Rob can teach you about living now.

The cover of Cash by Johnny Cash, centred in a thin gold frame on a midnight blue background under the words From my bookshelf, with the line “They’re powerful, those songs. At times they’ve been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.” beneath it

Cash by Johnny Cash and the luck of staying alive

Beats

Why Johnny Cash’s own story beats the film, and what his darkness, hope and stubborn persistence can teach you about your own.

The cover of Black Vinyl White Powder by Simon Napier-Bell, centred in a thin gold frame on a midnight blue background under the words From my bookshelf

How Black Vinyl White Powder changed the way I hear music

Beats

Simon Napier-Bell’s inside story of the British music business, and the idea that will change how you hear every era of pop.

The cover of The ONE Thing by Gary Keller, centred in a thin gold frame on a midnight blue background under the words From my bookshelf, with the line “Multitasking is a lie.” beneath it

What The ONE Thing taught me about spinning too many plates

Business

Why multitasking is a lie, the paper demo I use to prove it, and the to-do list of one that keeps my day on the thing that matters.

The cover of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, centred in a thin gold frame on a midnight blue background under the words From my bookshelf, with the line “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” beneath it

The Alchemist and the treasure that was there all along

Life

A short fable about chasing a dream across the world, and the question it leaves you with about what you already have right in front of you.

Bookshelf

I keep going back to Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It

The book that taught me to market the problem: Play Bigger

Switch and the jockey who isn’t really in charge

The book that taught me no is a complete sentence

Seth Godin’s Purple Cow made me want to be the giraffe

Twisting My Melon and the Shaun Ryder you don’t see on telly

What Scar Tissue taught me about putting pen to paper

High Fidelity is about the man I could have become

Cash by Johnny Cash and the luck of staying alive

How Black Vinyl White Powder changed the way I hear music

What The ONE Thing taught me about spinning too many plates

The Alchemist and the treasure that was there all along

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