A Book a Week for 6 Months: What I've Learned

the salad this year I made the promise to myself that I was going to be reading 20 books in 2019 however as I built the habit and remembered how much I used to love reading books as a kid I very quickly discovered that 20 books wasn't going to be enough now we're about

halfway through the year and I've read 26 books or one book a week for the past six months and these books have ranged from historical accounts to classic fiction from philosophy to autobiographies from finance to self-improvement and I wanted to share the lessons that I've learned from reading these books from least impactful to most impactful

first up is the e-myth manager by Michael Gerber now unlike the other book of years that I read the e-myth revisited this book feels like a kind of unnecessary addition to the series the main idea is that most businesses are failing because managers within those businesses are subservient to the Emperor or the entrepreneur who owns the

business so to succeed as an emic manager basically imagine that whatever group or unit it is within your organization that you're managing or leading is its own independent entity become the entrepreneur that leads that develop your own mindset develop your own vision and go from there and number two was essentialism by Greg McEwan your

basic idea or value proposition of essentialism is that in order to be able to contribute to them the most important things in life the things that matter most and therefore also have the most success you need to first start saying no to everything else it sounds like a nice idea and it truly is but I don't

think that the book really expanded on it in a in a very meaningful way I felt that the author's writings could at times quite self-absorbed sometimes kind of elitist and the way that he was separating things or people into essentialists versus non-essential 'us was really extreme and often veered into these kind of unrealistic examples next