7 Books That Will Make You Mentally Resilient

Sup, all you beautiful people, welcome back to the podcast. Okay, so today we’re gonna talk about the seven books that will make you mentally resilient, or the books that I found to be the most impactful on my journey of trying to develop this mental resilience, this inner fortune, this great, this stoicism that will serve you incredibly well. On your journey of becoming a successful entrepreneur. You have to be able to manage your emotions and your mindset, the beliefs that you’re allowing into the garden of your mind. You must stand ready at the door, at the gate of your mind, and these books will allow you, will help you, will enable you to do just that. So let’s go, let’s dive right into it. Number one is a book that I read very recently, the last couple of months. It was fantastic.

It’s been recommended to me many, many times over the years. And I had read other books by this gentleman, but I’d never read this one. It’s by Donald Miller and it’s called a million miles in a thousand years. It’s a book about an author who wrote a book and now they want to, it was a memoir about his life and now they want to turn that into a movie. But as they’re turning his life into a movie, he comes to realize that his life isn’t very interesting. It’s because he hasn’t been living it by design. And the central theme of this book is that our lives are our story and we get to craft that story with intention. And when the bad things happen to us in life, that’s a good thing, because that makes for a more dramatic story.

It gives us as the hero, the opportunity to persevere, to strive, to overcome, to perhaps fail. Right? And looking at life through that lens of how am I living a great story? Is my life a story worth reading about, hearing about it doesn’t have to be in the context of like what other people think about it for yourself, having those great defining stories of your life that you go, I’m glad I did that. I’m glad I lived something memorable. I did these memorable things, I tried these hard things, and in doing so I failed many, many times. But occasionally I got very close to glory, or sometimes I even got it. I love this book. It’s so well written too. It’s beautiful.

A million miles in a thousand years by Donald Miller. Number two, another beautiful book read very recently in the last year called Tuesdays with Maury. So our dog passed away. We put her down about a month ago and she we had an extra two months with her from the time that we. We learned that she was, you know, fading. And during that time, I read a lot about death. And because I had never really struggled or had something really close to me that I cared about and loved truly, deeply with all my heart, die. And so I was reading a lot, trying to understand the emotions that I was feeling, trying to make sense of it.
You know, it’s very easy to understand death intellectually, but we as individuals, we all believe that we are immortal, that we don’t think that we’re actually gonna die, right? Like, if you had to live with the truth and the reality of death looming over your head every day, like, we just wouldn’t really be able to function. So we do a very good job of blocking it out and putting it aside until it can’t be ignored any longer. Tuesdays with Morri is the story of an old man, a teacher professor, and the young man that he had taught when he was in school. These two people coming together in the final days of Maury’s life, says Maury is sharing stories of his existence, but also how he’s approaching the end and the grace and the way that he did that. And it’s a beautiful, beautiful story that can transcend time. You can take the lessons from this old man who is at the end of his road, and you can take them. Ideally, you’re not at the end of your road. You can start to implement them now.
And I think so much of life gets easier. The problems and the magnitude of the problems that we face on a day to day basis, they shrink in comparison to death when we realize that it’s coming for us all in the end. And this is why the stoics are such a fan of memento Mori, which is to remember death, to keep it in your mind at all times, because it then paints everything that you do from day to day and moment to moment with more vibrancy, more color, and it allows you to live more fully. Fantastic book Tuesdays with Maury. Third, another book about that breath, when breath. It’s called when breath becomes air by Paul Calanthe. This is a heartbreaking story. Heartbreaking story.
I could not recommend you read it more, though. It’s about this young gentleman, Paul, who is at the end of his neurosurgical residency. He’s been in his late thirties, and he’s dedicated his entire life to neurosurgery. It’s a very demanding field, and he’s just getting to the end of this career. Ready to start this new life with his wife and have kids that they’ve been putting off and waiting until he finishes his training and he finds out that he has cancer and he has about a year or so left to live. And he writes this incredible book, sharing as he’s experiencing and wrestling with the meaning of life and these things, these questions and, like, the unfairness of it all. 37, 38 years old, have a kid on the way, like all these things. And when it comes to being mentally resilient, I think it helps to put our problems again into perspective by reading of the problems of others who’ve gone through so much more and come out the other side of it, or not come out the other side of it.
Because I don’t think that we need to be mentally resilient doesn’t mean that we just ignore the fact that it is very traumatic to be alive and that it’s only going to have one end. We need to accept that, acknowledge that if we want to be able to live fully in this moment. This book is just absolutely beautiful when breath becomes air. Highly recommended. Number four, the subtle art of not giving a fuck. This is the New York Times bestseller. Mark Manson absolutely crushed it with this book. Listen, the reason you’re probably more anxious, more stressed out than.
Than you need to be is because you’re giving more fucks about things that just don’t need to have any fucks given. That’s the truth of it. So what is the subtle art of not giving a fuck? That’s. That’s a secret. How do we go through life not letting world’s problems become our problems, not manifesting them and making them bigger than they need to be and just accepting that they are there and we beat the deal with them and letting it be that this is a great book. Very well written, too. Brilliantly written. Number five is the tried and true classic.

You’ve heard about it before. It’s called think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill. There’s a lot of weird stuff in this book, but there’s a lot of really good stuff, too. And there’s a reason that when you talk to a lot of successful people, they will quote this book as being very pivotal in their mindset and opening and expanding their worldviews. Highly recommend. If you haven’t already gotten to this book and read it, you need to get on this. It’s a very good book. Number six is Siddhartha by Herman Henry.

This is the story of the buddha. And it’s very short, very easy to get through. But I like going to the old wisdom. So you got your bible, you got your quran, you got your buddhist text, you got your stoic philosophies. I like going back to the things that are really old, tried and true, and learning from those. And because the biggest problems that we face in life, most of the really trivial ones, are the result of the modern world. You know, like, scrolling social media, feeling isolated, feeling distracted, can’t focus, all that stuff, right? That’s. That’s the result of the things that are happening day to day in our lives.

But the bigger questions of, like, what’s it mean to not have control over our emotions or our focus, the ability to direct our. Our consciousness?