MGD’s

Book Recommendations

Physical Fitness

  • Boundless (Ben Greenfield)
  • Outlive (Dr. Peter Attia)
  • Primal Blueprint (Mark Sisson)
  • Kettlebell Simple & Sinister (Pavel Tsatsouline)
  • Becoming A Supple Leopard (Dr. Kelly Starrett)
  • Built to Move (Dr. Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett)

Nutrition

  • Deep Nutrition (Dr. Kate Shanihan)
  • Paleo Principles (Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, PhD)
  • Nutrivore (Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, PhD)
  • The Paleo Cure (Chris Kresser)
  • Wired to Eat (Robb Wolf)
  • The Paleo Solution (Robb Wolf)

Practical Philosophy

  • Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) [Gregory Hays Translation]
  • Letters from a Stoic (Seneca) [Richard Gummere Translation]
  • A Manual for Living (Epictetus) [A New Interpretation by Sharon Lebell]
  • On the Shortness of Life (Seneca)
  • Man’s Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)

Behavior Modification / Habit Formation

  • Atomic Habits (James Clear)
  • Tiny Habits (BJ Fogg, PhD)
  • The Power of Habit (Charles Duhigg)

Psychology

  • Thinking Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
  • How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big (Scott Adams)
  • Persuasion (Robert Cialdini)
  • Pre-suasion (Robert Cialdini)
  • Poor Charlie’s Almanac (Charlie Munger)

Meditation

  • Waking Up (Sam Harris, PhD)
  • The Miracle of Mindfulness (Thich Nhat Hanh)

Principles, Frameworks & Mental Models

  • Poor Charlie’s Almanac (Charlie Munger)
  • Principles (Ray Dalio)
  • The Great Mental Models (Volumes 1-3) (Shane Parrish)
  • The 4-hour Workweek (Tim Ferriss)
  • Tools of Titans (Tim Ferriss)
  • Tribe of Mentors (Tim Ferriss)
  • Antifragile (Nassim Taleb)
  • The 4-hour Chef (Tim Ferriss)

History

  • The Lessons of History (Will & Ariel Durant)
  • Sapiens (by Yuval Noah Harari)

Biographies

  • Alexander Hamilton (by Ron Chernow)
  • Benjamin Franklin (by Walter Isaacson)
  • Eisenhower: In War and Peace (by Jean Edward Smith)
  • Elon Musk (by Walter Isaacson)
  • Napoleon (by Andrew Roberts)
  • Washington (by Ron Chernow)
  • The Everything Store (By Brad Stone)
  • The Last Lion (William Manchester)
  • The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Edmund Morris)
  • Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (by Jon Meacham)
  • Titan (by Ron Chernow)

Investing

  • The Intelligent Investor (Benjamin Graham)
  • Security Analysis (Benjamin Graham, David Dodd)
  • Principles (Ray Dalio)