A&B #100

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👋 Hey everyone,

Here are a few popular posts you may have missed:

• The world's 30 most beautiful bookshops (this thread got 10 MILLION views).

• 20 Interviews that will help you understand Naval Ravikant.

• 10 lessons I've learned on my Twitter journey to 250k+ followers.

📚 Book Summary:

I've been writing this newsletter every week and today's issue is #100! Thank you for being a reader and for supporting Alex & Books. To celebrate here's a list of popular book recs, summaries, reading tips, and more–enjoy!Book recommendations:

• Health

• Fiction

• Writing

• History

• Investing

• Biography

• Economics

• Philosophy

• Psychology

• Short books

• Audiobooks

• Motivational

• Self-improvement

Book summaries (scroll down to the middle of the newsletter):

• The Founders by Jimmy Soni

• She Comes First by Ian Kerner

• Cues by Vanessa Van Edwards

• The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday

• Just Keep Buying by Nick Maggiulli

• The Behavior Gap by Carl Richards

• Muscle for Life by Michael Matthews

• How To Be A 3% Man by Corey Wayne

• The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

• Good Money Revolution by Derrick Kinney

Reading tips:

• How to build a reading habit.

• Tips to read 70 books a year.

• The truth about speed reading.

• How to stay focused while reading.

• How to easily find books you'll love.

• Common reading tips you should avoid.

• Bad reading habits you need to unlearn.

• How to take notes while reading a book.

• How to become a more effective reader.

• How to 5x your motivation to read books.

• Why you should quit more books and how to do it.

• How to stop getting distracted while reading a book.

• How to 2x the number of books you read every year.

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🎧  Podcast Update:

Here are my 3 most popular podcast episodes on YouTube:

• Dr. Robert Glover: How To Stop Being Mr. Nice Guy

• Morgan Housel: The Psychology of Money

• MJ DeMarco: The Great Rat Race Escape

📖  Reading Lesson:Reading books about:-investing won’t make you rich-fitness won’t get you a six-pack-nutrition won’t help you live longer-habits won’t make you more productive-relationships won't make you an amazing partnerBut if you read AND apply the books, it just might.(source)

⭐️  Weekly Quote: BREAKING: Buying books and reading books are two very different hobbies.(source)

Thank you for your support everyone, I'll see you next Sunday!Read on,Alex W.