How to acquire wisdom

“The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding.” Proverbs 4:7.

The greatest asset you can possess is knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. A wise person can never lack what to eat. A wise person knows how to utilise the opportunities and resources before them. A wise person can solve problems and overcome obstacles in their path. It’s for this reason that I am always on a constant search for new ideas to improve my life.

To this end, I have read over 300 books in the last four years. The strategy I adopted involved building a reading habit on my commute to and from work. I spend about 3 to 4 hours daily commuting. So instead of listening to radio or watching TV I listen to audiobooks. I have also invested in a number of reading apps like Kindle, Blinkist, Librivox, and Anybooks. I also have an online subscription to the NewVision for local news, The East African for regional issues, and The Economist for international news. I have also made it a practice to buy physical books whenever I travel for the home library.

I usually wake up at 5.00 am and arrive at work at 6.30 am so I use the time from 6.30 am to 8.00 am to catch up on my reading. Most of the articles and content I have shared have been inspired by these books. The reading habit is a very powerful habit and will quickly catapult you above the average person. Remember, knowledge, understanding, and wisdom are valuable commodities but they can’t be acquired by chance. You have to put in the work!

So here are some of the books I have read so far.

Richer, wiser, happier by William Green
100 Rules For Entrepreneurs: Real-life business lessons by Neil Lewis.
The little book that beats the market – Joel Greennblat
The Dhandho investor – Monnish Pabrai
The education of a value investor – Guy Spier
The joys of compounding – Gautam Baid
12 rules for life by Jordan B. Peterson.
21 lessons for the 21st century – Yuval Noah Harari
21 secrets of self made millionaires – Brian Tracy
33 strategies of war by Robert Greene
7 strategies for wealth and happiness – Jim Rohn
A brief history of thought – Luc Ferry
A brief history of time – Stephen Hawking
A guide to the good life – William B Irvine
A minute to think – Juliet Funt
Alex Ferguson – My biography – Alex ferguson
An economist walks into a brothel – Allison Schrager
Analysing real estate investments by Steve Bergers
Aristotle for everybody by Mortimer J. Adler
art of the deal by donald trump
atomic habits by James Clear
Automatic Millionaire by David Bach
Awaken the Giant within by Tony Robbins
Beyond measure – Margaret Heffernan
Beyond order – Jordan Peterson
Beyond religion – Dalai Lama
beyond wealth by alexander green
Biology of belief by Bruce lipton
built to last – Successful Habits of Visionary Companies – Jim Collins and Jerry I Porras
Business adventures – 12 classic tales from Wall Street – John Brooks
Business for Bohemians – Tom Hodgkinson
Business secrets from the bible by Rabbi Daniel Lapin
cashflow quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki
chicken soup for the soul by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
Choose yourself – James Altucher
Clay Water Brick – Jessica Jackley
Clean – James Hamblin
Clock work – Mike Michalowicz
Commercial real estate investing for dummies by Peter Conti and Peter Harris
Creative schools – Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica
Creativity – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Crushing it – Gary Vaynerchuk
d monk who sold his ferrari by robin sharma
d most successful small biz in d world by by Michael E. Gerbe
David and Goliath – Malcom Gladwell
Debt proof your marriage – Mary Hunt
Decisive – Chip and Dan Heath
Deep thinking – Gary Kasparov
Deep Work by Cal Newport.
Deviate – Beau Lotto
Do design – Alan Moore
Do the work – Steven Pressfield
Dollars and Sense – Dan Ariely and Jeff Kreisler
Dollars and Sex – How Economics influences sex and love.
