Clay's Reading List

#KnowTheTruth

By Gordana Biernet. Open your eyes to your true potential and inherent inner power; remind yourself of who you are and why you are here.

www.hayhouse.com

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

By Stephen R. Covey. A holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems.

www.simonandschuster.com

The Age of the Unthinkable

By Joshua Cooper Ramo. Using history, economics, complexity theory, psychology, immunology and networks, a new landscape of wonderful possibility.

www.littlebrown.com

The Alchemist

By Paulo Coelho. The essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.

paulocoelho.com

Antifragile

By Nassim Nicholas Taleb. An investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk and decision-making in a world we don’t understand.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

The Awakening of Intelligence

By Jiddu Kristamurthy. Examine issues such as teacher and tradition roles; awareness of ‘cosmic consciousness'; good and evil; and traditional Vedanta methods.

www.amazon.com

Being Mortal

By Atul Gawande. Riveting, honest and humane, showing how the ultimate goal is not a good death but a good life—all the way to the very end.

us.macmillan.com

The Black Swan

By Nassim Nicholas Taleb. A black swan is an improbable event with unpredictability; massive impact; and a less random, predictable explanation.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

Book of Awakening

By Dalai Lama. The Tibetan spiritual leader shares his wisdom and spiritual guidance, offering insights into how to apply Buddhism's "Four Noble Truths".

harpercollins.co.in

Connected

By Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler. Scientists Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler explain how lives are influenced by social networks and others.

www.littlebrownspark.com

The Cosmic Hologram

By Jude Currivan. Examining research across many fields and many scales of existence to show how our Universe is in-formed and holographically manifested.

www.goodreads.com

CosMos

By Ervin Laszlo and Jude Currivan. A revisioned view of the world that is no longer fragmented, but is at last, whole.

www.amazon.com

The Culture Code

By Daniel Coyle. Where does great culture come from? How do you build and sustain it in your group, or strengthen a culture that needs fixing?

danielcoyle.com

The Dancing Wu Li Masters

By Gary Zukav. The remarkable world of quantum physics are opened to all once again, no previous mathematical or technical expertise required.

www.amazon.com

Daring Greatly

By Brené Brown. A transformative new vision for the way we lead, love, work, parent and educate that teaches us the power of vulnerability.

brenebrown.com

Dreamland

By Sam Quinones. The pharma-driven boom in OxyContin addiction mirrored a flood of cartel sourced heroin in a small Mexican county, intensifying the crisis.

samquinones.com

Drive

By Daniel H. Pink. High performance and fulfillment come from our need for autonomy, growth, and purpose.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

The Emerald Tablet of Hermes & The Kybalion

By Hermes Trismegistus. The Emerald Tablet and the Kybalion form core Hermetic teachings, offering wisdom to those prepared for it.

www.amazon.com

The Ending of Time

By David Bohm and Jiddu Krishnamurti. A deep debate exploring existence - insight, illusion, awakening, transcendence, renewal, morality, and the spiritual.

harperone.com

The End of Power

By Moises Naim. Is the nature of power changing in a world where most have access to mass communication tools? What does this mean for those without in society?

www.basicbooks.com

The Essential Rumi

By Coleman Barks. A definitive selection of beautiful, mystical poetry.

harperone.com

Existence - Consciousness - Bliss (11 book series)

By Ivan Antic. All spiritual and meditative paths aim at enlightenment — the direct realization that consciousness and existence are one.

www.amazon.com

Finite and Infinite Games

By James Carse. Finite games aim to win and end; infinite games aim to keep the play going.

www.simonandschuster.com

Flourish

By Martin E. P. Seligman. Unveiling an electrifying new theory of what makes a good life—for individuals, for communities and for nations.

www.simonandschuster.com

The Four Insights: Wisdom, Power, and Grace of the Earthkeepers

By Alberto Villoldo. The Four Insights are ancient wisdom teachings preserved by Earthkeepers, the medicine men and women of the Americas.

www.amazon.com

Good to Great

By Jim Collins. Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how?

www.jimcollins.com

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

By Angela Duckworth. Duckworth shows that success comes not from talent, but from passion and persistence—what she calls “grit.”

angeladuckworth.com

The Hero’s Journey

By Joseph Campbell. Campbell shares his quest to explore humanity’s shared mythic “one great story.”

www.newworldlibrary.com

Humankind

By Rutger Bregman. Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume that people are good.

www.rutgerbregman.com

I Am That I Am

By Stephen Wolinsky. Illuminating and elaborating upon the major understandings, confrontations and contributions of this most remarkable sage.

