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My Hot Reads of 2019

Whenever I do town halls or Q&A sessions, some of the most frequent questions are about the books that influenced me, which ones I’m reading now, and why. Seems like this would be a great time to discuss the most impactful books I read in 2019.

Your Title Doesn’t Define You

Imagine this scenario: You’re a young gun, hired by Hot, Trendy, Innovative Company, Inc., a big international company with a powerful reputation. People who work for this company are revered and respected in the space. You join with your youthful idealism and begin working your way up the corporate ladder. A few years later, you stumble across information that the company engaged in some improper financial accounting. Now you’re pondering what your proper course of action should be: Report the bad behavior and risk career reprisals, or forget you saw this and leave the decision for someone else. Do you think your course of action would be influenced if you had a Hot, Trendy, Innovative Company, Inc. logo on your forearm?

Could You Do 3 Chin-ups to Save Your Life?

If everyone on earth had to do three chin-ups to save their lives tomorrow – it would be an extinction level event. If that doesn’t frighten you, it should. And if you’re one of the 97 percent of people who couldn’t do three chin-ups to save your life – you should be terrified.

Don’t Volunteer for a Lobotomy

Every time you apply a label to yourself, you incrementally lower your IQ. Because once you brand yourself with a label – you have created an identity for yourself. Once you create an identity for yourself – it’s human nature to instinctively, impulsively, and unconsciously defend that identity.

Finding a Cure for Religion

This is a continuing series of posts breaking down the six most important categories of core beliefs you develop in life. I believe these areas are instrumental in terms of the self-esteem you develop and how happy and successful you ultimately become. So far we have looked at the areas of: Money/Success Marriage/Relationships Sex/Sexuality Pt. 1 Sex/Sexuality Pt. 2 Last post was part one about God/Religion, exploring religious memes that could cause you to self-sabotage your success. This post we’ll finish that list and look at how you can counter-program against negative memes. And some ways to create positive, empowering beliefs moving forward.

Hope, Dope, and a Dead Pope

It was spring, 2005 and I was sitting in a coffeeshop in Amsterdam toking up some sinsemilla, while the TV on the wall played images of people mourning the death of Pope John Paul II. Maybe it was the dope, but I was profoundly melancholy, thinking that like so many before him, the Pope was a very spiritual, caring and well-meaning human being – who would leave a legacy of poverty, ignorance, and despair for his followers.

Celebrating Sex and Sexuality

This is a series of posts studying the six most important categories of core beliefs in terms of the self-esteem you develop and how happy and successful you ultimately become. So far, we have looked into the categories of beliefs about Money/Success, Marriage/Relationships, and we began Sex/Sexuality. Last post you discovered some of the crazy and misguided mind viruses about sex. Now, let’s look at some ways to reframe the discussion and develop healthy, empowering, and prosperous beliefs about sex and sexuality…

Crazy, Dysfunctional Beliefs about Sex

Were sex and nudity taboo subjects in your home growing up? Were you taught “conventional” beliefs like boys play with trucks and become doctors and girls play with dolls and become nurses? Was masturbation an unmentionable topic? Did you enter puberty and adolescence completely unprepared for the raging hormones and emotions you had to experience? You were probably a mess of hang-ups and dysfunctional sexual beliefs before you ever had your first sexual experience.

Author: Randy Gage