hey what's going on friends in this video we are going over seven books that i think everyone should read in their NUMBER_TOKENs these are all books that i read when i was in my NUMBER_TOKENs and they all had a tremendous impact on my life and helped me to improve my life in five different categories that we're breaking this video down into those categories are relationships productivity personal finance career success and health so let's get this video started off with the first book on my list which is stephen covey's seven habits of highly effective people this is the book that more than any other book helped me to improve the way that i both build and deepen relationships with other people now this isn't entirely a book about relationships in fact about half of this book is a book about productivity the first three habits deal with it like habit number two begin with the end in mind is all about planning and understanding your goals and habit number three put first things first is all about prioritization but it's habit number five that had the greatest impact on me seek first to understand then to be understood see most people listen with what covey calls an autobiographical point of view you're listening because you're waiting to respond with something from your own perspective your own experiences a lot of people don't take the time to really put themselves in the shoes of the other person consider their perspective try to see it the way the other person sees it kevin calls this empathetic listening and when you can listen empathetically when you can actually do this perspective shift you become better able to understand the meaning and the context behind what somebody else is telling you about and in doing so you build much better and deeper relationships and you're able to make the lives of everyone around you much better so that is my favorite book in the relationship category and now we're moving on to the productivity category now there are a ton of productivity books out there i've talked about many of them on this channel but if you were only going to read one the one that i would recommend is going to be chris bailey's the productivity project well this and also atomic habits by james clear but i in fact made two videos about that book so i'm not gonna include it on this list and the productivity project is a wonderful overview of really the entire field of productivity so if you're looking for one concentrated book that's gonna teach you all about time management managing your attention your energy procrastination all these different topics this is the book that i would recommend and the best idea that i want to share from this book is his breakdown of these six different procrastination triggers this is pulled from procrastination research that has been done at several different universities where they have found that there are indeed six different aspects or qualities of tasks that we tend to put off of tasks that are unpleasant so when a task is boring when it is frustrating difficult ambiguous lacking and personal meaning or lacking an intrinsic value i.e it's not fun we tend to put it off and there are a ton of different strategies in this book for fighting procrastination but i want to share this idea because once you know these six different triggers you can now start to think critically about your own tasks and ask yourself if i'm procrastinating which of these triggers is causing me to procrastinate on
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