www.amazon.com

The Infinite Game

By Simon Sinek. The Infinite Game dives into and expands upon James Carse’s Finite and Infinite Games, particularly in how game theory pertains to business.

simonsinek.com

The Intelligence of the Cosmos

By Ervin Laszlo. From the cutting edge of science and living spirituality: A guide to understanding our identity and purpose in the world.

www.innertraditions.com

Linked

By Albert-laszlo Barabasi. A guide to network science, the revolutionary field that reveals the deep links between all forms of human social life.

www.basicbooks.com

Nothing is Everything

By Mohan Gaitoride. Rare, previously unpublished talks from 1979 to 1981 with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, transcribed by his evening translator.

www.zenpublications.com

The One Life We’re Given

By Mark Nepo. This book affirms how precious this one life is and opens the chance we have to be fully alive and to be of use to each other and the world.

marknepo.com

Oneness

By Rasha. Oneness gives humanity an astounding new vision of who we really are--and where we're headed.

www.onenesswebsite.com

The Power of Moments

By Chip Heath and Dan Heath. How brief, powerful moments can transform us—and howwe can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work.

heathbrothers.com

The Power of Now

By Eckhart Tolle. To live fully in the present, we have to let go of our egos.

eckharttolle.com

Principles

By Ray Dalio. Unconventional principles proven over decades to create exceptional results in life and business.

www.principles.com

Q Metaphysics

By Anthony O. Neuron. The fundamental understanding of life, existence and the universe.

www.amazon.com

The Seat of the Soul

By Gary Zukav. Change the way you see the world, interact with other people, and understand your own actions and motivations.

seatofthesoul.com

The Secret of Light

By Walter Russell. Russell’s The Secret of Light presents a unified universe where Creator and creation—and mind and matter—are one.

www.amazon.com

Simply Complexity

By Neil Johnson. Complexity shows how order can arise from randomness, from coin flips to predicting behavior and disease growth.

oneworld-publications.com

Start With Why

By Simon Sinek. History’s most influential leaders share a common pattern—the Golden Circle—which starts with why to inspire action.

simonsinek.com

Stillness Speaks

By Eckhart Tolle. The essence of Tolle’s views of the depths of human potential in short, simple essays.

www.eckharttolle.com

Switch

By Chip Heath and Dan Heath. Decades of research reveal how to create deep, transformative change.

heathbrothers.com

The Talent Code

By Daniel Coyle. What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? Discover tools that can be used to maximize potential in yourself and others.

danielcoyle.com

Theory U

By Otto Scharmer. Knowing our own biases helps us understand and engage with the world better.

www.amazon.com

The Tipping Point

By Malcolm Gladwell. Explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing and human behavior.

www.littlebrown.com

Team of Teams

By Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman and Chris Fussell. Guide for leaders to build more agile, adaptable, and unified teams amid change.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

Together

By Vivek Murthy. Making a case that loneliness is a major public health issue underlying many modern epidemics.

www.vivekmurthy.com

Universal Law, Natural Science and Living Philosophy

By Walter Russell and Lao Russell. A course in Cosmic Consciousness for expanding inner perception, awakening one’s genius, and developing a living philosophy.

www.philosophy.org

The Universe in a Single Atom

By Dalai Lama. A brilliant analysis of why all avenues of scientific and spiritual inquiry must be pursued to arrive at a complete picture of the truth.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

Warrior of the Light

By Paulo Coelho. Every short passage invites us to live out our dreams, to embrace the uncertainty of life, and to rise to our own unique destiny.

paulocoelho.com

What is Consciousness?

By Ervin Laszlo, Jean Houston and Larry Dossey. Three scientists consider one of the biggest questions out there: what really makes us who we are?

www.amazon.com

When Breath Becomes Air

By Paul Kalanthi. A moving memoir about a young neurosurgeon seeking what makes life worth living amid overwhelming odds.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

Wholeness and the Implicate Order

By David Bohm. A theory of quantum physics which treats the totality of existence, including matter and consciousness, as an unbroken whole.

www.routledge.com

Why You Cannot Die!

By Lao Russell. Why You Cannot Die! teaches that you are not the body or brain, reality is more than the senses, and life is cyclical.

www.philosophy.org

Wonder

By R.J. Palacio. Sometimes a book written for teenagers crosses the barrier and speaks eloquently to all of us. This is one of those books.

wonderthebook.com

Wooden on Leadership

By John Wooden. Revealing how to apply John Wooden’s renowned Pyramid of Success within your own organization.

www.coachwooden.com

You Are the Universe

By Deepak Chopra and Menas C. Kafatos. Explore some of the most important and baffling questions about our place in the world.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com