Choosing the Right Books: Read the World Challenge
It took me a while, but I finally published the post that lays out the Read the World Challenge. Let’s start a movement where we learn about other cultures, generations, genres, industries – you name it. Look at what’s going on around the world today, if all of us read more broadly, we would develop a sensitivity to those who are different from us. What do you think? Will you join me on the Read the World Challenge, choosing the right books to read?
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Is the Read the World Challenge for You?
Only you can decide that. But if you can see yourself in any of the points below, perhaps you will consider joining us. The Read the World Challenge is for people who want to:
- Reboot their career.
- Transform systems in their workplace and/or industry.
- Elevate the level of their thinking.
- Learn best practices in their industry and others.
- Stoke their imagination.
- Revive their intellectual curiosity.
- Learn how to lead.
- Become better communicators.
- Promote new ideas.
- Promote creative concepts.
- Explore a topic in depth.
- Learn about different countries and cultures.
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The trick to doing any of the above, requires that you choose the right books. And after you choose your “right” books, you have to read them, so schedule the time to read.
- What issues does your industry face?
- What issues do you face in the workplace?
- What’s a problem that would give you great satisfaction if you could solve it?
- What’s a new skill you have always wanted to learn?
- What areas do you have to develop to become a better version of YOU?
Ask yourself the right questions to direct your thinking when choosing the right books to read during the challenge. You will stick to the Read the World Challenge if you have a compelling purpose for participating.
Choosing the Right Books to Read
Books to Reboot Your Career
12 books that will help you build the career you want: This wonderful Daily Muse article by Rachel Moffett describes how each book will help your career. Be sure to read it. Here are six of the 12 books mentioned. I have read Think and Grow Rich
- Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career
by 99U and Jocelyn Glei
- Love Your Job: The New Rules for Career Happiness
by Kerry Hannon
- Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
by Arianna Huffington
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success
by Megan McArdle
- Mistakes I Made at Work: 25 Influential Women Reflect on What They Got Out of Getting It Wrong
by Jessica Bacal
by 99U and Jocelyn Glei
by Kerry Hannon
by Arianna Huffington
by Megan McArdle
by Jessica BacalInvitation to World Literature
Invitation to World Literature: This website mentions must-read books, but I love it because of the 13 videos about the books are included. You have passionate people talking about the books, and after watching the videos you want to run out and buy them. If you have read some of the books already, watching the videos will give you new insights and a deeper understanding of the book. The books featured are listed below. I have all of the books, but the ones I haven’t read are, My Name is Red, Journey to the West, The Tale of Genji, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and The God of Small Things. The Read the World Challenge gives me a reason for reading the ones I haven’t yet read.
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- My Name is Red
- The Odyssey
- The Bacchae
- The Bhagavad Gita
- The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- Journey to the West
- Popol Vuh
- Candide
- Things Fall Apart
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- The God of Small Things
- The Thousand and One Nights
Choose the Right Books to Shape Your Thinking
Daniel Pink’s Required Reading: In Strategy + Business, bestselling author, Daniel Pink shares some books that he thinks should be required reading. Books on his list include: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
10 Books That Will Grow Your Soul, Not Your Resume: This article by John Eastman, published on Medium, includes titles such as Sailing Alone Around the Room 
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Tip When Choosing the Right Books to Read for the Challenge
Whatever field you are working in, find someone who has achieved mega success, then read some of the books that shaped their thinking. If the person is dead, and was well-known, you may be able to find the books in their personal library at Library Thing. There is a ton of really good information on the website. Another great place to find reading lists is at Open Culture. On the Home Page, to the right of the page, scroll down and you will see a heading called Book Lists, choose the ones that interest you.
There are tons of great books that that are the right books for you to choose, so make sure that you choose with care, so that at the end of 52 weeks, both you and others will notice a change in you. If I can assist a few people by hosting this challenge, I have done what I set out to do. A group of small, committed people can make a difference in the world.
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Further Reading
www.themuse.com 25 Books You Should Read, According to a Few of the World’s Most Successful People
40+ Life-Changing Books to Read This Year
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