Double Double – Cameron Herold
Double your money – Aga Sekalala Snr
Doughnut economics – Kate Raworth
earn it and enjoy it – linda proctor
Ability to produce wealth – Samuel Bakutana
Eat that frog – Brian Tracy
Edinburgh lectures on Mental Science by Thomas Troward
Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
Eight dates – John Gottman and Schwartz Gottman
Elevate – Joseph Deitch
Elon Musk – Ashlee Vance
Emersons essay on compesation by Robinson
Endurance – Shackleton’s extraordinary voyage – Daniel Bryce
Entreleadership – Dave Ramsey
Everyday millionaires – Chris Hogan
Evil geniuses – Kurt Andersen
extreme ownership by Jocko Willink
Financial Freedom – Grant Sabatier
First things first – Stephen Covey
Fit for Life – Harvey and Marilyn Diamond
Fix this next – Mike Michalowicz
Freakonomics – Steven Levitt
Future shaper – Niamh O’keeffe
Getting things done – David Allen
Give and Take by Adam Grant
Goals: How to get everything you want faster by Brian Tracy
God-Works-Through-You by Robert-Russell-SMSE-2010
Got your attention – Sam Horn
Great thinkers – Alain de Botton
grit – the power of passion n perseverance by Angela Duckworth
Happy Money – The Japanese Art of Making Peace with Your Money – Ken Honda
Head Strong – Dave Asprey
Help me – Marianne Power
Henry Ford – a life – Editors of new world city
High Performance habits – Brendon Burchard
How to be a stoic by Massimo Pidlliuci
How to be an adult in relationships – David Richo
How to build self discipline – Martin Meadows
How to do nothing – Jenny Odell
How to fly a horse – Kevin Ashton
How to have a happy hustle – Bec Evans
How to lead smart people – Arun Singh + Mike Mister
How to live a good life – Massimo Pigliucci
How to love – Thich Nhat Hanh
How to speak machine – John Maeda
How to win friends and influence people – Dale Carnergie
I will teach you to be rich – Ramit Sethi
If you’re so smart, why aren’t you happy? – Raj Raghunathan
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life – Héctor García & Francesc Miralles
Influence – psychology of persuasion – Dr Robert Cialdini
Ingenius – Tina Seelig
Intimacy and Desire – Dr David Schnarch
Investing for dummies by Eric Tyson.
Investing in ETFs for dummies – Russel Wild
Know yourself know your money – Rachel Cruze
laws of human nature by robert greene
Leaders eat last – Simon Sinek
Limitless – Jim Kwik
linchpin by Seth Godin
Lives of the stoics – Stephen Hanselman
Living beyond what if – Shirley Davis
Lost and Founder – Rand Fishkin
Love sense – Sue Johnson
Made in America – Sam Walton
Made to stick – Chip and Dan Heath
Making ideas happen – Scott Belsky
Maps of Meaning by Jordan B Petterson
Masters of scale – Reid Hoffman
Maximising your potential – Dr Myles Munroe
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
millionaire fastlane by MJ DeMarco
millionaire mindset by Gerry Roberts
Millionaire success habits – Dean Graziosi
Millionaire teacher – Andrew Hallam
Mind in d making by Ellen Galinsky
mindset – the new psyschology of success by Carol Dweck
Mini habits – Stephen Guise
Money magnetism by J Donald Walters
Money master the game – Tonny Robbins
money wont make u rich by sunday adelaja
My story – Mohammed bin Rashid
Napoleon Hill’s golden rules – Napoleon Hill
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) for dummies by Romilla Ready and Kate Burton.
Neuropsychology of self discipline – Steve DeVore and Dr Karl Pribram
nlp for dummies by Kate Burton and Romilla
nlp-at-work-the-difference-that-makes-a-difference-in-business by Sue Knight
no-excuses-the-power-of-self-discipline-2011 by brian tracy
Numbers don’t lie – Vaclav Smil
On the shortness of life – Seneca
On writing well – William Zinsser
Originals – Adam Grant
Outliers – Malcom Gladwell
Outsmarting the crowd – Napoleon Hill
Permission marketing – Seth Godin
personal finance management for dummies by Eric Tyson
persuasive advertising by J. Scott Armstrong
Pitch perfect – Bill McGowan and Alisa Bowman
Poor Charlie’s Almanack – Charlie Munger
