Me Reading…
I love to read. I didn’t always love it, in fact as a kid I used to hate it. I wanted desperately to love it, because I knew there was so much I was missing. In my second year of college, while discussing my problem with an instructor, I discovered that I maybe “functionally dyslexic” and probably a little ADD.
I won’t go into all the details, but I believe my research proved that I did in fact have a legitimate problem. Great, I discovered a diagnosis, but there wasn’t any treatment outside of medication. So I created my own treatment plan.
I simply began to read, and read, and read, and read (well, you get the point)…
I read books about how to read books, I read about how to increase memory, and I trained myself to speed-read. The other thing I read about was circadian rhythms. Because of that discovery, I became very sensitive to the timings and seasons of my life and how they affected my reading and learning in general…
Maybe I’ll write more on this stuff later. For now, I just want to share with you some of My Favorite Books of the last year. So here they are in no particular order:
A Collection of Essays – Orwell
Coming up for Air – Orwell
Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars – Lencioni
Experiencing The Father’s Embrace – Frost
The Great Santini – Conroy
South of Broad - Conroy
Radical – Platt
Younger Next Year – Crowley
The Executive and the Elephant – Daft
Tipping Point – Gladwell
Purple Cow – Godin
Tribes – Godin
The Heavenly Man – Hattaway
Culture of Honor – Silk
The Soloist – Lopez
The Federalist Papers – Madison
Odd Man Out – McCarthy
Six Degrees – Watts
The Goal - Goldratt
Here is a short list of books I read at least annually:
First Break all the Rules – Buckingham
The One Thing You Need to Know – Buckingham
Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Lencioni
Leadership and Self-Deception – Arbinger Institute
Spiritual Slavery to Spiritual Sonship – Frost
A Briefer History of Time – Hawking
Home Tonight – Nouwen
Spiritual Leadership – Sanders
Discipleship Counseling – Anderson
My current devotionals:
NKJV Spiritual Filled Life Bible
On the Threshold of Transformation – Rohr
The book I want to understand, I keep trying, but I‘m ill prepared I guess. But I will keep trying…
Six Easy Pieces: Fundamentals of Physics Explained – Feynman
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By the way, I read most of these on my iPad with a Kindle application…
