10 Books That Everyone Should Read in Their 20’s
Leaders are readers, one of the most famous quotes that most of us heard or read somewhere. Billionaires, Entrepreneurs, Top executives read more than 20 books a year. At the same time, Bill Gates reads more than 50 books a year. Reason can be anything to read a book, regardless of whether you are a regular reader or not, however making reading as a habit can improve your life and you can gain a depth knowledge about any subject.
You might read-only when you travel, or you like reading while relaxing on weekends. But reading is one of the best practices one can have in their habit to getting the in-depth knowledge, experience and lessons, which somebody has gone through years aggregates those knowledge and information to write the book. Whether you are a student, working professional or whoever you are, continuously improving your knowledge can bring many positive changes in your life . After reading a lot of books and going in-depth on different topics for such as self-development, phycology, money and a lot more others. I have selected these 10 books that everyone should, each book has its own broad of topics that can help you to improve your life and step ahead for a better future.
List of 10 Books that everyone should read
- Rich Dad Poor Dad
- The Power of Habits
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
- The Four Hour Work Week
- Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- The Art of War Sun Tzu
- The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
1. Rich Dad Poor Dad (Personal Finance)
Our life and most of our time revolve around money, on the off chance that we are not rich enough, at that point we attempt to get wealthier, and those who are already rich are trying to make more fortune. Whether you are a student, working 9–5 or you belong from a rich background. No matter who you are, this book is for everyone who wants to learn about personal finance and how to build wealth. Robert Kiyosaki is telling both side stories in this book. While being the child of a poor dad and their battle to get more cash-flow and bargains as a result of not having enough money. Working in his friend’s father company in school holiday whom Robert Kiyosaki is referring to as a rich dad. Who taught him many lessons to build wealth that he portrayed in this book.
2. The Power of Habits (Habits)
From brushing our teeth in the morning to reading books or watching television before sleep, have become our habits over the period. Every habit we perform is depending on three steps, Trigger, Action, Award. That defines the process of our habits, if you are a smoker then every time you’ll see, someone smoking your brains will get a trigger for smoking. And you will smoke to get dopamine in order to reward.
In this book, Charles Duhigg have told the psychology behind our habits, and how we build our habits with many case studies and proven research. After reading this book one can easily understand the cycle of habits, and it will help you break your bad habits as well.
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3. How to Win Friends and Influence People (Communication & Behaviour)
We hate or love anyone based on how they behave with us. Without Understand their opinion and situation and the same apply to how people think about us. Making everyone to love you is not easy and neither everyone can make it. Dale Carnegie has explained in detail the fundamental techniques that can apply in our day to day life. Which can help us to improve our behavior with others and make everyone like us after using the techniques in our life? This is one of the most recommended books for everyone that can surely improve your life in some way.
4. Thinking, Fast and Slow (Psychology)
We all make decisions based on our intelligence, the human brain is more powerful than any supercomputer and if we don’t know how to use the superintelligence machine, how to make the best of its capabilities then we won’t be able to utilize the best our human intelligence. Most of the time our brain works in autopilot mode, and most of us are not aware of the fundamental rules of our brain. How it impacts each and every decision. In this book, Daniel Kahneman has described the complex concepts of human psychology and the inner-workings of our minds, making them accessible through the book to everyone.
5. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (Psychology)
After visiting the doctor, 50% of the problem gets cured consequently. Have you ever thought about it, when we go to the doctor for any problem, and then our conscious mind gets positively assured that now doctors will cure our problem? This conscious thought starts passing the message to our subconscious mind? And it starts working on it, and you know the result.
How our conscious thinking is related to our subconscious mind, and it impacts our life. Joseph Murphy has described everything that you need to know and learn about our subconscious mind. How it impacts our day to day life with case studies and practical examples.
6. The Four Hour Work Week (Productivity)
Escaping the 9–5 rat race, every millennial dream about, however truly does anybody really want to escape it, or people are just imagining and talking about it. Whether it’s about starting a business while doing a 9–5 job, managing your time in a more productive way, or finding an extra source of income. The motive of Timothy Ferriss by this book is educating people to live their dream, no matter who they are, what they are doing, anyone achieved their dream life. In this book, Timothy Ferriss, it talking about practice steps, and tips to make the best out of time utilizing the Internet, the best platforms in this world.
7. Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus (Relationship)
Why everyone needs a partner to spend our lives with, the universe says two human brains together can make a better life for each other. Whether it’s sharing each other pain, or enjoying happy moments together. Despite the fact that rarely, we heard about any couple, who spent their life happily together. All humans have the same brain, but it works differently for everyone, and then conflicts happen in any relationship when one tries to bring another to the same page.
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus is about, how man women and have different thought processes and understanding. Both see and understand any situation differently and it becomes a point of conflict and further, it even leads to breakups and divorce. John Gray have well described the different psychology and the thought process of men and women. It can help you to understand your partner better and making them love you more. To take out the best from this book it is recommended to ask your partner to read this once you read it.
8. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Self Development)
We see the world based on our perception and paradigm that we have created. We understand and judge any situation or people entirely based on our own perceptions without trying to understand others. R. Covey defines in this book that even after achieving a lot more success and wealth in life many people are struggling with inner development.
In this book, R. Covey has given 7 habits to learn and adopt which all are derived after studying many successful people. These 7 habits can help you shift your paradigm and can change the way of looking at any situation based on your perception.
9. The Art of War Sun Tzu (War Stratgies)
The Art of War book is a philosophy of ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu. This book consists of 13 chapters that define different principles, rules, and strategies to defeat the enemy in any war. These principles and strategies can be applied anywhere whether it about sport, business, and politics.
This book describes, what you need to focus and when you need to bring changes in your war strategies. Know how to deceive the enemy appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. Know your strengths and weaknesses: if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
10. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari (Self Development)
The monk who sold his Ferrari is on the best selling book of Robin Sharma. This self-help book is a story of fictional lawyer Julian Mantle, who sold his mansion and Ferrari to study the seven virtues of the Sages of Sivana in the Himalayan mountains. Julian Mantle was a successful and rich person, he got a heart attack while hearing the divorce case with her wife. When he was in hospital then he realized that after working 18 hours a day having huge wealth. He didn’t gain the wisdom about self-care, he starts all his luxury materialities things and went to the Himalayas to learn the seven virtues.
