📚 2025 Life Recap, 10 Most Popular Book Summaries of 2025, and more.

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Here are a few popular posts you may have missed:

• 20 Incredible authors I met in 2025.

• The 10 Most valuable podcasts I've found.

• 15 Reading tips from entrepreneur Patrick Bet-David.

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📚 Book Summaries:

Instead of one summary this week, here are my 10 most popular summaries of 2025:

• “The Wealth Ladder” by Nick Maggiulli

• “The Let Them Theory” by Mel Robbins

• “The 5 Types of Wealth” by Sahil Bloom

• “How To Read A Book” by Mortimer Adler

• “The Expectation Effect” by David Robson

• “Why We Remember” by Charan Ranganath

• “Tiny Experiments” by Anne-Laure Le Cunff

• “The Next Conversation” by Jefferson Fisher

• “The Art of Spending Money” by Morgan Housel

• “How to Break Up With Your Phone” by Catherine Price

🌟 Life Recap:

Click this post for a recap of my 2025:

And here are a few (short) life lessons I took away from the year:

• Always put your phone in another room before reading or working.

• Try to spend as much time in nature as possible (walking, hiking, swimming, etc–watch this podcast to learn why).

• Go for a walk every morning, it will fix your seasonal depression.

• Short-form video content is destroying your attention span (proof). Read books to rehab your attention span.

• The fastest way to earn a seat at the table is to host the meal. –Jon Goodman

• Every opportunity you want comes through a person. To get the opportunity you want, find the person who can give it to you.

• Do your hardest task first thing in the morning and before you have breakfast.

• Successful people are ridiculously busy, I’ve had to email authors 7+ times before they said yes to a meeting.

• If you want someone to help you with something, don’t rely on goodwill, instead think of an incentive for them.

• You’ll be more productive if you focus on eliminating things from your routine instead of adding things (my routine: wake up, walk, work).

What was your biggest life lesson of 2025?

Reply to this email to let me know!

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Alex W.