John Bishop’s new book Unf*ck Yourself offers a simple outline of how we can achieve success in our lives. Bishop emphasizes the importance of taking action rather than altering our thoughts or emotions. He recommends acknowledging your thoughts and emotions, but not considering them when taking action. People struggle to change their lives because of their unwillingness to take the first step. Bishop explains how you can start changing your problems into something that you can deal with.
First, you must create a game plan for how you are going to transform the situation. Bishop argues that it is always your choice whether you decide to play or change the game. You need to learn to only engage in tasks you care about winning. Every individual on Earth has problems. Bishop encourages readers to think back upon problems they have encountered in the past.
Instead of letting these problems impact us in the present, we should overcome them through a positive outlook. By doing this, we are fast-tracking our ability to move on from problems. Stop Carrying Your Certainty Safety Blanket and embrace uncertainty.
Our thoughts are not what decide whether we are successful or unsuccessful. It is the actions that we take that determine who we are. If we ignore our negative thoughts and only act on our positive thoughts, then we will become more positive people. Adopting this approach will allow you to make decisions that are more rational and logical. Bishop encourages us to adopt a concept of relentlessness in all aspects of our lives as we strive for success.
One of the most important considerations based on this advice is how we react to constructive criticisms. Others criticizing our ideas can feel like a personal attack, but this criticism is key to your idea’s improvement. The most challenging obstacles are self-doubt and confusion. We must adopt relentlessness when these crop up in our pursuit of success. You must remain resolute in your determination to reach your goal.
It is acceptable for you to make mistakes when pursuing your goals. But do not let these mistakes discourage you or distract you from your path to success. There will very rarely be other individuals who share the same views, interests, and goals as you. The sooner you realize that life moves forward while you are not taking action, the sooner you will succeed.
Life is uncertain, and things will not always go according to plan, but we can control how we respond to unexpected situations. John Bishop recommends that we always expect that things aren’t going to go the way we anticipated. If something unexpected does happen, then we must quickly accept this and move on. In doing so, we can become much more flexible and better appreciate the process. If you want to move forward, you need to stop and look at what you are currently doing.
Identify the behaviors that are holding you back and do your best to stop doing them. Although it should be relatively easy to identify the actions, it won’t necessarily be easy to continue taking these actions.
Dirty Money is a Netflix original television series about corporate wrongdoing, securities fraud, and clever accounting. On January 26, 2018, Netflix began broadcasting all six one-hour episodes. Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning documentary director, is one of the show’s executive producers. Each episode focuses on a different case of corporate wrongdoing and includes interviews with important characters in the stories. The show’s second season aired on March 11, 2020.
Each episode of this series focuses on various frauds and unethical tactics involving powerful and affluent characters like Donald Trump and Jared Kushner, as well as corrupt banks and how they hound their workers into methods that push people into services and accounts they do not want or need.
We witness how the misapplication of laws intended to safeguard the elderly have left many seniors impoverished, powerful, and estranged from their relatives. We meet a resident of a small Texas hamlet where a big plastics plant releases harmful chemicals into the environment. Each season comprises eight episodes, and each episode tells a narrative about greed, corruption, and criminality in the global economy.
Tim Ferriss’ most successful book, The 4-Hour Work Week, has sold over 2 million copies worldwide. As several Goodreads reviewers have previously noticed, Ferriss comes across as a bit abrasive in the opening few chapters of the book. So, before you buy a copy of this book, I recommend watching some of his YouTube videos or subscribing to his podcast to become acquainted with his work.
David Ogilvy, known as the “Father of Advertising,” was an advertising expert who created the marketing agency Ogilvy & Mather. In 1983, he published a book in which he shared his thoughts on all areas of advertising, building on his years of experience managing ad campaigns for major companies such as Rolls Royce, Dove, and Shell. His advertising concepts remain valid and should be mandatory reading for anybody interested in learning the fundamentals of advertising.
Side Hustle by Chris Guillebeau provides explicit instructions to help you create and launch a lucrative side hustle without quitting your day job. This book should be mandatory reading for everyone who wants to learn the fundamentals of beginning a side business and experience entrepreneurship without giving up the security that a day job provides.
Adam Grant is a New York Times bestselling author and Wharton’s highest-rated lecturer for the past seven years. Grant discusses the concept of uniqueness in his book Originals and debunks the myth that leaders are born, not produced. The book delves into the roots of brilliant ideas and how anybody may spot one.
I’ve been a fan of Gary Vaynerchuk since I launched my own company in 2015. I assumed that after being motivated by his podcast, videos, and social media posts, the next natural step would be to read his business books. While I would recommend all of them because each one offers a distinct viewpoint, #AskGaryVee is the one to start with.
Andrew Grove was an Intel co-founder who helped build the business into the world’s largest semiconductor maker. He develops the notion of strategic inflection points (SIPs), which are the times in every firm at which substantial change happens. Only a Paranoid Survives is a must-read for every entrepreneur looking to improve their leadership abilities.
Crushing It is the sequel to Gary Vaynerchuk’s international bestseller Crush It (see #86). The book provides both theoretical and practical guidance on how to develop your personal brand on every major social media network now in use. It includes numerous examples of entrepreneurs who have used social media to build their personal brand and are now living life on their own terms.
