📚 Best Books of 2025, Book Update, Alex Hormozi's New Book, and more.

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📚 Books Summary:

1) Best Books of 2025 (so far)

Here are 5 of my favorite books from this year:

• “The 5 Types of Wealth” by Sahil Bloom

  • This book will change your definition of wealthy. Instead of thinking it’s just about money, you’ll realize it’s also about time, mental health, physical health, and the people around you.

• The Expectation Effect” by David Robson

  • This is a fascinating psychology book that explains how our beliefs create and change our reality. Mindset plays a massive role in your health and success in life, so it’s worth understanding and taking seriously.

• “Drunk Tank Pink” by Adam Atler

  • This book is similar to the one above, but it dives into how our environment unconsciously, yet dramatically, alters our decisions and lives.

• “Notes from Underground” by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • If you’re looking to get into classic literature, this book is a great entry point. It’s about an incredibly smart man who unfortunately, overthinks everything and lets his ego and negative thoughts get the best of him.

• “The Let Them Theory” by Mel Robbins

  • This book is like a modern take on Stoicism. I particularly liked the second half of this book, which shares lessons on how to make friends as adults.

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2) Update On My First Book

I’m currently around 40,000 words. My goal is to get to 60,000 words and then start editing the book down.

It’s been 3 months since my last book update.

Here’s the most important lesson I’ve learned since then:

Productive Procrastination Is Your #1 Enemy (& How to Overcome It)

Whether your goal is to write a book or complete some other hard project, you can easily spend hours feeling productive but never making any real progress.

Instead of working on your one big task, you’ll trick yourself and procrastinate by working on 10 smaller tasks.

For instance, sometimes instead of spending time working on my book, I’d:

• Do the laundry

• Clean the house

• Respond to emails

• Create social media posts

• Or some other task that makes me feel like I’m being productive

But the truth is, if you have a goal in mind, then by definition, anything that isn’t getting you closer to that goal is a distraction.

To combat this, a bestselling author gave me a great piece of advice:

1. Pick a reasonable daily goal (like writing 500 words a day).

2. Make that your #1 priority (don’t do anything else until you complete it).

3. Track your progress daily (so that you can’t lie to yourself).

The best thing about this strategy is that it makes success black and white.

Instead of measuring your productivity by how many tasks you’ve accomplished throughout the day, you measure your success with a simple Yes or No question.

For me, it’s “Did I write 500 words today?”

You either achieved your goal for the day or you procrastinated on it.

And once you do, you can go on to work on any other task knowing you’ve already had a productive day today.

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3) A Few Cool Authors I’ve Been Lucky To Meet Recently

For the past 6 months, I’ve been hosting author meetups and have been fortunate to meet:

• James Clear (“Atomic Habits”)

• Mike Michalowicz (“Profit First”)

• Scott Barry Kaufman (“Transcend”)

• Gretchen Rubin (“The Happiness Project”)

• Michael Bungay Stanier (“The Coaching Habit”)

And many more amazing authors.

And I think more people should host meetups–not for authors, but for your own industry!

Being able to learn from your peers, ask for help, and help one another become better is incredibly valuable to everyone involved.

Young, ambitious people love to learn from people far ahead of them, and older successful people love to share their wisdom with the new generation and learn what’s changing in the industry.

I’d recommend starting by emailing your peers and even a few people you admire. Then set up a call to connect with the goal of discussing your industry and sharing tactics and lessons you’ve come across.

Or if possible, try to make the effort to meet in person. I'd say that 1 hour of in-person talking is worth 10 Zoom calls.

If you're a product manager, cold email or LinkedIn message other product managers. If you're a sales manager, message other people in sales. And so on.

Worst case scenario: People say no.

Best case scenario: You'll make new friends, advance your career, and maybe even meet a few of your idols along the way!

✅ Actionable Advice

1) I shared my favorite books of 2025 so far, but I’d love to hear your picks:

• What’s the best book you’ve read so far this year? Reply to this email to let me know!

2) If you want to achieve a big and difficult goal:

1. Pick a reasonable daily goal.

2. Make that your #1 priority every day.

3. Don’t do anything else until you complete it.

3) One of the best networking hacks is to host events:

1. Email or LinkedIn message people in your industry that you’re hosting a virtual meetup.

2. Once you have a few people, message a few heroes in your industry and ask them if they’d be interested in joining.

3. Most people will say no, but you only need a few “Yes’s” to host the event. And once you do, you can use it as social proof to get more people for your next event.

💎 Weekly Gem:

Virtual Book Event: "$100M Mental Models” by Alex Hormozi

I loved Hormozi’s previous books (“$100M Offers” and “$100M Leads”) and am excited for his new book, which I would bet is going to be just as good or even better.

If you’re a business owner or aspiring entrepreneur, I highly recommend checking out Hormozi’s books and content. He grew his business from $0 to $250+ MILLION in 10 years.

Or, if you’re a marketer, content creator, or author, I recommend watching his book launch event just to see a master marketer at work (500,000+ joined his last event).

You can RSVP to Hormozi’s free book launch party here.

Your opinion matters!

Thank you for your support,

Alex W.

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