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- Today's author promises to show us how to push back against cultural changes that are rewiring our brains and find the meaning we need to live a happy, fulfilling life. Join Mike & Cory as they embark on a pilgrimage to answer the age-old question: "What is the meaning of my life?"
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The Meaning of Your Life by Arthur Brooks
From Strength to Strength by Arthur Brooks
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
Deep Work by Cal Newport
Design Your Life by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
Meaning of Life Quiz
Score App
Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Toastmasters
Atomic Habits by James Clear
You Can Just Do Things by Cate Hall
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Situated by Angela Duckworth
Co-Existence by Ethan Mollick
The YouTube Formula 2.0 by Derral Eves
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Mike's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Cory's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Today's author promises to help us live with agency and take control of our future. Join Mike & Cory as they consider how to stop waiting and build the life they want.
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Woody Walls
The Goal by Eli Goldratt
You Can Just Do Things by Cate Hall
Million Dollar Weekend by Noah Kagan
All The Wrong Moves by Sasha Chapin
Liminal Thinking by Dave Gray
The Story of You by Ian Morgan Cron
Grit by Angela Duckworth
The Meaning of Your Life by Arthur Brooks
Situated by Angela Duckworth
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Cory's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Mike's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Today's author and self-proclaimed "slayer of sacred cows" promises to help us think differently about how business gets done. Join Mike & Cory as they discuss the theory of constraints in one of the most transformational business process books ever written.
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The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt
The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford
Toyota Production System
Just-In-Time
Up
Work the System by Sam Carpenter
Death by Meeting by Patrick Lencioni
The Goal: A Business Graphic Novel
Getting Things Done by David Allen
You Can Just Do Things by Cate Hall
The Meaning of Your Life by Arthur Brooks
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Cory's Rating: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - Life, unlike textbooks, has no answer key. Today's author promises to help us think and live beyond the syllabus. Join Mike & Cory as they rethink what it means to be educated.
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Typefully
Mike's Secondary YouTube Channel
Uncommon Sense by William Brody
Super Thinking by Gabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann
The Great Mental Models by Shane Parrish
Focused #263: Removing the Roadblocks, with Cat Mulvihill
The Second Mountain by David Brooks
How to Be Everything by Emilie Wapnick
The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt
The Goal: A Business Graphic Novel
You Can Just Do Things by Cate Hall
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Cory's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Mike's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ - Today's author promises to help us improve our money mindset by sharing several short stories that teach timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness.
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Amplify Cohort
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
Same as Ever by Morgan Housel
You Can Just Do Things by Cate Hall
30 Lessons for Living by Karl Pillemer
Uncommon Sense by William Brody
The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt
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Bookworm is dedicated to doing more than just reading books. Mike Schmitz & Cory Hixson read a book every two weeks and discuss ways to apply the author's lessons to their lives.
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