Cal Newport’s Deep Work is a tremendously influential book that will transform the way you approach work. Newport proposes in the book that we build the talent of deep work, or the capacity to focus on an essential activity without interruptions. The book is broken into two sections, the first of which Newport makes the case for intense work in any career.
Pre-suasion is a skill that must be mastered in order to win an argument, gain support for an idea or cause, or promote a campaign. This is what it takes to be a successful communicator, according to Robert Cialdini, the renowned social scientist and author of the global blockbuster Influence (see #9).
Bestselling author Walter Isaacson’s book provides an in-depth insight at Steve Jobs’ career and personal life. It’s an unbiased book that delves into Jobs’ incredible abilities and foresight while also exposing many of his flaws. To create the book, Isaacson undertook three years of confidential interviews with Jobs, his family members, coworkers, and even his adversaries.
The Getting Things Done (GTD) philosophy is straightforward: our productivity is proportionate to our capacity to unwind. We can only produce extraordinary outcomes and reach our creative potential when our minds are clear and our ideas are structured. This book is a great mine of ideas regarding productivity and mental well-being practices. Want to overcome procrastination and create significant achievements for your business? Get your copy of David Allen’s GTD right now.
Tim Ferriss’s The Tribe of Mentors is a massive 580-page book that contains advice and lessons from over 100 successful people from various areas of life. I loved reading practically all of the book’s 100+ interviews since the responses revealed so much about the mentors.
Peter Thiel is a well-known venture capitalist and entrepreneur from Silicon Valley who co-founded PayPal and was Facebook’s first outside investor. Thiel discusses in Zero to One how he learnt how to develop companies that produce new things, building on all he learned as a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir. Thiel has also invested in hundreds of companies, including Facebook and Musk’s Space X.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a Hungarian-American psychologist who developed the notion of flow, a mental state in which a person is completely engrossed in the work at hand. His landmark work Flow describes his notion that when individuals are in a state of flow, they are happiest. This principle is extensively developed in Daniel H. Pink’s best-selling book Drive (see #35), which provides ways for focusing on intrinsic rewards and achieving a state of pure flow.
Huffington Post co-founder and editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington presents a convincing argument for reframing success as happiness, wisdom, and compassion. She recounts her own journey of finding a healthy balance between work and personal life.
Gary Vaynerchuk is one of our generation’s most influential marketers, and he has authored a book about social media marketing. Jab, Right Hook is a helpful book for entrepreneurs and marketers who want to use social media to raise their public presence.
Guy Kawasaki is a notable Silicon Valley venture capitalist and one of the finest marketing thought leaders of our day. In 1984, he was in charge of marketing Apple’s Macintosh computer line, and he has founded three companies and advised organizations as small as two people and Google. His book The Art of the Start is a guide on launching and making your new product, service or idea a success.
Breaking Bad was one of the most critically acclaimed television shows of all time. It won numerous awards, including 16 Primetime Emmy Awards, eight Satellite Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Peabody Awards. The show’s title is a Southern colloquialism meaning, among other things, “raising hell”, and was chosen by Gilligan to describe Walter White’s transformation from Mr. Chips to Scarface. A sequel film, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, starring Paul was released on Netflix and in theaters on October 11, 2019. The first season was originally intended to be nine episodes, but due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike only seven episodes were filmed.
AMC announced in 2009 that Breaking Bad was renewed for a third, 13-episode season. The complete third season was released on Region 1 DVD and Region A Blu-ray on June 7, 2011. In August 2013, AMC released a trailer promoting the premiere of the final season. Breaking Bad is “built on the uncomfortable premise that there’s an irrefutable difference between what’s right and what’s wrong”, says Chuck Klosterman. Walt justifies his decision to become a criminal because of his desire to provide for his family.
The Peaky Blinders gang is loosely based on a real urban youth gang of the same name that was active in Birmingham from the 1880s to 1910s. It features an ensemble cast by Cillian Murphy, starring as crime boss Tommy Shelby. The gang comes to the attention of Major Chester Campbell, a detective chief inspector in the Royal Irish Constabulary sent over by Winston Churchill. In January 2021, it was announced that the sixth series would be the last, followed by a spinoff film. The final series was broadcast in 2022.
The first Peaky Blinders series follows Tommy and his gang as they expand their criminal organization in the “South and North while maintaining a stronghold in their Birmingham heartland.” It begins in 1921 and ends with a climax at Epsom racecourse on 31 May 1922, Derby Day. The third series also features Father John Hughes (Paddy Considine), who is involved in an anti-communist organization; Ruben Oliver (Alexander Siddig), a painter whom Polly enlists to paint her portrait; Russian Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna (Gaite Jansen); and Linda Shelby (Kate Phillips), the new wife of Arthur. The fourth series begins on Christmas Eve 1925 and ends following the general strike of May 1926, with Tommy using Jessie Eden for information and being elected as a Member of Parliament. The fifth series begins two years later on 29 October 1929 (Black Tuesday) and ends on 7 December 1929, the morning after a rally led by British Union of Fascists leader Sir Oswald Mosley.
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