Reading List

The different stages below include chronological suggested readings that will help in understanding and appreciating important ideas and perspectives. Some of these super ideas have been mentioned in The Atlas of Worldly Wisdom, and others serve to build on certain themes.

The assumption is that between half an hour to one hour per day can be dedicated to this project

• thisis where the expected timeline for each stage comes 

The different readings and suggestions are included in tabular form in the last page of this document. They have been categorized into the different spirals and the different stages. To get the complete information about any of the books, check the ‘References’ document.

Stage 1 : Basics-I – 10 Books – ~ 4 months

1. SixThinking Hats (De Bono)
2. TheLessons of History (Durant)
3. The7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Covey)
4. TheMind Map Book (Buzan)
5. What theNumbers Say (Niederman)
6. TheArt of War (Sun Tzu)
7. Think-GrowModules : Personalities & Behavior ¹
8. Think-GrowModules : Succeed
9. Think-GrowModules : Win-Win
10. ChooseOne :
11. Howto Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie)
12. Oneof [ Brain Power or Verbal Intelligence ] (Both by Buzan)

¹ For the Think-Grow Modules, check out the ‘Apps List’ Document, or go to: ahijazi.website

Stage 2 : Basics-II – 10 Books – ~ 4 months

1. Howto think like Leonardo Da Vinci (Gelb)
2. Thinkingin Systems (Meadows)
3. ChooseOne :
4. AtomicHabits (Clear) or Tiny Habits (Fogg)
5. ThePsychology of Money (Housel)
6. Peak(Ericsson)
7. Think-GrowModules : The Better Brain Library
8. NakedStatistics (Wheelan)
9. ChooseOne:
10. TheRichest Man in Babylon (Clason)
11. CashflowQuadrant (Kiyosaki)
12. Think-GrowModules : Lead
13. ChooseOne:
14. Buildinga Second Brain (Forte)
15. NetWork (Anklam)

Stage 3 : Insights & Synthesis – 10 Books – 4 to 5 months

1. Fuzzyon the Dark Side (Hijazi)
2. TheNew Leaders (Goleman)
3. TheArt of Worldly Wisdom (Gracian)
4. TheArt of Thinking Clearly (Dobelli)
5. The80/20 Principle (Koch)
6. Creativity, (Catmull)
7. Emotional Intelligence(Goleman)
8. ChooseOne :
9. Freakonomics(Levitt)
10. TheGreat Mental Models-I (Parrish)
11. OneSmall Step : The Kaizen Way (Maurer)
12. Theone left/not chosen from 10 [Stage 2]

Stage 4 (Mastery & Further) and Stage 5 (Cultured : Beyond) include a total of 16 books, but these will (probably) take significantly longer to finish than those in Stages 1 to 3.

I believe that going forward, personal tastes and preferences can play a bigger role. These are landmark books that will expand your knowledge and awareness into key fields and to include important super ideas. Choose the ones you prefer, but try to keep moving between the categories of the Triple-Spiral (Awareness, Intent, Creativeness).

As you read the books in this category, many ideas for further readings will come up. The path should get progressively more interesting as you advance and customize it further with more personally-relevant choices.

Stage 4 : Mastery & Further – 10 Books – 4 to 5 months

1. GiftsDiffering (Meyer-Briggs)
2. ChooseOne:
3. GoodStrategy Bad Strategy (Rumelt)
4. Steal Likean Artist (Kleon)
5. TheBed of Procrustes (Taleb)
6. Fooledby Randomness (Taleb)
7. Skinin the Game (Taleb)
8. ChooseOne:
9. ScientificRevolutions (Kuhn)
10. Theone left/not chosen from 8 [Stage 3]
11. Bookof your choice on Design Thinking & Creativity
12. Bookof your choice on the Philosophy of Science
13. Bookof your choice from cognitive science
14. Bookof your choice from Popular Science (Evolutionary Biology or Quantum Physics)

Next you can go through the list of books I’ve included in the ‘Cultured: Beyond’ category, and keep growing your knowledge and understanding of the world and yourself.

This reading list is a work-in-progress. It will keep changing and will be updated regularly (I hope).

On the following page you can see the suggested readings as a table, categorized by level and dimension.

Good Luck!