Books

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Signal and the Noise (Nate Silver is kind of a dork, but I liked the book), Thinking Fast and Slow, Black Swan, Liar's Poker, When Genius Failed (The story of Long-Term Capital Management, ironic), The Frackers (nonfiction timeline of shale O&G up through the shale boom), Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (quick read, favorite book)

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The Great Gatsby is a mediocre book at best 🤷🏽‍♂️

I used to read so much. I'd read for like 3 hours every morning during what, in retrospect, was a goldilocks period for me - when I had quit my job but my business was still very small. No kids and way less shit to manage. I'd go through like 3-4 books a week. Now, I fall asleep 1.5 pages in trying to read before bed. I feel way dumber than I used to be tbh. I have a library full of books staring at me... taunting me. My kid has taken a liking to them. She crawls up to them and starts yanking them out one-by-one and throwing them over her shoulder. When she's amassed a decent pile, she'll crawls onto it, pick one up, and flip through it for a while. As I clean up cheese stick crumbs.

To answer your question - you need to read The Intelligent Investor and go from there. This isn't an opinion.

Watch the movie "Office Space" to prepare for corporate life...

I don't recommend much business books anymore other than buffett, graham, and thorp (for equity, fabozzi or bust for fixed income), I think it's all about mindset

7 habits for highly effective people

man's search for meaning

letters from a stoic

meditations

aristotle's complete works

everything by nassim taleb

also even if you don't read a novel, study history and past cycles. what was going on at the time politically, culturally, economically, and what were the newspapers saying at the time? human behavior is a fascinating topic, and we're mostly subject to the same pitfalls we faced 100, 500, 1000, and 5000 years ago. why did the 100 years war start? what were the prior wars and political events that led to world war 1 in europe? why have china and japan hated each other historically? when did democracy first take hold? how has philosophy changed over the years? look into history and you'll learn a lot about the present.

Business- Business adventures- Brooks 

Mindset- Mindset- Dweck 

Life & entrepreneurship- Benjamin Franklin an American life- Walter Isaacson (This book changed my approach to life in a significant way)

As for investing go onto google scholar and just start knocking out articles/journals that have anything to do with investing. I would start with investing strategies as a keyword. 

young money

the defining decade
shoe dog
zero to one

Have you seen the Goldman Sachs Reading List?

I recommend this one. 

a list I did on WSO a while back (it just come up because someone just awarded a silver banana on it)

 

** indicates a must read

7 Habits of Highly effective people **
48 laws of power
Moonwalking with Einstein
50th Law - Robert Greene
Mastery - Robert Greene
The Defining Decade **
At left brain turn right
Thinking Fast and Slow
The Art of thinking Clearly
Influence - Robert Cialdini **
Steal like an artist **
How to win friends and influence people
4 hour work week **
A new world - Eckhart tolle
Never eat alone
Bird by Bird
On writing - stephen king **
Strategize to win - carla harris
Think and grow rich - napoleon hill
See you at the top
Mans search for meaning - viktor frankl
Freakonomics
Outliers - malcolm gladwell
How to talk to anyone
The magic of thinking big
Emotional intelligience - daniel goleman
The wisdom of the crowds
The greatest salesman in the world
Benjamin Franklin autobiography
Focus - daniel goleman

Philosophy -
The Daily Stoic - 366 days of wisdom
Tae te ching - Lao Tze
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius **
Senecas letters
Platos The republic
Courage - osho
Siddhartha - Herman hesse
Thus spake zarathustra - friedrich neitzche

Finance/Business
Shoe Dog**
Ray Dalios Principles
The King of Capital - Steve Schwarzman biography
Guide to investing - Robert Kiyosaki
Liars Poker **
Cold Steel
Barbarians at the Gate
Young Money
The Masters of Private Equity and venture capital
New tycoons

The red pill/manosphere/girl game-
The rational male - rollo tomassi **
How to be a 3% man - corey wayne

Consulting -
The pyramid principle
The McKinsey Way

Fictional -
The Fountainhead - ayn rand **
The alchemist - paolo coelho
The old man and the sea
Les Miserables
Atlas Shrugged