Poverty proof by Douglas Krugger
poverty riches and wealth by kris vallloton
Profit first – Mike Michalowicz
Pscho cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
Quiet – power of introverts – Susan Cain
Ready for anything – David Allen
Reinvent yourself – James Altucher
Resilience – Mark McGuinness
Rich dad poor dad – Robert Kiyosaki
Rich dads conspiracy of d rich by Robert Kiyosaki
Rich dad’s guide to investing by Robert Kiyosaki
Richest Man in Babylon by George Samuel Clason
robert-kiyosaki-the-real-book-of-real-estate by Robert Kiyosaki
Ronald regan a life – Editors of new world city
sapiens – a brief history of mankind; by Yuval
Secrets of the millionaire mind by T. Harv Eker
Seneca’s moral letters to Lucilius by Seneca the Younger
Shark Tank Jump Start Your Business by Michael Parrish
Six Easy Pieces – Richard P. Feynman
Small giants – Bo Burlingham
Solve for happy – Mo Gawdat
Speed of trust by Steve Covey
start up school by seth godin
Start with why by Simon Sinek
Stillness is the key – Ryan Holiday
straight forward financial growth by moses mukisa
Subtract – Leidy Klotz
Super Attractor – Gabrielle Bernstein
Super Thinking – Gabriele Weinberg
Superhuman innovation – Chris Duffey
Surrounded by idiots – Thoman Erikson
Take charge of your money – John Ntende
Talking across the divide – Justin Lee
Talking to strangers – Malcolm Gladwell
Tap dancing to work – Warren Buffet – Carol J. Loomis
The 100 absolutely unbreakable laws of business success by Brian Tracy
The 10x Rule by Grant Cardone
the 15 invaluable laws of growth by John C Maxwell
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing – Al Ries and Jack Trout
the 4 hour work week by Tim Ferris
the 5 love languages by gary chapman
The 5am club – Robin Sharma
The 7 habits of highly effective people – Stephen Covey
the 8 pillars of prosperity by James Allen
The almanack of Naval Ravikant – Eric Jorgenson
The art of communicating – Thich Nhat Hanh
The Art of money getting by P.T.Barnum
The Art of Public speaking by Dale Carnegie
the art of the deal by Donald trump
The barefoot investor – Scott Pape
The behavior gap – Carl Richards
The black swarn – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
the blessed life by Robert Morris
The business of venture capital – Mahendra Ramsinghani
The case against education – Bryan Caplan
The changing world order – Ray Dalio
The coaching habit – Michael Bungay Stanier
the compound effect by darren hardy
The Creative Process in the Individual by Thomas Troward
The creative thinking handbook – Chris Griffiths + Melina Costi
The creativity Code – Marcus du Sautoy
The creator’s code by Amy Wilkinson.
the daily stoic by Ryan Holiday
The dip by Seth Godin.
The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity by Catherine Ponder
The E Myth Revisited by by Michael E. Gerbe
The enchiridion – Epictetus
The entrepreneur roller coaster – Darren Hardy
The execution factor – Kim Perell
The First 20 Hours: How to Learn anything Fast by Josh Kaufman
The game – Neil Strauss
The game of life and how to play it – Florence Scovel
The gap and the gain – Dan Sullivan
The geometry of wealth – Brian Portnoy
The Great A.P and the struggle for small business in America by Marc Levinson
The great mental models – Shane Parrish, Rhiannon Beaubien
The greatest salesman in the world – Og Mandino
The grid – Matt Watkinson
The hard thing about hard things – Ben Horowitz
The hidden Brain – Shankar Vedantam
The instant millionaire – Mark Fisher
The intelligent investor by Benjamin Graham
The joy of less – Francine Jay
The last lecture – randy Pausch
The last safe investment – Michael Ellsberg
The latte factor – David Back
the law of success by napoleaon hill
the laws of prosperity by kenneth copeland
The laws of wealth – Daniel Crosby
the leader who had no title – Robin Sharma
The little book on stoicism – Jonas Salzgeber
The magic of thinking big – David Schwartz
The man who solved the market – Gregory Zuckerman
