Book Recommendations
These are my recommended books I recently read sorted chronologically.
Below are podcast recommendations.
The Way of Liberation
Adyashanti
This is a practical guide to enlightenment. If you read this everything in your life becomes a spiritual practice and also describes in the end in vivid ways how it might feel to have an experience of enlightenment. Also, the way he describes meditation was eye opening for me and I started to follow his guidance for a while.
The autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
This book completely reshaped my view on the 3D reality and through his stories and life experiences he tells the most incredible tales. Made me feel I am reading a fiction book all the time. If you want to delve head first in the meta physical and foundations of yoga in a story format, I'd go for this one. Made me excited for my upcoming yoga teacher training and the weirdest things started to happen while and after reading this book.
Trust Chaos: Tanze mit dem Schmetterling
Dr. Christian Zippel
The most disruptive book in the non-fictional/personal development space. Also, weirdly, feels like the most contradictory and complete book about all areas of life. Believe, energies, sex, money, boundaries and much, much more. Currently written mostly in german with english parts. Quite a new way of writing. After this book you will see the world with different eyes. It's philosophical, pragmatic and all about trusting the inherent chaos in life and letting go of the clinging to order and perfection.
The Courage To Be Disliked: How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness
Deep philosophical concepts written in a conversational and easy-to-digest style. It's based on Adlerian psychology and goes against the idea that our past determines our future. Also talks about to be happy and have a fulfilled life.
Recommend for all the people pleasers especially ;)
Atomic habits
James Clear
Understanding your psyche when it comes to building habits and making those little but ultimately meaningful changes in your life. The best summary and practical guide to build the habits you want in your life.
Think and grow rich
This is an old classic about the power of the mind and focused intention of what you want in life. It talks a lot about money but it's ultimately about creating what you want in life. Rich can mean anything important to you. Definitely one to have read at least once in a lifetime.
The alchemist
Paulo Cuehlo
Great book about the meaning of life following a shepherd who is searching for a fulfilled life and learning to trust the flow of life and the natural intelligence. Read it multiple times as well.
Siddartha
Herman Hesse
A great short story written about Siddartha searching for truth. Great to learn about buddhism, meaning of life and in times you feel a little lost. I have read it 3 times now.
Podacst Recommendations
Awakening: Why we waited 150 Episodes to talk about it
AOA Podcast
The most down to earth description and demystification of awakening I have heard. They describe it's actually a normal step in evolution and that we should not strive for it. Our struggles won't be gone then either.
Description: Awakening is one of those words that gets thrown around a lot, but what does it actually mean? In this episode, Brett and Joe finally tackle the topic head-on after 150 episodes of addressing it indirectly. They explore why awakening isn't a goal in the Art of Accomplishment work, what actually happens when people wake up, and why it might be both far bigger and far smaller than you imagine.
4 Signs you are going to stay unhappy - Dr.K
After building a massive mental health platform and hitting a midlife crisis at the peak of success, Dr. K. proves that doing hard things and feeling accomplished isn’t the same as knowing what you want from life.
You'll hear why content creation is an endless hamster wheel you can't escape, how he left millions on the table to keep things affordable, and what happens when you wake up one day, realising you've built someone else's version of success. We discuss knowing when enough is enough and how internal conflict about money and purpose affects even the people helping others figure out their lives.
Daniele Ganser x Ungescripted
Von einem Historiker spezialisiert auf internationale geheime Kriegsführung und internationale Politik. Er erklärt internationale Beziehungen mit ganz viel Kontext und geschichtler Einbettung. Ich bin normalerweise nicht so interessiert aber diese Interview hat mich gepackt.
ManTalks: The Psychology of the Man Child - Carl Jung and the Puer Aeternus
The eternal child what we might call the man child. Exploring how this archetype shows up in our lives through procrastination, phantasy, avoidance of responsibility. He shares myths like Icarus and Peter Pan, the shadow side of these archetypes and practical steps to get out of it.
Aubrey Marcus: The secret Jedi Power of an unbroken Samurai Lineage w/Riichi Kitano
Quote:
Fear is not accepting things. If you accept things, there is no fear.
https://overcast.fm/+7rYxkvXs/48:26
An eye opening conversation about the depth of the samuarai culture and how it deeply integrates into everyday life. I listened to this again right afterward. There are practical exercises and physics defying demonstrations that got me hooked.
Happiness Expert Returns: Retrain your brain for maximum happiness: Mo Gowdat
Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer of Google X, it’s ‘moonshot’ division behind it’s most exciting and futuristic projects, as well as the author of Solve For Happy, Scary Smart and his new book, That Little Voice In Your Head, where he returns to the theme of happiness which made his last appearance on the podcast such a success.
The Happiness Expert that made 51 million people happier: Mo Gawdat
But most importantly, Mo has learnt perspective about life. When his son died, this sent him on an incredible journey to look within himself and find the ‘happiness equation’, a simple technique that can help us all reduce our unhappiness and appreciate life, and ourselves, more.
Mo’s new book is all about Artificial Intelligence. Mo has always been focused on the future and what’s coming next. And for the first time, working on A.I., he was scared. But what Mo found, and what he shares with us, is that the next technological age that’s coming can be a Utopia, if we choose to make it.
The Path of Insight: the 5 step process to implement your learnings
If it only took knowledge to succeed, we would all be millionaires and have six-packs. - Derek Sivers.
Who has heard a friend that repeats the phrase: “I should (not) do X!“
I should meditate.
I should take more breaks.
I should eat more healthily.
I should be kinder to myself and the people around me.
Whatever it is, the person has had an insight or knows that their life would improve when they would do X. Yet they didn’t implement it yet.
But why?
The reason is that it actually takes a 5 step process to change.
The process we finally to on paper is this:
The Path of Implementing Insights:
- Get an insight (obvious but necessary)
- Enhance it (In what areas does this insight also apply?)
- Decide to Change (make a commitment to change)
- Get practical (create a plan for how you want to react or think next time)
- Go through with it & adjust
Last modified 5 months ago