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The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone’s Mind

By Jonah Berger

This book flection is written and narrated by Leigh Martinuzzi 

Is it impossible to change someone’s mind? How can we possibly shift another’s perspective? And why would we need or want to? If you think about it, for most of us, every day we attempt to alter perspectives. It is not something in our direct control however as Jonah Berger illustrates in his book, The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone’s Mind, we can all be the catalyst for change. Creating change in life and, as this book hopes to help readers achieve, changing anyone’s mind.  (more…)

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things

By Ben Horowitz

This book flection is written and narrated by Leigh Martinuzzi 

My father once said to me, “Leigh J, life wasn’t meant to be easy!”, or something along those lines. If life was easy, we’d all be living our dream life… the reality is that for many of us, we are not. This book isn’t a book to help us navigate the difficulties of life although I am sure some of the ideas shared are transferable, no, this book is about the complexities and challenges of running a start-up business.

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The End Is Always Near

By Dan Carlin

This book flection is written and narrated by Leigh Martinuzzi 

Dan Carlin is the host and creator of the award-winning podcast Hardcore History. It’s a podcast that I have heard many people comment favourably about and on occasions found myself tunning in myself. As the title suggested it is hardcore not only in the history and content that is shared but also most episodes run no less than 3 hours. (more…)

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The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life

By Bernard Roth

This book flection is written and narrated by Leigh Martinuzzi 

In this book, Bernard Roth discusses the power of design thinking to help you achieve goals you never thought possible. I for one believe a life without goals will be a purposeless life. Goals bring purpose to our lives. It gives us meaning and it raises our level of happiness. This book has a tonne of value to not only inspire us but also to assist us in better achieving our goals while navigating around the obstacles we will with no doubt face. (more…)

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893 Master Your Time, Master Your Life

By Brian Tracy

This book flection is written and narrated by Leigh Martinuzzi 

We all have the same 24 hours every day. It is up to us as to how we use this time. Much can be said about life. Time is a measuring stick of one event to the next. It often fascinates me as to why sometimes time passes slow and yet at other times it speeds up. Perhaps the speed at which time passes has a great deal to do with how purposefully we use it. In Master Your Time, Master Your Life, personal development author Brian Tracy shares a new approach to assist us in gaining greater control over our time so we can easily accomplish more and reach our goals sooner. Action speaks louder than words. (more…)

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The Secret to Peak Productivity: A Simple Guide to Reaching Your Personal Best

By Tamara Myles

Written and narrated by Leigh Martinuzzi

Tamara Myles is a Certified Professional Organizer and productivity expert. She helps people get organised to help them achieve better results. Having worked with many individuals in areas of their personal lives she found the same model and principles could be applied in the business arena to help anyone accomplish peak productivity. (more…)

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Everything Is F*cked: A Book about Hope 

By Mark Mason

This book flection is written and narrated by Leigh Martinuzzi 

Mark Mason is a blogger, author and entrepreneur. Having not read any of his previous work and only hearing him speak here and there I was a little sceptical about the contents of this book. The tittle I thought may have just been a hook into a time warp of purposeless information. I was wrong! I thoroughly enjoyed reading about how Everything Is Fucked and our desperate search for hope. 

Hope – a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen.

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Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday

This book flection is written and narrated by Leigh Martinuzzi 

Ryan Holiday is the best-selling author of two remarkable books, Ego is the Enemy and The Obstacle Is the Way. Both of which have been read and reviewed on The Hidden Why previously. He encapsulates mostly Stoic wisdom into much of his work and he has a daily blog about Stoicism and other life philosophy. Check out The Daily Stoic dot com.   I’ve just started to enjoy more of his work there. (more…)

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The Algebra of Happiness

By Scott Galloway

This book flection is written and narrated by Leigh Martinuzzi 

Happiness, the primary pursuit of all of us and yet in this pursuit we get so tangled up in the unnecessary, the purposeless, the cobwebs of things that do nothing for our overall happiness… and yes, we persist with the hope that we will discover greater happiness.

In this book, The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning, Scott Galloway, professor of New York University’s Stern School of Business, entertains us with antidotes and wisdom on how we may all be able to live with a little more happiness. 

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