The mindful day – Laurie J Cameron
The moment of lift – Melinda Gates
The Money Boss Manifesto by JD Roth
The motivation manifesto – Brendon Burchard
The myths of innovation – Scott Berkun
the obstacle is the way by ryan holiday
The only investment guide you’ll ever need by Andrew Tobias
The passion paradox – Brad Stulberg
The power of broke – Daymond John with daniel Paisner
The power of now – Echart Tolle
The Power of the sub-conscious mind by Joseph Murphy
The practice – Seth Godin
The practice of groundedness – Brad Stulberg
The Psychology of money – Morgan Housel
The psychology of self esteem – Nathaniel Branden
The quiet mind – John E Coleman
The road to wealth by Robert G Allen
The rules of life by Richard Templar
The rules of work by Richard Templar.
The science of getting rich – Wallace D Wattles
the science of power by benjamin kid
The science of story telling – Will Storr
The Secret of Shelter Island by alexander green
The self-made billionaire – John Sviokla
the six figure speaker by Brian Tracy
the small business bible by Steven D Strauss
The strangest secret by Earl Nightingale
The success principles – Jack Canfield
The tipping point – Malcom Gladwell
The universe has your back – Gabrielle Bernstein
The upside of irrationality – Dan Ariely
The value of debt in building wealth – Thomas Anderson
The Warren Buffet Way by Robert G. Hagstrom
The way of Zen – Alan W Watts
The Way to wealth by Benjamin Franklin
The Whole-Brain Child_ 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind by Dan Siegel
The wisdom of finance – Mihir A
The wisdom of insecurity – Alan Watts
The-Kaizen-Way-PDF by Robert-Maurer-
Think again – Adam Grant
think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill
Think like a monk – Jay Shetty
Think like a rocket scientist – Ozan Varol
Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
This is marketing – Seth Godin
Though shall prosper – Daniel Lapin
Tiny habits – BJ Fogg
Titan – The life of John D Rockefeller – Ron Chernow
Total Money Make Over by Dave Ramsey
Ultra learning – Scott H Young
Unlearn – Barry O’reilly
Unleashing the idea virus – Seth Godin
Unlocking Creativity – Michael Roberto
Unshakeable – Tony Robbins
Vagabonding – Rolf Potts
Warren Buffet’s Ground rules – Jeremy C Miller
Way of the Wolf – Straight Line Selling by Jordan Belfort
Wealth and Poverty by George Gilder
What I learned losing a million dollars – Jim Paul, Brendan Moynihan
When genius failed – Roger Lowenstein
Why are we yelling – Buster Benson
Words That Change Minds_Mastering the Language of Influence by Shelle Rose Charvet
Working with the law by Raymond Holliwell
Writing down the bones – Natalie Goldberg
You too can be prosperous by Robert-Russell
You were born rich by Bob Procter
YOUR INVISIBLE POWER by Genevieve Behrend
Your money or your life by Vicky Robins
Your next five moves – Patrick Bet-David
you’re a badass – Jen Sincero
zero to one by peter thiel
ziz ziglar on selling by zig ziglar
Worry no more by Bruce Van Horn
Allen Carr’s easy way to quit smoking
Thinking in Bets – Annie Duke
Ride of a lifetime by Robert Iger
Coaching for Performance by Sir John Whitmore
Broken Money – Lyn Alden
Towards a meaningful life by Simon Jacobson
Charlie Munger – The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin
Founder vs investor by Elizabeth Zalman
The personal MBA – Josh Kaufman
7 Powers by Hamilton Helmer
How to live – Derek Sivers
The 15 commitments of conscious leadership by Jim Dethmer
Confessions of an advertising man – David Ogilvy
The most important thing – Howard Marks
Setting the table – Danny Meyer
Invention – James Dyson
The Fintech book – Susanne Chishti
How to avoid a climate disaster by Bill Gates
Think like Socrates by Steven Schuster
Fooled by randomness by Nassim Taleb
How to stop worrying and start living – Dele Carnegie
The beginning of infinity – David Deutsch
Dopamine nation – Anna Lembke
Finite and infinite games – James Carse

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