I've read 613 business books - these 16 will make you RICH

so one of the greatest investors the world has ever seen recently passed away at the ripe old age of 99 years old and if you were to ask most people on the street they would have no clue who this guy was but Charlie Munger was revered in the world of Finance as a sort of business Yoda and he said something once that's really stuck with me he said in my whole life I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time none zero and this is proven true time and again in my own personal experiences but something I really struggled with at the beginning of my entrepreneurial Journey was just figuring out which books are actually worth reading I mean a book can transform your life but the harsh truth is that most books are nothing more than 300 pages of fluff surrounding one interesting idea well I'm here to cut the fluff and I'm going to share with you some of the books that played a pivotal role in my life and that I've used over the last 12 years in building a 100 million dollar Empire [Music] [Applause] now on a side note video breaking down the 12 books that I reread every single year so I'm going to leave those off this list but you should go check out that video when you're done with this one to see my 12 favorite books of all time all right for this video I'm going to break these down into categories based on what I call the four spheres of influence which are mindset health wealth and skills so let's dive in with the first sphere of influence which is your mindset the first book on the list is from one of the grandfathers of the stoic philosophy senica this book is called called letters from A stoic now stoicism has gained a lot of popularity over the past decade thanks to the efforts of guys like Ryan holiday who've done just an incredible job translating these ancient works for modern audiences and don't get me wrong those books are great but if you really want to understand something you got to get as close to the source material as possible for instance if you want to learn economics you go read Wealth of Nations and Communist Manifesto if you want to learn about biology and evolution go read the Origin of Species or the e day of creation is the best way to build up a lattice work of understanding around a topic because you're starting at the ground floor in building up your own knowledge base rather than just relying on somebody else's interpretation and then summary of that topic so if you really want to learn about the stoic philosophy I