Episode 544 Scott Adams: Books That Will Make you Happier and More Successful (Grad Gifts?)

Date: 2019-05-27 | Duration: 7:44

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hey everybody this is Scott Adams here to give you a little bit of a reading recommendation list specifically I’m going to be talking about books that I think legitimately can make you happier and more successful now these would be more useful the younger you are especially if you’re a graduate of high school or college you’re trying to figure out how everything works how to be happy how to be successful and I thought I’d tell you the books that can do it for you best I of course will be including my book I had a fail at almost everything and still win big this has been a few years and based on the reviews which you can check yourself on Amazon it’s changing people’s lives and what this does is it tells you how to create very simple systems in your life that will make you healthier more successful improve your social life improve your career etc don’t take my word for it go read the reviews you’ll see that they’re insane and I hear

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see that they’re insane and I hear everyday from people who say that I have changed their life because they’re seeing the world in a more let’s say mechanistic way where they know where the levers are and they know what what buttons to push and what levers to pull but I am not the only author in this category there are another number of other authors Scott Galloway for example writing the algebra of happiness happiness I believe is at least partially a learned skill and if you consume books that do a little bit of a deep dive especially the ones that are easy to read it’s kind of short it’s pretty easy to get through this one you will pick up a number of good tips on happiness here’s another one Neil Neil Pass Rica the happiness equation I like both of these the happiness books because they try to boil it down into simple things that you could actually do so this is the happiness equation from deal best rica now i’m not saying that

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deal best rica now i’m not saying that any of these specific books are the ones that you you have to get there are a number of books in these genre the the main point of this is that happiness and success are absolutely learning skills if you read the right books you will find the right skills I see Mike discern of it on the periscope you should read his books on mindset the guerrilla somebody needs to tell me the second part of that Mike sort of Mitch’s book title anyway search for a bike sort of it also he has some of the most actionable and practical advice on how to get your mind right before you before you you know try to conquer the world guerrilla mindset is the name of Mike sort of itches book so check out guerrilla mindset to that’s very much in this genre now once you’ve got some systems and mindset at least

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got some systems and mindset at least some framework for how this happiness and success stuff works then you ready for phase two phase two is understanding a little bit on a deeper level how the world works and how people’s minds work the best book on that is influenced by Robert Jill Dini this has been around for a while huge bestseller if you are in the business world and you’ve not read this book you’re at quite a disadvantage because a lot of people have and this will this will train you to understand that facts and reason are not as big an influence as you think they ought to be and that people are irrational creatures but they’re predictably irrational so if you know what influences people you can be better at it sheíll Dedes follow a book pre suasion which is I think two years old

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suasion which is I think two years old something like that but it’s more recent and this one tells you how to prime people for persuasion so it’s what happens before the persuasion that puts people in the right frame of mind to be persuaded hugely hugely useful if you don’t understand the content in these two books you’re you’re really flying blind and a lot of people will say the same thing this completely changes how you see the world they are not the only books in this genre here’s invisible influenced by Jonah Berger that covers not the same material but the same field of material and this one’s a little shorter might be a little bit more approachable my own offering in this genre of persuasion is wind Bigley now this one talks about Trump’s election and the persuasion that was part of that so if you wanted to learn persuasion in a friendly way this guy

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persuasion in a friendly way this guy said narrative this would be the way to do it the other books are maybe a little bit let’s say less less approachable not so much invisible influences which is very very approachable and in fact the influence and pre-pre suasion books are quite approachable to the wind Bigley is the most approachable of them you’ve got these books under your belt will say you’ve got your mind right you understand the difference between having good systems and having goals you understand how things operate and you understand how the mind works here’s a good way to finish it all off you can see how enormous this book is it’s called tools for titans by Tim Ferriss now what Tim did was he talked to lots of people and he interviewed them and

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of people and he interviewed them and found out some of the most useful tips and then he compiled them so if you’ve got a good grounding on the other stuff that I mentioned the other books this is a great way to finish it off and really really take it to that next level of practical thinking and practical actions and practical systems so here are my recommendations these are ideal for graduates if you want the one book that’s the best for graduates it happens to be mine I promise you that if it didn’t happen to be mine I would recommend I would recommend a different book so if if I thought that this was the best book for a graduate I would tell you that I might tell you mine is also in the mix but I’ll tell you this one is an amazing book but it’s kind of kind of big maybe not everybody’s ready for it right away for a graduate who’s just trying to figure out the world this

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just trying to figure out the world this is the one and read the reviews everybody says the same thing a lot of people will read this two or three times that’s one of the things I hear the most anyway so that’s all I wanted to leave with you get your summer reading list ready if you want to change somebody’s life you might want to gift them with one of these books or one of them like certain bitch’s books which are excellent and that’s all for now have a great summer