Join Us for CGC Year 8: Fire Infusion
Enrollment is now open for Conscious Growth Club Year 8 – for one week only! Come join us for an intense and engaging year of growth. Our enrollment window closes May 1st at midnight Pacific Time. CGC's theme this year is Fire Infusion. Follow the link to see if you're qualified for membership. There are a LOT of surprises and upgrades to CGC this year.
Personal Development Books
Steve's recommended reading list of personal development books:
Productivity, Time Management, Effectiveness
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey (personal effectiveness)
- Getting Things Done by David Allen (workflow and productivity)
- Simple Rules by Donald Sull and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt (taming complexity)
- Maximum Achievement and Time Power by Brian Tracy (time management)
- The Now Habit by Neil Fiore (overcoming procrastination)
- Organizing From the Inside Out by Julie Morgenstern (getting organized)
- Now, Discover Your Strengths and StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Marcus Buckingham (finding your strengths)
- Master Your Workday Now by Michael Linenberger (daily workflow, book review)
- Is Your Genius at Work? by Dick Richards (finding your genius, book review)
- The Power of Less by Leo Babauta (personal effectiveness through simple habits)
- Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman (optimism)
- Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers (overcoming procrastination)
Business, Success, Wealth
- The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle (greatness)
- Little Bets by Peter Sims (turning small failures into big wins)
- The Pumpkin Plan by Michael Michalowicz (counter-intuitive strategy for growing a business)
- The Innovator's DNA by Jeff Dyer et al (disruptive innovation)
- The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman (business basics)
- The Type-Z Guide to Success With Ease and The Millionaire Course by Marc Allen (wealth alignment, Type-Z Guide review, Marc Allen interview)
- Small Time Operator by Bernard B. Kamoroff (starting a small business)
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (wealth)
- The Intelligent Entrepreneur by Bill Murphy (business success)
- The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs (presentation skills)
- Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber (history of debt and money)
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu (slaughtering your enemy efficiently)
- The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene (ensuring your enemy doesn’t slaughter you first)
- The Psychology of Winning by Denis Waitley (victory)
- Stein on Writing by Sol Stein (writing skills)
- Manifesting for Non-Gurus by Robert MacPhee (clarifying and experiencing your desires)
Consciousness, Awareness, Spirituality
- Lucid Dreaming and Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge (lucid dreaming)
- Ask and It Is Given, The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent, and The Vortex by Esther and Jerry Hicks (manifesting intentions)
- The Power of Now and A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (consciousness and awareness)
- The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra (manifesting intentions)
- The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield (consciousness and awareness)
- Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman (inner peace)
- Cosmic Trigger Vol I, Vol II, and Vol III by Robert Anton Wilson (weird doesn’t begin to describe it)
- The Disappearance of the Universe by Gary Renard (awareness and forgiveness)
- Far Journeys by Robert Monroe (astral projection)
Meaning, Purpose, Philosophy
- The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (wisdom)
- The Warrior Within by John Little (Bruce Lee's philosophy)
- As You Think aka As a Man Thinketh by James Allen (power of thought)
- Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu (wisdom)
- Life on Purpose by Dr. Brad Swift (discovering your purpose, book review)
- There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem, The Power of Intention, and Inspiration by Wayne Dyer (spiritual problem solving, finding your purpose)
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl (finding meaning in the Holocaust)
- Freedom by Adam Kokesh (free book on liberating yourself from enslavement)
- A Child Called It, The Lost Boy, and A Man Named Dave by Dave Pelzer (abuse and recovery)
- Happy for No Reason by Marci Shimoff (cultivating unconditional happiness and inner peace)
- Re-Create Your Life by Morty Lefkoe (overcoming limiting beliefs)
Relationships
- Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay, When Good People Have Affairs, and I Love You But I Don't Trust You by Mira Kirshenbaum (outstanding books on diagnosing relationship issues)
- Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá (one of the best books on human sexuality)
- The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman (love strategies)
- Opening Up by Tristan Taormino (open relationships and polyamory)
- Open by Jenny Block (one woman's journey from monogamy to open marriage)
- The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton (ethical polyamory)
- Spiritual Polyamory by Mystic Life (relationships and unconditional love)
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (social skills)
- Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg (communication)
- Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus by John Gray (male-female communication)
- Should I Stay or Go? by Lee Raffel (healing vs. ending relationships)
- Uncoupling by Diane Vaughan (how relationships end)
Biographies, Memoirs
- The Pixar Touch by David A. Price (Pixar story)
- Super Mario by Jeff Ryan (Nintendo story)
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (personal effectiveness)
- Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick (adventures of a notorious hacker)
- As You Wish by Cary Elwes (delightful memoirs of the making of The Princess Bride)
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Holocaust story)
- True Strength by Kevin Sorbo (Kevin Sorbo bio)
- iWoz by Steve Wozniak and Gina Smith (Steve Wozniak bio)
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (Steve Jobs bio)
- Masters of Doom by David Kushner (id Software story)
- Losing the Signal by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff (rise and fall of Blackberry)
- Genius by James Gleick (Richard Feynman bio)
Health
- The China Study by T. Colin Campbell (health, book review)
- Spark by John J. Ratey and Eric Hagerman (mental benefits of cardio exercise)
- You Are Your Own Gym by Mark Lauren (bodyweight exercises)
- Living with a Seal by Jesse Itzler (tough 30-day fitness trial)
- Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Caldwell B. Esselstyn (heart health)
- Diet for a New America and The Food Revolution by John Robbins (health and ethical food choices)
- Eat and Run by Scott Jurek (endurance training)
- The Sunfood Diet Success System by David Wolfe (raw food diet)
- The 80/10/10 Diet by Douglas Graham (low-fat raw food diet)
- Mad Cowboy by Howard Lyman (why a cattle rancher stopped eating animals)
- The Egoscue Method of Health Through Motion by Pete Egoscue (pain-free structural alignment)
- Anatomy of an Illness by Norman Cousins (laughter as medicine)
Mental Development
- The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne (develop a superior memory)
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (mental clarity)
- Your Brain at Work by David Rock (useful brain research)
- The Social Animal by David Brooks (social aspects of the brain)
- Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain (visualization exercises)
- Brain Building in Just 12 Weeks by Marilyn vos Savant (boosting intelligence, mental clarity)
- The Tipping Point and Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (social and mental phenomena)
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom (Will we become immortal or extinct?)
History
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford (history of the Mongol empire)
- From Yao to Mao by Kenneth J. Hammond (Chinese history)
- Destiny Disrupted by Tamim Ansary (Islamic history)
- Spycraft by Robert Wallace et al (history of spy tech)
- The Alchemy of Air by Thomas Hager (fascinating story of scientific discovery)
- Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehrman (history of the Bible)
Fiction
- The Princess Bride by William Goldman (inconceivably fun)
- Dune by Frank Herbert (great sci-fi novel, better than the movie)
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein (an important book to grok)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (eminently quotable fun)
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (the insanity of social conditioning)
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (the insanity of war)
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles (darkness of adolescence)
- Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (grandiose classics)
- Incarnations of Immortality by Piers Anthony (fascinating fiction series): On a Pale Horse (Death), Bearing an Hourglass (Time), With a Tangled Skein (Fate), Wielding a Red Sword (War), Being a Green Mother (Nature), For Love of Evil (Satan), And Eternity (God)
- The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer (the Trojan War and classic Greek mythology)
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding (stranded boys turn into savages)
- Mark Twain: Four Complete Novels by Mark Twain (a true literary genius)
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach (outgrowing your old self)