Siddhartha
“Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.”
Siddhartha is the story of a man's spiritual journey during the time that the Gautama Buddha lived.
Siddhartha grew up idolizing the aesthetics and joined the quest to discover Nirvana. The downfall in this for him was the disdain he felt for the "childlike" people who sought materialism and carnal pleasures.
To better understand this other type of life, Siddhartha leaves his simple life to learn from people following different paths through life in the city. He faces the trials and tribulations that his life had been sheltered from ever experiencing before and ultimately realizes that he had to go through it all to be able to truly let go of it and not look down on people not following his path with condescension.
The lesson of Siddhartha is that every person has their own path to follow and that you should be present to the moment and your surroundings and experiences.
Engineering The Alpha
Engineering the Alpha is your own guidebook to the hero's journey of improving your health, fitness, and vitality.
If you've accepted the call to action and are now ready to take action to build more muscle, lose fat, and become more alpha, this book is an undeniably great place to begin.
Terry Crews has stated that the diet and nutrition advice in this book has changed his life. How's that for an endorsement?
Tribe of Mentors
Tribe of Mentors is the ultimate guide to learning from world-class performers about virtually any topic you can think of. If you need to improve in any way, shape, or form, there's something in this book that can help you.
The Hero With A Thousand Faces
This text is the classic often referred to when studying the monomyth of The Hero's Journey as it relates to all stories of transformation.
Joseph Campbell and his writing have been highly influential in better understanding the connections that are found throughout mythologies from all societies and eras.
Read The Hero With A Thousand Faces if you're interested in writing, psychology, and mythology.