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January 28, 2022 • Rich Litvin

A reading list for coaching smart, wealthy, successful people

You should be coaching people smarter, wealthier and more successful than yourself. 

This is why. 

This is how.

Here’s how to reach out to a successful stranger.

Here’s how to sign high-level executives as clients.   

And here’s a reading list to understand the mindset and the flaws of smart, wealthy, successful people:  

  1. The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes by David Robson
  2. Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes – and How to Correct Them: Lessons from the New Science of Behavioral Economics by Gary Belsky 
  3. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
  4. Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald
  5. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
  6. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
  7. Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope
  8. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
  9. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
  10. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
  11. Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman
  12. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
  13. Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter by Dan Ariely and Jeff Kreisler
  14. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler
  15. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  16. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis
  17. Willpower Doesn’t Work by Benjamin Hardy

What book would you add to this list?

Love. Rich 

Note: The links for the books above are Amazon Affiliate links

 

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