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BOOKS I'D RECOMMEND

Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations by Admiral William H. McRaven

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss & Tahl ​Raz

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink & Lief Babin

Start Your Farm: The Authoritative Guide to Becoming a Sustainable 21st Century Farmer by Forest Pritchard & Ellen Polishuk (lots of great parallels to "conventional" business)

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Talib

Tree: A Life Story by David Suzuki & Wayne Grady (great book on thinking holistically about ecosystems)  

Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't by Simon Sinek

Friend of a Friend . . .: Understanding the Hidden Networks That Can Transform Your Life and Your Career by David Burkus

Meditations: A New Translation Paperback – May 6 2003
by Marcus Aurelius (Author), Gregory Hays (Translator) - (Probably the most important book a person could ever read.)

The Israel Test: Why the World's Most Besieged State is a Beacon of Freedom and Hope for the World Economy Paperback – October 30, 2012
by George Gilder  (Author), Joe Lieberman (Foreword) - A great read for many reasons.  At its core, it teaches that we should celebrate, foster and learn from genius as opposed to envying it.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Hardcover – Illustrated, February 10, 2015
by  Yuval Noah Harari - Awesome retrospective of our history and a glimpse of where we may be headed.  Really makes you think of why we do the things we do and have done.

Men and Manners: Essays, Advice and Considerations Hardcover – Illustrated by David Coggins

The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self Hardcover – May 11 2021 by Michael Easter

Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans Hardcover – June 6 2017 By Admiral James Satvridis (USN)

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Paperback – Feb. 28 2017
by Timothy Snyder  (Author)

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